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I'm going to be getting those platforms and it's going to be a lot of fun. But sometimes the news isn't always good. And today is one of those days where it looks like there could be trouble in paradise for Sony and we're talking the kind of trouble that could lead to the PlayStation 5 being delayed an entire year and it's not even because of COVID-19. Let's get into it. So, you're seeing here is comicbook.com put up a thing a few days ago and it originated from a Twitter user that now has his profile private in Jeff Rickle. Now, I want to be clear about Jeff Rickle. He has actually been known to be rather negative towards the enterprises of Sony. I don't know if he's kind of an Xbox fanboy or something. I'm not exactly sure. But the only reason I actually want to talk about it is because it's been substantiated by Windows central journalist Daniel Rubino and jazz cordon who have heard very similar things. This is a more legit, not less biased people that are saying that it's not just Jeff Rickle. He was just the first person to bring it. So, the report begins by noting the collective feeling in the developer community is that Sony has dropped the ball partially because it underestimated Microsoft and the Xbox Series X and this is why by certain measurements the PlayStation 5 specs are considerably inferior to the specs of the Xbox Series X. Now, again, you remember when Mark Cerny came out and he's like, hey, look, you know, you don't look at the Teraflops or this and that. He, you know, really tried to puff it up, but it's more than the Teraflops. It seems to be a problem. In fact, the CPU seems to be a bigger issue. According to this new rumor, and again, this is a rumor, the PlayStation 5 cannot maintain its clock speeds, which if you go back and watch the presentation, you kind of saw them talk about the clock speeds and how it's not locked and that makes an issue when you're trying to uniform things on a platform. Anyways, going on. It's causing severe overheating problems, which in turn is causing the hardware to fail at an alarming rate. And these are dev units failing, which are usually beefier than the units that are sold at retail. So that's a problem, of course. Further, the lack of power is also apparently leading to optimization issues. While the Xbox Series X is reliable in terms of the power it provides, the PlayStation 5 is unpredictable, which makes which in turn makes optimization very challenging. Essentially, the comparison the Xbox Series X is that they're locked clock speeds and they don't dip. There's no variance to it and that's easier to work with than something that varies, especially varies to the degree that it appears PlayStation 5 does. The report continues by noting that Sony is looking into a complete console redesign to alleviate some of these issues and that's where the year delay comes in. This redesign may lead to the console looking similar to the Xbox Series X, which by the way, the Xbox Series X basically did a micro ATX style build, which is kind of a living room PC style build out there. It's not super, super popular, but it's well known and easy enough to get decent cooling for it. So here's Daniel Rubino, one of the more reputable people here talking about this, where he says Sony may have overshot and underestimated Microsoft and he's quoting Jeff Rickle here. So we're just going to open up the Jeff Rickle piece here and it says, talk to the devs working on the games. I know several and I know people directly for Sony. I work in the business and other sector. The collective feeling is Sony screwed up this gen, they underestimated Microsoft and were overconfident. Again, expect delays to the PlayStation 5 and heating problems to rival the Xbox 360, where that was the big issue for the red ring of death. Sony is really concerned right now. Don't you find it odd they get to really show the hardware despite pressure to do so for Microsoft because the hardware fails at an alarming rate. The system cannot maintain its clocks. The M.2 gets hot quick. More throughput means more power consumption means more heat. So basically, that really fast SSD, which is legitimately faster than what the Xbox Series X is using. They're not doing a very good job dissipating the heat from it. So it's causing slowdowns. The underlying issue is Sony did not realize the form factor needed to be changed. And now they are concerned about having to completely redesign it and have it look more like the Xbox Series X tower because it will look like they have just copied Microsoft. And by the way, they don't have to make it look like the Xbox Series X tower, but if they don't want to remanufacture parts or something, I'm not really sure. There's other ways that you could still have a more traditional console-like look, but then it might look like the original Xbox VCR. So I don't know. Do you also not think it's odd they haven't really shown off some launch titles? Reason? The devs have no idea what to optimize for because Sony has no idea what the PlayStation 5 will deliver in consistent performance yet. And they do not want to show off captures from dev systems that do not match what a production console would produce. The people I know closest to it have said it's really bad. Sony is just hoping the PlayStation name can help them weather it for two years so they can get to a redesign. You've been warned. Sony rested on its laurels and took for granted what was going on. They heard rumors of what Microsoft was doing, but did not believe Microsoft could pull it off. Third parties verified Microsoft achieved all they set out to do and have tested the Xbox Series X, which by the way, every dev that has come out to say anything about the Xbox Series X, they've all been glowingly positive. Now