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quickrick on 08 February 2018
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fatslob-:O said:
Pemalite said:

Using the PC as an example in that context is a little disingenuous.

A game ported to the PC is generally optimized primarily for the software ecosystem, like the API's and other eccentricities of the platform rather than any individual hardware piece.

A console game is generally taken a step farther than that, more of the non-standard functional capabilities of the hardware is leveraged to eek out more performance or add new effects. Not always. But more often than not.

Case in point... The Xbox One's GPU is roughly comparable to a Radeon 7770. But the Xbox One will always be able to outperform it when developers leverage the eSRAM for deferred render targets, if that GPU existed on the PC, no developer worth a pinch of salt would bother with such a scheme.

Regardless, exclusives can not be used because it omits any sort of objective analysis when doing cross-platform comparisons. We don't use exclusives when were also comparing against mobile platforms so the same should apply to consoles to make a fair analysis of hardware execution performance ... 

Exclusives do not represent equal grounds between hardware, only multiplatform games can do that realistically. I realize that there are certain eccentrics when it comes to hardware specific optimizations so to keep the playing field level we have multiple sets of benchmarks (multiple games) to measure hardware performance ... 

Yea i just don't get how people can look at a game, and say yup that can't run that hardware, when both hardware have disadvantages and advantages, unless we get those developers and see what they can achieve with that hardware it's a pointless comparison. let's not forget just because a game looks  better then everything on the hardware doesn't mean it's not capable, i think uncharted, uncharted 2 and killzone 2 are proof of that, they were declared impossible on 360, it took a while but 360 was able to match or surpass those games. I think the console that clearly gives you the best experience in most games is superior, because thats all matter in the end.