PS5 has this killer feature Xbox Series X can't beat

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Recently Sony released a teardown video of the PS5, giving us an incredibly detailed wait at the console and all the hardware that makes it work.

Information technology'south going to accept a lot of time to digest the data that was revealed in that video, though for now plenty of fundamental points have already been uncovered. The latest of note is the fact that the PS5 has noticeably faster Wi-Fi and USB ports than the Xbox Series X .

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Equally spotted by VG247, the PS5's hardware had a number of cardinal surprises that helps surpass the hardware inside the Xbox Serial X. The first is that each PS5 is equipped by a Wi-Fi half dozen antenna, meaning the panel can connect to the next-gen network and benefit from faster and more consistent speeds - even when at that place are a lot of other wireless devices connected to the network.

Wi-Fi 6 hardware is currently withal rather expensive. But given the fact this current console is likely to last at least several years, it's a good style to future-proof current PS5 hardware. Especially since the Xbox Series X still has a Wi-Fi 5 fleck. It'll aid keep costs down, but then you lot get none of the benefits of Wi-Fi half dozen should you always upgrade your home network.

The other signal of notation is that the PS5's USB ports are pretty darn fast. The front USB-C and rear USB 3.0 ports (the blue ones) are SuperSpeed rated, and can offer speeds of upward to x Gbps. The front USB 2.0 port is but rated for 'HiSpeed', which is limited to 480 Mbps. The Xbox Series 10 doesn't take any USB-C ports, while the rest of its USB 3.1 Type-A ports can just offering five Gbps.

That said the prospect of having slower USB ports isn't really going to be that big a deal. Neither the PS5 or Xbox Series X will you play next-gen games built for the consoles from USB storage - backwards compatible Xbox games should work, nonetheless - so there aren't going to be very many times when you'll need a high bandwidth USB port, let alone iii.

Are these differences going to brand much deviation to you lot? Unlikely, merely it does hateful that the PS5 has some level of hardware superiority. Or at least information technology does in the example of its wireless and wired connectivity, and that'southward going to serve it better equally we get a few years on from release mean solar day.

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