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pokoko on 11 March 2013
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walsufnir said:
SxyxS said:
moores law should not allow to make one console more powerful than another as long as they are released at the same time.
it just depends on wether kinect2 is integrated or not as MS has to reduce the costs for gaming hardware because of kinect.this may have an impact and wether windows8 is integrated(this may reduce the optimasation of the console hardware)


1. Of course there can be differences but Sony and MS also aim for the same target-group so yes they won't be very big differences. But look how underpowered the Wii was in comparison to PS360. But this was intentionally :)

 

2. Kinect is something that will hit price but not performance. But please don't say Windows 8 (or whatever MS will use) will affect performance of NextBox. MS builds compilers, operating systems and dev-tools since "ever" and I think almost noone out there knows as good as they do how to build software, especially for games (DirectX, DirectCompute (TressFX, for example). Thinking this would be a disadvantage for MS is rediculous, sorry :) It wasn't the case with first Xbox, it wasn't with 360 (remember the less memory footprint they had in comparison to PS3's?) and it will not be with NextBox.

From what I've read, using an actual version of Windows 8, even if it is stripped down, could be far more resource-heavy than a dedicated OS, plus there is the problem that games would have to work through Windows, which might not allow the same kind of base-level access to GPU functions.  That would mean actual potential would be lower even on the same hardware, though there are obvious non-gaming advantages to having a full OS.

Of course, I don't expect it to matter that much, regardless.  Most multi-platform games will be virtually the same across the two consoles and both will have amazing first-party efforts.