The Playstation and Xbox are
both powerful consoles capable of running some top - notch games.
Not exact matches
If Sony and Micro (shit) do make
consoles with better hardware (which they probably will), considering they haven't even made games to the full extent of the ps3 (and the WiiU is more
powerful) the new
consoles will be more advanced than what gaming is
capable of at that moment.
After the Wii U's tepid sales, you might be forgiven for thinking that Nintendo would back away from its quirkier tendencies, and come up with a
console that competes more directly with Microsoft and Sony: a more conventional,
powerful system
capable of taking on the PS4 and Xbox One on an equal footing.
Maybe one day we'll have a
console powerful enough and programmers
capable enough to create such a thing flawlessly.
It is expected to be more
powerful than its rivals but its rivals, Sony and Microsoft, just announced 4K
capable consoles and it is really long shot Nintendo will put the hardware that is also
capable of doing the same.
Since the arrival of Spencer Microsoft have released two new versions of the
console, The S is the new base model, smaller than the original and
capable of 4K Bluray playback and the X — at the time of writing the most
powerful console in the world.
Microsoft's Xbox One X is easily the most
powerful console ever produced, shaping up to be more
capable than the PS4 Pro on paper (exclusives are another story though).
As expected, the show opened with the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, unveiling the newest addition to the Xbox family: The Xbox One X. Described as «the most
powerful console ever made», the Xbox One X will be
capable of running games at 4K resolution, has 12 gigabytes of DDR5 memory and boasts 6 teraflops of GPU compute power; in other words its specs are extremely impressive and it puts the PS4 Pro to shame.
Since the Xbox 360 is
capable of producing 0.25 terraFLOPS, this means that Unreal Engine 4 could potentially require a
console ten times more
powerful than existing hardware (not taking optimisation into account).
Although Microsoft makes a song and dance about its
powerful Xbox One X
console, and justifiably so, it was Sony that beat its main rival to the 4K punch, with this, the PlayStation 4 Pro.It is
capable of playing games with resolutions up to 4K and with... Read more
The company's
powerful Tegra X1 chipset is more than
capable of running high quality games via Android that match that of some previous generation
consoles.
Gears of War 4's 4K gameplay isn't just exciting for those with
powerful PCs, it's also a nice preview of what Microsoft's Project Scorpio
console could be
capable of when it launches next year.
Although Microsoft's new
console will play any existing and future Xbox One game, plus many Xbox 360 and original Xbox games through backward compatibility, it is also considerably more
powerful than its stablemates and therefore
capable of playing them in native 4K and, often, at 60 fps.
It is expected that the video game
console will be
capable of running at 6 teraflops, which will make it much more
powerful than Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro, which only runs at 4.2 teraflops.
Nvidia's Android - based microconsole was incredibly
powerful, and the first 4K -
capable media streamer we tested, but it also was almost as expensive as a dedicated game
console.