The PS4 is supposed to have theritically 40% more power than the XB1.
But in all honesty I havent seen it so far. Someone can debate that the PS4 demonstrates quite often higher resolution or better peformance but in all honesty the difference is marginal in my eyes.
There are games that operate at the same resolution with minor framarate advantage in favor of the PS4 . But most cases its a resolution difference that doesnt have a huge impact.
The gap seems to get smaller as devs get better tools and accustomed with the hardware XB1's. Considering that the XB1 requires some etxra work due to the ESRAM, the memory bandwidth being a lot lower and the fact that the GPU has less CU's you would expect a higher difference.
But nop.
So someone might say that developers are probably not exploiting the PS4 to its full advantage (minus the resolution difference). Since the game performs well enough on the PS4 why invest extra money and man hours on additional optimization if the product runs great and will perform in the market very well anyways?
Perhaps this is the case. At least partly
For example the latest COD runs satisfactory as it is on both. Would it make sense business wise to squeez more out of the PS4 assuming it has the juice? Not much if at all
But then we see amazingly looking games on the XB1 that have robust performance or have lots of promise. Sunset overdrive may be 900p but it looks great and has a very stable performance. FH2 is 1080p with robust performance too. Quantum Break is a technical wonder to behold even at 900p. It is probably the best looking unreleased game so far. Its jaw dropping.
In all honesty the performance difference doesnt manifest itself strongly when looking at both consoles. Both offer an extremely similar experience. I doubt most will experience the difference enough to be considered significant in any way.
Unless of course the PS4 has some untapped power that will be revealed in time and the gap will increase.
But as it stands now the difference is similar to last gen's consoles and I see no signs of the gap becoming larger. i only see it becoming smaller as if the extra computational power of the PS4 is insignificant
The only game that has the potential to proove the story different is if Uncharted 4 manages to indeed perform at 1080p/60fps while retaining constant jaw dropping visuals that you would expect from a high end PC. So far this is just words
But in all honesty I havent seen it so far. Someone can debate that the PS4 demonstrates quite often higher resolution or better peformance but in all honesty the difference is marginal in my eyes.
There are games that operate at the same resolution with minor framarate advantage in favor of the PS4 . But most cases its a resolution difference that doesnt have a huge impact.
The gap seems to get smaller as devs get better tools and accustomed with the hardware XB1's. Considering that the XB1 requires some etxra work due to the ESRAM, the memory bandwidth being a lot lower and the fact that the GPU has less CU's you would expect a higher difference.
But nop.
So someone might say that developers are probably not exploiting the PS4 to its full advantage (minus the resolution difference). Since the game performs well enough on the PS4 why invest extra money and man hours on additional optimization if the product runs great and will perform in the market very well anyways?
Perhaps this is the case. At least partly
For example the latest COD runs satisfactory as it is on both. Would it make sense business wise to squeez more out of the PS4 assuming it has the juice? Not much if at all
But then we see amazingly looking games on the XB1 that have robust performance or have lots of promise. Sunset overdrive may be 900p but it looks great and has a very stable performance. FH2 is 1080p with robust performance too. Quantum Break is a technical wonder to behold even at 900p. It is probably the best looking unreleased game so far. Its jaw dropping.
In all honesty the performance difference doesnt manifest itself strongly when looking at both consoles. Both offer an extremely similar experience. I doubt most will experience the difference enough to be considered significant in any way.
Unless of course the PS4 has some untapped power that will be revealed in time and the gap will increase.
But as it stands now the difference is similar to last gen's consoles and I see no signs of the gap becoming larger. i only see it becoming smaller as if the extra computational power of the PS4 is insignificant
The only game that has the potential to proove the story different is if Uncharted 4 manages to indeed perform at 1080p/60fps while retaining constant jaw dropping visuals that you would expect from a high end PC. So far this is just words