The Xbox One will feel more powerful in practice than it seems on paper

Based on the limited information currently available, it’s widely believed that the PS4 will be a more powerful machine than the Xbox One. While it’s true that the PS4 will benefit from a superior GPU and super-fast unified GDDR5 RAM, Microsoft believes that the performance difference will end up being negligible. With some interesting workarounds built into the Xbox One hardware, and the brutal realities of game development, Microsoft might just be right. After all, horsepower isn’t the only factor in game performance.

In a post on NeoGAF, Microsoft’s Albert Penello defended the Xbox One [1]‘s hardware. In the post, Penello contends that “the performance delta between the two platforms is not as great as the raw numbers lead the average consumer to believe.” While the PS4 does seem noticeably more powerful on paper, Microsoft apparently still has some secrets up its sleeves. We won’t know all of the details about the hardware until November, so we can only take Penello on his word for now.

On Reddit, Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb voiced his supportof Penello’s claims. With aplomb, Hryb says that he is “very much looking forward to the next few months (and beyond) as the truth comes out.”