The senior producer of Sniper Elite 3 has discussed why it's currently harder to get the Xbox One to output at 1080p compared to the PS4, though he reckons this will change with time.

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“ They are releasing a new SDK that’s much faster and we will be comfortably running at 1080p on Xbox One.

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Speaking to Gaming Bolt , Jean-Baptiste Bolcato highlighted some of the differences caused by relying on the eSRAM as opposed to the unified architecture of the PS4.“It was clearly a bit more complicated to extract the maximum power from the Xbox One when you’re trying to do that. I think eSRAM is easy to use. The only problem is…Part of the problem is that it’s just a little bit too small to output 1080p within that size. It’s such a small size within there that we can’t do everything in 1080p with that little buffer of super-fast RAM."They are releasing a new SDK that’s much faster and we will be comfortably running at 1080p on Xbox One. We were worried six months ago and we are not anymore, it’s got better and they are quite comparable machines. The Xbox One is a bit more multimedia, a bit more hub-centric so its a bit more complex. There’s stuff you can and can’t do because it’s a sort of multimedia hub. PS4 doesn’t have that. PS4 is just a games machine."At least on paper, [PS4 is] a bit more powerful. But I think the Xbox One is gonna catch up. But definitely there’s this eSRAM. PS4 has 8GB and it’s almost as fast as eSRAM [bandwidth wise] but at the same time you can go a little bit further with it, because you don’t have this slower memory. That’s also why you don’t have that many games running in 1080p, because you have to make it smaller, for what you can fit into the eSRAM with the Xbox One."It's interesting that he says an SDK update is on the way to help the Xbox One achieve higher performance. This early in the console cycle, it's not hugely surprising that developers are finding one console slightly easier to develop for than the other. As he points out though, it's very likely this will change as time goes on.

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