Stefan Mileschin

Josef Fares, lead developer for co-op prison-escape game A Way Out, had some "harsh words" about the power of the PS4, who compared it to a five-year-old PC. Considering that the console is, in fact, many years old, this isn't too shocking - but I suppose this serves as more ammunition for the argument that consoles are holding back gaming: Fares notes that we would see "all different games" if consoles were actually comparable to PCs. "You want the honest truth? This machine is not so strong as you think," Fares said. "This is like a five-year-old PC. If consoles were as powerful as PCs are today, you would see all different games. Most of the work developers put out there is to make them work on consoles." To be fair to Sony, the PS4 basically is a five-year-old PC: It was announced in early 2013 and released in November of the same year. But the basic design spec, including an eight-core 1.6GHz AMD Jaguar-based CPU, 8GB of RAM, and Radeon GCN-based GPU, would obviously be even older than that.

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2017/06/...iveyearold_pc/