Xbox Series X Detailed as Sony Remains Completely Silent on PS5

Sony were probably waiting for Microsoft to blink first, so now it won't be too long.

If no update from Sony in next two months I will start to get worried.

i did notice one thing though, they said that it will be compatible with XBOX and 360 from the BC program

as they said it in the article

Our commitment to compatibility means existing Xbox One games, including backward-compatible Xbox 360 and original Xbox games

so it's STILL not full backwards compatibility and it still means half my 360 games and nearly ALL my OG XBOX games still can't be played and given that both my OGXB and 360 are dead i was hoping that this time round it would be proper BC, surely with how powerful this new system is meant to be it wouldn't be an issue for them, this isn't a situation like Sony has with the PS3 and the Cell which makes it virtually impossible to do after all

I'm seeing panic and worried type responses from the community after this info from Microsoft and I just don't understand why? Sony knows they have to reveal the machine, and they already stated that they aren't going to e3. This leads me to believe something in March at this point. If may rolls around and still nothing..... then yes, worry. Until then, calm down. A lot of the info isn't even nee and already confirmed.

The Last of Us Part 2 and Ghost of Tsushima. I did not know the generation was over yet? IDK care about PS5 til this gen actually ends. Just because it ended for M$ years ago does not mean it ended for Sony.

It's looking more likely that those Github leaks are real, which means PS5 may be a 9TFLOP machine, unless Sony did a really last minute spec boost.

@FullbringIchigo This is one key area where Sony could have an advantage, depending on how they approach BC.

My guess is that Sony have a number of hardware configuration/price point combos in mind, and are waiting for MS to go public first so they see what they need to do.

@Orpheus79V Tflops are irrelevant as we seen with the X. I would rather a cheaper console because we know the games will be better from PS5.

We'll get something in the next 2-3 weeks i would have thought

@Paranoimia Yeah I think it's feasible they have a config A, config B depending on what they are competing against and what price they want to hit. They probably don't need to commit to one until they need to ship the parts for construction.

Sony can take as long as they want, I've plenty to keep me happy as a gamer well into summer.

I don't like the silence by Sony but it also can't become Sega circa 1994 when it was in a position of power but 'leadership' was lost and clueless responding to companies that were absolutely no threat at all like 3DO and Atari. Obviously Microsoft poses far more of a threat to Sony than those companies ever could've hoped to be to Nintendo and Sega at that time, but still, Sony is the frontrunner right now and can't respond simply for the sake of responding. That looks unorganized and scared. From my perspective, I'd like Sony to come back with some PS5 details sooner rather than later but looking at it from the business side when you're leading the market you can't operate on any timeline other than your own. Sony has a gameplan for sure, we'll see if it's the right one. I do like the aggressiveness I'm seeing from MS, not going to lie about that. First time in a long time I've been genuinely excited about news coming from team green.

I really hope Sony has their own equivalent for the Smart Delivery feature. Not having to buy games again for the next gen is a big plus, CD Projekt Red has already confirmed Cyberpunk will get a free Series X upgrade if you own it on Xbox One, for instance. I don't want to see The Last of Us Part II: Remastered next year.

@GodGamer They do make a difference though, and 9 vs 12 is a noticable gap, plus, if XSX supports AMD's RDNA2 while PS5 may only be RDNA1, it could deepen that gap. Regardless, the price is the most important factor, so if there's a big gap, Sony could make up for XSX being the superior machine for multiplats by being the most affordable - a repeat of the PS2 vs Xbox, effectively.

@GodGamer Those are my thoughts as well.

MS is pushing XSX right now. Can anybody tell me what big new X1 exclusives are due out over the next few months?

PS4 just had Dreams come out, TLOU2 is coming, Ghosts is coming.

Then you have games that I think PS4 fans are really looking forward to like FF7R.

Why should Sony worry about next Gen? Maybe Sony realizes it's fans are smart enough to k ow we have Spiderman, God of War and HZD 2s to look forward to. What else do we really need right now?

100 mil PS4 to what 35 million X1? MS needs to get out ahead of this, Sony doesn't. The end.

@Orpheus79V "I don't want to see The Last of Us Part II: Remastered next year."

I'm thinking why not both? If you own TLOU2 on PS4 you can download it on PS5, then download a patch later to improve it.

