todd2r said:
TheJimbo1234 said:
The PS4 has roughly 50% more power - that is a lot. This allows for more effects and mechanics eg destructible environments, use of particle physics, more objects on screen etc. People who think power only improves resolution need to either study or use a game engine to see how games actually work
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Im going to stick my nose in here and throw my 2 cents in. I just sold my ps4. I know what the specs say on paper, but I have yet to see this 50% power gap. If I had seen it, I wouldn't have sold it. It might be there 5 years down the road, and if it is, I might rebuy the ps4. Until then, its all talk.
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I still do a lot of my gaming on an SD television right now, so let me preface this by saying I am the LAST guy who could say whether one notices a given difference. xD I'm not even going to touch that. Instead, just for the sake of argument, I'm going to just go under the assumption that it is all talk, and explain why that's still pretty compelling to the average consumer who might base a purchase not on a specific brand or franchise loyalty- Halo, Uncharted, etc- but instead just on wanting 'A Videogame Console For Mah Assassin's Creedin And Batman Hijinks, Please.'
The thing is, regardless of whether it is tangibly noticeable, (again, noooot interested in trying to debate whether it is, I sincerely have no clue either way,) it means that the best that can be said about the Xbox One's performance against the PS4's, on a game-to-game basis, is either 'They're Literally Identical' or 'You Probably Won't Notice The PS4's Advantage.' There isn't really much sign of consistent give-and-take, of the Xbox One coming out on top in resolution performance (even just in numbers, with similarly no real noticeable difference,) to offset the instances where it has fallen short. Meaning that, looking at the performance of both consoles, (and again, we're talking best-case, most positive description here,) the Xbox One can 'sometimes keep up, and you probably won't care when it can't.'
Now, obviously, resolution is not the end all, be all decider, and many will base their purchases off other factors, such as available libraries, what their friends bought, etc, etc. But if one is in a position where you like some Xbox exclusives, and you like some Playstation exclusives, and as a result you're considering other aspects of each console to help make your decision, then any performance gap will likely factor into consideration on which one is 'better.' It likely won't be the deciding factor, the thing that tips the scales, but it is a notch in the PS4's favor that the Xbox One simply does not have, regardless of how much or how little that notch matters. And that notch will likely matter a little more this early in the generation, where entire groups of friends have yet to make the jump, than in three or four years where more and more people are buying the console 'Their Friends Have.'
Whether this performance gap decreases, or increases, in the future has yet to be seen for certain- some titles lately have the same resolution, but it's difficult to tell which are really 'pushing the envelope' for either machine, and which are just passable in terms of resources used- but right now, the impression- and it is the correct one- is that the PS4 has been able to shoulder a heavier load than its competitor. How much, or how little, it matters mostly boils down to the individual consumer.
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