Are you a gaming lover? If yes then next few weeks are going to be rocking for you as both MS Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4 are expected to come alive very soon.
Ah, now we can finally compare the two. Pretty much. With Microsoft's Xbox One cat out of the bag, at last both it and that other yes-it's-been-announced-but-no-we-don't-know-every-detail console, the PlayStation 4, can be put under our powerful, analytical virtual microscopes.
There are still plenty of unanswered questions on both sides, but that won't stop us from diving headfirst into what we actually do know.
Editors' note (May 23, 12:52 a.m. PT): This story has been extensively updated and expanded since its original publication.
Hardware
The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 house very similar silicon inside their respective bodies, with a few key differences.
According to an exhaustive analysis by Digital Foundry, the biggest difference between the two system's hardware is the type of RAM each uses. The PlayStation 4 uses 8GB GDDR5 RAM, while all signs point to the Xbox One using 8GB of DDR3 RAM. The GDDR5 RAM used in the PlayStation 4 is the same type of RAM used by most PC video cards and is optimized for graphical throughput.
Check out the chart below for more details on the consoles' hardware.
| Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | TBA | TBA |
| Availability | 2013 | Holiday 2013 |
| Blu-ray | Yes | Yes |
| Hard drive | Built-in (500GB) | Built-in ("very large") |
| Motion control | New Kinect (bundled) | Move controller |
| CPU | 8-core x86 AMD | 8-core x86 AMD |
| RAM | 8GB | 8GB GDDR5 |
| USB 3.0 | Yes | Yes |
| Wireless | Yes (802.11n w/Wi-Fi Direct) | Yes (802.11n) |
| Gigabit Ethernet | Yes | Yes |
| HDMI | Yes (in and out) | Yes |
| Suspend/resume game support | Yes | Yes |
| Background downloading | Yes | Yes |
| Native gameplay sharing (video) | Yes | Yes |
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