Or if you didn't own a PS4 or didn't buy TLOU2 for whatever reason - I tend to wait 6 months and get all my $60 games for $20 during BF sales - you can buy the game in a PS5 box w/ "Remastered in 4k" on the front.

I do get what you mean, people who buy TLOU2 or Ghosts on PS4 shouldn't have to pay full price a few months later for a PS5 version, but we still have to let Sony make some money on the PS5 by remastering everything into native 4k for people who missed it.

At this point they should just wait on Ghosts for a dual release like Nintendo did with Zelda, sell both versions.

And speaking of Nintendo - I think the Switch best selling game is a port, MK8, and everybody who bought it on Wii U had to pay $60 again on Switch, and they did. Easy double dipping money for Nintendo. That can't be lost on Sony. They'll try to find some way to get more money, just not sure how if it's all BC.

@FullbringIchigo Good catch, I’m now disappointed with the new details. It’s cool to see how powerful it is, but it’s it needs context to make me excited. So what can you do with that power? Oh right, you’re not planning to show any games that won’t run on Xbox One are you...
and what the heck does “Series X” mean anyway?

@Orpheus79V
Ms didnt blink though. I see them squinting haha 😑

@JJ2 Fair point.

Those three points they haven’t mentioned are the only ones that really matter

So, is this like the Xbone X announcements wherein we have never heard how many diehard "Team Green",took the plunge on a pricey mid-late gen upgrade? For all the recent "Sony struggling to keep ps5 costs down", where does that leave XSX if they were more powerful?
And we then come back to their previous statements about possibly no first party exclusives to take advantage of this wonderful tech-so, old gen gameplay with extra bells & whistles?!

I am sure the incoming supply chain interruptions isn't helping their pricing models

for quality need time !

Thing is they will talk about Xbox today and then forget about it...but just wait for the PS5 reveal for people to go crazy!

They are only talking about series x and already winning? the gen. What about the games releasing this year, it's almost as if for these people there are no major game releasing this year.
I know a lot of people are desperate for Sony to talk about ps5, but they have great games, including 3rd party exclusives, for this year tlou 2, ghost of tsushima, granblue fantasy versus, nioh 2, persona 5 royal, marvel iron Man vr, final fantasy vii remake, sakura wars, and i'm sure i'm missing some others. Relax and enjoy the upcoming games. And when the time comes they will talk about next gen.

Power power powerful tech Zzzzzzz
Yea but what about the game and quality of the games that it runs and extras thats coming out as well.
It's all very well having the most powerful console but with about exclusives and add on's like vr and other things.
As nintendo has proven over & over it's the quality of games that matters not a powerhouse.

As someone said, this is probably what Sony was waiting for, now they can announce specs, features, design and 2 or 3 games; I expect a date for that reveal event in some point of this week, and the final price and complete game launch library + upcoming hype-builder games for around E3 season.

MS have spilled their beans...

Sony are keeping their beans in their bowl.

Make of that what you will.

They are playing this way too close to the chest...especially for a competitor who sees Amazon and Google as the main competition.

Full info about the PS5 will be revealed once the "PlayStation Player Celebration" goals are met. haha

I think sony waiting for the xbox console price.

If you want the facts and truth your going to have to wait on Digital Foundry to do real world test on both systems. Microsoft have failed to show it has the games people want the entire life of the Xbox One. They are far behind Sony's powerhouse of hit titles. I do not think any news on Price will come before E3!

"Smart Delivery: This technology empowers you to buy a game once and know that – whether you are playing it on Xbox One or Xbox Series X – you are getting the right version of that game on whatever Xbox you’re playing on. We’re making the commitment to use Smart Delivery on all our exclusive Xbox Game Studios titles, including Halo Infinite, ensuring you only have to purchase a title once in order to play the best available version for whichever Xbox console they choose to play on. This technology is available for all developers and publishers, and they can choose to use it for titles that will be release on Xbox One first and come to the Xbox Series X later."

Sony needs to provide this as well. If we will have to rebuy games for PS5 just to enjoy them with boosted graphics it's going to be a huge loss vs XBOX.

@Shepard93n7 specs is not something sony can advertise as having upper hand, if DF leaks were real it has only 9.2 tflops.

