Digital Foundry

Sony's press shots for DriveClub look pretty cool, but despite some neat features such as proper vehicle deformation and some beautiful lighting, the low quality, blurry textures looked a world apart from what Forza 5 was achieving running at twice the frame-rate.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-hands-on-with-playstation-4

Hey, that's not really fair!  Not fair to point out FACTS that they haven't yet been able to match the frame rate with "a 50% more powerful console."  Nobody is supposed to be talking about that yet, well, not till all the per-orders are finalized. 

Are you trying to imply that looking at one aspect of hardware with a myopic bias way is not the be all and end all?  Could be that a major software company has some software tricks up their sleeves that could change the results some people have been attempting to artificially enforce on everyone? 

Next you might even point out that some Kinect features - might actually be fun, useful, and revolutionary.  Or that the new 'home console' versions of Xbox Live Gold might actually save families money and allow more people to enjoy gaming.

Could the trolls possibly be wrong?  Is their fool hardy arrogance and belligerence misguided?

You Sir, make an excellent point. A dangerous one, especially in the wrong hands, but an excellent one.  I salute you with respect.

Tune in this fall to find out the exciting outcome of the new Console Wars!

It's not the consoles problem. The developer (Evolution) doesn't have as big of a team as Turn 10 and most likely has a smaller budget considering it's a new IP whereas Forza is an established franchise.

Using your logic the PS3 is more powerful than the PS4 since GT6 runs at 60 FPS and Drive Club at 30.

Oh dear, optimization within a process is hard.  Don't stress, it's a challenge, but don't worry, people are working hard to tweak the Operating System and Game Engines to get better results.  The processes running underneath and their abilities to reduce redundancy and increase productivity are as much in some ways an art as they are science.

And that mean'ol Microsoft, putting more developers to work to achieve their more ambitious goals.  And that underlining software, like DirectX, they have been refining for years, that they use to increase all games using their system.

It just doesn't seem fair sometimes. 

Hey, that's not really fair!  Not fair to point out FACTS that they haven't yet been able to match the frame rate with "a 50% more powerful console."  Nobody is supposed to be talking about that yet, well, not till all the per-orders are finalized. 

Are you trying to imply that looking at one aspect of hardware with a myopic bias way is not the be all and end all?  Could be that a major software company has some software tricks up their sleeves that could change the results some people have been attempting to artificially enforce on everyone? 

Next you might even point out that some Kinect features - might actually be fun, useful, and revolutionary.  Or that the new 'home console' versions of Xbox Live Gold might actually save families money and allow more people to enjoy gaming.

Could the trolls possibly be wrong?  Is their fool hardy arrogance and belligerence misguided?

You Sir, make an excellent point. A dangerous one, especially in the wrong hands, but an excellent one.  I salute you with respect.

Tune in this fall to find out the exciting outcome of the new Console Wars!

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