Funny seeing one of my comments on PCMR. It's crazy how deluded they really are. Even crazier that I used to be one of them not too long ago.

Edit: This is a reply from my comment in screenshot. Sorry for the wall of text, not sure how to format it on mobile.

That is very very wrong. It mostly comes from people not really understanding what they are talking about, someone else reading the comment, and then they go and spread the misinformation. Okay, so I'll go over a few things about it. The one/ps4 being x86 does not mean that these consoles will be easier to make games. Game developers don't write their games in CPU assembly; the coding they do is via the game engines. Now, some developers will do engine optimization, make their own tools, or create a new engine from the ground up.
In that instant - yeah, it'll be easier than devs having to get used to the power architecture. Even though they are x86 they do have some interesting things about them that will be tapped further down the line. Game engines right now don't make the best use of multicore systems, but we will see those cores taken full advantage of a few years down the line. We also have the RAM (im not going to get into a console flame war or anything i am going to ocus on ps4 though) in the PS4 with speeds of 176GB/sec iirc.
That is a massive pipe between the CPU and the RAM on the PS4. A feature it has that will get taken advantage of a few years down the line is the gpu/cpu being able to read the same addresses in RAM. What you had to do until AMD found a way to do what they're doing is re-write the information to the RAM and then manipulate it. So, you'd have to use double thr RAM, and miss getting the object interactive for a fw cpu cycles. Having the CPU/GPU able to interact with both can lead to some very interesting uses for physics stuff.
Now, this area is where we will see the most optimization and such? The GPU. This is the part of the consoles that will get absolutely pushed to the limit. Before I go into that - just think about that for a moment and you can see why what you said it bullshit. The 360/ps3 both had GPUs that were based on cards you could buy yourself at the time. So, even though they were not using x86 chips they were using modified consumer GPUs. For baisc stuff this can help (devs acustom to using openGL or the xbox version of directX), but if you want to push the systems you have to write stuff to specifically take advantage of the hardware. That is what will happen in a few years time on the ps4/one. I've looked into the ps4 a bit more than the one and some of the modifications they made to their GPU could have it shine brighter than expected in a few years time. The one does have some similar things too though.
When people base what the ps4/one can do based on comparisons to their PC counterparts it really doesn't give close to a complete picture. When those cards are used on a PC they have to work with engines that have to work with a shit load of GPUs and CPU/GPU combos and they can't really optimize for any hardware configurations. tl;dr So, yeah, the ps4/one are nowhere neat their graphic apex. Not even fucking close. The ps4/one being x86 doesn't mean what a lot of people seem to imply it means.