Naturligvis er der endnu rigtig, rigtig meget vi endnu ikke ved om Sonys kommende PlayStation 5-konsol, men systemarkitekt Mark Cerny har dog givet os en relativt indgående gennemgang har konsollens struktur, samt præcis hvilke komponenter og processor de benytter. Dette gør at det er lidt lettere at sammenligne den og Microsofts Xbox Series X end tidligere, og Phil Spencer føler sig faktisk mere selvsikker på deres produkt, efter at have set præsentationen.
For nylig talte Phil Spencer lidt om reaktionen på PS5-gennemgangen i den seneste udgave af Podcast Unlocked, og her slog han fast, at selvom at Sony har implementeret nogle imponerende teknologier i PS5, så er de ret sikre på at de har fat i en vinder.
"I felt really good about how Series X lines up. I think Mark and the team did some really good work on the audio processing that they talked about, their SSD technology is impressive, we like that. We saw the work that they did. But we took a holistic view on our platform from CPU to GPU to RAM to throughput, velocity architecture, latency, [backwards compatibility]. It took us years to get to this point ... so I definitely have respect for any platform team that's launching, because it takes a lot of work. But I will say, when we finally saw the public disclosure, I felt even better about the choices that we made on our platform. And I kind of expected that I would. The hardware team that did Xbox One S and Xbox One X, I just have a lot of confidence in them. If I give them the time and the targets to go hit, I believe in their ability to create a great end-to-end program."
Men som det er desuden er blevet udtalt igennem den nylig diskussion omkring Daniel Rubinos kommentarer på Twitter, så har vi endnu ikke set alt hvad Sony har i ærmet, så det bliver spændende at se hvordan de åbner mere op.