It's not about the framerate!

[Mr Puggsly]

kupomogli said:

Chris Hu said:

Nope the SNES was a lot more powerful then the Genesis.  Also you are forgetting about Mode 7 something the Genesis couldn't do.

SNES can do Mode 7, yeah.  I don't program so I don't know why the Genesis can't.  Doesn't change the specs though.  Genesis had SNES beat on CPU and GPU, SNES had Genesis beat on everything else.  Better sound, more RAM. 

The point is, the PS4 has a 50% more powerful GPU than the Xbox One, and it doesn't have the limitations the Genesis did compared to the SNES.  There's no marginal difference about it.  Within the first couple months third party developers are already proving they can get more out of the PS4. 

Saying that devs will get better with the Xbox One and games will start looking and running better.  You think devs are only going to get better at developing on the Xbox One but never get better developing on the PS4?  The difference is only going to become more noticeable as time goes on.

I wouldn't flat out say the Genesis had a better GPU, clearly the SNES had advantages. I mean the SNES could put more colors on screen at once, it could do higher resolutions, it was capable of more effects, etc. Lets not forget the SNES had more RAM to work with and that went into presentation. Ultimately, SNES regularly demonstrated more stunning visuals.

I think throughout the generation the biggest advantages we're going to see on PS4 are resolution and frame rate related. Unless PS4 gets games that are so technically demanding that they have to run at 720p and 30 fps.