Sony boss happy with PS4 resolution differences

Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida is pleased by multi-platform games running at a higher resolution on PS4 compared to Xbox One.

Yoshida claims that even though he knew the PlayStation 4 had more power than its rival, seeing this much of a difference early on in the console cycle was surprising.

"Since the beginning of this year when we saw leaks [about the specs] of next-gen platforms, we immediately knew since the tech specs on PS4 were accurate that the Xbox specifications were likely accurate as well," he told GamesIndustry.

"So we knew at that point that we had much more raw power."

Yoshida said that he would have been happy with just slight differences between third-party games running on both systems.

"So I was hoping from earlier this year that when games come out from third-parties - because that's the best example, to look at the same game on different platforms - if there's any slight performance difference on the two systems I'll be very happy.

"I wasn't expecting something like [what happened with] Call of Duty, 720p versus 1080p - that's a significant difference. Or Battlefield 4, which is 900 versus 720 - 900 requires 50% more pixels to be rendered."

The PlayStation 4 goes on sale 13 December in the Middle East.