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lucidium on 20 February 2014
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freedquaker said:

a) will be able play games on resolution over 1080p but most TVs don't support that
PC gamers use these things called "Monitors", and 1080p is "average" these days, a lot of people own higher, or multiple 1080p displays.

b) will be able to sustain 60 fps more often, but the perceived impact is much less subtle.
But the ability to easilly stride over 60fps ensures that the game doesnt dip below 60fps, and thats important, just because a console games target framerate is 60, but it spends most of its time moving around from 48 to 55 doesnt mean having the power to push, and maintain a solid 60 is useless, and with many people owning 3D displays and 120hz displays, the difference is all the more noticable, enabling 3D halves resolution, if youre pushing 120fps then enabling 3D still offers a fluid 60fps experience.

c) yes, high end PCs will possibly have better AA, a bit more refined detail etc, but that's it.
There is no possibly about it, they have better AA, higher resolution textures, better aliasing, depending on the user, better physics, resolution, SSAO, SSAA, SSBO and so on.

c) more RAM (than 5 GB) will not utilized for a long time in games
Again, PS4 has to use that 5GB for everything, storing geometry,textures, shaders, and any computational processes you attach to the GPU needs a pool of memory to operate, PC can get around this by streaming from the large pool of system ram when needed.

d) PS4 will always have more stable drivers, with better CPU utilizations, and customization.
Which is why PS3 and now PS4 has frequent "improved stability" updates right?, and why lots of updates have caused issues for people around the world.

so when you look at this way, the performance gap between Playstation and the PC had never been this small, and playstation had never been this capable compared to the competition of its era. So, no, PS4 is not a weak console at all. XB1 could have been nearly as good if only they had taken the right decisions with the RAM bandwidth and architecture.

The performance gap between the PS4 (the newest console) and the newest PC game tech is massive. (doesnt make sense to compare it to "average" pc)
If it makes you feel better to say "no thats not fair, you have to compare it to the average pc not the new high end stuff", then thats just cherry picking the situation, i wouldnt say "my new ford fiesta is faster than any nissan!", then whine and say the GT-R and every other faster car doesnt count because the average persons nissan isnt fast.

You compare the latest tech for consoles with the latest tech from PCs, and what you get is a gap just as wide now, as its always been.