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Daedalic CEO: PS5 Will be Huge, Microsoft is Doing Some Things Better Than They Did in the Past

Daedalic CEO: PS5 Will be Huge, Microsoft is Doing Some Things Better Than They Did in the Past - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2020 / 4,238 Views

Daedalic CEO Carsten Fichtelmann in an interview with EDGE Magazine discussed the next generation of video game consoles. Daedalic is known for developing Deponia and Blackguards, as well as publishing upcoming games based on The Lord of the Rings.

Fichtelmann said the PlayStation 5 will be large in size, like with how much larger the Xbox Series X is compared to previous Xbox consoles. He also said that Microsoft is doing some things better than they used to do.

"I think Microsoft is doing some things better than they did in the past. And the PS5 will be huge," said Fichtelmann.

Daedalic Game Designer Martin Wilkes added, "I’ve only heard rumours about the [Xbox Series X] specs, and it’s huge – very fast Flash memory. Which excites me, of course, but I don’t think that’s relevant to this project, because we’re aiming for PC as well.

"Especially for level designers, though, that’s a dream come true, because we don’t have to concern ourselves with streaming corridors any more. I think that’s sometimes really painful – to squeeze down these otherwise beautiful, stunning environments because we need another corridor here."

The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will launch in Holiday 2020.

Thanks Wccftech.


A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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13 Comments
Oneeee-Chan!!! (on 03 January 2020)

He said it would be "huge", which could just as easily mean extremely popular rather than physically large.

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haxxiy Oneeee-Chan!!! (on 03 January 2020)

Pretty much. That's what the other dud literally did the next sentence quoted by this very article, and I don't see anyone speculating about the Xbox having a particularly spacious SSD :P

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VAMatt (on 04 January 2020)

I don't know that he's talking about physical size here. But, based on the extremely loud nature of the PS4 Pro, I'd much rather everybody focus on making systems that are good, quiet and well cooled, rather than fitting into some small form factor.

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JON0 (on 04 January 2020)

Let's say that this statment is relating to the size of the PS5.. how would this CEO know? At most Daedalic have dev kits, not the retail product intended to be sold to consumers. Keeping in mind that all we've seen so far are digital renders, the dev kit doesn't look overly large anyway.

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FentonCrackshell (on 04 January 2020)

I won’t jump to any conclusions about consoles next generation. I’m using the WiiU sales prediction thread as my caveat. What a mess that was!

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Podings (on 04 January 2020)

Do we actually have any idea about how much larger Series X is though? Have we seen it placed next to any common objects?

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Zoombael (on 04 January 2020)

How does this Daedalic CEO know the size of a console only dev kits exists? In context, it reads like he just adds to the general opinion. Not real inside information of any kind.

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method114 padib (on 04 January 2020)

I think MS has already lost next gen. Unless Sony does something extremely crazy they have this in the bag. They basically just need to release a stronger PS4 and they've won. MS I think realizes this which is why they've started to expand into the PC market and releasing their exclusives their. It will allow them to make more off their exclusives instead of just relying on their Xbox to sell exclusives. As well as get more subscribers for game pass.

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method114 padib (on 04 January 2020)

I think MS has already lost next gen. Unless Sony does something extremely crazy they have this in the bag. They basically just need to release a stronger PS4 and they've won. MS I think realizes this which is why they've started to expand into the PC market and releasing their exclusives their. It will allow them to make more off their exclusives instead of just relying on their Xbox to sell exclusives. As well as get more subscribers for game pass.

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method114 padib (on 04 January 2020)

I know they are dedicated to Xbox but they are also expanding heavily into the PC market which they haven't been wanting to do for a long time now. I'm not forgetting that they are changing the formula. It's going to take a long time for these studios to finish their games and on top of that with BC you're asking the Sony player base to abandon their gamestrophies. It's going to be very hard for either side to pull players away from their console this gen.

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