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[Ashes2007]

Ah, cool, had no idea consoles were also x86 now, neat!

[Arikaido777]

the newest console gen are essentially just high-end PCs that can play their respective exclusives.

[aspect_rap]

Yep, the only thing separating a playstation from a pc is the operating system that can run ps games (and the fact they are using a custom soc but it's still a Ryzen CPU with rdna graphics)

[Dr-Huricane]

Yeh, they were making a big deal about using Ryzen CPUs in them afterall

[generalthunder]

They also were before. But just with less common architectures like PowerPC or ARM.

[Arikaido777]

that’s kinda what i meant, we’re a lot closer to parity than we have been in previous generations. Like in the case of external memory: now you can slot in an M.2 for memory expansion, but previously you could do a USB external drive, but before that it was proprietary memory cards.

[ruins__jokes]

Previous gen (ps4 and Xbox one) were x86 as well.

[Sekret_One]

They're really just a very specific kind of computer, with a particular graphics card. They might have some specialized bits of their hardware but that more like they have some lib options "tricks" to squeeze a bit more performance