The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4

My take away:<p>- PS4 and XBox One are going to be similar hardware wise, with the PS4 having an edge in raw power and the XBox One having an edge in "cleverness" (e.g. memory caching) and power consumption (lower).<p>- Microsoft is re-using Hyper-V in a very awesome way(!).<p>- HDMI passthrough is Microsoft's "ace in the hole."<p>- Developers are going to have a great time this generation thanks to how similar the hardware is (identical in many cases).<p>I really want to know how Microsoft is able to run two hypervisors and offer GPU acceleration to both concurrently. Is this part of AMD's new CPU+GPU on one die magic, or is this something we'll see on the PC?

Took me a while to discover the meat of the article was hidden inside a drop-down navigation system. I honestly nearly bailed thinking, "This is all there is?"<p>What an awful idea. Thank goodness I saw it at the last minute.

&#62; "The hard partitioning of resources would be nice to know more about. The easiest thing would be to dedicate a Jaguar compute module to each OS, but that might end up being overkill for the Windows kernel and insufficient for some gaming workloads. I suspect ~1GB of system memory ends up being carved off for Windows."<p>Microsoft actually confirmed that 3GB will be reserved for the OS while only 5GB is available for games. Check out the video at 9:44<p><a href="http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/05/21/interview-with-xbox-ones-chief-product-officer-marc-whitten.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/05/21/in...</a>

&#62; Combine the fact that TV is important, with the fact that the Xbox 360 has evolved into a Netflix box for many,<p>i thought the ps3 was more widely used for streaming?<p>it's pretty fscking ridiculous that you need to have gold membership AND netflix membership to stream with the xbox.

It looks like the Sony machine will be more expensive (or its profit margins will be a lot lower). The PS4 seems to have a lot more hardware under the hood than the One.<p>Having said that, as I pointed out elsewhere, it's now how many things your device does, but how well it does the thing that'll define its function. If it's an entertainment system, it's how well it entertains people. If it's a videogame, it's how fun the games it plays are.

It it really necessary that the article be split between multiple pages. At first I wondered, "where is the comparison" until I found the drop down menu...

The only reason I could see that Microsoft would make the choices they did was to save on cost or to be easier to scale up to 10's of millions of units a year by getting higher/cheaper chip yields faster than Sony can with basically identical chips. The only way that Microsoft can capitalize on that advantage will be to actually have a lower price faster since they don't have a one year head start this time.<p>Nintendo's only shot right now is to cut price on the Wii U.<p>Just remember that historically the magic number for console sales is $199. That's why the Xbox 360's entry price is $199 now and the Wii worked so well at $249 with a bundled game (basically $199 console + pack in game).<p>Mobile devices the sweet spot is more like say $150, which is why the DS did better than the PSP, 3DS than the Vita and so on.<p>Price makes a huge difference on consumer products and getting to certain price points can be the difference between success and failure other things being basically equal.

So, I have a Linux Desktop PC, with 8GB of RAM, and an AMD A10 processor. I'm running XBMC (or LXDE or Front Row), and running 5 VM's on it under KVM. Cost about $450 when I bought it. price is about $570 now.<p>I've had this setup (with a slightly slower AMD proc) for over 2 years, and I've been running BSNES, Dolphin, PCSX2, Nestopia, and MAME fairly regularly. Today's announcement informed me that I've been enjoying much of the next-generation gaming experience already, without any of the DRM Sony and Microsoft promise to include with their systems.

I understand that native Xbox 360 games will not run on Xbox One, but games developed using XNA should be able to run if Microsoft ports the CLR to Xbox One no?

It's an interesting break down but ultimately the software will be the ultimate factor.

tl;dr:<p>Sony PS4 has a better CPU and GPU

There is no way in hell I'm going to buy the Xbox one always online spy box. Skype has a backdoor.