@Bamila Key words here "and they can ""choose"" to use it for titles that will be release on Xbox One first and come to the Xbox Series X later."

Doubt I'll get a PS5 anytime soon, massive backlog and loads of (fingers crossed) must have titles releasing this year. No need to panic Sony are just waiting for the right moment to reveal all!

Obviously Microsoft is going to push out information on it's next generation console they have a lot to prove, this generation has definitely hurt Microsoft.

@Bamila 9.8 TF but also no Hardware Raytracing, which will be a separate module (according to the same leaks) so in this case we'll have to see if the specs of the 9.8 GPU and the Raytracing Module on the PS5 can match or surpass these unified 12 TF on the he XSX GPU.

Also there's other leaks after this claiming PS5 is actually more powerful so we'll have to see how this ends.

@rjejr Ori and the Will of the Wisps is the only thing that comes to mind right now.

Microsoft is confident if they drop info like this out of the blue.

@Futureshark what I make of that is that there’s a lot of beans!

@MsJubilee to be honest I think MS took a leaf out of Sony’s book when they gave wired the scoop.

They have to be aggressive as they have so much ground to catch up...

@Orpheus79V There no difference in multiplats and people need to stop pretending there are. There were no differences on the base consoles before the upgrades. No one cares about power ehich has been proven time and time again. Notice the Switch already passed the X2 and the X sold poorly. None will walk into the store this fall worried about TFlops. Customers just want to know what games can be played on which platform. M$ does not have the exclusives to standout.

@Bamila That feature will not be used outside of M$ and their partners. Look at the failed promises of Kinect and the X. Also devs just have to patch their games since BC will be on both consoles day one. No need to port any game.

@GamingFan4Lyf Thanks. I should have remembered that, it's been in my Xbox Gamepass que on PC for months now. Though I think it comes out after my $1 3 months ends.

@BarefootBowser I hope there are people around when I walk into my local GameStop to trade in my PS4 Pro and Xbox One X. I want to see the looks on their faces when I walk out with a PS5 and a Series X - hopefully it's not an "I am going to rob this dude" face.

My loyalty is to gaming.

I actually had a conversation with the missus about which one I was going to get first. She just asked "why don't you just get both at the same time?" Can't argue that!

@BarefootBowser true BUT all they really need to do is put a emulator in it so it can play any OGXB and 360 game, they don't need to be remastered or enhanced or anything

@Bamila
We already have this though, it's called Pro patches for PS4 games so they run better on the enhanced hardware.
It's the same thing! There's no PS4 Pro games, and you don't have to pay for any Pro patches. Even unpatched games run better with boost mode on, so what is it that is being promised here that we don't already have?
It's just a bunch of spin and hype!

@FullbringIchigo The sad thing is, the mechanism is in place to run any game. Microsoft basically developed an Xbox 360 virtual machine in Xbox One.

According to an article I read, Microsoft stated at E3 2015 that there is absolutely no work that a developer needs to do to have a game work in this virtual machine, Microsoft simply needs the permission to do so.

Why just having an Xbox 360 App boot into an Xbox 360 virtual machine to run everything isn't possible is beyond me.

@BarefootBowser yeah i suppose so

of course if they made a premium version of the system with that i would buy it even if it was more expensive

I'm concerned about the idea PS is holding as they are going to run their silicon as fast as they possibly can. Working out just how far you can push clocks and balance power / heat needs late run silicon. Its not a great way so save costs from a customer view point. Loud machines running right at the edge has never been a great solution and physics isn't changing. Xbox is looking good. Great cooling / airflow design, large chips running at easy clock rate. I hope Sony doesn't blow it. Its always better to have two players at their best

I hope Sony can match the specs cause I don't want to play infirior versions of multiplatform games. If for example Cyberpunk runs at 4k 45-60 fps on PS5 and 4k/8k 120 fps on Xbox, that's a deal breaker and someone would naturally go for the best version.

@FullbringIchigo The thing is, power has nothing to do with BC. A system is backwards compatible, or it isn't, it all depends on the system's architecture. If it is BC it can play all the games by default. The PS5 will be BC with the PS4, and the Series X will be with the Xbox One. OG Xbox and 360 used a different architecture than the current x86, and therefore they have to port or emulate all the games, and that means testing each and every one of them, and trying to get the license back if there is any. Because they're essentially publishing the game again by making it available on their digital storefront. So they will never be able to support all games.

