It does make it very competitive with a current high end PC. But the price will be important.
The 7800XT still runs for about $489 so I don't think $499 is feasible unless AMD gave them a really good deal because they're worried about the console market. Rumor has it that AMD went to Nintendo with a very good offer to try and beat Nvidia for Switch 2 but Nintendo didn't budge.
Still, I think $499 is already pushing it for consoles. I would've used the money to drop the PS5 Slim to $399 instead of spending billions to develop a PS5.5 as developers are already complaining about having to support so many platforms.
Plus this all means that once the PS6 comes out, the jump won't be as big from PS5 Pro to PS6. With that said I understand why they want to have a console on the market that can run GTAVI well and take the 'performance' crown from Xbox as that worked pretty well for Nvidia.
Anyway, at least we have an interesting hardware roadmap:
2024 - PS5 Pro
2025 - Switch 2
2026 - Next Gen Xbox
Also if PS5 Pro does release before Switch 2, I believe we will see the biggest performance gap in the same console generation ever.
Switch is at ~ 1 Teraflops docked.
The 7800XT still runs for about $489 so I don't think $499 is feasible unless AMD gave them a really good deal because they're worried about the console market. Rumor has it that AMD went to Nintendo with a very good offer to try and beat Nvidia for Switch 2 but Nintendo didn't budge.
Still, I think $499 is already pushing it for consoles. I would've used the money to drop the PS5 Slim to $399 instead of spending billions to develop a PS5.5 as developers are already complaining about having to support so many platforms.
Plus this all means that once the PS6 comes out, the jump won't be as big from PS5 Pro to PS6. With that said I understand why they want to have a console on the market that can run GTAVI well and take the 'performance' crown from Xbox as that worked pretty well for Nvidia.
Anyway, at least we have an interesting hardware roadmap:
2024 - PS5 Pro
2025 - Switch 2
2026 - Next Gen Xbox
Also if PS5 Pro does release before Switch 2, I believe we will see the biggest performance gap in the same console generation ever.
Switch is at ~ 1 Teraflops docked.
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