Xbox One easier than PS4 to develop for, says Witcher dev

The Xbox One is easier to create games for than the PlayStation 4, according to a developer working on The Witcher 3.

Debates will rage until the end of time over whether the Xbox One or PS4 is more powerful, but according Balazs Torok the Microsoft console is the easiest to develop for.

His reasoning is that it's quite similar to a PC, whereas the PS4 is slightly more complicated.

"The Xbox One is pretty easy to understand because not just the hardware is similar to the PC, but everything like the SDK, the API is really similar to what you would find on a PC," he told Eurogamer.

"On PS4 this is a little bit more complicated, but I personally worked on PS3 before."

Torok also weighed in on the power difference, claiming that there's no significant difference.

"On the PS4 it's very good to have the fast memory. Everyone is really happy about that.

"We are not at the stage right now to go in and optimise on each platform specifcally. We want to make the game and the whole engine run on everything, with all the features and bells and whistles, and then just optimise, optomise, optimise.

"I don't see a major power difference. The memory is very different but I already said that before. Pure computation power, if you just measure that, there's no major difference."