I can see you guys are PS5 owners not happy about the Pro
My PC was about par with both consoles before they even came out. I may get a SeX at some point but it will most likely just be used as a BD player; but I do not have and likely never will have interest in owning a PS5.
rumored to be powered by a new AMD GPU that will 120fps @2160 but not certain
This console generation, which has been defined overwhelmingly by constant supply shortages, extreme supply costs (see: Sony raising PS5 prices two years after launch, Microsoft alluding to possibly doing so next year) as well as significant problems actually delivering consoles around the world, is not going to have the market further divided up with multiple new SKUs for performance gains that would be imperceptible to most. Indeed, that's why Sony would make a modular PS5 in the first place: They can yank the BD drive, do everything with less parts differentiation, pass the cost savings onto themselves and then charge the consumer extra to have feature parity with the current top spec model if they want it. It's the same reason nearly every car has power windows and door locks nowadays; because it's cheaper to do that than to engineer and inventory and implement multiple versions of multiple doors. Sony probably will make the console less of a humongous pig as well, to drastically lower shipping costs. This is all sidestepping that the PC hardware generations following the things inside the PS5/Xbox
have had significant performance gains but they have tied hand in hand with significantly increase power usage/heat generation and an extreme swing upward in development costs.
And since you broached the topic, yes, I
do think there would be significant consumer backlash to Sony (or Microsoft) rolling out marginally better performing "Pro" model of the PS5 when 95% of its software library after 2 years is still ports of PS4 games running at a higher resolution and/or framerate.
the more extreme rumor is not 1 but 2 GPUs - be quite a machine if Sony could find the chips to build it
Multi GPU rendering has been dead in the PC space for years now. Absolutely top spec Prosumer cards don't even have it anymore. For AMD it's been dead for a decade. Consoles will
never go to it again. The power usage, the complexity required in designing games for it, the insane heat output in a space that needs to be compact... It's not an extreme rumor. It's complete nonsense; up there with the people who insisted that the PS4 was so powerful at launch that it was 4K ready.
They certainly will not as a mid-generation high spec option when developers are already bitching about the Series S being too different from the core consoles because it has a worse GPU solution than the rest; nevermind most of the software on the market still being constrained by needing to run on hardware that was bad when it was new in 2013.
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