EA Exec: Xbox One and PS4 Are "A Generation Ahead" Of PC

[punipunipyo]

Yes... it's true.... I had to admit it...looking from that mighty fine chart, and looking at the average gaming PCs out there... Xbone and PS4 IS GOING TO BE ONE GENERATION ahead of the current PCs.. The way it's made, and how the hardware is dedicated to BEAT YOUR TV, and web browsers (maybe still few generations behind firefox though..) Their hardware capacities EXCEEDS my own PC by far...So... yes Mr. spoksperson is "wright", Xbone is NOT fossil, and PS4 means one up the PCs(AND TVs); They ARE ONE GENERATION ahead...

but PC advances a generation EVERY 6 MONTH!(TAKE THAT)

 

[badgersprite]

A generation ahead of whose PC?

Because you're clearly not talking to the right guys...

 

[Hatchet90]

It's as if these major publishers are trying to anger people at this point. I haven't looked at the specs of the Xbone, but I can safely say that it wouldn't be hard to outmatch it.

 

[loc978]

Dude, let's make an APU, call it a SOC, and say it's a generation ahead of the discrete CPU/GPU combo!

I'd love to see 'em stack up against a 6-core hyperthreaded i7 and SLI'd titans...

 

[Retardinator]

You can't be "a generation ahead of PC", because "the" PC doesn't exist, it doesn't come out in generations. You can't have better hardware than the technology which is currently available, and if it is available for consoles, you can build a PC with it too.

Also, there's this excellent little feature PC games have. It's called "Settings" or "Options", I believe. I personally think it's some form of witchcraft, but some people would say it renders the point moot.

 

[LetalisK]

Blatant lying is blatant. I can guarantee that if they were, then Sony and Microsoft would never shut up about the tech specs of their consoles from the second they announced their console.

I don't care so much that he knowingly lied, though. The part that pisses me off more than anything is that mother fuckers like this will never be taken to task for their bullshit, further propping up a corrupt culture of deceit and condescension towards the consumer base.

 

[Revolutionary]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
no.
just no.
There are pc's out there with 5-ghz server procecssors, 32gb of ram, and dual gtx 680's.
Just be quiet EA.

 

[Digitaldreamer7]

It's all fine and dandy to talk about ghz and tbs and blah blah blah blah. Listen, these guys are idiots who fired the entire PR department last Friday, but hes got a point. Kind of.

Consoles are dedicated machines... I mean, less so since they're just so massively eager to try to be PCs... but they're still dedicated. They don't have to worry about running unsupported virtual machines or programming software or whatever. They can dedicate more of their hardware to specific functions, so their 8gb can be used more effectively than our 8gb. Hell... probably more effective than our 16gb. I mean, it was impressive what they were pulling off with just mere 512mb of RAM. You try playing Bioshock Infinite on a PC with only 512mb of RAM.

That's why it's even more important for them to be focusing on console gaming and not surfing the web and shit. The guy would've had a point if most of those new 7.5gbs weren't being spent on background nonsense.

It would run just fine because the xbox version and the PC version are WILDLY different in terms of coding and optimization.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Not a single fact to back up a huge statement like that.

EA's pretty much the Fox News of gaming.

 

[Evil Smurf]

That's cute. I think they build super computers still. Yes they do.

 

[Sir Shockwave]

> EA says Xbox One Console is ahead of PC
> Xbox One uses paywall for used games and other questionably legal practices

...Does anyone get the feeling EA is basically one of those Syndicate-style Mega Corporations, but way less competent (and subtle) at what they do?

 

[Gaijud]

Man, first I read the article and was like what the hell? Then I actually read the article. Glad to see the escapist isn't above the occasional pandering and sensationalism.

Eh. Whichever you slice this, it's still condescending of EA. It's condescending and it's a little useless. It's been said a hundred times before - yes, the Xbone is one step ahead. *Right now*. It won't be in a year or two. All this is is EA and Microsoft trying to give each other a leg-up in marketing.

