As always, the next generation of consoles is a source of excitement for many players. For now, we have to settle for the few pieces of information released by Sony and Microsoft, as well as more or less voluntary leaks on the PS5 and the next Xbox, known as the Project Scarlet, while waiting for its final name. Gizmodo published a long article on the subject, based on information provided by an anonymous source who would have devkits of both machines. This is not the first time that elements on machines provided to some developers have surfaced. Please keep in mind that the following is not official, and may be wrong.
The image you can see above is a rendering of the schematics of the PS5 or its devkit commissioned by Letsgodigital. It is based on Sony's patent applications to various organizations.
According to Gizmodo's anonymous source, the PS5 devkit would be named 'Prospero', and it would be in the hands of developers since 2018 for the very first prototypes. A new generation would have been delivered this summer. This new generation of consoles would be, to quote, 'the greatest leap forward in terms of computing power compared to all previous generations'.
The most interesting remarks concern the cameras included with the prototypes of both consoles, which are intended to promote streaming, whose popularity is still growing. The camera on the Microsoft machine would have a 4K resolution and a latency of only 2 ms between recording and streaming. This is not surprising given that they had already highlighted this feature strongly with the first generation of Xbox One and its Kinect that they wanted to impose when it was announced. It will be interesting to see what approach they adopt in this regard this time. Not everyone wants to stream, not everyone wants to pay for a camera they won't use, let alone have one pointed at them in their living room after all the scandals about privacy violations and security breaches.
According to the Gizmodo informant, for now the PS5 devkit also has a camera, but it uses technologies with more conventional performance and similar to the equipment currently in use.
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