Xbox One and PS4 specs 'now almost identical', says Dev

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While Sony is keen to highlight the much discussed advantage in processing speed PS4 has over Xbox One, veteran Japanese games developers Shinji Mikami and Keiji Inafune have said there is little separating the two systems on a technical specifications level.

"There's no real difference between them," Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami told Edge. "When Xbox One was first announced it had lower specs than PS4, but now they're almost identical."

Mega man co-creator Keiji Inafune also told the site: "I don't think there's a major difference between them. If you get down to the tiny details then maybe each is better at one thing than the other, but it doesn't really impact the way you make a game.

"It's not like PS4 or Xbox One are particularly hard to develop for," he added. "Quite the opposite: you can make whatever you want on either one, and that should be enough for anyone."

In August, shortly before Xbox One entered full production, Xbox corporate vice president Marc Whitten said the platform holder had increased the clock speed on the console's GPU by about 6.6 per cent.

And in mid-October, Xbox vice president Phil Harrison claimed the next-gen console is capable of gradual performance increases over time. "With Xbox One using the power of cloud we can add features, we can add functionality, we can have performance increases over time," he said. "I think that will keep the platform very fresh over a long period of time."

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LotPosted:

Xbox will stay strong and overcome PS4

RanoPosted:

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boolad137 I think xbox will do better this year.


in the long run most likely they put them selves out there more and have better advertisment playstation has always sorta been the shadow of xbox who knows could be different this year though


If playstation has been the shadow of xbox why has the ps3 sold more than the xbox 360?


I think this will be the year PS officially surpasses Xbox

AmaZe-SyncPosted:

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boolad137 I think xbox will do better this year.


in the long run most likely they put them selves out there more and have better advertisment playstation has always sorta been the shadow of xbox who knows could be different this year though


If playstation has been the shadow of xbox why has the ps3 sold more than the xbox 360?

SouIPosted:

Cost And yet people are still fighting about which console is better when their specs are exactly the same.


It's more like what features one has and the other hasn't.

DreamsPosted:

boolad137 I think xbox will do better this year.


in the long run most likely they put them selves out there more and have better advertisment playstation has always sorta been the shadow of xbox who knows could be different this year though

boolad137Posted:

I think xbox will do better this year.

KonviictedPosted:

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McCutchen
Thlack Am I the only one who cares about the price difference?


I do too. I think that it's pretty dumb.


It's 100$ because of a kinect, not that much money. I minimum wage job could pay that


I get that, but you're paying $100 more for practically the same thing.


It's not the same thing. The specs are, but the Kinect will add much more to the Xbox One.

Yeah what this is saying is the hardware is pretty much identical, but the software and what you can do on each console will be different.

_MarkPosted:

And yet people are still fighting about which console is better when their specs are exactly the same.

PlusnetPosted:

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McCutchen
Thlack Am I the only one who cares about the price difference?


I do too. I think that it's pretty dumb.


It's 100$ because of a kinect, not that much money. I minimum wage job could pay that


I get that, but you're paying $100 more for practically the same thing.

OrthoPosted:

McCutchen
Thlack Am I the only one who cares about the price difference?


I do too. I think that it's pretty dumb.


It's 100$ because of a kinect, not that much money. I minimum wage job could pay that


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