Thunder Monkey
Banned
I'd consider a swing of 2-3x the flop count using similar architectures as woefully underpowered. I mean single GPU's have been launching for the past year with effective flop rates at 2x the entire PS4 system. By the end of this year we'll be looking at that on similar architectures.Yes, i was talking high end PCs and no it´s not woefully underpowered compared to those, except you are talking about a NASA supercpomputer.
By the end of the PS4's first year you'll have PC's (top end of course) running the same multiplatform games at higher resolutions with a whole battery of other improvements. And that will be the most powerful console on shelves for years at the minimum. The end of this coming generation should be in a worse position against PC's compared to the last. SVOGI might end up being a dream for consoles this coming generation, but I doubt it will be too long in the generation before PC's are doing it all at little to no cost.
The only thing PS4 and XOne will be able to say is that they increased the baseline. And even then PC GPU's will probably be running the same titles better at launch.