PS4 early specs 'more powerful' than Xbox 720, claims source

[Squilliam]

zarx said:

Squilliam said:
So they know the final clock speed and enough specifications 18 months out to make a judgement like that?

Why would they need to know that to know "PlayStation 4's early technical specifications are looking "more powerful" than those of Microsoft's next-generation Xbox targets"? Nowhere is it claimed anything about final specs, thos final specs are unlikely to diverge to far from the early specs so if one is targetting higher end hardware now final specs will likely reflect that.

The architecture may not change but the specifications might. Adding more cores is easy on modern graphics hardware as it scales nicely and Microsoft was trying to decide whether or not to launch a loss leading console.