Let's Talk About the PS5 and Xbox 2 #Helpful Post

hey guys Austin and today at e3 well

we're getting something a little bit

different than what I expected of course

there's the standard booths from Sony

from Microsoft Nintendo there's all the

new games that you would expect but what

I did not expect is talk about the next

generation of consoles it has been a

full five years since the PlayStation 4

and Xbox one were launched here at e3

2013 there been a lot of things they've

changed since then both consoles have

seen a slim revision we've seen stuff

like the PlayStation VR on the Sony side

as well as the death of Kinect on the

Microsoft side but really one of the

most important changes over the last few

years has been the addition of the mid

cycle console refreshes that's not a

great way of putting that but we've got

an Xbox 1x in a Playstation 4 Pro now

make sure there have been improved

consoles in the past stuff like these

Sega 32x add-on for the Genesis or the

Nintendo 64 expansion pack are cool but

they don't come anywhere close to the

same sort of level of functionality and

extra performance that we've gotten

added the One X and the ps4 pro then let

a lot of people myself included to

assume that this current generation

consoles would have quite a bit of life

left however here at e3 the next

generation has actually been mentioned a

couple times already it started on

Sunday night with the Bethesda

conference where they showed off not

only one but two brand new IPs that are

meant for next gen so they very briefly

teased the Elder Scrolls 6 which was

really just a tiny little trailer but

more impressively they also talked about

starfield

we have also been working on a brand new

next-generation single player game now

the trailer for starfield didn't exactly

give us a ton of gameplay but what it

did do is show off a game that as far as

I know is going to be meant only for the

next generation so that's actually sort

of not really what I was expecting out

of this e3

sure they're going to be forced new

consoles at some point in the future but

the idea that developers are already

showing off games that are meant to be

running on that means that it can't be

that far off or Kanaks unless Bethesda

is in the business of teasing a game

that won't be out for four or five years

which I guess I can't actually rule out

odds are we are going to be able to see

the next generation consoles in two or

three years and that was further backed

up by what microsoft said on stage on

their event on sunday the same team that

delivered unprecedented performance with

Xbox 1x

is deep into architecting the next Xbox

consoles now Phil Spencer didn't just

say there's going to be a new Xbox he

said they're going to be new Xboxes as

in like plural Nellie is this going to

be a pretty smart marketing move to get

people talking about the next generation

of Xbox but this combined with the fact

that Microsoft is actually purchasing

several major studios to sort of juice

up the Xbox game development means that

they're actually are doing a good job of

putting a lot of resources a lot of

money and more importantly a lot of hype

behind the next generation still though

it's really interesting to think that a

year ago d3 they were talking about the

Xbox one X and how I was about to come

out and now they've already moved on to

the next generation the rumor mill has

gone into overdrive since the

announcement so supposedly Microsoft is

working on codenamed scarlet which is

the series of next generation X boxes

now what these actually will look like

is kind of hard to say but we can take

some educated guesses on the other hand

it seems like Sony is perfectly content

to write out their sales leave with the

PlayStation 4 for a little while so in a

recent interview with The Wall Street

Journal the head of PlayStation John

Coderre was quoted as saying that the

next PlayStation is three years away

which would put it in 2021

so not exactly around the corner but it

is very clear at this point that both

Sony and Microsoft are well underway

developing the next generation of

consoles the real question is what do

those consoles actually look like so if

you look at the current generation of

consoles they're both based on very very

similar tech so both the ps4 and Xbox

one have an eight core AMD Jaguar base

CPU as well as Radeon graphics sure

there are some key differences so not

only does the ps4 utilize the much

faster gddr5 memory something that's

also shared now with the 1x but the ps4

also does have a more powerful GPU

however at their core they're sharing

the exact same AMD based fundamentals

the same holds true for the enhanced

versions of the consoles so both the ps4

pro and Xbox 1x are using very similar

layouts but with more memory bandwidth

bigger GPUs and higher clock speeds so

realistically what we're looking at is

another x86 processor that is very

likely going to be based on AMD Tech so

sure there are lots of other options

I'll get into those in just a minute but

I think the main takeaway here is that

by sticking with x86 nothing do you keep

backwards compatibility with previous

generation games something important for

