Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Indeed. Outside of maybe two scenes in the DF video, there's blips on both consoles that could be pretty much anything or nothing of particular consequence.
And in the two scenes were things are a bit more suspect, it's impossible for us to really say for sure what's going on.
I'm just poking at the narrative that this is another 'CPU bound open world game' that does better on XBO. Even if one wanted to assign CPU perf as the factor where PS4 is doing worse in the DF video, I think you'd have to assume people haven't watched the video to try and pass that idea.
Also, we have no clue on how much the particular OS is taxing each console. If it is not as simple as two cores being reserved and the other going full throttle in each implementation. How heavy is the effect of virtualizing CPU and GPU accesses through Hypervisor and Game OS? On that note, IMHO that is a good strategy that is paying off right now. Separating Game OS and the pretty much Windows 8 partition must introduce some headaches, but it is allowing them to change what consumers perceive as the console OS (Start screen, apps for friends, Youtube, Netflix, video sharing, LIVE Marketplace, Windows Snapping, etc...) rapidly without affecting games much if at all.
From what we know Sony is not running a hypervisor like on PS3, I wonder if that is true or it is a big collective assumption.