A potential solution would be to build in an emulator in the console itself, that makes it possible to read and play the games natively. That's the only way to guarantee compatibility with (nearly) all games (as there are always weird exceptions that used custom controllers like Guitar Hero etc.).

@BarefootBowser Will I be able inevitable sequels to HZD, God of War, Spider-Man and Days Gone on the Xbox Series X?

No, I won't so there really is nothing more to say. It's not a question of IF I'll get a PS5 but of WHEN.

😉

Some of the comments are hilarious. Chill out, it's newzzzzzzzzzzzz
Its about ganes and xbox just doesn't have a decent library, and hasn't since the 360 imo.
I traded my launch ps4 in for a pro last week and I'm in no rush to get a new machine but I don't think I'll be jumping in bed with ms, been there and without decent games it means nowt.
To the guy saying cyberpunk might be 8k 120fps on the x series x, you're dreaming buddy. How much is a TV that'll can run that anyhow? And not an lcd led qled garbage, a proper telly. Yeah 29 grand plus... And 4.5k for aforementioned crap. Go back to sleep! Dream up some more dude!

@GodGamer "There no difference in multiplats and people need to stop pretending there are. There were no differences on the base consoles before the upgrades."
There totally was, though. Especially early on. You had more than a few examples of PS4 games being at 1080p compared to 720/900p on Xbox One in the early days. Even now, you have games that struggle on Xbox One S like Just Cause 4, Fallen Order, etc.

@wiiware
Both companies will announce the price as late as possible. Its unlikely Sony announces the price at the reveal Theres no reason That's usually the case. Unless Spencer tries a coup.
I'm not sure it's the right topic but since last year with Sony restruturation and management change I've had a feeling. Spencer has been playing bluff and trying to look cool with Sony. Like we r all friends and theres no competition BS.
Sony realised one or two years ago and when J Ryan came he talked about not being complacent any more.
The latest E3 Sony went to felt complacent with hindsight
....
People thought SeX would be so expensive but Spencer may want to take a big loss on the price.
The whole Lockard affair smells fishy too.

@Dan_ozzzy189 I guess the concept of future proofing is too much for you, you can only see a few days ahead apparently 😒

In 3-4 years 8k TV's will become so widespread that even you will be able to buy one.

Either the ps5 is either has something wrong with it or it's really packing something good and they have delayed giving anymore details yet I would hope for the latter but who knows all I know is many people will start to get frustrated soon if sony doesnt announce anything sadly maybe even buy an xbox over a ps5 because of no new info.

@Juanalf you're funny. You should be on TV.
A few days ahead? Pmsl, what does that even mean?
I can buy what I want but don't see the point of wasting money on tech that's pointless and 8k is and will be for a long time yet. Especially in regards to actually having anything 8k capable to get the best out of it, TV, consoles, VOD. BB speeds aren't anywhere near fast enough unless they cut the bitrate and compress the hell out of it like they have with HD. UHD looks decent on iplayer but only because HD is not at the 20mbps it was when it came out but is around 6mbps! Mainstream 8k is 10 years away but go knock yourself out mate.
If people are seriously considering NOT buying a PS5 because Sony haven't announced anything yet and the xsx is 12 tittyflops then I seriously question whether they're gaming fans or not. It's about the games. Sony will have the games and although it'd be amazing if they had the most powerful machine but as long as its near enough it's good enough. I just want a better made, reliable and quiet, powerful console. WITH awesome games and features. Sony won't let us down. Stop panicking people!

@GamingFan4Lyf Yeah, it's weird, because they already have the digital versions which they allow you to download when you put in a 360 disc.

@Dan_ozzzy189 I'm buying the system regardless but I don't want a repeat of the PS3/360 era where multiplatforms where garbage on ps3. If the new xbox is too much stronger than it will be the platform where games are build first and optimized for and the PS5 will be an afterthought.

could see sony doing another wired article soon along with a short trailer showing the controller and console.