both the one and the ps4 but importantly

it also makes developers lives much

easier when it comes to porting games

from the PC now backwards compatibility

is

the Xbox already does really well so now

this is the Xbox one support original

Xbox games and quite a few Xbox 360

titles

well you bump up to the One X you're

actually able to play some of those

games and a full 4k which is impressive

considering that's all happening with

emulation if you have the very very

similar sort of feature set and sort of

similar hardware in the next generation

of consoles that makes all this even

easier to keep up to date you can

imagine the next generation of Xbox

having full backwards compatibility and

that being a huge selling point sure you

can still go buy an Xbox one who I

bother when you can play an Xbox 2 that

will play all the same games and then

some right now the only company that can

deliver an experience like this is the

same one that did on the last generation

AMD so of course they have modern GPU

tech and especially in the next couple

years you can imagine that you're only

going to be able to get access to better

and better stuff but almost more

importantly than that they also have

some new high-end x86 CPU cores so with

the current generation using the very

slow mobile focus Jaguar cores I can

easily imagine a scenario in which the

next generation consoles are going to be

using AMD Rison especially if we really

are a couple years away from the next

generation of consoles it's very easy to

imagine a full eight core rise in CPU

setup inside a console APU

there are already some whispers that

rise in tech is being implemented in the

next gen of consoles so supposedly with

the Sony software that they're using on

the ps4 and presumably PS 5 there is now

going to be support for the timings of

the first generation rising processors

now that's cool but it's maybe not the

most exciting option take one look at

the Nintendo switch and you can see that

the next generation get takes several

forms make sure this is not going to be

as powerful as something like the ps4

Xbox one but the portability really does

unlock it to be something that is very

very different because Nintendo opted

for a mobile focus processor with the

NVIDIA Tegra x1 not only are you going

to be getting arm CPUs which are

typically shared with phones and tablets

but importantly you're also still

getting a high-end solution with Nvidia

graphics

again nothing that's going to be quite

as powerful as in the night be current

generation of consoles but the end of

the day graphics definitely aren't

everything sure the switch delivers a

decent chunk of the performance of the

current generation consoles at a

fraction of the power budget but I don't

think that means it's going to be a good

fit to go for this approach for the

PlayStation 5 as well as the Xbox 2 not

only has Nvidia taken the tegra line of

processors and a much more automotive

focus area mostly because they make a

lot of money there

even with a couple years of upgrades and

sort of performance improvements you

really still can't expect a mold

processor to come anywhere close to the

level of something that the PlayStation

4 pro or the Xbox 1x they sure at some

point we might see a mobile playstation

or a mobile Xbox but I don't think that

is going to be what the proper next

generation of consoles looks like on the

other hand we have Intel now sure they

do have the CPU technology and they are

working on dedicated graphics but that

is going to be several years away and it

is doubtful they're going to waste all

those resources on trying to put

together some bespoke version of a

console APU now yes there are lots of

possibilities but I think the smart

money is definitely on another fully AMD

solution for both the PS 5 as well as

the Xbox 2 I think it's very likely that

Sony is telling the truth well we'll

probably see a glimpse of the places you

find a little bit earlier it will likely

go on sale in 2021

Microsoft is more exciting the Xbox has

been beaten and beaten badly this

generation now sure they've made some

major strides in the last couple years

with stuff like backwards compatibility

as well as the Xbox one X at the end of

the day most estimates put the

PlayStation 4 outselling the one roughly

two to one and that is not easy to

overcome my best bet is we're going to

see the next generation of Xbox at the

next year's e3 now give us an early look

at something that would probably be

launching in 2020 a full year ahead of

the PlayStation 5 if everything goes

according to plan and by according to

plan I mean the plan that I just totally

made up on my head that is only vaguely

substantiated with real rumors and

speculation but it sounds good so so

between next-gen rise in tech and stuff

like game straining which is only going

to be more and more popular I do think

there's a lot of interesting stuff that

we're going to see over the next couple

years for the new consoles some curious

what do you guys think about what you

expect to find in the PlayStation 5 and

Xbox to let me know in the comments

below and I will catch you in the next

one