Slyonious said:
This is where I get confused. I do understand that the 360 had better architecture, but it's hard for me to understand how you could say that there was a noticeable difference between games on the 360 and PS3 then turn around and say that the differences between games on the PS4 and X1 won't be noticeable.
Sony would have a similar architectural advantage with it's next generation hardware plus a 33% difference in tflops.
There's a noticeable
difference between PS3/360 BECAUSE they're so radically different in hardware approach, there's a
difference in how Nvidia does things compared to AMD. There's a
difference in coding for the two to an extreme extent (coding for a PPU + 7 SPUs, versus coding for 3 PPUs on with two threads, different feature sets on the GPUs, different memory architecture, different GPU architecture. Having to use the CPU to help rendering of the GPU) those variances create
difference.
There are much less variances between
PS4 and Xbox, thus less chances for noticeable
differences. You're not going to see things like missing shadows on one platform and not the other, or different lighting schemes from one platform to the other. You'll probably get stuff like better AF one on platform, more particles on one (but who's going to count and who will notice when you're throwing millions out there?). There will be
differences due to the fact despite they're pretty much the same, at the end of the day there are still
differences. But people expecting PS2/Xbox or PS3/360 level
difference in which one version flat out sucks compared to the other (Skyrim). Those people are going to be disappointed and really should brace themselves for reality.
The best way I can describe it...it's like DNA. Think of the DNA
differences between two identical twins. The
differences are VERY small, but there are still
differences and these
differences manifest. For the average person they can't tell identical twins apart but ultimately there are still
differences. Now think of the DNA
difference between fraternal twins, much more DNA
differences and thus much more
differences between the siblings.