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Forums - Gaming - PS4 is more powerful than Xbox One on paper – but Microsoft will catch up, says Avalanche Studios

ethomaz on 23 May 2013

I'm at phone but I will try to explain the 3 OSs and VMs.

The Xbone will run a light and clean OS just to boot the hypervisor (the VM itself)... over it MS put two virtual machines:

1. VM running a light and clean OS windows customized for games...
2. VM running a Windows 8 customized for User Interface, Kinect, Skype, etc... everything not related to to the game will run in that OS.

The three OSs will have reserved 3GB of ram but they will not use all of them because there is a margin (1GB I guess) to install end run others apps without use resourses reserved do run games...

I'm pretty sure they reserved a number of CPUs cores to run these OSs and play the games too... the resources used by the OSs will never affect the gaming experience.

OP. There is no way to MS catch Sony in graphics terms this gen unless the game are fixed to run in the lowest power plataform (MS pay for these tricks) so the PS4 will run with unused resourses.

The biggest MS advantage was thd 8GB RAM but Sony because a lucky of the destiny can match that because the memory companies could release the 4Gbit GDDR5 in time to mass productiom of the PS4... if the memories companies have delayed the release 2-3 months the PS4 would only 4GB of RAM.



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Darth Tigris on 23 May 2013

 

“Next generation to me has always meant more than nice graphics,” he added. “I don’t really see any big negatives at this point. For me, the success of the new consoles will be determined by how much freedom developers will have to make our gaming experiences customized for our fans.”

For me, this is everything.  I've felt the exact same way.  Graphics this gen will look better, but not significantly so.  We're less likely to be blown away by anything in that regard.  This gen needs to be about something MORE.  I feel what he's getting at, even though most gamers don't have the vision to get it.
And that's the whole problem with the Xbox One reveal reaction:  it's reactionary.  That includes me too, as I felt pretty meh after it.  But as time goes on, I'm starting to think about things more practically and I'm getting a better feel for what's going on here.  I think developers that have insight into the vision (such as Avalanche here) understand it far better than we or indie deveopers that don't have insight do at this point.  I think after E3, we'll understand more but it may take a lot longer for US to start getting it.

The world of tech and gaming is very different now than it was at the start of any other gen.  Very different.  As gamers, we don't really have to think the way console manufacturers and game developers think, we just play and enjoy (or not).  I probably won't buy a PS4 or X1 at launch (I'm more patient than that), but I think we'd all be better served if we wait a bit longer to see what's actually going on with the games and what devs have planned before we start making bold predictions and judgments.

Is it possible for you to be fair and patient ...?

 



ethomaz on 23 May 2013

He I found the magical that Sony did to frustrate the MS plans in the hardware front... only based in the lucky of the release schedule of the memory manufacturers.