WoW coming to next gen consoles

[Baridorielor-malfurion (Baridorielor)]

@Chroesire-bleeding-hollow

With the power of this gen of consoles the experience will probably be pretty good, likely better than that of a great bulk of the PCs that people play WoW on.

Even if people are playing on potato PCs, they still process the ability to upgrade while on the console, no such option exists.

This does remind me of this comment here where i compared FF14, ESO and WoW’s CPU requirements and bought up the PS5 and XSX specs here.

@Baridorielor-malfurion

Starting at the minimum…

• for FF14, you have an Intel Core I5 2.4 GHZ (So possibly an i5-520M, with it’s 2 cores and 4 threads)
• for ESO, you have Intel® Core i3 540 (2 cores and 4 threads, 3.06 GHZ) or AMD A6-3620 (4 Cores and threads, 2.2 GHZ)
• and for WoW, we got Intel® Core™ i5-3450 (4 cores and threads, 3.10 GHZ) and AMD FX™ 8300 (8 cores and threads, and 3.3ghz).

For Recommended…

• FF14, Intel® Core™i7 3GHz (i7-9700F with 8 cores and threads possibly, Squenix didn’t specify here)
• ESO, Intel® Core i5 2300 (4 Cores/Threads, 2.8GHZ) or AMD FX4350 (4 cores and threads, 4.2GHZ)
• WoW, Intel® Core™ i7-6700K (4 cores, 8 threads, 4GHZ) and AMD Ryzen™ 7 2700X (8 cores 16 threads, 3.7GHZ)

And just to make sure i have my sources correct, i check all three of them on Can You Run It. CPU wise, WoW’s recommended was close to my Ryzen 7 3800XT OC to 4.1GHZ.

This is the little snippet i got from this article here, so again, focusing solely on the CPU here of the PS5 and XSX.

Category	PlayStation 5	Xbox Series X
CPU architecture	custom AMD Zen 2	custom AMD Zen 2
CPU	8 cores / 16 threads @ up to 3.5 GHz with SMT	8 cores @ 3.8 GHz (16 threads @ 3.6 GHz with SMT)

In terms of CPU here, WoW has a higher requirement then the other two, and that’s not getting into the other specs here.

But i digress for now. ESO and FF14 will be perfectly fine, if not a little rough for 4K Native 60fps on the consoles, considering they use lower system requirements. And that makes sense because they were made for consoles as well. WoW, despite being years older then the other two MMO’s won’t be translated well enough on consoles without a lot of graphical sacrifices if your trying to hit 4K native 60fps, or upscaled 4K 60fps or 1440p 60fps or higher even.

I would love to sit here and explain, but work time calls for me. I will come back on this though. (maybe)