there are devs that are glowingly positive about the PlayStation 5 as well. However, the ones we're hearing from are the ones that don't have dev units yet. They just watched the Mark Cerny thing and they said, the SSD makes a big difference. We're hearing all these cool things from devs, but how excited they are to work with the hardware, but these are also devs that we're not currently at that time when they made those comments working with the hardware. We haven't really heard much from the people working with the hardware until this thing, this tweet, this whatever it is. Anyways, it says third parties verified Microsoft achieved all they set out to do and have tested the Xbox Series X. Microsoft was very open about letting them, which of course they were. They've been very confident about the Xbox Series X. Sony rushed things to try to get something out. They've seen that Microsoft was ready to manufacture right now, cause some problems. See, this is where I kind of get to some of the, it sounds a little bit fanboyish to talk about how like, oh, they didn't think Microsoft would be ready to manufacture yet. I think that's a little bit of a fanboy remark because we're talking about systems that came out in what, 2013. We're literally in 2020, so by this holiday, it'll be seven years. It's a good thing that Microsoft wouldn't be ready to manufacture a new system, a new generation system in seven years. That's pretty asinine to me. And again, this is the problem with Jeff Rickle in general, is he is generally negative towards Sony and has a slant. It doesn't mean he doesn't have connections. It just, he has kind of a slant to how he covers Sony. So again, that's not something I actually believe at all that they were caught by surprise that they could suddenly release a system in 2020. It's been seven years, of course. I mean, it's actually surprising that they couldn't release a system last year. So anyways, the debate right now is do they delay it by six to 12 months to get it right, or do they force it out to keep pace with Microsoft and deal with a high fail rate and performance issues, kind of like the Xbox 360. I know for a fact, attempts to optimize the PlayStation 5 take far more work than for the Xbox Series X. That does say the Xbox delivers steady power that is always predictable, while the PlayStation 5 does not, and is not predictable all the time. This makes optimizing your impossible. It cannot always deliver the power you ask it to even in short bursts. So essentially, I guess the big credence to these rumors, this report, whatever you want to refer to as we're going to call it a rumor, just because the originating source of it, even though it's being backed up a little bit by Windows central people, the originating source of it has a history of down talking Sony. I want to just point out that we have only heard Mark Cerny talk about specs and give us a logo. We haven't seen the system. We are essentially six months, maybe seven months from PlayStation 5 supposedly launching when we have yet to see a game for it. I mean, we've seen now actually two games for Xbox Series X, because there was another game showing off today. So we've seen two games for Xbox Series X. We've seen nothing for PlayStation 5. We haven't seen even what PlayStation 5 is capable of in a dev space. Like when he gave, and Mark Cerny gave his big long winded speech, you know, for the game developers conference all about the specs and about what can happen. He talked about these hypotheticals and theoretical things and didn't show anything. Oftentimes at GDC, when you're showing off new technology in a press conference, you would show something. You know, we've seen tech demos, seen ball demos and facial demos and all this stuff, you know, Unreal Engine. Every time there's a new version of that, like there's a tech demo that comes out with it. There was nothing. Like we didn't get to see the PlayStation 5 do anything. And it's crazy because the last time we saw PlayStation 5 actually do something was what two years ago, when they showed that it's faster loading times with the buildings and all this stuff in Spider-Man for PlayStation 4. Well, congrats. A system way more powerful than PlayStation 4 can easily handle a PlayStation 4 game with the SSD and run it quicker and load things quicker. And congrats. That's huge. That's great. It's an improvement to Spider-Man from PlayStation 4. They purposely have not shown anything from PlayStation 5. Now, there's going to be a reveal event. There has to be a reveal event or something to hype up the release, especially since Sony keeps saying that PlayStation 5 will come this year. But it is weird because Microsoft showed off the system back in December. They showed off a new game for next gen in December. They have had YouTubers come in, including Digital Foundry and Austin Evans come in and tear down an Xbox Series X and then rebuild it and put it back together. They have had them go hands-on with the system. They have showed off so many features from the quick resume and the switching between games really fast and the improvements to things like Gears of War 5 and how that's going to be better compared to last gen. And they have showed off new gen and there's another new gen game like Microsoft is killing it. And everything we keep hearing from Sony's camp is a lot of weirdness. You know, the very first thing they show us besides the Spider-Man tech demo from two years ago is the logo. Like the logo is a big reveal. Hey look, it's the PlayStation font with a 5 instead of a 4. What do you do? It's exactly what we expected it to be. How is that a big deal? And just a lot of things about this feel strange. Remember like there was also the rumor that came out that they're worried about pricing with it because it costs