Console Hardware Performance

It's a feature for high quality console ported games, not for apps that few years ago did the same things using a lot less resources

Lower graphical fidelity than what? PlayStation?

You forget that it was normal before. PS2 had many separate chips you need to program and balance throughout and latencies to make the most of hardware. PS2 was able to achieve 60 fps in many impressive games. Console hardware was very specific, the original Xbox being just an Intel PC was an exception.

Probably the same. Hardware differences between the two consoles are negligible.

Meh, I think this console generation is actually going to be pretty boring in that respect. Simply put, the concept of "optimization" doesn't really exist in a traditional sense for these consoles anymore. Both Sony and Microsoft have PC versions of their games (and exclusives), they just target the PS5 or Xbox Series X and edit some ini files before shipping it out. It's not like the PS3, where we have some incredibly esoteric/powerful GPU that took decades to le

PS4 Pro already does this for some games like the last guardian.

The CPU on xbox one/ps4 is very weak. Developers have to sacrifice physics.

The GPU is somewhere between 360/PS3 generation and XBone/PS4 generation, but probably gets throttled heavily on sustained workloads.

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

A common complaint, but look at how titles like Horizon, Death Stranding, or Red Dead 2 play on PC vs on PS4 launch hardware that is now almost eight years old. Would you be playing those titles at 1080p on a GTX 700-series, a GPU that came out the same year and retailed new for nearly the cost of a PS4?If anything, I think these kinds of comparisons underscore that even in a world where consoles are using mostly PC-originated components and architectures, there are still massive wins