Microsoft: PS4 is Not 30% More Powerful than Xbox One

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With the launch dates of Sony and Microsoft's next generation consoles inching near, saying the two sides are entering full-bore marketing blast mode would be a gross understatement. And with new hardware comes debates over which system offers the best performance.

As reported by VideoGamer, Microsoft's director of product planning, Albert Penello, says allegations of a 30 percent advantage for the PlayStation 4 are missing the bigger picture.

"I’m not dismissing raw performance. I’m stating--as I have stated from the beginning--that the performance delta between the two platforms is not as great as the raw numbers lead the average consumer to believe," wrote Penello in a NeoGAF post. "There are things about our system architecture not fully understood, and there are things about theirs as well, that bring the two systems into balance."

Penello's comments were in response to concerns over the internal components of the Xbox One. The alleged performance advantage is mostly attributed to the advanced GPU and RAM found in the PS4. Penello cited the experience of Microsoft programmers in explaining how the Xbox One will succeed, despite the numbers.

Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb agreed with Penello's points in a later Reddit post. "We have some of [the] smartest programmers in the world working on Xbox One," said Hryb. "I am very much looking forward to the next few months (and beyond) as the truth comes out."

The Xbox One launches on November 22, while the PS4 launches on November 15.



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Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/07/microsoft-disputes-notion-ps4-is-30-more-powerful-than-xbox-one

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RemeAmazePosted:

Third_Eye I'm pretty sure most people do understand the experience is what matters. If all your friends are getting Xbox Ones and you want to use your old LIVE acc, get an Xbox One. For me, the PS4 is better spec-wise and is $100 cheaper. When I was younger, I saw the PS2 exclusives as better. Still got love for the PS exclusives, which is another bonus to the PS4. That's just me, however. Everybody has different reasons for getting what they're getting. Microsoft's just mad Sony passed them up.


What do you mean by sony passed them up?

Scared_of_Water For those of you who don't know they said this because a gears of war judgement dev said the PS4 was more powerful then the XBOX1 and he didn't say 30% he said 50%.


Microsoft will use the cloud to a massive advantage over phony's shti game streaming... thats where the power will come from so pipedown. Anyone with any knowledge will know that the future of IT is the cloud and this is where the importance and focus should be. Hence why microsoft have hundreds of low latency servers spread around the world, what does sony have?

TitanFallPosted:

Wasn't the PS3 way more "powerful" over the xbox 360? and look what happened honestly don't even see a difference, people who are buying the consoles for the awesome performance are silly because pc's are obviously the best. Consoles are all about the online services and exclusives and heres my opinion xbox 360 + ps3 had both decent exclusives but sony had more but more doesn't mean better, now for online Xbox live is a clear winner with out clean and easy to use but thats only because we paid thats why sony lacked online. PSN should become better now that they are making people pay so good job on them.

RemeAmazePosted:

-InsanelyAwesome-
DuhTigersBlood
-InsanelyAwesome-
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-InsanelyAwesome- I couldn't care whether Xbox One was 100% more powerful, I would still get the PS4 and I imagine Xbox One fans will get the Xbox One despite how performance stacks up against the PS4. So this argument between Xbox and PlayStation is rather pointless to be honest.


So why do you come to a Xbox article to state that?


Maybe because its on the news section of a forum that I use, may I ask what it has to do with you? I had an opinion... I shared it.


Well that's cute


Thank you I thought so too.


haha love the friendly banter

-InsanelyAwesome-Posted:

DuhTigersBlood
-InsanelyAwesome-
2014
-InsanelyAwesome- I couldn't care whether Xbox One was 100% more powerful, I would still get the PS4 and I imagine Xbox One fans will get the Xbox One despite how performance stacks up against the PS4. So this argument between Xbox and PlayStation is rather pointless to be honest.


So why do you come to a Xbox article to state that?


Maybe because its on the news section of a forum that I use, may I ask what it has to do with you? I had an opinion... I shared it.


Well that's cute


Thank you I thought so too.

Third_EyePosted:

I'm pretty sure most people do understand the experience is what matters. If all your friends are getting Xbox Ones and you want to use your old LIVE acc, get an Xbox One. For me, the PS4 is better spec-wise and is $100 cheaper. When I was younger, I saw the PS2 exclusives as better. Still got love for the PS exclusives, which is another bonus to the PS4. That's just me, however. Everybody has different reasons for getting what they're getting. Microsoft's just mad Sony passed them up.

DuhTigersBloodPosted:

-InsanelyAwesome-
2014
-InsanelyAwesome- I couldn't care whether Xbox One was 100% more powerful, I would still get the PS4 and I imagine Xbox One fans will get the Xbox One despite how performance stacks up against the PS4. So this argument between Xbox and PlayStation is rather pointless to be honest.


So why do you come to a Xbox article to state that?


Maybe because its on the news section of a forum that I use, may I ask what it has to do with you? I had an opinion... I shared it.


Well that's cute

-InsanelyAwesome-Posted:

2014
-InsanelyAwesome- I couldn't care whether Xbox One was 100% more powerful, I would still get the PS4 and I imagine Xbox One fans will get the Xbox One despite how performance stacks up against the PS4. So this argument between Xbox and PlayStation is rather pointless to be honest.


So why do you come to a Xbox article to state that?


Maybe because its on the news section of a forum that I use, may I ask what it has to do with you? I had an opinion... I shared it.

ConsistentPosted:

The xbox definitely has more power.

PlusnetPosted:

-Mark I would say both consoles are pretty similar in terms of power. At least it won't be anything noticeable.

I don't think anyone will be able to tell a difference between speed and graphics between the two consoles.


Power they're the same, but I think that the graphics will be different.

Scared_of_WaterPosted:

For those of you who don't know they said this because a gears of war judgement dev said the PS4 was more powerful then the XBOX1 and he didn't say 30% he said 50%.


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