At the start of his QuakeCon keynote, legendary tech-whiz John Carmack offered some observations about the biggest two contenders in the coming console wars.

You can watch the clip from Carmack's keynote above. While he says he hasn't done enough benchmarking to be able to do a straight-up comparison between the PS4 and Xbox One, Carmack says that they're "very close" and that "they're both very good."

Carmack then discussed why he's not quite sold on the Kinect motion controller, even while he thinks it's a technology that's set to grow and improve. He summed up Kinect thusly: Saying that he's given Apple grief for its one-button mouse, Carmack describes Kinect as "kind of like a zero-button mouse with a lot of latency on it."

Source: http://kotaku.com/john-carmack-on-ps4-vs-xbox-one-specs-theyre-very-c-994733823 (Video inside. Sorry about Kotaku link)

So can we just move along now. Most games will be very close to each other graphically. We'll need some tech guy to run analysis on them to tell us how much better one is than the other. 

I would agree yes. Especially as the differences are not very significant in hardware even in the most dramatic spin.

I think we should focus on which one we think looks better. Because they both look so nothing like one another. /s

So we're back at the "Let's see on which version the developer is thoughtful, and on which other version the developer is lazy".

Pretty much as I've thought all along. To the masses any power difference will be negligible.

I'm not very good at judging graphics so I probably won't be able to tell the difference between Xbox One and PS4 games anyways.

DX vs OpenGL

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