I've long held onto the theory that the rumors of a 12TF Microsoft console when Mark Cerny realized he needed to go to Sony brass to revise the the PS5 that was going to come out in 2019. Due to generations lasting longer, a one year lead isn't really enough technologically. Cerny realized that more parity among the specs is needed. He is a genius at this stuff and they hit the winning formula last gen at 399. Sony could have just run back the formula this gen for 399 but they learned at Microsoft was going to throw the kitchen sink in at 499 and not have a 150 camera this time. Everyone knows that it was the gpu and the ram from last generation that set the PS4 down the path to success initially.
Now, to my point, you know how the ps5 came in hot, you don't start opening up hardware functions six months after release. Everything about the hardware works as intended out of the box. That's any multimedia device. It's like buying a pc and then having to wait for your USB-C ports to be active but you can still use the slower USB ports. A nuisance but one that definitively shows how not ready a device it was at the time of release in terms of full functionality. The wattage for the ps5 is 350w. That of the XSX is 315w. The ps5 has liquid cooling metal in it as well. Because they threw an anvil at an ant, I'm pretty sure that our launch ps5s are good. However, they threw said anvil at it because, in a mad dash to make 2020 with Microsoft, you have ultimately, a hotter console, even with custom cooling solutions while the gpu, cpu and ram are faster in the XSX with typical cooling. It's why the console is cavernous in size. Gotta get the heat out. Nothing has dissuaded me from thinking that we got the ps5.x.
I just hope Sony knows what they are doing with this rush to cut costs here.