Epic VP calls BS on next-gen claims

In response to EA claims that Xbox One and PS4 more powerful than high end PCs.

EA's chief technical officer, Rajat Teneja, last week made a claim that both Xbox One and PS4 are "a generation ahead of the highest end PC on the market" in a Linkedin post.

He also makes a much more believable claim about the power of next-gen consoles when compared to current gen machines: "Both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have adopted electronics and an integrated systems-on-a -chip (soc) architecture that unleashes magnitudes more compute and graphics power than the current generation of consoles."

"Our benchmarks on just the video and audio performance are 8-10 times superior to the current gen." Stats that we can well believe, and certainly more plausible than the suggestion that next-gen consoles will dwarf the performance of high end PCs.

In a Twitter response to the post, in particular the claims regarding high end PCs, Epic Games VP Mark Rein simply states: "no they're not. I call bullshit on this one."