OH God, Dont trust the Marketing BS ( May be they are the same On2 people ) from Google. VP8 will never be able to beat H.264, at least the x264 implementation. And VP9 will be close or on par with x264. But should never be able to match H.265 / x265 if the same quality of x264 is expected.
There is VPx, which Google Market BS will likely say it will exceed H.265. But from the looks of it i guess it will be very close to the best of H.265 implementation once it is out, but not better.
I got downvoted because I pointed out the truth? Guys and Girls, you dont need to believe every word I have said. Download and test it out for yourself. Or go to Doom9 to search for rips or pics to judge for yourselves.
I admire what google is doing to get a patents free ( Which is again not true, but at least you dont have to pay for it ) video codec. But that doesn't mean it is automatically the best quality codec / encoder available.
There is VPx, which Google Market BS will likely say it will exceed H.265. But from the looks of it i guess it will be very close to the best of H.265 implementation once it is out, but not better.