After browsing some videos on youtube to see the deal with these consoles I came to a conclusion as to which one to buy...allthough its early on and the specs arent exactly known, I have been a loyal micorsoft purchaser until now. It looks like they have a bit of competition on their hands...Sony saw what Xbox 360 could do in the last gen whilst ps3 was plagued with hardware issues such as slowdown and horrible blue effects which no one really cared about. They had one title to use their hardware and that was killzone, even then when compared to games as halo 4, the differences were minor. No real difference in graphical capabilities from these two. They were as equal as a PC...actaully the PC in the last seventh gen became more of a console then the consoles did pcs. Apps basically allow your pc to turn into a game console navigatable menu dashboard. Combine this technology with plasma monitors + wireless controllers and you can clearly see no difference already. The Dashboards on consoles are common on pcs nowadays, and you can find them to be as powerful as the next gen consoles already...in particular windows 8 with less customization and more free play. I browsed both ps4 and xbox one and the specs were identical, but the games were different..so..I may as well get a Wii U if they were. Xbox's radeon card was just a ting bit weaker...and that's about it. Hardware is becoming more and more complex so we won't concentrate on specs just yet,,,maybe in an update in the future when the consoles are released. It looks like the videogame industry truly is centralizing with its pc industrial counter-part making brand names no longer a factor but machines as personal use one. Lets take a look at the console graphical capabilities via the demos in e3.

PS4 has the ability for its games to navigate in wide environments. The cities are full-scale, and glass can reflect light like realworld glass off of the buildings. The xbox one however, has mutlifunctional capabilities, yet I have yet to see their games do much more than the 360 itself. It was not too impressive in the scale factor but the detail of the lighting is def the real deal. The bars and girters in the gameplay demo were soo detailed that one did not care much for the environment..however I have yet to see a multifunction machine in a real-world environment. I'm afraid ps4 has me on graphics because it showed off what it could do without a linear approach to things ala mass effect 3 or alan wake vs uncharted ie alan wake has the moves and cutscene realtime attacks but it doesnt really do the right multi-functional movements..ps4 worked more on this technology to take it further, giving microsoft a run for its money. The truth is both consoles were equal in sales, ps3 garnering more in its AAA titles in the last gen. However 360 won by far in the hardware department, with ati graphics and detailed shadow effects being superior (eg a shadow on a gun on ps3 version of bf2 bc would be a blurred mess and over-sized even though the character was closer to the tree, on 360 it would show small details on the gun, the hardware video sony developed simply didn't cut it, yet its multiprocesses helped the physics involved or multi-movement in large scale environments which is a standard on pcs and consoles via fast pipelines and extra processing power). As for past consoles of the sixth gen, i would say Xbox1 has qualities of current gen xbox arcade games. If you compare cell damage to its technology, games like spartacus, or shootmanyrobots watever the AAA games are could aesthetically be done on Xbox1 if it were still alive (its in the level of jetsetradio, cell damage imho plus or minus some hardware advantages such as blur or 3d scaling). Which is why you see some fluid dc ports on these consoles as well. The Nvidia RSX made for only Ps3 had better lighting effects like nvidia's xbox1, ps1 and ps2 graphics chips had more polygons, yet ati's bump-mapping or wide pipelines in detail took more value for future consoles. It wasn't really prevalent in the last gene, but may be in this gen admist large scale environments and within full-scale cities. Graphics wise Ps4 may indeed be a console which leaps significantly in this area as ps2 did from ps1.:?