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Arstechnica: PS4/Xbone gap not as large as PS3/360 gap

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From the second page of this hardware comparison article:

There are differences between the way the Xbox One renders something and the way the PS4 renders it, but the gap is much narrower than in previous generations.
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The short version of that story is that the newest Battlefield is running at 1280×720 on the Xbox One but 1600×900 resolution on the PS4. Both versions are running at 60 frames per second and look mostly similar from a normal viewing distance of eight-to-10 feet, but at least early on it may be the case that the PlayStation 4's more straightforward memory configuration and more powerful GPU will make its games look and run a bit better. This may change as developers become more comfortable with the Xbox One's particular hardware foibles, but it will ultimately be up to them to decide what resolutions their games look best at.
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In any case, we certainly aren't looking at the kind of difference in graphical quality you see in some cross-platform games from earlier in the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation, where graphical details could differ significantly between platforms. As we've mentioned, these two consoles are largely capable of rendering the exact same scene in the exact same way. Even though the Xbox One has a slightly faster CPU, the PS4 has a larger GPU. And both consoles take different approaches to delivering developers similar amounts of memory and memory bandwidth.

One thing is clear: the era of the console wars that focused entirely on raw specifications is already on the wane following the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation. You have to dig pretty deep and have strong moral objections to resolution scaling to find significant arguments about console specs in this day and age (unless you're arguing about the Wii U, of course).

Microsoft and Sony will bend over backwards to tell you how different one console (their console) is from the competition, but in the end the boxes are very, very similar, even if they're not identical. If early games are any indication, the PS4's beefier GPU will give it the performance edge in the long term, but this console war is one that will be fought primarily with software and services, not with silicon.
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Another gem.
 
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Was already a thread. Was pointed out already that its just more nonsense. Mods locked it. Discussion has been beaten to death.

At this point I'm convinced these sites are doing it for the clicks.
 
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