A former Sony PlayStation developer has praised Microsoft's Xbox Series X, claiming that the console's increased power may oust Sony's PS5.

The developer in question is Chris Granel, who knows a thing or two about console power, having worked at Guerrilla Games in the Horizon: Zero Dawn studio and on the WipEout games. And he believes that the Xbox Series X's higher computing power than the PS5 will give Microsoft's game consoles a clear advantage.

"The PS5 is not a bad console, it's an absolute beast of hardware," Granell said on the RDX podcast. 'But it's just slower hardware by many kinds of paths than what Microsoft has put together.'

The Xbox Series X has 12 teraflops of computing power, while the PS5 has 10.3 teraflops, making the Xbox Series X more powerful on paper. However, the PS5 has faster solid state storage, with an SSD throughput of 5.5 GB/sec, while the Xbox Series X has less than half that, at 2.5 GB/sec. This means that PS5 games and game assets could load much faster than their Redmond rivals.

That said, we have seen other game developers endorse the PS5 and talk about how easy it is to harness the power of Sony's console.

Marcus Lett, co-creator of "Halo," praised the PS5's SSD despite developing a series of games that have long been Xbox exclusives.

"It will allow for more expansive content to be streamed much faster. Players won't have to wait for loading screens or hide loading behind cinematics. For players, the experience on these consoles will be more seamless and smooth."

However, Granel believes that Sony may have been caught off guard by the power of the Xbox Series X because the company was "comfortable in its position" after the PS4 became a huge success for this generation of consoles.

"They've got this huge market share and lead, and I'm told they've done things like the PS3," he said. 'It's not so bad in terms of hardware and complexity and all that, but ...... They didn't seem to understand what Xbox was trying to do in terms of this powerful narrative."

Since both models won't be available until the end of the year, we have yet to see the final design beyond the PS5's dual-sense controller, but there will likely be much speculation as to which will come out on top.