It was not the VO that hold the game back but the memory allocation from these features... if you read everything that they cited is related with how the memory is used (OS, VO chat, CPU multi-threads, etc).

amen brother.

reading between the lines,.. this interview really give credence to the rumors that MS's OS/APIs are behind schedule especially compared to sony's.  they'll fix it eventually but it might be a rough launch.   sony's launch won't be without issues either but it gets harder and harder evey day not to believe sony's feburary ps4 announcement didn't catch MS off guard.    ...which on it's own is a ridiculous statement really.  longest.fucking.generation.ever...

So the PS4 has the better learning curve. As predicted?

By the interview I get that Sony's OS is more finished so they (Infinity Ward) had enough time to know how many resources it would use and take that into account while developing the game. Meanwhile, MSoft's OS still is in works and changing the amount of resources it needs (apparently increasing them), and those changes messed up their development with that console.

It's something like that, right?

Yeah... something like that... seems like the apps/OS are using memory used by the games... the reservation is not working like they wanted... and IW tried to reserver others part of memory but there is no more available.

MS engenieers tried to give a workarround but they can't too.

I think these things will only be resolved when MS fixed all the core of the OSs (remember... working with three OSs over hypervision is a pain in the ass... it is not like to fix issues with a single OS).

After these things get fixed they will know what they can get from Xbone's hardware... well we don't need to wait so long because the next CoD is ready for November 2014

In the EDGE article Mark Rubin hints the Titanfall target is 720p too.

http://www.edge-online.com/news/spot-the-difference-infinity-wards-mark-rubin-on-next-gen-call-of-dutys-resolution-disparity/

So you see this being a continuing trend? Will PS4, being the easier console to work with, end up getting the better looking games in this launch window?

I don’t know but overall I do know that other companies have been saying that they’re also 720 on Xbox One – BF4 was 720, Titanfall has already said they’re going to be 720 on Xbox One so it seems to be the dominant direction at the moment, but so much can change.

By the way, it’s also not just us learning the systems better, it’s Microsoft developing more from the systems as well so if it improves the SDKs on their side we could see improvements, or if they could patch their software then all of a sudden we could get a performance boost out of that. It’s a very complex ecosystem.

Edit - I will post the full interview on OP.

It's stil preferable to saying weaker GPU

It is but a weaker GPU can't be the only reason for a over 130% difference bettween the two consoles... the GPU is more like 50% only.

The impression I'm getting from this is that MS need to reduce their OS overhead for developers to get more out of the system. PS4 is not only has a more powerful system but also has more mature OS (which is surprising considering MS have always been better on the software front).

I expect to see some decent improvements on the X1 next year then.

can they not issue a patch to upscale the Xbox1 game? it has them extra chips to do stuff like that.