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@allencc3: But you just said yourself that power isn't innovation. Faster data transfer is essentially more power. Don't forget that Microsoft also has a fast SSD. Also, don't forget that the travel time from storage to RAM is only part of the path of the data getting to your screen. However, XSX has faster RAM, faster GPU and faster CPU once the data gets to them. And don't forget Microsoft have their own improved methods of memory management.

So in practice about the only advantage the 5.5 GB/s SSD might give Sony is games on PS5 will load a couple of seconds faster. The reason Sony keep hammering the SSD point is because PS5 loses on every other front. So they're hoping that one stat will fool enough of the kind of people who buy into stuff like "blast processors" and "emotion engines" to believe it makes all the difference.

Sure progress in audio is great but I think most prioritize performance and visuals over audio and feel like DD or Atmos is good enough. Again, this isn't a space that Microsoft neglect, they have their own audio chip but the reason they don't talk about audio much, unlike Sony who spent half an hour talking about HRTF or whatever, is because Microsoft understand that most people don't care. And this is coming from someone who games with headphones through an amp and is annoyed the XSX won't have an optical port.

Except like most aphorisms it only sounds true if you don't think about it. Because the majority of the time when a console manufacturer tries to tell gamers what they want it ends up really badly for them (except for Nintendo).

Actually, I'd argue that Microsoft had a bigger impact on modern gaming than Sony has, by a large margin as well. They made console architecture built from PC parts a standard that Sony is following into a second generation. They made western developed PC style gaming the dominant standard on consoles. They made online gaming the standard on consoles.

They're making keeping your library across multiple generations in enhanced form a standard. Which is something Sony claimed no one cares about meanwhile selling EMULATED versions of PS1 and PS2 classics on their digital store. Now they're forced to follow suit but are far behind the curve.

Microsoft even made storage a standard, which is kind of funny in light of this conversation. A double whammy of irony is that they made streaming media a standard when Sony were still trying to push Bluray.

Sony get credit for adding bonus games to the online subscription model but they dialed that back while Microsoft still offers games from previous gens.

And after the success of Gamepass Sony were forced to walk back on the cloudstreaming aspect of PS Now and invest in local play. So in reality it's Sony who follows in Microsoft's tracks.