(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); From a rather massive article on You must login or register to view this content., showcasing the making of Microsoft’s newly announcedYou must login or register to view this content., comes a most interesting snippet – that Microsoft purposefully didn’t target the “highest end graphics” when building the console.


It’s in the video, so you’ll have to sit through a 20 second Windows 8 advert before you can skip to the bit (about 5:40), but it’s there. “We purposefully did not target the highest end graphics. We targeted it more as a broad entertainment player.”


Picked up by You must login or register to view this content., it’s a strange claim to make in a promotional piece, and whilst that way of thinking worked for Nintendo with the original Wii, up against the way Sony are marketing the PS4 as a real powerhouse it’s a baffling quote.


Note that nobody’s claiming that the PS4 is technically better, just the choice of words.


No doubt the console is capable of great things – visually too – but from what we’ve seen today (and echoed around the internet) perhaps Microsoft’s new console is going to have to flex its muscles a little harder than some thought before the conference kicked off.


We’ll know come E3, when we’ll get chance to test the games first hand.

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