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Published on February 14, 2015 By Frogboy In PC Gaming

I don't really have a dog in the console wars. Personally, I think both the new consoles are pretty outstanding from a hardware point of view.

That said, a few uncomfortable truths:

  1. The PS4 hardware is better. Significantly. There's no amount of hand waving that make XBO's choice of DDR3 go away.
  2. People are too hung up on hardware. Hardware mattered more in the 90s but software is king. All the HW in the world won't make a DirectX 9 game be able to deliver more than 10k batches per frame today.  
  3. The visual difference between an XBO and a PS4 game are going to ultimately be trivial. 
  4. DirectX 12 will make a big difference for the XBO in the long run.
  5. Sony will almost certainy adopt the next OpenGL spec (or Mantle) which will even the playing field.
  6. The graphics stacks on the PS4 and the XBO currently are not very parallel so there's a lot of room to grow.
  7. The raw computing power of the XBO and PS4 is about 6 times the previous generation was.
  8. The previous generation graphics stack never maximized the use of the hardware or came very close imo.

 


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on Feb 16, 2015

The Wii U is more in line with the last generation consoles than the current ones.  It's quite a bit more powerful than gen3 compatriots thanks to absurdly impressive efficiency advantages, but way behind gen4 in raw power and performance both.

on Feb 16, 2015

Tetrasodium

I hate posting to these forums on my phone something about the wysiwig buttons up there interacting with the textarea makes text editing maddening & screws things up with backspace or typing not working if autocorrect, touch complete or a couple other things kick in. Having the quote/ediut/new thread buttons being hidden doesn't help much either

Welcome to the world of Windows 8 and dopey GUIs ...

 

I've never been one for consoles...at least not since the original [that could play Pong on a B/W telly] back in the 70's - preferring to stick with the PC - something I can configure myself and not be 'designed' to whatever price-point is deemed acceptable for mum and dad to fork out for Junior each alternate Xmas...

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