@JJ2 The problems with microsoft is xbox is the worse performing division of the corporation, just like mobile phone is the worse performing division of sony. That division isn't going to receive more and more money, at some point it has to make money, xbox already lost money on the first xbox, xbox 360 (rrod), and xbox1 (sold worse and gamepass loss), I think this gen is the last xbox division chance to turn profit, if not I think xbox will become a third party publisher with pc store like steam and will port all their games to others console and pc store.

All sony have to do is make a good console with fair price, either the same price & performance with new xbox or less performance but less price, and the battle for next gen is easier than this gen I think.

Also, it seems that MS just is bad at this. They say fast loading times and bigger worlds, but just that as text on a page is neat, but not exciting. What's exciting is when Sony used Spider-Man as an example to give a glimpse of it we could visualize. This is nowhere near as good as when Sony gave it's first bit of info. You can't just drop a few numbers, you need to explain why the numbers are exciting. I also get the feeling that the new Xbox won't have the super cool and innovative rumble of the PS5 because they didn't mention it, in which case Sony could have a huge controller quality/experience advantage.

I would believe Sony plan is on hold due to current Wuhan virus situation.

@wiiware
Oh I completely agree.
I also think this cloud hype they go for is another mytical golden Eldorado. Cloud gaming simply is for people playing (little games not AAA games) on phone or just an add on for already console/ pc gamers.. The traditional console market isn't going anywhere unless it becomes all pc because of no exclusives. I dont understand Spencer logic but possibly his ego is driving him while Sony was being sensible but underestimated it for a while.
Like why people got embroiled in this silly TFlop arguments? Theres absolutely no point since both consoles will deliver 4k with ease.
It's not about logic anymore haha
Edit
I've just seen celebrities (I prefer that name to 'influencers') keep on denying theres a console war. It's an 'invention' from 'fanboys' they say. Logic is out of the window so to speak
It's a bit similar in politics these last few years.

Typical cheap Stingy Sony. Ps5 is going to be 9 Teraflop while Pro version will be 12 Teraflop. This is what I like about X box series. Straight to business No BS!

I hadn't thought it would happen but this is actually making me quite excited about Xbox again. I went from PS2 to X360 to PS4, so I might make the switch again if Sony doesn't come up with the goods!

Sony are playing the long game, and waiting for Microsoft to make their move.

They're hoping that they can make a counter PR stunt like they did in the last generation that literally won them the console war from the beginning.

This is important stuff guys, this uncertainty stuff is petty. Sony aren't uncertain, they're the opposite, they know exactly what they're doing.

Microsoft announce 12 TFLOPS, and Sony will strick back with 15 TFLOP and up the game yet again.

Wehhhhh no news I am gonna jump ship cause I don't get my info when I want it.
Grow up.

@JJ2 This tflop war is meaningless I think, in the end it's about games, that's why $300 switch console sells more than xbox console in the less amount of times, because nintendo got games that sells system (mario, zelda, smash, etc).

Cloud is maybe the future but sony already has it covered, in the next gen they gonna sells their games not only on blurays and digital but on streaming too, and they partenered with microsoft azure on the streaming tech so ps owners will get the same great streaming tech as xbox.

@SaikoWaifu2003 Unfortunately (for xbox) casual gamers didn't care about xbox, anecdotal evidence: in my whatsapp groups my photographers friends know about ps5 logo and share it on whatsapp, while nobody didn't even talks about xbox. Heck, even ps5 logo shows more likes on instagram compared to unveiling of xbox console on tga on instagram.

@Octane thing is they already have the system in place the BC games on XB1 use a emulator to run, yeah the Digital versions released on XBL require a re-license but if they have the software already built into the XB1 there really is no reason why putting any XB or 360 disc in shouldn't work too unless they are blocking them for some reason

@DonJorginho I'm not worried as I'll be getting the PS5 regardless, but as the days go by I'm starting to think that the Xbox will be the dominant system for the coming gen.

@wiiware
Yea I agree except we still dont know what this 'exploration' of lose 'partnership between Ms and Sony is ending up to be. I could still see Sony getting on with Amazon further in the near future instead.

I'm a playstation fan but I don't think the PS5 will be as powerful due to the form factor.

The XBox Series X looks essentially like a Desktop Tower, the PS5 will go for a unit which will fit in a media cabinet in the living room, they want it to appeal to all markets, not just hardcore gamers.

