* Microsoft's Major Nelson recently denied rumors of the Xbox Series X console launching this Thanksgiving and the current plans are still for a Holiday 2020 launch.
https://twitter.com/majornelson/stat...60263791960064
* Gamestop is currently dealing with backlash both online and from their employees regarding the lack of health safety measures enacted for the coronavirus at their stores. The backlash got to the point that Gamestop announced they were cancelling all midnight launch events for the foreseeable future due to growing health concerns.
https://kotaku.com/gamestops-employe...e-d-1842367297
https://www.destructoid.com/gamestop...s-583741.phtml
* Sony revealed some new details regarding their upcoming PS5 in terms of specs and backwards compatibility.
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Today, before the "Road to PS5" online stream, Sony revealed specs for the PS5 via a Eurogamer article. It'll sport a 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz CPU, 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz GPU, 16GB GDDR6 memory, and a remarkably low 825GB SSD with an NVMe SSD Slot and a 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive. Cerny confirms that PS5 users can buy "certain M2 SSDs on the open market, which you can install in the bay on the PS5" ...
The new Xbox will enter the arena with a faster CPU, roughly the same memory, and 175GB more SSD storage space out of the box. Comparing IO throughput, the PS5 rocks "5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical 8-9GB/s (Compressed)," and the Xbox Series X is rolling with "2.4 GB/s (Raw), 4.8 GB/s (Compressed, with custom hardware decompression block)." A clear win for PS5.
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As Cerny explains, the PS5 "incorporates any differences in the previous console's logic into the new console's custom chips." That means that "the logic and features sets that PS4 games rely on is still available in backward compatibility modes." Cerny says this is the crux for backward compatibility on PS5, as opposed to adding the PS4 chipset into the PS5 chip which is "extremely expensive."
The result is that most PS4 titles will be playable on PS5 at launch. Cerny specifically mentions that Sony looked at the top 100 most-played PS4 games and "almost all of them" will be backward compatible. However, every title has to be individually tested because some "game code just can't handle it."
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https://www.destructoid.com/sony-rev...m-583781.phtml
https://www.destructoid.com/almost-a...h-583783.phtml