There was a comparison video that showed the ps4 had better surfaces than the xbox, the xbox looked a bit more soft, looks like frontier have nerfed them to be the same, maybe it was to improve performance
If this is true then I would be very upset. My planet surface performance has always been fine, even when planet surfaces looked nice. If they are nerfing the PS4 just so it doesn't make the XBox look bad, then they should nerf ED on the high-end PCs as well.
Of course you're speculating at this point, right? (That's something we used to do all the time back before ED released). I wish I remembered which moons / planets I landed on that impressed me pre-patch so I could make a direct comparison. Like I said, perhaps I'm just finding "fluffy" planets lately.... Hopefully other vanilla PS4 owners can confirm or deny what I think I'm seeing.