The smaller form factor means restraints in all aspects, PSU, GPU and of course trying to keep it cool. Sony will need to keep producing excellent first party material as Multi plats will obviously look better on the more powerful console. We will just have to see what the PS5 reveal is.

@FullbringIchigo They may use an emulator (I don't think anyone knows how it's done), but it's not built into the hardware itself. The Xbox One cannot play a 360 game. It recognises the disc and offers you a free download. This is why it is limited to certain games, not all games work.

But having an emulator built into the system from the get-go, it can read and run the games as if it were doing it natively. This is what a few Sony patents have hinted at. In this case it works with all games, no licensing issue, because the game does not have to be reissued as a digital download, and you wouldn't even have to be connected to the internet, it would be playing the game off the disc and emulating it whilst it's reading the game. That takes a good amount of processing power I'd presume, but I think the PS5 could do this for PS1 and 2 for example.

@rjejr This reeks of damage control crying and desperation. This is so sad.

Usually the simplest explanation is the correct one. Perhaps Sony is either reluctant to hold a large public gathering while concerns over coronavirus remain (which was their reasoning behind dropping out of PAX East and GDC) or coronavirus has created uncertainties in regards to the supply pipeline for next-gen consoles and their release dates.

Either way, Sony is due to provide their full year financial projection at their next earning's report in May (their fiscal year runs from calendar Q2 through calendar Q1 of the next year IIRC, so April 1st, 2020, through March 31st, 2021) so I would expect an announcement by then at the very latest.

@rjeje

"but we still have to let Sony make some money on the PS5 by remastering everything into native 4k for people who missed it"

That's the whole point of what smart delivery is solving and you don't see this as a problem?

You think it's OK to release a game and then turn right around a year later and sale them the same game with the originally designed higher res textures that they down scaled to make it work on the base ps4?

And you're fine with when you buy cyberpunk 2077 on your ps5 that you can't go in your basement and play it on the PS4 when the living room tv is in use? Nope gotta buy it for ps4 too.

That's OK with you?

This is what smart delivery is designed to solve things like resident evil 3 remake vs the original resident evil 3 is not.

When he game is so old and the update so complex then yes make a new version and sell it to me again.

But when all you're literally doing is releasing the game with access to the original higher res textures and slapping the "remaster" label on it NO that crap needs to end.

Microsoft is putting an end to it will Sony follow?

@Robocod does PC gaming not already offer the superior gaming experiences to what we have on console? Don't those same games on pc also scale to run (sometimes even worse than what's possible with the current consoles)?

The ability to scale even the best gaming experiences (even down to where they may not be considered the best experiences) has always been a feature of pc gaming.

Microsoft is just trying to take the benefits of a system like pc gaming and apply it to console gaming.

They are truly changing "the game" and when it comes to consoles and how we treat "generations".

Microsoft is taking console gaming to something closer to Apple and their iPhone and app store.

You can have an iPhone from today last year or 3 years ago and each one will run the game but at different levels of performance. At the same time the iPhone 5s bring that it's past the "cut off point" and may not run it at all.

This is what Microsoft is building to I expect them to have and ever evolving lineup of systems at multiple performance levels and with time passing they'll update on a semi-regular basis with older models just stepping down quality til the point they reach the end of support and can no longer run the newer software.

It's a very smart way of always keeping yourself relevant and it's nothing but a pro consumer move.

Trust me 10 years from now this will 100% be the way things are for Microsoft at least.

Let's hope Sony doesn't drag tail like they do with everything else to the point it's almost a joke that they don't support what everyone else already knows is the way forward.

@Futureshark you have pro patches just like Xbox has one x patches but that's NOT the same as what micorosft is talking about doing with smart delivery... Let's take the last of us on ps3 you buy it play and then 1 hear later you get a ps4.
. You're not playing that game no matter what and even if you had some form of backwards compatibility you'd just be playing to exact same game locked to the same 30 fps and same resolution.
. Now you have the option to get the remaster but that's ANOTHER full game purchase and now you have 2 copies of the game essentially forever locked behind their own walled garden.

With Microsoft let's say you buy that same game on Xbox one then a year later you get a series x and now you want to play not on the new system.

