HERE WE GO AGAIN, Sony and Microsoft go head to head with new consoles. Microsoft is historically the underdog, while the PlayStation has an excellent track record. The PS2 dominated the original Xbox, the PS3 eventually outsold the Xbox 360, and the PS4 sold twice as many as the Xbox One. Will this round finally go to Microsoft? What’s clear is that there isn’t a huge technical gap between the machines. Both carry an eight-core Zen 2 processor and RDNA2 GPUs. Clock speeds are similar—Microsoft has opted for fixed rates, while Sony has gone with variable ones. Both have 16GB of GDDR6, and fast solid state storage. The Xbox does have a beefier GPU. Both boast of customization, Microsoft makes much of it storage system, and Sony says it has various “tricks” to close any performance gaps, and its storage bandwidth is (on paper) faster.