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Official one from Flipkart with Indian bill and warranty. Received it on 12th Nov.

It’s the order in which I bought the consoles/PC. I currently own PS3, PS4 Pro and XSX. Gave away PS2 and PC. The best gaming experience I had till date is Bloodborne with the Old Hunters DLC on the Pro.

I counted my “Play Later” games from Gamepass. It has 62 games which I have not played. And at least 1 good game is added each month. Till now I just played PS exclusives so I missed out on a lot of other games.

https://psnprofiles.com/guide/11279-demons-souls-full-trophy-walkthrough This will be ridiculously helpful while playing.

You can check the entire Gamepass library in the google doc below sorted by Metacritic etc There are games other than G, F and H which are worthwhile EA Play games are listed in the last sheet, there are 80+ games from EA https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kspw-4paT-eE5-mrCrc4R9tg70lH2ZTFrJOUmOtOytg/htmlview

PS5 Pro may likely have 2TB variant seeing people already facing storage shortage on PS5

Gears 1 Ultimate Edition does run very well with Auto HDR. I was amazed with the graphics, G1 being a very old game does show surprisingly good graphics fidelity with all XSX features

During the 2nd half of the 2020 when PS5 and XSX were slowly being unwrapped, my initial plan was to get a PS5 and play Spiderman remastered on it and all new games as they come out as well as backlog games at better performance. As more and more information got out, I learnt about Gamepass and the games they were offering and the price. It felt like too good an offer and still does. GP and the fact that RDR 2 runs at native 4k on XSX sealed the deal to go for XSX. RDR 2 still does blurry checkerboarding on Pro & PS5. Xbox being a completely new experience after a decade with PS also helps. Also, it would take some years for PS5 to build a good library of 10-15 next gen exclusives. Till then I would be completing all last gen games and selected next gen games on XSX. If PS5 Pro comes out in 3-4 years that'd be even better and there would be excellent PS5 exclusives library built up by that time with all updates and patches - an excellent time to jump back into PS again.

Most console gamers don’t understand custom console hardware like PS5 or XSX and all intricacies involved. You can hardly blame them for not understanding Cerny’s engineering behind PS5 which is quite advanced. There was actually no way for a console gamer to tell that PS5’s custom hardware is better than XSX’s approach when they were just announced. We have also not seen an example of a multi-plat game which is able to milk the last drop of performance from both XSX and PS5 most efficiently and then compare. I expect such a game to come some years later from AAA developers.

Total frames torn on both consoles are a minuscule % of total frames that were analyzed and XSX drops below 4k is quality mode are uncommon not occasional. Differences seem to be unnoticeable and marginal.

I bought it. They said that enhancements would be out by early 2021. I have games to play till then. I estimate that there won’t be a new sale till enhancements are out till early 2021. I have only bought Control UE which supports RT for next gen and I want to play it on my XSX as soon as enhancements come out early 2021.

I recently bought Red Dead Redemption 2 for XSX. It had ~90GB of data on 2 discs with 31GB of downloaded updates Also recently, I bought TLOU 2 which also came with 2 discs with 90+ GB on them and 5-6GB of downloaded updates.

Fenrir - same wolf which Hulk fought in Thor Ragnarok movie?

To be honest when they announced 12TF vs 10TF for XSX vs PS5, I considered that Pro with 4TF was a 1440p 30fps machine. X1X was 1800p-4K 30fps machine, I thought that X1X could nearly do 4K at 6TF and both next gen consoles are at 10TF and 12TF, that’s almost 2x power of X1X, not considering that 1TF of next gen is better than 1TF of last gen. This means that both XSX and PS5 would easily do 4K 60fps. TVs more than 4K would never go mainstream in the next 5-7 years. So my thoughts were that both next gen consoles have more than enough power to do 4k 60fps and since 4k TVs would be the norm, there won’t be any console wars at all as such like X1X vs Pro.

Avengers sold more than Demon’s Souls - what a joke

From what we are seeing, PS5 with higher frequency is always doing better on 120fps mode - is it attributable to higher frequency?

10 vs 12 may be too close. But if we consider good PC GPUs, they have 60+ CUs and high frequencies more than PS5’s 2.2. PC GPUs are the most powerful and they are better on both fronts CUs and frequency, so they dominate all. But XSX went with more CUs and PS5 went with more frequency. Which one is a “long term” better choice? There are other differences in hardware which are not given in standard spec sheets floating around the internet but do they matter?

Yes, 10 vs 12 is too close as compared to 4 vs 6. Also, people took Cerny’s presentation for granted. But looking back with new game performance comparisons, I absolutely enjoy watching Cerny’s presentation again and again. He’s a wizard of console hardware domain.

It’s very simple. In X1X vs Pro era, X1X with 6 TF performed way better than Pro with 4 TF on multi-plat games. When XSX with 12 TF and PS5 with 10 TF were announced, having seen X1X vs Pro performance gap, it was a fair assumption that XSX would perform better than PS5 because of more TFs. This is a fair assumption for people like me who aren’t console hardware/software engineers. But interestingly, PS5 with less TFs is performing better then XSX on multi-plats thanks to Cerny and team’s wizardry. That’s the limited point.

Cerny and his hardware team is to be praised for making a super console which punches above its “10 TF” weight. Going by X1X vs Pro comparisons on many games and the wide performance chasm, it was a fair assumption that XSX should theoretically do better than PS5 because of higher TFs.

It’s not the ultimate edition

Living a life then playing games then commenting here on console wars - that should be the priority. Somehow you are managing to spend your time on the 3rd one despite demands from the 1st two.

Would it be correct to say that a large majority of console gamers would play on large TVs with 4k60fps rather than high refresh rate monitors? Large TVs with high refresh refresh rates would be a small minority and currently 120fps is done with 1080p or less - such low resolutions won’t look good on large TVs.

VRR seems relevant to 120fps mode alone - both display features usually go together on TVs usually like LG CX. At 60fps, both consoles are as good as locked so no use of VRR as such.

The reason they are fighting console wars is *because* they don't have new consoles to play on and keep them busy. But somehow with both consoles, you are finding time to read comments and replying here