I think Yoshida jumped on the quote but the implication in my comprehension was one of them is "surprisingly more powerful than we thought" (xbone was the one thought to not be as powerful) ergo, the Xbox one is surprising with its power meaning they will be "consoles pretty much on parity ".... one sticking up a little was the difference on PS4 having a slight edge over xbone but not as much as raw specs have led people to believe
I took that quote totally differently than anyone else.
What were seeing with the consoles are actually that they are a little bit more powerful than we thought for a really long time
Remember the rumors of Xbox One and PS4 having HD 7600 series GPUs......I think that's what he is referring to because when they got the earliest devkits the APUs were weak as shit.
The GPU that Xbox One uses was pretty much expected to be used in the next gen consoles, something around the level of 7770 which is considered mainstream. It's a decent GPU that gets the job done for casual gamers. The PS4 GPU is much better than expected, the performance sits somewhere between a 7850 and a 7870. The GPUs in this range are considered mid-ranged and are for people who don't have the budget of enthusiast class cards but still want power to play games with some eye candy. No one would have been able to guess this if it was a year a go.ESPECIALLY ONE OF THEM, but Im not going to tell you which one," Nilsson told VideoGamer.com at Gamescom earlier today.
I seriously expected both consoles to have a mainstream level GPU in them.
And that makes me really happy. But in reality, I think were going to have both those consoles pretty much on parity maybe one sticking up a little bit.
This is a third party-developer they won't put any effort into exploiting hardware to it's full potential when the game is mult-platform. I took this as:
PS4 - High settings
Xbox One - Medium settings
Since this would allow one version to look slightly better but not the extent that people would complain.