Debunking the Myth that Next Gen Consoles are too weak

[freedquaker]

Wighead said:

Well first of all, the console are weak and that's what sony and microsoft wanted. Strong enough for a leap over last gen but not to much for more profit. The problem with last gen was that the console did cost to much to make and they had to sell at a lost for a long time, a mistake that none of them wanted to make again. Second, all your tech information and comparison are less than accurate and everything is mixed up. You cannot compare on numbers of core or the speed (megahertz) between a jaguar CPU and a desktop CPU, the performances are night and day and the numbers of core or the speed doesn't change that fact. Everything is custom in a console, there's no off the shelf parts in there, so direct comparison is not valid or gives no real mesure of real performance. One thing is sure these console were made to make good grafix at a reasonnable price, well for the PS4 at least.

First, please be specific about what's not accurate. Not that I write everything down religiously doesn't mean I don't know them. I have been a power PC user since 1986 from Commodore 64 & Amigas so I know well beyond many people here.

Second, who is comparing the core CPU hertz? I sure didn't. But now, are you telling me that Jaguar CPUs are slower than the Power PC Cores (which are 1998 technology!)? Those Jaguar CPUs have a single threaded performance (with one core active only) are faster than all 3 cores in an X360, not to mention one single core in PS3 (disregarding the 7 little cores reserved for specific uses). After all, the CPU is not the bottleneck here, there is hardly anyone who claims otherwise! Also yes, dual core i3/i5 cpus are probably still faster than APU with eight cores (and I sure didn't claim otherwise, but on the contrary I said they have poor single threaded performance) but those modern CPUs are barely even touched by modern games, which utilize almost universally less than 50% of a dual core CPU setup. This is without the Mantle like optimizations and low level calls on consoles. Basically faster CPUs are useless on consoles.

See this : http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/graphics-card-myths,3694.html#xtor=RSS-998

CPU, Memory, HDD, Bandwidth are all well beyond expectations. It's GPU that is controversial, which I am trying to explain, is not actually an issue, because those GPUs are not supposed to produce anything greater than 1080p and 60 fps, which PS4 already proved it's more than capable even first gen games. From this point, it'll only improve. This gen, there is absolutely no need to go beyond 1080p, because >99% of the TVs out there do not support it.