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Machiavellian on 24 June 2013
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Captain_Tom said:
Machiavellian said:

I was reading the article from Eurogamer on the PS4 games and I have to say that there probably will not be a big difference between the PS4 and the X1.  If you compare the games that were running on PS4 hardware and games running on X1, it would be hard to state any realy performance advantage from the PS4.  In fact a lot of their games suffered issues and dropped frames to 20FPS   I believe in the long run, the seperation between the 2 consoles will always be the developers working on the projects then any actual hardware advantage.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-hands-on-with-playstation-4

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-hands-on-with-xbox-one


1) There was no Xbox One gameplay shown as of yet so any comparisons based on actual footage now are pointless.  They were using Enthusiast gaming PC's to show off games that will be on Xbox One, while the PS4 games were actually running on PS4's.

2) The difference is that of comparing a 7770 with 1GB to a 7870 with 2GB.  Essentially double the power.  After a year expect PS4 games to run at higher framerates with higher resolution textures.  It will be very noticeable. 

I guess you did not read the X1 article if you are stating that there was no games running on the X1.

To your second point, on paper it may appear to be double the power but in reality we are not seeing it.  Double the power, Sony games should be blazing compared to the X1 and it was not displayed at E3.  Also its not like the hardware is brand new or a different learning curve for developers.  As with any device there must be other factors limiting the PS4 for achiving is highs.  If we are not seeing this greater textures now in first party games, its probably not going to be something we see as both hardware mature.  Its not like GDDR5 is a magic bullet that makes everything work better because it has its ups and downsides as well.  If starting out of the game we are seeing 1080P 30FPS, then its a good bet this will be the rez that defines this gen and with that, we will not see much of a difference between the 2 consoles.