purbeast0
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That's true, today it would be like stuffing a Radeon 7970 into the XB1. They really really wimped out with the new console specs, probably for a combination of reliability and cost concerns. That's why it's so idiotic when you hear people say that the new consoles are like 'high end PCs'. They're just not. Hell they will struggle with 1080p in many titles.
Will there be tons of great games? Yes.
Will they be way way better than current gen consoles? Yes.
Are they anywhere near as high end relatively speaking as 360/PS3 were on their launches? No, they're massively gimped by comparison when you look at same-era specs, outside of ram. They really put too little ram in last time, and this time they got that right. But the CPU is weak, and the GPUs are weak. No way to really argue that.
Console overhead is lower though. Not quite as low as some try to say, after all an 8800GTX @ 1280x720 and medium details/low AA can still run most games just fine. And that's a card older than Moses. It has more to do with low target framerates, high optimization over time, and so on. In 3-4 years PS4 and especially XB1 will look incredibly weak. We should be approaching the ability for single GPUs to run 4K with high details by that time.
and you know who cares about this? about .0001% of the people who are going to be gaming on the consoles. and yes, i made that number up.
the 99.999% of people who are going to be gaming on the xb1 and ps4 fall into the first 2 questions you asked.
