Resident Evil On PS5 - How Sony's Next-Gen Console Could Elevate The Series

From PSU: "The PlayStation 5 has been blown wide open by Sony Interactive Entertainment, and in between all the nerdy technical chatter, there’s an absolute beast of a console lying beneath. While it’s easy to imagine what Sony’s new powerhouse system would do for tent-pole series’ like Uncharted and God of War, we’re pretty curious what the implications are for Resident Evil."

[NewMonday]

RE is one of the games that extensively use tight corridor design to slow down the and queue the data. now the developers don't have to limit themselves.

In general Japaneses developers haven't been good with data streaming that is why they have been outsourcing a lot of game development to the west, but that didn't turn out well most of time because western developers mostly don't understand Japanese games.

Many Japanese developers lost money and wasted time trying to develop engines for the PS3/PS4 generations, like Square Enix and infamously Kojima while he was at Konami . Even Sony's Japanese 1st party games like Last Guardian languished in development hell because the director struggled to translate his vision into game code. you can say the PS5 vision was born from experience in hardship.

Japanese developers still published great games but in general they had to give up on image quality in comparison with Western games. With the PS5 they no longer need to compromise.

[DiRtY]

Well... What has the article to do with the PS5 though?

You could say the same thing about PC and Xbox Series X as well. In fact, the PS5 is the least powerful platform next gen.

[NewMonday]

PS5 is 2X faster than SX.

the SX will be bound by traditional game design because the pipelines are tight and slow.

[DiRtY]

You can repeat that over and over again, it won’t be true though.

[LOGICWINS]

"the SX will be bound by traditional game design because the pipelines are tight and slow."

You actually believe that don't you? Smh

[NewMonday]

@Echo_

PS5 GPU is Faster than SX
PS5 SSD is Faster than SX
PS5 I/O is Faster than SX

conclusion:
PS5 is faster than SX, in the IT world device world speed matters more than anything.

[chiefJohn117]

No it's not, SMH. You ppl are delusional when it come to this SSD.

[NewMonday]

@chiefJohn117

It's a literal comparison of OFFICIAL spec sheets from both MS and Sony.

[DiRtY]

CPU
PS5: 8 x 3.5 GHz
Xbox Series X: 8 x 3.8GHz (3.6 GHz with SMT)

--> Xbox Series X wins

GPU
PS5: 10.28 TFLOPs (36 CUs at 2.23 GHz)
Xbox Series X: 12.15 TFLOPs (52 CUs at 1.825 GHz)

--> Xbox Series X wins

Memory
PS5: 16GB
Xbox Series X: 16GB

--> draw.

Memory Bandwith
PS5: 448 GB/s
Xbox Series X: 10GB at 560 GB/s, 6GB at 336 GB/s

--> Xbox Series X wins

Storage
PS5: 825GB
Xbox Series X: 1 TB

--> Xbox Series X wins

The only category is the speed of the SSD. And suddenly, this is the only thing that matters to fanboys.

[Babadook7]

"The only category is the speed of the SSD. And suddenly, this is the only thing that matters to fanboys."

It's the only big differential and is the point of the article. Devs are saying this first and foremost, not fanboys.

[StormSnooper]

Developers are saying that the new SSD will open up game development in ways that are not shown on a spec sheet.

[Profchaos]

VR . There still has not been a VR experience as scary as 7 in VR

[Kostche]

Yes them black bin bag monsters where terrifying...lmao..not

Now if it was dead space one vr hell yes

[aaronaton]

They will have to update their engine for starters, the new RE engine is great and all, but it's 5 years late.

[Father__Merrin]

I think resident evil should do an open world type game moving continent to continent

[Kostche]

Capcom do not have clue with res evil, they have shown this since its crap down fall from 4 onwards, they should res start the series from 3 onwards

[NeoGamer232]

Personally, I loved 4... Also loved 5 because they did co-op in RE properly... 6 and Racoon City were horrible.... 7 was awesome again.