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Shinobi-san said:

Theres quite a few people in the gaming community who do understand the gist of all the technical speak though and believe it or not its not really your qualification/degree that determines this but rather your interest and ability to learn. There are some people who know much more about PC hardware and architecture than me, yet i have studied the stuff. It also happens that a lot of people interested in gaming also happen to be interested in PC tec etc. So id say your 90% figure is a bit off.

Anyways with regards to the PS4 vs Xbone power thing I think a lot of people have it wrong. People seem to think that either the PS4 is sooo much more powerfull that it's games are going to look so much better or that its not that much more powerful and the games will look very similar, something like this gen with PS3 vs. 360.

From what i can tell though both arguments are wrong. Both arguments try and make it seem as if one is much better than it what it should seem.

The PS4 does indeed have a significant theoretical performance over the Xbox One...a difference that is NOT similar to PS3 vs. 360. These systems are much more similar in architecture, much more easily comparable, and to top it off they are built by the same companies with the exact same tec. Same CPU, same GPU cores. etc.

At the end of the day though the PS4 does indeed have a more beefier GPU and arguably a better memory solution (some will argue but meh weak arguments to be honest), this performance difference cant really be quanitified but comparing GPU's theres a ~30%? performance difference. If developers decide to use this then you will indeed see better games, better performing games or better effects or whatever. Will it be a mindblowing difference so apparent that your eyes will bleed? No. 30% is a  lot but nothing compared to gen over gen or something like that. Will the differences be insignificant like PS3/360? No. Those systems were literally equal in real world performance.

What the difference will be is somewhere more in between. Sometimes it will be more apparent, sometimes it wont be apparent etc.

I guess i agree with you :? Not sure why im qouting you..oh well

I feel you. In the end it will come down to the developers and what they can get out of the systems. The pontentially of ps4 1st party games looking better later on is greater simply because they have a better track record of pushing the hardware. Even then I think it will be closer especially with the 1st party developers growing significantly more on MS side compared to last gen.