Vi har før hørt at PlayStation 4 skulle være den hurtigste af næste generations konsoller, men præcis hvor meget hurtigere har vi fået et bud på fra Edge, der har talt med flere udviklere.
De siger, under betingelse af anonymitet, at PS4 kan læse hukommelse op til 50 procent hurtigere end Xbox One, og at ALU'en er markant hurtigere.
I artiklen lyder det blandt andet:
Our contacts have told us that memory reads on PS4 are 40-50 per cent quicker than Xbox One, and its ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) is around 50 per cent faster. One basic example we were given suggested that without optimisation for either console, a platform-agnostic development build can run at around 30FPS in 1920×1080 on PS4, but it'll run at "20-something" FPS in 1600×900 on Xbox One. "Xbox One is weaker and it's a pain to use its ESRAM".
En interessant påstand i artiklen er, at nogle udviklere kan blive nødt til at gå på kompromis med grafikken i PS4 for ikke at oprøre Microsoft:
One source even suggested that enforcing parity across consoles could become a political issue between platform holders, developers and publishers. They said that it could damage perceptions of a cross platform title, not to mention Xbox One, if the PS4 version shipped with an obviously superior resolution and framerate; better to "castrate" the PS4 version and release near-identical games to avoid ruffling any feathers.
Kotaku har taget fat i Microsoft, der giver følgende kommentar:
"Ten years ago, you could argue that a console's power was summed up in terms of a few of its specs, but Xbox One is designed as a powerful machine to deliver the best blockbuster games today and for the next decade.
Xbox One architecture is much more complex than what any single figure can convey. It was designed with balanced performance in mind, and we think the games we continue to show running on near-final hardware demonstrate that performance. In the end, we'll let the consoles and their games speak for themselves."