Electronic Arts Claims Xbox One And PlayStation 4 Are ‘A Generation Ahead’ Of PC … Seriously?

Electronic Arts says that the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 are “a generation ahead” of PC. I’m sorry, they need to pull their heads out of their hindsides and focus on making games.

You know that gaming company that was voted the worst company of the year across the board? Yes, Electronic Arts is once again putting their foot in their mouth.

Let’s recap what EA has done to earn the status they now have. They released a game called SimCity that was intended to be “always online” and didn’t work from the start because their servers didn’t. Then when gamers complained about it, instead of fixing the problem as soon as possible, they decided to ban those customers from the game, and even censored their own customer service number on the help forums. Then they went on to say the Wii U was “crap” and ended up developing games for it after all. Now they’re claiming the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 are “a generation ahead” of high-end gaming PCs?

This is what Electronic Arts CTO Rajat Teneja said:

“These architectures are a generation ahead of the highest end PC on the market. Our benchmarks on just the video and audio performance are 8-10 times superior to the current gen. The compute capabilities of these platforms and the data transfer speeds we can now bank on, essentially removes any notion of rationing of systems resources for our game engines … For a first-person shooter game like Battlefield 4, this means even more detailed gameplay, behavior and awareness for characters and more detailed appearance down to the lighting and clothing on the soldiers.”

Okay, to be clear, Battlefield 4 runs just fine on high-end PC systems that are on the market right now, in all of its graphical glory. Has “Raj” ever played a current generation game on a PC? Or is he running something from the late ’90s? As far as the PlayStation 4, American McGee has stated:

“I was hoping for innovation in control input. Didn’t see anything meaningful, so ‘meh.’ It’s nice that they’re moving towards what looks like more developer-friendly hardware and indie friendly distribution. Remains to be seen if the appearance matches reality. Overall, I think this generation of consoles will struggle painfully against the momentum of mobile/online games we’re seeing globally.”

Also, the Xbox One is running on x86 architecture, which is actually behind the current generation PC. The PC I’m writing this with right now is x64 architecture, which is more powerful.

Electronic Arts really needs to shut up and just make games, and possibly work on their customer service.

What do you think of Electronic Arts’ statement that the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are “a generation ahead” of PC?