Both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles have now revealed their full specs ahead of the expected launch, later this year. And while some features might sound impressive to the tech-minded among us, I’m sure the majority of us just want to get our hands on the consoles and let the hardware speak for itself.

But in a recent interview with IGN (via GamesRadar), Xbox boss, Phil Spencer said that he is feeling pretty good about what the Xbox Series X has to offer, especially after the PlayStaton 5 reveal a couple of weeks ago. “When we finally saw the public disclosure [of the PlayStation 5], I felt even better about the choices that we made on our platform. And I kind of expected that I would.

“The hardware team that did Xbox One S and Xbox One X, I just have a lot of confidence in them. If I give them the time and the targets to go hit, I believe in their ability to create a great end-to-end program.”

But despite that, it seems that Spencer has respect for Microsoft’s biggest console competitor

“No doubt, I felt really good about how Series X lines up,” he told IGN. “I think Mark and the team did some really good work on the audio processing that they talked about, their SSD technology is impressive, we like that. We saw the work that they did. But we took a holistic view on our platform from CPU to GPU to RAM to throughput, velocity architecture, latency, [backwards compatibility]. It took us years to get to this point … so I definitely have respect for any platform team that’s launching, because it takes a lot of work.”

Console wars really do seem so pointless, especially when it comes down to comparing the specifications of each machine. I mean, it’s great that the Xbox Series X will be able to do this, or the PlayStation 5 will be able to handle that. But at the end of the day, the biggest draws are likely to be the price of the console and the games that are available, rather than a super-fast SSD or 12 teraflops of graphical processing power.

But I guess competition is competition, and regardless of how gamers feel, both Sony and Microsoft will always strive to out-do one another. Nintendo Switch, anyone?