We've Got Answers: PS5 vs Xbox Series X - How Is Sony Competitive With Inferior Specs?

[kpsk]

99 % of console players don't care about two dropped frames and medium quality shadows.

[Enigmalake]

I’m sure the comments will be reasonable, thoughtful and even handed

[Perkinator]

"Aww shit, here we go again." CJ

[retroworld]

Microsoft hasn't recovered from their anti consumer e3 disaster.

[andymm]

I have all three current consoles at home. So far it is quite peaceful, no console war so far in my living room.

[Syncro_esm]

Power doesn’t sell consoles. Ecosystems and games do

[TadgNokomis]

I think people underrate how powerful the PS brand is especially in the non US market.

[chemicalyinbalanced]

03:34 Best/worst voice crack I've ever witnessed.

[TurboPikachu]

The lack of exclusives killed Xbox hardware's ability to sell like Nintendo and Sony. With 100% of all Xbox games being playable on PC (or xcloud on smartphones and weaker PCs), there's less reason than ever before to choose an Xbox as your console over a Playstation/Nintendo console

[Vashkey]

Man, the DF clips video's comment sections are about a million times worse than the main channels

[freddiejohnson]

I don't think some of the people who watch DF realise that the majority of consumers don't care about the specs of a console and don't buy one purely based on a few extra frames here and there or extra detail that you would only notice if you are sitting a few centimeters away from the screen and are comparing them side by side. I think the bigger issue is why people think specs are the be all and end all of why a system is "superior". It's great having analysis videos to see how a game works but most of the people buying games don't care as long as they have fun.

[Dairunt]

The best-selling console of each generation has never been the most powerful.

[Beam-]

ppl arguing xbox vs ps in these comments need to get a job asap.

[xchxmpagnepxpix]

I play on PlayStation but looking at these comments by some of these neanderthals .. I would hate us too.

[AhTriX]

Xbox fans at launch: we have the worlds most powerful console!!

Xbox fans 3 years later: We dont care about the power

😂

[onlysublime]

I believe the biggest reason is the Xbox uses virtual machines throughout the OS. The dashboard runs in a virtual machine. Every game runs in a virtual machine. All the apps run in a virtual machine. And there are 2 main reasons: 1) Microsoft does not want the system to ever be compromised and hacked (no modding scene on a Series console) and 2) by having everything run in a virtual machine, you have scenarios like being able to instantly jump from game to game. Game states are saved in the virtual machine. If you do a true restart of the machine and only run one game, you'll notice that the performance will be more consistent. I think this is because of memory leaks but moreso because resources are freed up more cleanly. the PS5 doesn't use virtual machines. It's more singular.

[mareo]

This console war is such a boring topic, and I'm still surprised that people who use to be in their late teens and 20s are now in their late 20s/30s are going to 40s and 30s now and they still talk about a pointless war between 2 plastic boxes

[vectoralphaSec]

Sony has Mark Cerny. That man is a genius

[deanchur]

Nintendo Switch in the background with vastly inferior hardware: "Check out how many games I've got and how many units I've sold!"

[ImViruxx]

PS2 had inferior specs, ps3 had technically better specs but also worse at the same time, the PS5 has inferior specs yet every single generation PlayStation is outselling Xbox with ease without barely trying.

It’s not about specs, it’s about the quality of the product, Sony has simply made PlayStation a more popular household name than what Microsoft has done for Xbox.