like 450 bucks to even manufacture a thing. PlayStation 5 and they're worried what Microsoft's going to do because if Microsoft takes a loss and sells a 399 they don't know how they're going to react to that. Honestly, I am really concerned for PlayStation 5. And all these concerns based on rumors and reports and developers could be nothing. It could just be a bunch of hogwash in the wind. But the only reason, the only reason, really two reasons to be clear why everyone is kind of thinking something's up is because Sony's not confidently showing the platform. Microsoft just keeps beating us over the head with the Series X. Here's what it could do. Here's what it looks like on the inside. Here's how powerful it is. Here's the clock speeds. Here's this. Here's that. Here's games. Like they're just confidently showing out features and games and everything to do with Xbox Series X besides the price point, which we assume they're going to unveil in June. So they're hitting us with so much information. And here you have Sony where the first legit info we get, which is about the specs, everything looks just worse than what the Series X is doing. And in some cases by a pretty decent margin. And it's baffling to me can achieve a higher clock speed on a single core, but the rest of the cores are down to the point that it doesn't really matter. It's baffling to me what they're doing with the PlayStation 5 so far. Nothing that they have talked about beyond how amazing the SSD supposedly is, which is just literally PCI Gen 3 or whatever, Gen 4. It's great. It's cool. But does anybody really care, especially if it overheats and it's not actually running at the max speeds they tout all the time. It's only able to hit it sometimes and in more intense games, maybe never hit that. I'm just I'm concerned. And the thing is, I know that I obviously have a little bit of bias. I've been a Nintendo and Xbox guy, Nintendo Xbox and PC gamer for a long time. I've never really deep dove into a PlayStation system, despite owning them in the past, owning a PlayStation 3 and all that. I don't even own a PlayStation 4. Never bought a PlayStation 4. I plan to play all the PlayStation 4 exclusive games on the PlayStation 5. And I still plan to do that. But it is baffling to me to see this this happening, I guess. And this is before we get to the fact that that Microsoft might have an even cheaper budget system for people. I don't know if it'll come out right away at launch. But you know, supposedly, there's a cheaper next gen console that's less terraflops, but can still run games pretty decent for people that are budget oriented. Man, it's weird. And how do I think Sony's in trouble? I think that's one thing to take away. Is Sony really in trouble? No, every system they sell, the worst is the PlayStation 3 at 80 plus million. That's pretty good. So I don't think the PlayStation 5 is in trouble. But they definitely have kind of flip flopped with Microsoft over this last gen. See, at the beginning of the current generation, Xbox really made a lot of flubs in how they talked about their system, the Xbox One. And PlayStation 5 just kept doling out the punches, came out the gate hot and never looked back. And I think this time around, it kind of looks like Microsoft is rolling out the punches. And they're just spanking Sony over and over and over again. And they might actually rush out the gates, not necessarily in Japan, of course, but in the US and Europe, which are the biggest markets for gaming, it's possible that Xbox Series X takes a sizable lead to start the next gen. It's going to be crazy to watch the sales come in. And obviously, you know, we all know that the COVID-19 situation might affect stock in some way. Maybe it won't. Who knows? We won't know until we get to launch. But if the PlayStation 5 is a late a year because they're redesigning the whole system, that's not unheard of. You know, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 did not come out in the same year. They came out a year apart. So that it's not unheard of to have that happen. But it is unheard of to kind of like have that happen and have the system that comes out later be weaker than the system that came out first. Does that make sense? That's what strange about it is like if they delay it, it's still a weaker system than the Xbox Series X. So it already feels like they're starting behind the ball and then just feel like they're gonna be further behind because you know that Microsoft will be working on a new revision of the Xbox that are probably more powerful to release two or three years later. So there already be, you know, a year closer to that. I don't know. I don't know what Sony is doing. All I know is Sony, Mark Cerny, all the people concerned. If you guys want to alleviate these rumors, you guys want to alleviate these concerns, it's time to take the damn lid off of this system. You need to show us what is going on. You need to show us games. And honestly, the games are what are going to build confidence in what you're doing. Right now, I got a feeling that now the last of us two has been delayed that that's going to end up being a launch game. And that's great. That's the breath of the wild, right? For Sony. But it's still a just a PlayStation four game up ported. Like, like we need to see real next gen games for a system that's touting all this power. Anyways, I end with that and Robert Jackson, that's gonna probably be sure to let me know what you think about the PlayStation five situation doubt in the comments below. Do you put any credence with these rumors? Do you dismiss them? It's cool. You guys, you know, you guys might even be more knowledgeable on this topic than I am. Because right now, Sony is kind of staying mom on everything. So I'll just catch you guys in the next video.