Gaming PS4 vs Xbox One - The suckiest thread in the history of suckyness

[vuc]

I didn't see a thread like this so apologies if it's another one that will annoy.

Currently I have a PS3, I want to get a next gen system, most of my mates have an Xbox and they're like 'get an xbox this time'.

Anyone give a quick Pro's and Con for both of them?

Which is the CAF going in for? What games are gonna be exclusives only for either console?

Any help is useful. Thanks.

 

[syrian_scholes]

I think that might summarize it all.

 

[vanthaman]

PS4

 

[FreakyJim]

Get a WiiU. Your friends will never know what hit them.

 

[Revan]

PS4. Not even debatable.

Make a poll vuc. I genuinely expect more than 90% will go for Sony.

 

[Solius]

PS4.

Microsoft commited console suicide.

 

[ha_rooney]

PS4 for me.

No DRM, no mandatory installs for all games, not forcing the camera utility on players, no need to be online once every day, upgradeable HDD, region free games and I prefer their exclusives to XBox (Uncharted, GoW, LBP, Last of Us etc.) Plus it's cheaper and more powerful than the XBox.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

PS4, but I'll be waiting until next Summer.

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

You can choose the Xbox One that is more expensive and has loads of restrictions, or the PS4 which is cheaper and lets you do what you want with your games.

 

[Maajid]

Both.

Because I'm loaded.

 

[Solius]

Give me some money, Maajid. xx

 

[KingEric7]

Still can't wrap my head around how a company like Microsoft could let what has happened...happen. The head start Sony have on them now is immense, pretty much to the extent that all they have to do is not feck up. I don't know how it will sell but it's amazing that such a huge business could've gone with so poor an approach.

 

[Revan]

Quick pro and cons:

Sony pro:
- No retarded policies like buying the license to play a game. Here you buy the game.
- You can sell and lend video game discs without a problem and without paying an additional fee.
- No need to require on Internet to play single player.
- Slightly better hardware.
- Playstation exclusives. Most important are probably Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts 3.
- More than 140 games are in development for PS4. About a hundred of them will be released during the first year.
- Up-gradable hard disk.
- Region free.
- Price is 399EUR.

Sony cons:
- Now you need to pay a fee - believed to be under 5 dollars a month - to play online.


Microsoft pro:
- Shooter gamers would like to play Microsoft exclusives like Halo and Gears.

Microsost cons:
- You buy the license to play a game, instead of owning that game you buy.
- A game can only resell one time, and that to players who you have been friends for at-least one month.
- You have to connect to Internet at-least one time during 24 hours in order to play single player games.
- Kinect is watching you. All the fecking time.
- Slightly worse hardware.
- Non up-gradable hard disk.
- Region locked.
- Price is 499EUR.

Easy choice. Really.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

It's like picking between sex with a high rate hooker who, whilst attractive, gives you only what you've paid for, or a random girl who is just as attractive and doesn't mind threesomes.

Or some other analogy that makes more sense.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

Quick pro and cons:

Sony pro:
- No retarded policies like buying the license to play a game. Here you buy the game.
- You can sell and lend video game discs without a problem and without paying an additional fee.
- No need to require on Internet to play single player.
- Slightly better hardware.
- Playstation exclusives. Most important are probably Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts 3.
- More than 140 games are in development for PS4. About a hundred of them will be released during the first year.
- Price is 399EUR.

Sony cons:
- Now you need to pay a fee - believed to be under 5 dollars a month - to play online.

Microsoft pro:
- Shooter games would like to play Microsoft exclusives like Halo and Gears.

Microsost cons:
- You buy the license to play a game, instead of owning that game you buy.
- You can sell only one time a game, and that to players who you have been friends for at-least one month.
- You have to connect to Internet at-least one time during 24 hours in order to play single player games.
- Kinect is watching you. All the fecking time.
- Slightly worse hardware.
- Price is 499EUR.

