We are less than two months away from the launch of PlayStation 4 Pro, but Sony's biggest competitor Microsoft doesn't seem to be too worried about this, despite the fact that the more powerful Xbox Scorpio is roughly a full year away.
Instead, product planning director Albert Penello says in an interview that "our product aspired a little bit higher and that Playstation 4 Pro has "fewer asterisks around the 4K experiences we deliver on our box."
Penello also explains why the Xbox Scorpio has so much digital horse power and says:
"We were very clear we wanted developers to take their Xbox One engines and render them in native, true 4K. That was why we picked the number, that's why we have the memory bandwidth we have, that's why we have the teraflops we have, because it's what we heard from game developers was required to achieve native 4K."
He continues by saying that Microsoft had higher aspirations with their product and that Sony's 4.2 teraflops (Scorpio has +6) just isn't enough:
"I know that 4.2 teraflops is not enough to do true 4K. So, I feel like our product aspired a little bit higher, and we will have fewer asterisks around the 4K experiences we deliver on our box."
Still, Penello doesn't hold this against Sony and says they have been honest in what they are doing: "I'm not accusing them of anything. They've been very open about the compromises around 4K."
Finally, he also thinks saying 'our product is better that theirs' is a natural thing when doing business, and he doesn't mean to disrespect Sony:
"There's definitely a certain amount of like, we've got a product to sell, they've got a product to sell, so we're going to highlight the things we think make our product advantaged over their product. But that to me feels different to the historical Sega does what Nintendon't kind of head-on jabs that have happened in the past. Clearly, you and I are going to talk about Sony and us and why I think our product is better than their product. But it doesn't came with a disrespect for what they're doing."