PS4 Pro Holding back Xbox One X???

[davygee]

Being short, it's Xbox One X that will be holding itself back. 3rd party developers will of course develop games to work on the One X, but why would you spend additional time developing specific features for the One X if the sales are so small. Eventually, assuming sales are good, they will dedicate more time to develop One X specific features.

Over and above this, as I've mentioned some time ago, developers won't be dedicating too much time on tailoring their code for the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X because all the titles will have to work on the basic hardware. With respect to the Xbox One...it needs to work effectively on the original Xbox One...not even the One S. So if you are a 3rd party developer and you are making a game, you will first and foremost make it to work at say 900p/30fps. The same can be said for the PS4, but in general, due to the additional GPU power, games will be produced at either a higher resolution or framerate or even both.

Alot has been said of the Xbox One X being 40%-50% more powerful graphically than the PS4 Pro...and yes in general it is....although on paper the CPU is only 9% faster in the One X.

But take a step back and look at how much more powerful the PS4 Pro is compared to the base PS4?

The PS4 Pro is 220% more powerful graphically than the base PS4...and the CPU is 30% faster on the PS4 Pro.

So in 7 months, what have we seen on the PS4 Pro that makes it so much better compared to the base PS4....well 4K CBR, slightly higher frame rates, slightly better textures...... Don't get me wrong, it looks great....but does it look 2.2x better than the base PS4? Probably not.....

....so this is where the Xbox One X comes in....

Are we likely to see huge differences graphically compared to the PS4 Pro....very unlikely, unless the One X CBR at the same resolution... it seems apparent that if you want native 4K on the One X, then you will have to settle for Xbox One/PS4 graphics, albeit at 4K native, but don't expect full 4K @ 60fps with higher quality textures and more...this just won't happen and especially not on 3rd party titles.