I disagree...

The PS4 architecture didn't exist in PC yet... the GPU part will come only in GCN 2.0 in 2014 or more... there is no architecture like PS4 in PC and I think it will never have.

No... he didn't makes it out as if the PS4's hardware is going to improve over time... he said the PS4 use of the hardware will improve over time with developers found and learning more features... and yeah in terms of architecture for games development it is better than PC... not mor powerful (that's the difference here... he never said more powerful lol).

In terms of architecture PS4 is ahead PC... when PC receive the new features found in PS4 we can talk about that... in any case PC will surpass PS4 in terms of architecture but that not happen yet... AMD need to release the GCN 2.0, etc.

Again... he not said that PS4 is more powerful than PCs... it is more advanced architecture for games than PC.

I agree with Cerny.

PS. The confusion about changed and charged was my mistake... sorry

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Developers can optimize for the hardware. I think that's what he means there. PS3 games gradually got better as time went on even though the hardware stayed the same.

Exactly.

"The developers really have a chance to study that architecture because it doesn’t change for many years. They can learn its secrets and get progressively better performance out of it. Consoles also provide a stable platform."

Cerny knows PC is more powerful but the fact the architecture on PS4 won't change for years and it will be always stable will make the developers study, learn and extracted more from the hardware than a PC (developers on PC never extract the full potential of a single hardware part like they never extracted everything from the GTX 580 for example).

A game optimized to run on PS4 could very well run laps around a PC costing $399. I think its true unless I'm mistaken.

From the Article, word for word.

"The hardware has to grow over time.".
That quote alone implies that the hardware is going to change and people will take it as that, that's the entire point I'm talking about, it says nothing about software or optimisation, at all.

No way.
The PC has decades worth of tools, whitepapers and documentation, API's, extremely mature compilers, open platform, pretty much limitless performance as it's constantly improving and *anyone* can make a game for it and does.

Heck, entire genre's of games were invented on the PC, that goes to show how much better the PC has been in terms of games development.
Minecraft being the prime example of that.

And when the PS4 gets even the basic features that I enjoy daily on my PC, then we can talk.

Oh you are not mistaken. Everytime a thread like this comes about and the master race does what it does, I throw out the challenge to find that $400 Pc that outperforms the PS4. And it never happens : )

That's not really the point he's making. I think the thread/article title are a little misleading as he's saying this more from the developer POV than for us as consumers. The small minor additions to the PS4 hardware become more important for a fixed hardware platform. They're the things developers will likely skip on early in a gen when they want to release software in the console's release window, but will be able to make use in 2-3 years time when they have more time to make use of all the features.

We won't see any jumps like we do when you upgrade your graphics card but we will see improvements over the course of the gen as developers learn how to utlise the hardware to its fullest extent (just compare the launch game Resistance: FOM to The Last of Us). These little tweaks and customisations are quite important for the console life cycle and is why all 3 next-gen consoles have them to some extent.

You are not reading everything...

"The developers really have a chance to study that architecture because it doesn’t change for many years. They can learn its secrets and get progressively better performance out of it. Consoles also provide a stable platform."

That's how the hardware grow for developers. 

Fixed and stable plataform will be easy and better to developers than PC... sorry but you can change that... you are just making mistake with a better plataform for games development (PS4) with more powerful plataform (PC).

And now (PS4) everything that exists for PC (tools, whitepapers, documentations, APIs, etc) can be used with the advantage of a fixed and optimized hardware for games.

Basic features? Everything that exists in PC architecture for games exists in PS4 with the advantage of fixed, stable and optimized hardware for games... plus the enhancements that didn't exists in PC yet.

PS4 is the most advanced PC architecture for games created for now... PC needs at least a new generation of graphic cards to match or surpass it.

And again... it's not who is more powerful... PC of course.

A comparison... the GTX 580 is more powerful than GTX 660 but the GTX 660 is more advanced in archicture terms than GTX 580... understood now?

Edit - Fixed adding for games.

It's not game customizations... it's hardware customizations to developer games.

There are customizations in PS4's hardware to help the developers to extract more from the hardware and focus more in the creation and design of the games than the hardware itself.

At a console launch it's unlikely. Give it a single year and the odds are in the PC builders favor.

This happens every gen.