First console shown on Thursday Playstation 5 surprised veteran Xbox Alberta Penellowho left Microsoft in 2018 after 18 years of work. The former director of marketing for the gaming division of the corporation shared his impressions on his page at Twitter.
In particular, Penello pointed out that 20 years ago he could not have imagined that the day would come when the PlayStation console came to the market, the size of which exceeded the Xbox, but was inferior in power to the American console.
“We found ourselves in a world where there is a PlayStation console with lower CPU and GPU performance and lower internal storage capacity than the Xbox, but still larger than the Xbox. It’s not a fanboy tweet. Just 20 years ago I would have thought what impossible, “he wrote.
Penello responded to the message with current Xbox Live program director Larry Hrib. He sent a greeting GIF to his former colleague.
Penello’s entry provoked a skirmish in the comments. Some users hastened to call the design of the Xbox Series X boring, and the PS5 – futuristic.
A former representative of the Xbox also began to be reminded that power does not always solve. For example, one of the players pointed to the most recent example: the Xbox One X was more powerful than the PS4 Pro, but the winner was still Sony, which relies on expensive exclusives.
Penello agreed with the view that bare power was not enough and asked not to take his message as a forecast for the victory of the Xbox Series X, but at the same time he recalled that the Xbox One X came out much later than the base model and was $ 100 more expensive than the PS4 Pro. At the start of the same generation in 2013, Microsoft was losing both in price and in filling right away.
Penello now has a hunch that the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will start with the same price tags. This should happen in the fall of 2023.
Read also: Microsoft reacted to the presentation of the PlayStation 5 and recalled that the most powerful console is the Xbox Series X.
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