

Nintendo never competes on technology, so Wii U is much less powerful than the other consoles and games don’t look quite as beautiful as their Xbox One and PS4 counterparts. You can expect to get true high definition (1080p) performance out of most games – and, on a big full-HD display, titles like Witcher 3 and Metal Gear Solid 5 look gorgeous.
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The important thing is that both machines are considered to be around 8-10 times more powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 360. For a while, developers were getting better performance out of the PlayStation 4 and many still think it has the superior architecture, though Xbox One titles are catching up. Sony and Microsoft’s machines are essentially moderately powerful desktop computers with very similar technical specifications – the only real difference being the type of RAM, or memory, they use, and the rendering power of the graphics processors ( PS4 has more teraflops). Wii U is much more power efficient, on 37 kWh/year.Īll three machines have proved reliable so far, with Microsoft particularly determined to make up for the technical issues that plagued the Xbox 360, providing vastly improved cooling systems.

Both companies say they are addressing power consumption in firmware updates. Although Sony’s machine consumes more power while gaming, Xbox One is more greedy in standby mode. A report last year found that the Xbox One can use up to 253 kWh per year, with PS4 on 184 kWh per year. In terms of power consumption, Xbox One and PS4 have both been criticised for the amount of juice they get through, especially if you’re leaving them in standby mode, or using one of the sleep modes to allow seamless downloads of game updates. We’re not going to list all the tech specs here, so click through the official PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One information at your leisure – or IGN has a big comparison chart while Trusted Reviews goes into lots of technical detail. Xbox One as first revealed by Microsoft in 2013.
