Yeah big mistake, not sure why MS decided on a entry level GPU, oh right all in one bs.

Because they know what every Xbox fan knows. Graphics aren't important.

I'm pretty sure X1 has at least double the GUs (Gameplay Units) in its CPU.

That

Cost, I blame Kinect. If the peripheral wasnt mandatory I feel the XBox would have matched, if not slightly exceeded the PS4s GPU. They made the wrong bet.

The real story here is that PC version has 300k polygons versus just 60k on PS4.

Those claiming PS4 is as powerful as PC should now be quiet

it's more powerful than my PC

This is not really debatable, and people that even try just embarass themselves.

At the same time, the X1 is still capable of playing games well.

Lowering the resolution seems to be the biggest boost honestly. For X1, I'd prefer 720p @ high detail/AA vs. 934p (or whatever random oddball res they try) and gimped framerate/details/AA/LOD/AF/AO/etc.

And not everyone has a great large 1080p display. For people with cheap and/or old 720p TVs (which many are actually 1366x768 or 1024x768 panels that butcher even 720p native inputs!!), the X1 pretty much looks identical. This is a fairly weak argument I know, great 1080p displays are $400 and less now, so the numbers of people running 720 are declining every month as old sets are dying off or replaced.

It will be interesting to see how this ends.

This all boils down to the different design philosophies of sony and MS.

MS built a media box first to dominate the living room or all home entertainment and tied together with kinect. An a game console second. To them, they seemed to feel that a game console was suddenly not all that, that 900p or less was just enough for games and whats more important is TV and voice controls. They were wrong. Cause its the gamers that early adopy your living room hardware and then start using it for other stuff. They are also the ones that talks people into buying your box that would typically never buy it.

Sony, just made as good a console as they could afford to make with the intention to tack everything else onto it. Its working....

Tbh I doubt that, if that breakdown of the consoles is correct.  Microsoft are software experts, Sony are hardware experts and knew where to cut costs so they coud invest in more power in the console, for the X1 to be more powerful Microsoft would have to be willing to sell it at a loss.

And you conveniently skipped the part that says driveclub has 250k.

But yeah, lets all be quiet. i wonder which game people will generally say looks better, Driveclib or project cars....