There's no denying that Microsoft will do their best to avoid the situation from 2013 when the newly revealed Xbox One turned out to be the butt of a joke in a direct comparison with Sony's PlayStation 4 – a machine that was not only more powerful, but also didn't scare its potential users with the vision of an insanely draconian DRM system that was supposed to stop gamers from playing used games.
As we know it, the recently revealed PlayStation 4 successor will be integrated with an AMD chip at the heart of the device, a CPU 8 core, AMD Ryzen based on 7nm Zen 2 microarchitecture, Radeon Navi based GPU, will include raytracing, and support 8K resolution – something that many fans of the brand have been asking for ages (even though 4K is still the more affordable standard) – and the fact that the console will be backwards compatible with PS4 (at least at launch, as Sony's recent patent suggests that they are planning to allow PS5 users play games from the PS1, PS2, and PS3 era) is a cherry on top.
According to journalist Ainsley Bowden and Xbox insider Klobrille, Microsoft’s new console will be even more "advanced" than PS5, as the Xbox One successor, codenamed Anaconda, will reportedly be the “clearly better performing device” of all consoles available once the next-gen machines roll around.
Considering that Microsoft’s E3 2019 media briefing will take place on Sunday, June 9th at 1PM PT / 4PM ET, there's a big chance that the long-awaited "Xbox 4" will be announced in the coming weeks.