Everyone and their pet cat knows the Playstation 4 is more powerfull than the Xbox One, the question that most people are interested to know is: By how much in the real world?
You also contradicted yourself with those two statements, essentially. :P
The *real* comparison isn't going to be at launch, maybe a year or two after, once developers have gotten used to the Xbox One's particular nuances.
No, we dont actually know the PS4 is more powerful, sorry. Certainly, the first party games dont show it. If I was an alien dropped in, the X1 exclusives look at least as good as the PS4 ones.
The spec comparison shows what people dont talk about, X1 has a large advantage in bandwidth. Sorry, math and facts are just reality. It's there. Period. The X1 is more powerful in an important area (not counting the other areas such as the X1's more powerful CPU, and more geometry ability than PS4). The numbers dont lie.
I think another big issue for PS4 is Sony says the machine is balanced for 14 CU's. If this is a real thing then 14 CU's for graphics is a gamechanger and means PS4 is about the same as X1 in CU's.
Disregarding of course the future potential of cloud, which must be the terrifying gorilla in the corner to Sony fans...
It's also misleasding to state launch games are not a fair comparison. PS4 isn't being fully exploited at launch, but neither is X1. That's the point people are failing to recognize. It's not one machine failing to be exploited but the other is.
If devs are tapping 40% of Ps4's potential at launch, they are also tapping only 40% of X1's potential. They are at the same stage of software development on both machines at any given time. In 2 years they will tap PS4 more, but they will also tap X1 more by the same amount.