It's a fair list, though to not list Uncharted as an important PS exclusive title?!? It's the most important exclusive title!

 

[100]

Gears of War is no longer a factor for me after the pisstake that Judgement turned out to be. I'll be getting a PS4 - I wonder if it's possible to buy the console abroad and play it in the UK?

 

[Revan]

It's a fair list, though to not list Uncharted as an important PS exclusive title?!? It's the most important exclusive title!

Yep, that's true. I am not that much interested on it so forgot to include there.

 

[Maajid]

Give me some money, Maajid. xx

OK. First though, you must help me transfer said monies out of this country by depositing a paltry sum of $25,000 in my account. I'm not from Nigeria so you needn't worry.

 

[Annihilate Now!]

Bah, Uncharted 2 is about the most fun you can have on a console with your pants on.

 

[bosnian_red]

I've been xbox always but am definitely going PS4 this time. They kind of ruined the Xbone with having to be online once a day, no backwards compatibility, no using used games. Also being $100 more because they force you to get a kinect as well. Looks shit as well.

 

[Rooney in Paris]

Bah, Uncharted 2 is about the most fun you can have on a console with your pants on.

Absolutely. I'm sure Last of Us will be a brilliant game, and as for PS4, I'm confident Uncharted 4 will be brilliant.

I haven't followed the debates about the two consoles, but some of my friends have and what they've told me confirms what you guys have said above. Therefore, PS4 it'll be!

 

[kouroux]

If a choice has to be made (I'm still mostly a PC player) then it'd easily be the PS4.It's not a even a question of exclusive games but simply playing without the daily required internet connection, the fecking kinect I never wanted to buy and the possibility to exchange games with friends/family.
The price plays also a big part

 

[Castia]

One thing people forget about the Xbox is the ability to log in and play games on another persons console though. For instance I cant lend x game to you but you/or I can log in on any Xbox one and play it through my account. You don't have the physical copy but you can still do anything you would otherwise, I really don't see the problem in some ways its better (you have access to this persons full games library not just the 1 game you borrow)


My mate could buy Fifa 14....I could log into his account from my home/console and play it (while he's not online). Same shit really.

 

[DFreshKing]

online now costs on psn?​

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Bad move. Is this in addition to ps+?​

 

[IrishLegend]

PS4.

Even my brother who is the most retarded of xbox fanboi's said he's going to get the PS4 over the xbone.

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

online now costs on psn?​

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Bad move. Is this in addition to ps+?​

No, just PSN+.

 

[Revan]

online now costs on psn?​

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Bad move. Is this in addition to ps+?​

ps+ cost on PS4 'less than 5 dollars a month', while it will continue being free on PS3 and Vita

 

[FreakyJim]

One thing people forget about the Xbox is the ability to log in and play games on another persons console though. For instance I cant lend x game to you but you/or I can log in on any Xbox one and play it through my account. You don't have the physical copy but you can still do anything you would otherwise, I really don't see the problem in some ways its better (you have access to this persons full games library not just the 1 game you borrow)


My mate could buy Fifa 14....I could log into his account from my home/console and play it (while he's not online). Same shit really.

I think to play games on another person's xbox even logged in your account, it's permitted only 1 hour. Or was that something online related? I'm confused with all those restrictions.

Anyway, it's an unnecessary complication and is worded by microsoft as a feature, whilst being anti-consumer. Also you can't resell your game whenever or wherever you want. You have to do it thorough a microsoft licensed store or something. And a game can be resold only once etc.
Not sure why there are people still justifying this crap but whatever.

 

[DFreshKing]

Youcan play it even

One thing people forget about the Xbox is the ability to log in and play games on another persons console though. For instance I cant lend x game to you but you/or I can log in on any Xbox one and play it through my account. You don't have the physical copy but you can still do anything you would otherwise, I really don't see the problem in some ways its better (you have access to this persons full games library not just the 1 game you borrow)


My mate could buy Fifa 14....I could log into his account from my home/console and play it (while he's not online). Same shit really.