Give it a while and I guarantee we'll start hearing about the frustrating proclivities of the Xbone, and of how the indie scene is desperately struggling to have any sort of presence on that platform.

Is it condescending? I guess. "A generation ahead" is misleading I agree, but in this context it just mean newer, not faster. Absolutely nowhere did it say anything about him claiming consoles were faster than high-end PCs, and yet that's what everyone seems intent on burning this guy at the stake for. It's become so trendy to hate on EA people hardly seem to actually need a reason anymore and I guess I was just kind of bothered by that.

 

[AlwaysPractical]

Pretty much this. Going by pure numbers on there, it then seems to be somewhere in the area of an AMD 8350 and a 7850 for the PS4 and a 7770/7790 for the Xbone... that's a decent midrange/low-end set-up but nowhere near a high-end PC.

 

[Grabehn]

Oh look at the guy trying to get attention, I'm surprized he didn't talk about the Wii U to lick their boots too since they said they were not going to develop for that platform and now they do. What's funnier is how I could also play games, chat with people and watch TV on my computer over 10 years ago, and I didn't have to pay a fee to use any of those.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

Yes... it's true.... I had to admit it...looking from that mighty fine chart, and looking at the average gaming PCs out there... Xbone and PS4 IS GOING TO BE ONE GENERATION ahead of the current PCs.. The way it's made, and how the hardware is dedicated to BEAT YOUR TV, and web browsers (maybe still few generations behind firefox though..) Their hardware capacities EXCEEDS my own PC by far...So... yes Mr. spoksperson is "wright", Xbone is NOT fossil, and PS4 means one up the PCs(AND TVs); They ARE ONE GENERATION ahead...

but PC advances a generation EVERY 6 MONTH!(TAKE THAT)

the price for Xbone and PS4 to beat high end PC's would make it too pricy for Joe public.

one of the more recent high end graphics card the Titan by Nvidia costs £800. add to that everything else that needed to make a console/pc run we're looking £1000+

i doubt very much PS4 and Xbone are going to compete with that

on a side note, i dont think they need to, theres more to gaming than graphics

 

[Arif_Sohaib]

There are different standard standards for high-end. I consider my ATI 7750 to be fairly high-end and the 7770 to be a really really good card. A lot of people would see it as low end. As far as Pakistan and India are concerned, the 660 and 7770 are very high end. I know Rajat is an American-Indian but his countrymen are still running those cards and are proud of them.

 

[blackrave]

Sure.
Today.
But what about tomorrow?
I'm not even talking about day after tomorrow.

 

[Tubzbuster]

I hope EA aren't being serious.

 

[EstrogenicMuscle]

Dear EA Execs, everyone knows you're full of it. Don't even bother talking.

Of course they're saying good things about consoles, they're investing in them. And Microsoft is handing them DRM on a silver platter. The XBOX One is everything they want and love.

Right now, these consoles have at most a $200 price advantage. One that is quickly going to disappear.

 

[Aikayai]

That's a bold statement and Taneja offers no details to back it up, but I have to wonder how either the Xbone or the PS4 would stack up against a PC built around, say, a 4.5 Ghz quad-core CPU and three Nvidia Titans - since we are, after all, talking about the "highest-end PCs" available. Or is he referring to mass-market machines, the sort of off-the-rack (but still relatively "high-end") Dell rig your mom might buy to send emails and play hidden object games? That's a different scenario entirely, and one in which this comparison fits far more easily - but that's also a demographic that's far less likely to be interested in what Rajat Taneja thinks about the coming generation of consoles.

Having a 8-core CPU overclocked at 4.6Ghz and 1 Titan would still have about 3 times the power of a Xbone. I get that he means that there's a lot more they can do with consoles since they have a fixed spec, but they're still a generation behind. Hell, 32Gb of ram is really common in high end PC's, Dev's aught to get on board with that by next year.