No Goblin’s Roundabout is a game that never takes itself seriously and that is precisely the reason why it is turning out to be an extremely enjoyable title. For those who are living under a rock, Roundabout is a partial open world game where players would need to drive passengers in a rotating limousine while solving puzzles along the way.

GamingBolt recently chatted with No Goblin’s co-founder Dan Teasdale to know more about how the game is shaping up. Roundabout will be released on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and we found it interesting to know Dan’s thoughts on the differences between the two consoles. Details such as the Xbox One’s lower GPU compute units and memory issues are fairly common knowledge now but according to Dan these are arbitrary numbers and not the ideal way to compare the consoles.

“Saying that the PS4 is “more powerful” than the Xbox One or vice versa as a blanket statement is really misrepresenting how games work,” Dan said to GamingBolt.

“If all you’re doing is rendering polygons, yes, the PS4 is a little faster at that. If all you’re doing is gameplay and simulation, the Xbox One is a little faster. Video games need both, so it’s not as simple as comparing core counts or memory speed to determine which platform is the “fastest” or “easiest”.”

He further states that both the consoles are mostly similar and getting the game ready for certification is a priority for developers rather than optimizing it for a unique platform.

“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. Both platforms are in the same relative ballpark, so the real work for releasing is getting your game certification-ready on each platform instead of crazy optimizations on one specific platform.”

Dan definitely has a point here. Instead of comparing the technical specs of the two consoles, players should enjoy the games that the developers are building for them. Roundabout is currently available on the Steam store and will hit the PS4 and Xbox One early next year. Stay tuned for our full interview with Dan Teasdale in the coming days.

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PS4 is not little faster but 30%+ overall and 50%+ in compute(which is future). If it was 10% then i would say its little faster but 30-50% its faster by half of what XB1 can do thats why we have 30%+ pixel diff between 900p and 1080p versions of both.

Umm no. Ps4 is more powerful in every way.

The thing is we arent getting to enjoy some of the games, when companies like Ubiglitch cant even properly optimize their games....and what the hell is roundabout? Ill go check the steam store now

The Xbox One CPU has almost no advantage over than the one on the PS4. These recent game releases developers have been focusing all their time getting the Xbox One version up to run well and then doing a quick port on the PS4 version. There's no reason the PS4 should be dropping frames like it has been.

It seems like developers are so focused on parity that they try their hardest to get the Xbox One running up to snuff and then by the time the game is set to release, they forgot they haven't put any time in developing the PS4 version.

Oh my, the poor guy who actually worked with both will get no love from people who think numbers directly mean game performance because they don't lie.

The PS4 is more powerful, there is no argument.

Game looks pretty basic, so i guess if you are not pushing the machine, you wouldn't know.

xbox one's gameplay is faster case closed

What ? Is this a joke?

Shitstorm incoming, get your popcorns ready!