Debunking the Myth that Next Gen Consoles are too weak

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BenVTrigger said:

Yeah I won't disagree with you there. The thing is though next year PS4 wont be hitting 1080p on a lot of games unless it severly compromises graphics in other areas such as texture quality, shadows, lighting, etc.

As I said the PS4 and Xbox One are more than capable machines and are by no means poor consoles. I do however think they are slightly underpowered, especially the Xbox. Its failing to hit 1080p on even last gen game ports. That is pretty alarming.

Of the 2 PS4 is certainly in a far better position and is a beast of a console. Uncharted 4 will look glorious as will many games. The GDDR5 is a huge help in that area as is the much better GPU. 

At the end of the day though, to really be safe for 5 years or so in terms of on par graphics with mid range PCs in 1080p these consoles really should have had 2 TF GPUs at minimum, especially considering there are already GPUs like my 780ti that are capable of over 5 TF. 

That underlined statement right there, is crucial! Xbox is definitely alarming and problematic for the true Next-Gen in its current form, because it fails to do 1080p on most titles, which is not necessarily because of the raw power, but mostly because of poor design and architecture.

Even cheap sub-par Steam PCs will soon start to rival and even surpass both consoles (in 1-2 years), it doesn't mean PS4 is underpowered as long as it can sustain the 1080p and 60 fps with improving graphics. However, XB1 is clearly underpowered as it can't even sustain the 1080p standard. That is THE point regardless of the brute power of the PCs, which is not very relevant here as they are in a different league (not for the better or worse, just different).