I probably go for the PS4 - was interested in XboxOne, but I just want the most powerful gaming machine that will give me the best next-gen looking Skyrim, Thief, Fallout, The WItcher 3, Fight Night Boxing..etc! Best looking games has to be PS4 this time (was Xbox 360 previously)
then your reason doesnt even make sense. 1. hardware doesnt make games more powerful, they can... but xbox and ps4 hardware is really similar but they are 2 different operating systems and Microsoft will use directx and the other opengl.
so how can you say "the most powerful gaming machine"? you havent touched either console, there is no real comparison, there is no way to know what game console will have "better" graphics, because you wont notice much or not difference between them, im sure.
if you want that, get a pc, honestly in some years PC gaming will be really good as always, and consoles will be outdated once again. i mean, if you really want the powerful gaming machine PC would be your choice.
also your point makes less sense in your last part of your comment because you say "Xbox 360 was better" well not in those words but you meant games are better looking in Xbox 360. but wasnt ps4 "more" powerful in paper?
and honestly... if you keep believing paper specs and automatically linking that to "give you a more powerful gaming machine" then you are not being reasonable about it.
specs really wont make it better, one reason again its ps4 and Xbox one, the difference between them (taking some non official numbers in their specs because Microsoft hasn't released that info), is really small. also there is going to be cloud computing with xbox one, some devs im sure will find the way to make games better with it.
again you cant say something is better only because you saw a paper and thought it should be more powerful.