Historically the PlayStation consoles, while all decently powerful, have faced strong competition when it came to multiplats.

PSOne: The Sega Saturn dominated in 2D (due to more RAM, and RAM cart expansion in 2D fighters) while the N64 offered some 3D filters the PSOne didn't at the time. PSOne was the most balanced machine out of the three and won its generation war, but it didn't excel in power (of course it did beat the Panasonic 3DO in power, though).

PS2: While it beat the Dreamcast, both Xbox and Gamecube were released later and were considerably more powerful. Which didn't stop PS2 from being what it was, it just wasn't the one with the prettier multiplats.

PS3: A multitude of times more powerful than Wii, but Xbox 360's better GPU and unified RAM made PS3's life on multiplats rough in its earlier days. But this race was very close and things improved after devs got to grips with the PS3 "unique" hardware, with some titles being better on PS3 too. 

PS4: This time around Sony didn't launch first - Sony waited and hit both Wii U and Xbox One's weak spots for massive damage. Sony did capitalize on gaming only focus and chose very powerful GPU and very fast unified RAM. Every game face-off analysis points towards PS4 rendering far more pixels than Xbone (often a sub1080p Xbone x 1080p PS4 scenario). Wii U doesn't even come close to touching the PS4 power, left behind just above PS360's league.

Will this trend continue towards the gen? If so, then the predecessors of PS4 will be throughly avenged by their overpowered newer brother.

as a gamer that gamed mainly on PS consoles its about time

Big time .... Ever since I heard the Vita was easier to develop for than iOS, I KNEW this would be the case with the PS4, long before it was announced. I've been telling this to my friends - especially the Xbox enthusiasts - for the greater part of the year (and part of last year). That has and will continue to pay Sony dividends in the future since people are taking notice of this. My friends have sided with the Xbox and Xbox 360 because of better performance in multiplats (more so for the latter since we owned all the systems in the PS2 era, but they often bought multiplats on the XB). Now they are moving to the PS4 in no small part because of this.

They sure did learn from the epic battle with Giant Enemy Crab (attack its weak point for massive damage).

MS: Nah bruvs we got dem mega clouds to store dem giga flops

XBO

Massive amounts of silicon dedicated to compensating for a weak GPU and slow memory bandwidth. Under powered GPU with little optimization, and the promise of a cloud network to enhance graphics in the future.

PS4

Optimized memory system with decent bandwidth, tons of silicon used to optimize GPU and CPU communication and utilization. Has an additional chip to take care of audio, video, and networking plus its own bank of RAM.

Nothing about XBO shows any reason for it to do anything but fall further and further behind. Even MS's cloud promise is meaningless, because if it really does amount to anything Sony will be right on their heels. Sony has told stock holders they will be focusing on a massive network infrastructure in the coming years, so they will be ready to adopt to the market as needed.

Sony did everything right with PS4, now all that had to happen is securing games, and getting consumers to understand just how much better their platform is. If they can get the momentum, they could have another PS2 or better, and it could turn the whole company around. Even better, Kaz is in charge, and games are the top focus of the company. Anything Playstation needs they will get, and they are set to profit, so no one will say its bad business.

Avenged LOL.

It is just a gaming console people not a fucking warrior from centuries ago avenging his raped wife and daughters or another predicable steven seagal movie

Storyline for the next GOW game?

I get the point of the thread, but the PS1 was kind of a mixed bag, it was still relatively easy to develop for compared to the Saturn and N64. The Saturn did beat the PS1 in arcade ports on a pure technical level, whereas PS1 ports on the Saturn where usually quite a mess due to developers not utilizing the Saturn's dual-CPU quadrilateral based capabilities.

Also just a fun fact, initially, there were actually a few Dreamcast ports that ended up inferior on the PS2, I shit you not. Crazy Taxi and MVC2 come to mind.

Just find it a little funny when I see the notion that the PS3 is the first and only system that ever embraced some massively foreign architecture.

HAHAHAHAHA

People still belive the gap is "imense" and that it will grow larger???

Funny, very funny indeed.

The PS3 had multplat far worst than the 360 not just the resolution, but the game assets and performance, and costed $200 more, and still did relative well.

Now the PS4 and One are much, much closer. For a PC perspective, if you look at a Titan GPU the consoles GPUs are less than 5% apart.

People has to decide if they will keep with the story the Xbox One is a rushed system with a terrible SO or it has no space to improve performance.