I watched the interview at E3 with angry joe.
What there aiming for with pvp is something I have never seen before. My understanding of it is there aiming for 100 vs 100 or 200 vs 200 all on 1 screen at the same time.
Will the consoles be able to handle this with out suffering lag and frame rate issues? What will happen if you don't have a solid Internet connection? What is the recommend stable Internet speed to run the game?

They have stated that the game should be playable on most any computer built in the past 5 years.

Xbox One and PS4 are build similar to current midrange gaming PCs. They should be fine.

I actually lag more with a pc than a console.

The new consoles will be able to handle the 200 people on screen PvP battles just fine. If they didn't then ZeniMax wouldn't have put the game on the consoles in the first place.

I hope so because massive pvp battles like there talking about sounds mega, but if you was to constant DC because of overload it would ruin the whole concept.
I'm getting the ps4 so i will keep my fingers crossed and hope it runs fine.

Yeah I think they know what there doing and the will already be ruining it on the ps4/Xbox one. It's just seems too good to be true, never ever on a console have I had a 100 v 100 pvp battle.

Maybe I'm just being cynical here but it feels like people have this built up mentality to think that consoles are weak in every part of their life cycle. You really do not need to worry about if new consoles handling upcoming games. Unless it's a Nintendo system.

Lol poor wii u its getting no 3rd party support and no first party games and the final nail in the coffin is outdated hardware.

Another thing , consolers should be aware of . console manufacter is server specific too. Xbox one with Xbox one players only PS4 with PS4 players only. the two platforms are not combined like PC and Mac

Nah, once the Wii U gets a Super Mario Brothers Smash 2D Paper Adventure Party Kart with parodies of Solid Snake, the butler guy from Scary Movie 2, Ned Flanders and Simon and Lewis from the Yogscast then people in the thousands will buy the console.

The consoles are more than able to handle this. This type of gameplay has been going on for a couple years on computers much less powerful than the next gen consoles.

This sadly is the typical gamers mentality. It is just something I accept. Then again I play both console and PC about the same amount of time, so I keep an open mind.

The only thing the console player should be concerned with is population of their chosen platform. Whether its Xbox one or PS4, your in game playability for end game activity will be completely dependent upon how active the community is on that platform. your technology and hardware in the new consoles will be fine, the chips are on equal footing of a quad core 3.2 CPU and a 7870 ATI card fully DX 11 capable . though I would not play a MMO on a console as I prefer to have control over my hardware and how it operates, plus keyboard and mouse advantages. Again Your only concern should be how well it sells on your chosen platform , and retention of population.

Are they? I apologise in advance if I'm making some fundamental mistake (it is late for me right now) but that above is contrary to what the specs I've read about, both 8th gen consoles have a hexacore CPUs and the PS4 has GDDR5 vram, not to mention that consoles don't process in the same way a PC would; they aren't on the same line as a budget PC at this moment in time.

Am I missing something here?

I'm sure the next gens hardware will handle it but it does carry a little doubt. If you compare games from the ps3 like skyrim the hardware in that could only just handle the detail, the battles where you had to take over the keeps, on screen at anyone time was about 10-15 any more than that and you would get lag and hard locks. The reason for that was due to the graphics and detail the hardware could not handle anymore, so scaling that up to 200 on your screen at any one time is a massive challenge, but one I hope is archived

I am not bashing consoles in any way, I have only ever played games on console starting from the saga master system.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=3770+x+compared+to+ps4+jaguar&view=detail&mid=9AE449CF9936C0076FDE9AE449CF9936C0076FDE&first=0&FORM=NVPFVR&qpvt=3770+x+compared+to+ps4+jaguar

Here is a nice video comparison, and a text play by play of what the PS4 adds on benchmarking Vs pc and what it lacks.

And here is a link re guarding your Chipset and GDDR vram right from forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/02/26/ps4-vs-pc-where-the-wild-things-are/

Ill put my 3770X and 7970 OC up against a PS4 or Xbox one any day. last time I checked my graphics card had 3 gigs of DDR 5 memory, may not be on my mother board but im sure ill be fine with the 16 gigs of 1600 MHz DDR3. The comparison I gave is what anolyst compare it to. And that's not a budget pc its considered a mid range. I have two high end PC's ones an older chipset 990X 12 core with a 590 GTX and my current system is lower end of high end . I prefer my later system as I built it myself , I wasted money on a prebuilt the first one.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/25/playstation-4-processor/ there is another one for you, don't get all hot and bothered over that 500 dollar price tag on the PS4 . it is a low end Gaming Rig comparatively to a PC, its cheaper for a reason. Not saying they are bad , ill likely buy one .but there is some facts for your specs. that 7850 is about 170 bucks now and is a 1 gig card. and that 8 core processor of the jaguar will not be running anywhere near the 3 ghz range like a mid range CPU due to heat issues in a confined area, the rumor is they will be running between 1.2 and 1.5 ghz. As you said they don't process the same way. so I doubt they will need all that speed as they are really just running much simpler OS and focusing on the game.

I don't think that at all. I would just prefer to spend a little more money and have the ability to upgrade, have control of my Hardware performance and repair myself. Personaly ive not seen to many people attacking consoles at all other then the stero type its all kids. Its preference and budget that is all. Computer hardware is very cheap and you can build a nice medium range rig for a few hundred bucks more then the new consoles.