Valve's Gabe Newell Says Xbox Series X is Better Than PS5 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 May 2021 / 4,289 Views
The co-founder and president of Valve Gabe Newell has been stuck in New Zealand since the outbreak of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. He appeared in an interview with New Zealand TV show The Project.
Newell was asked about the upcoming launches of the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 and of the two consoles, which one he thought was better. Without any hesitation he said the Xbox Series X was a better console.
One of the hosts asked him "why?" and he responded by saying, "Because it is."
"I don’t have a stake in that race," he added. "Obviously, we do most of our development on personal computers, but of the two I would definitely go with an Xbox."
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Of course it is, the hardware is superior is basically every way.
The audio chip and the controller say hello as well.
"I dont have a stake in that race" yes you do. You benefit from xbox games heading towards Steam.
don't worry, Sony's games will also "all" come to Steam eventually and even if it's not much, MS does also "steal" Steam sales with their own store and Gamepass on PC.
PS games are also on Steam, but it doesn't help that Sony is in bed with Epic. Either way, Gabe wouldn't say crap for no reason.
Gabe's word is law.
The disbelief in the voices of the interviewers: "Really??????", "Why??????". And the answer is what it is.
Imagine not being allowed to have an opinion on something, that isn't choosing PS5. Imagine it being "facts" and fine when Timmy praises Sony, but not okay when Gabe chooses Xbox.
Imagine seeing GamePass as a bad thing for gamers, because your console manufacturer of choice does not offer anything like it...
lol nobody sees Gamepass as a bad thing.
Really?
Visit N4G...
I'll take your word for it. In that case VGC is relatively fanboy free. I think MS blows, yet even I heap praise for Gamepass.
Exclusives beat specs. And besides were talking about a 16.7% teraflop difference between PS5 and Series X here. That's far less than the 50% teraflop differeence between PS4 Pro and XB1X.
Besides, teraflops are not everything. I think that will become obvious when the true next gen games start rolling out.
Paid actor, no one could possibly prefer the series X
Well, Sweeney was a paid actor for PS5 so who knows lol
It's pretty obvious that he is talking about specs in a fairly bored manner, so yeah, he is simply saying that its the faster system, and that is absolutely true. I don't like Gabe, or steam, but there is nothing wrong with his answer. Back in the days, he was also right with the X360 as well... it was the more developer-friendly system and the one that was closer to a PS. Now he is not implying in any way which system will have the better library, and honestly we really don't know either.
I have notice that MS have a better relationship with Steam while Sony is more with Epic. However specs don't lie and neither does the Gabe.
this is the guy who crapped on Sony then became a cheerleader.
Well as far as specs go it is the more powerful console? So depending on how you take the question there's only 1 answer.
I don't know. Raw power vs ssd advantage and difference of architecture/customisations, will make an even playing field. Multiplats will be the same, and as for exclusives, the likely scenario is series x might go for stand out titles with more ray tracing elements, where on ps5 AAA games with lesser over ray tracing throughout the game but using the ssd advantage for bigger/more detail in world? None of it matters in the end, it's going to come down to game developers experience and budget.
why ? : "because it is"
Ok gaby
Apparently this Gabe guy (who I have never heard of before in life) somehow got 4 BILLION dollars in the bank! I know what Bill Gates and his chequebook are up to...........
Half Life Alyx with Valve Index support coming to XSX?
He doesn't develop anything anymore as well, Alyx was the latest game after a very long time for such a big studio.
But since now it is pro-Xbox comment I guess we won't say he was bought out right?
He's been working with his staff to make games on a near yearly to 2 year basis over the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Valve_games
I doubt he's been bought out, but it's so odd that people seem to assume he's been paid out or something.
is alyx is a proper AAA game or more like dlc?
So who do you guys think got paid more
Sweeney by Sony
Or
Gaben by Microsoft
XD
Sweeney's company actually received 250m from Sony for shares..
I hardly count it as copping out, because we've already seen what happens whenever a devs says "xbox is powerful" or "better than PS5", it's always, always met with "no it's not" style opinions from anyone here who doesn't even like the system remotely.
We just had an article of news recently on a dev stating the very same words, and you didn't want to believe him, Bandorr, so what good is Gabe saying "because it's powerful" when it's going to be met with a stereotypical "yeah, no" style retort?.
I've already talked to KLXVER about this, and it ultimately means NOTHING to any of us at the end of the day. The fact some here are making such an insane deal out of this is silly, or it's something of harboured hate for when Tim praised PS5 out the wazoo, and this is being used as a means to get back at anyone not on the PS5's side. Either way it's dumb as hell.
Btw, even if it were about the games, he already has access to most of them on his own storefront, so it's likely to be the hardware side itself, as well as coding, since the guy does code himself, just like Tim does.
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