Yeah, it's amazing to me that so many people still won't accept it. In addition to the specs there's games out now that show the difference. Battlefield 4 is 1080p on PS4, 900p on X1. COD:Ghosts is 1080p on PS4, 720p on X1. None of it is at all surprising to anyone that bothered to look at the specs. Wishing something isn't true doesn't stop it from being true.

Because both of these consoles are using x64 AMD APUs this generation's specs are probably the easiest to understand. It couldn't be any more simple: The primary difference between them spec-wise is the amount of CUs (And both use the same type of CUs) in the GPUs and PS4 has 6 more of them than X1 does. All ya gotta do is look at AMD 7000 series GPUs for PC to know how significant the amount of them is. More CUs = more processing power. The second biggest difference between them is the memory type. Sony wins on that front as well.

Some have mentioned that games on PS4 don't look 50% better than games on X1 and then ask "So how can it be 50% more powerful?" The reason is because with modern GPUs extra power tends to go towards added framerate and/or resolution rather than extra art. 1080p may not look 50% better than 720p to you and/or 60 fps may not look 50% better than 30 fps to you but technically it is. Heck, actually the difference with those two examples is 100% but you'll find plenty of people claiming to not see even 50% difference between them ... maybe no difference at all depending on the observer. But regardless of what a given person claims to be able to see it doesn't change the fact that on a technical level a piece of hardware running a given game at 1080p is doing twice as much as another piece of hardware running the same game at 720p.

Umm, wildly different architectures. Cell has a bunch of theoretical flops but it rarely shows up in real-world performance. But PS4 and X1 use the same AMD architecture so the numbers are directly comparable. Basically you've got a AMD 7790 in X1 and a 7970 in PS4 (With 2 cores disabled in each for yields).

Xbox One has 12 GPU compute units, PS4 has 18, a 50% difference. There's no getting around that. It's a bigger gap than there is between X360 and PS3. I expected both consoles to have 2.5 tflops of graphics performance so even PS4 is disappointing to me. But it blows my mind how weak the GPU in Xbox One is considering what's possible today. Had someone told me ahead of time that the new Xbox would be only 1.3 tflops I would have laughed and called them nuts. And despite being so much weaker it costs them more to make it than PS4 does Sony. It's a bigtime design failure if ever there was one. Because of it I'll be picking Sony for the first time since PS1. MS has left me with little choice.

I think that Xbox One is gonna kind of seem like the better console right now because there isn't jack for games to play on either one of them. So really the only thing to do is oggle at the UI and features and right now Xbox One has more of them. But I feel confident PS4 is gonna end up outselling Xbox One 2 to 1 once lots of games are available and it becomes very clear to everyone what the power difference is between them.

Microtransactions by farrrrrr. It's not just the extra money they're asking for but games are being designed differently because of it. The Magic: The Gathering XBLA games are a ridiculous grind because of it. They cost $10 bucks each for the core games but everything is locked and ya gotta grind forever to unlock what you already payed for or pay extra, a lot extra.

It won't run better on my PC, that's for sure. And it won't on well over 90% of other PCs either.

I don't think any console is worth buying this year, except maybe X360 and PS3. I'll likely wait around a year to make the next-gen plunge. By then many of the bugs might be ironed out and hopefully there will be something worth playing.

Meh, I hate how PC fanboys always just say PC like they are all equal. They're not. Should change the thread title to Witcher 3 will be better on some PCs.

I think you're nuts if you believe that PS4 is better than Xbox One in EVERY way. PS4 has the better hardware but Xbox One is ahead in just about everything else. They're ahead with online, they have more apps and a better UI, Kinect > PS4 camera, etc. Seriously, does Sony have 300,000 dedicated servers for their online network right now? Sony did a better job with hardware but MS is ahead with other things.

But hey, I'm not dogging PS4. Just pointing out realities. I think part of the reason PS4 is so far behind with the OS and extra features isn't because they don't care about them but because for a long time they thought they were only going to have 512 megs of RAM to work with for their OS. Getting 8 gigs of GDDR5 was a late addition to PS4 and they haven't had enough time to take advantage of all that extra memory yet. Believe me, a ton of non-gaming features will be coming to PS4 eventually. But I don't think they'll ever quite catch up to MS in that regard because it's the sort of thing MS really excels at.

But hardware? Sony absolutely outdid MS there. And it's why I'm leaning in the direction of PS4 for a next-gen console. But even if I do end up picking it I'll never try pretending that Sony does EVERYTHING better than MS does.