The co-founder of id Software has spoken out on the capabilities of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, stating both next-generation systems are extremely close.
“It’s almost amazing how close they are in capabilities,” said John Carmack, during his keynote at QuakeCon. How common they are and how the capabilities they give are essentially the same. We can talk about differences in memory architectures, but the bottom line being that they’re a multi-core AMD processor with AMD graphics, is it’s almost weird how close they are."
“There’s a ton more that we’ll do visually to the games there,” he said of the increased RAM in next-gen systems.
Carmack co-founded id Software in 1991 with John Romero, Tom Hall and Adrian Carmack. The company is responsible for producing a number of critically-acclaimed and innovative titles, including Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake, as well as producing numerous game engines.
Id announced this week at QuakeCon that it had delayed the release of upcoming shooter Wolfenstein: The New Order into 2014.