*shrug* if it can't leapfrog PC's it's a failure in my book. Just like both Xbox One and PS4 failed in my opinion. The problem is, Sony and Microsoft have both settled on what PC gamers already considered middle of the road architecture. PS3 was great when it released because in 2006, Dual core PC's had just entered the market in 2005, and the PS3 has 8 cores, and the Reality Synthesizer (RSX) was designed in conjunction with Nvidia, but wasn't available for PCs, it took a couple more years… See More
to see a CUDA based GPU for the PC that could compare. PS3 was the last Playstation to leapfrog PC hardware. Sony did lose a lot of money with the initial units being sold at cost. But made it up with exclusives over time. With the PS4, they didn't push any envelope, but made a killing with the exclusives. If the PS4 was really that great they wouldn't have needed the PRO (and microsoft wouldn't have needed the X). They did that to compete with the bump in power PC's received with the addition of AMD Ryzen, Vega, and Nvidia's Pascal technologies.
*shrug* if it can't leapfrog PC's it's a failure in my book. Just like both Xbox One and PS4 failed in my opinion. The problem is, Sony and Microsoft have both settled on what PC gamers already considered middle of the road architecture. PS3 was great when it released because in 2006, Dual core PC's had just entered the market in 2005, and the PS3 has 8 cores, and the Reality Synthesizer (RSX) was designed in conjunction with Nvidia, but wasn't available for PCs, it took a couple more years… See More
to see a CUDA based GPU for the PC that could compare. PS3 was the last Playstation to leapfrog PC hardware. Sony did lose a lot of money with the initial units being sold at cost. But made it up with exclusives over time. With the PS4, they didn't push any envelope, but made a killing with the exclusives. If the PS4 was really that great they wouldn't have needed the PRO (and microsoft wouldn't have needed the X). They did that to compete with the bump in power PC's received with the addition of AMD Ryzen, Vega, and Nvidia's Pascal technologies.
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