The Console War Is Over: The PC Already Won

And although the Microsoft MSFT +0.14% Xbox One and Sony PS4 are huge updates over the previous console generation, they are roughly equivalent to an entry-level PC gaming systems in terms of total horsepower. Both the Xbox One and PS4 are packing, low-power 8-core AMD Jaguar based APUs, with graphics engines no more powerful than mainstream discrete graphics card. Jon Peddie, president of JPR, notes that NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD have enthusiast CPUs and GPUs that are so powerful, when combined wi...