You can play even at the same time which is a bonus but does not mitigate the rest of the clusterfeck for me.

 

[DixieDean]

I have a feeling I know which way this poll is going to go. I think Xbox one has some nice looking exclusives (esp Titanfall). Games wise I thought it at least matched Sony, but the price and the always online stuff is

 

[DFreshKing]

I think to play games on another person's xbox even logged in your account, it's permitted only 1 hour.

one hour offline, you need to login to network every hour to use friends games, or just be online obviously.

It is a genuine benefit of the installs and cloud service, but does excuse the DRM crap, tacked onbenefit which publishers can opt out of and ms can remove on a whim.

 

[Rooney in Paris]

Revan, you said in your criticisms of the Xbox that "Kinect is watching you all the fecking time", what exactly is this?

 

[FreakyJim]

Revan, you said in your criticisms of the Xbox that "Kinect is watching you all the fecking time", what exactly is this?

That's more paranoid than anything really. It's about Kinect being always on, "listening" for voice commands. People are just freaking out about privacy. I doubt Microsoft will dare spy on people.

 

[Revan]

Revan, you said in your criticisms of the Xbox that "Kinect is watching you all the fecking time", what exactly is this?

Well, your mandatory kinect has a camera and a microphone. While it 'can' be send offline according to Microsoft, it very likely is a lie, simply because you can send it online by using voice. Which mean that it wasn't entirely offline at the first place.

Here goes the privacy.

 

[Nogbadthebad]

PS4 at some point. However, I wont be purchasing at launch, GTA5, Assasins creed and fifa 14 and GT6 (I think its a ps3 game still?) will keep me occupied for a while, and barring an extra bit of eye candy there isnt a single reason to buy them on the new gen over the old, they will be exactly the same. Apart from, assuming amazon pre orders are correct, costing £15 a game more on the new console

I've generally got around to buying all the consoles in a generation over time, and I may get a wii U at some point if only for mariokart and smash brothers , but I will never buy an xboxone , the exclusives may be great games, but the package as a whole is a giant boot in the balls of the consumer, I refuse to encourage that in any way, the only way to prevent this sort of lockdown being the future is if microsoft suffer hugely for doing it.

 

[bosnian_red]

Revan, you said in your criticisms of the Xbox that "Kinect is watching you all the fecking time", what exactly is this?

They said you can turn on the xbox and tv and everything at the same time by simply saying "Xbox on" or something like that, which turns your system on and tv on. Obviously since it can do this, that means it's always sort of on, listening in and hears whatever you say even though you aren't online. Kind of invading privacy. Not a big deal for most people but some people are a bit more paranoid, and it is a bit weird and intruding when you think of it.

 

[steeeb]

Gears of War is no longer a factor for me after the pisstake that Judgement turned out to be. I'll be getting a PS4 - I wonder if it's possible to buy the console abroad and play it in the UK?

Ps4 isn't region locked. (Xshite is)

 

[Revan]

I refuse to encourage that in any way, the only way to prevent this sort of lockdown being the future is if microsoft suffer hugely for doing it.

Yep, that's a very important thing. If Microsoft doesn't suffer, Sony will do the same in the next generation of consoles (probably about 5 years).

 

[steeeb]

EA started it all, I hope EA then boycott the PS4 and then we get some decent games out and some indie vs EA war going on instead of FIFA 234 which is exactly the same as the previous one but with 600 new features of which only about 5 can be named.

 

[FreakyJim]

It's an american box (and UK sort of). I think it'll outsell PS4 in those markets. Regardless of the DRM cries people will buy it, for some reason, be it Shooters, Kinect, voice or something else the MS marketing comes up with.
I just hope it doesn't do too well. Because always online, all the time, everywhere DRM is coming sooner than I feared.

Microsoft will damage control on full blast now, I expect they'll backtrack on price and will advertise like madmen. Rumors have it they're pouring 1 billion into marketing.