Well when you go to play it there's nothing to buy and nothing to have to choose you just install the game and when you boot it up your playing what would have been on Playstation the remastered version with all its benefits.

Now say you never played that game when it first comes out so you buy it now that you have a xbox series x well when you decide to go to basement and let the wife use the main living room setup for her movie with friends..
You bolt up your old Xbox one and look right there waiting for you is that same game now on its original version fully ready to go with all your progress and settings / achievements etc.

This is a tremendous win for the gamer and brings playing games on console very close to how b it works on pc where your game scales to whatever hardware you can throw at it (within a minimum).

@Cybrshrk PC being superior gaming? With increasingly buggy updates of the likes of Windows 10 & taking controls away from the end user of what's the latest update installing? Constant updates of hardware/drivers & unoptimised games? Thanks I'll stick to console & retro stuff on the pc.
As for Xbox's intent,its been pretty clear for sometime...Live service games with dripfeed content & not much of a campaign/ story mode. Phil Spencer just recently reinforced that with referring to his competition as being Amazon/Google with Xcloud/Gamepass...which very much is about removing ownership/buying of games altogether & having a collection, or for that matter an Xbox. Each to their own,if you enjoy Xbone/PC goodluck to you.

@Robocod is you find those problems because you want to have a reason to stick with console that's fine we all gotta accept our lot in life.

I personally have next no issues and an experience that blows away powering up my ps4 pro and trying to get a game (and it's insane hours long updates) going and then when I see destiny 2 at 30 fps and that super terrible FOV I usually quit soon after and go back to the superior experience on my pc.

I unlike yourself believe in GOOD gaming wherever that may be.

That's why I have a ps4 pro for its good exclusives
I have a pc for its superior experience
I have switch for travel and Nintendo exclusives

And I don't have an Xbox cause my much better pc does everything for me that it could do but better (though I aka paying member of game pass ultimate all the way through 2022)

They give me that freedom and I love them for it and I'm still supporting them as much as I would else wise.

I only want the best experience however I game and I adore the CHOICE to do it in whatever game I play (which is again the good ones)

Sony seems to be learning that there's money on opening up and even if people like you want to kick and scream when they do they are going to do what's best for their bottom line.

I applaud them for trying and let's hope they keep moving in the right direction.

@Cybrshrk
We've had 'smart delivery' for years, it's called 'crossplay' and allows me to buy a game for my Vita and get the enhanced PS4 version for free, with the added bonus of the PS4 knowing to download it's version and not the Vita one, ala 'smart delivery'.
We did get alot of remasters this gen for several reasons, one being that alot of PS4 owners didn't have a PS3 but a Xbox 360, so missed out on all the exclusives the PS3 had, such as The Last of Us. I imagine only a real superfan of that game bought it again at full price when it was remastered if they already had a PS3 version already. It was all the new PS4 owners who'd never played it before that made the remaster sell so well.
Secondly, there was no Backward Compatiblity between the current and previous generation when the current one began. This is completely opposite with the next generation as BC is basically being baked in. If this was present before then I believe there would have been a much, much smaller market for remasters, with just a few outstanding remakes such as RE2.
So effectively we will now have studios producing a current generation game with next generation version with more bells and whistles. These will not be 2 seperate versions created independently, but a core game being patched up to take advantage of the extra grunt.
As the next generation progresses, Sony will make PS5 exclusives that will really show off the new power, much in the way God of War and Horizon: Zero Dawn showed off the PS4.
MS has already said there will be no exclusive games for Xbox X for 2 year's, and those exclusives when they do come will be hobbled by having to cater for the lowest denominator, the Xbox One S, if MS keep their promises.
So don't be fooled by the empty promises offering something new that's already been done, there is nothing new here with 'Smart delivery'.
Finally, if the TV is being used then i can employ another PS4 feature called 'remote play', this allows me to stream my PS4 across WiFi to my laptop, phone or my good old Vita if I want to. No need to go hiding in the basement.

@Cybrshrk So you "struggle" to boot up your alleged ps4 pro or tolerate supposed slow downs/pop ups on exclusives like God of War/HZD, for the "superior" experience of pc gaming....and yet you don't have the same struggles playing such things on Switch compared to ps4?
Funny how all your comments to date have been to push pc master race trolling on a playstation focused website. Goodluck with that.