Your opinion on Xbox One or PS4?

Question

I have an xbox 360 and an ps3 as well and I have been a fan of each gaming system. I thought about buying the xbox one or buying the ps4, but heard bad and good things about both. What are the pros and cons of each game system? And I have also heard about Xbox having to install the games to the hard drive before you can play them or something like that

Answer 1

Well, for me it is obvious. I have thoroughly researched both consoles since their announcements, looked through all their features multiple times, and one of them is clearly a far better console: The Xbox One. The have 100% identical graphics and 100% identical performance, however every feature/ability the PS4 has, the Xbox One has a better version of, and the Xbox One also has about 30+ features/abilities the PS4 does not have. There are no negatives for either console, the Xbox One can just do a whole lot more than the PS4 can. I'm buying my console based on their expected life cycle which is over ten years. In ten years, all the tech in our lives will be voice and motion controlled, except the PS4. In five years every device we own will hook up to all the other devices we own, except the PS4. Right now they might not sound very different to some, but in two years the PS4 will already be an outdated console. I don't even consider the PS4 or Wii U eighth gen consoles, they are more like seven and a half gen.



@Fenrir- you tried really hard not to be biased, and I will give you that. However there are some things you said that were false and I would like to clarify so you don't confuse the person asking the question.

-The PS4 is easier to make games for than the PS3, however the Xbox One is basically a PC in a box now and is the easiest console to develop for. The Xbox One will be the console third party developers make their games for, the PS4 will recieve ports like the PS3 did.

-Cheaper never equals better, especially in this case. Sony gave Sony Computer Entertainment a budget for the PS4 that was 25%-35% smaller than that of the PS3. Because of this they had to make some sacrifices and had to make the console able to be assembled by one assembly line. The PS4..... is going to have overheated issues, plain and simple. There are no fans in the PS4, it has an internal power source, two vents, it has a tiny heat sink, and the console is very small so everything is mashed together. That thing is going to bake like a sidewalk in the Mojave during summer. The Xbox One on the other hand was specifically designed to be ON for over ten years! That is fuhking nuts. It has multiple fans, lots of vents, a huge heat sink, and an external power source. And it is huge so everything is spaced out inside it. The Xbox One will run as cold as Christmas morn.

-The PS4 uses an AMD Radeon GPU that operates at 800mhz, the Xbox One uses an AMD Radeon GPU that operates at 853mhz. If you aren't tech savvy, this basically means the Xbox One will have slightly(unnoticeable to the human eye) better graphics than the PS4. The PS4 uses an Octa-Core AMD x86 Jaguar CPU, the Xbox One uses an Octa-Core AMD x86 Jaguar CPU as well. They will have equal performance. Their hardware is nearly 100% the same. You may have been confused by some moron talking about RAM. RAM has absolutely nothing to do with a game while you are playing it. It is only a tool developers to use and the only difference between the one in the PS4 and Xbox One (GDDR5 and DDR3) is that GDDR5 can process a few seconds faster. This means games developed for the PS4 will be able to be made 1.15 times quicker. A game in development for two years might shave off a week or two by using GDDR5 as opposed to DDR3. It has nothing to do with graphics whatsoever.

-Sony Computer Entertainment is one of the most unreliable companies on the planet. They pump out games but hardly support their consoles after launch. Remember when the PSN was hacked and they told no one what up for months? Remember when Skyrim was a broken game and Bethesda asked Sony to help and Sony said they didn't care? I love the games they make but Sony is a garbage company, not that Microsoft is much better. Both are corporations that want your money.

-Kinect is an amazing feature and it literally put the world forward technologically. The only people complaining about it are Sony fanboys and morons who listen to Sony fanboys. I can't wait to just tell my Xbox what to do and it will do it. No more changing discs, no more changing channels, no more going through menus to find apps, I just have to "Xbox play this movie on netflix" "Xbox go to tv channel 31" "Xbox play Assassins Creed 4" etc.

-They will have less exclusives however it looks like the Xbox Ones exclusives will be way better. Quality over quantity always.

-it looks as if you have been lied to or read lies on a forum. The DRM and always online the Xbox One originally had were there to make it easier to share game, not to inhibit it. DRM would have allowed to trade your games over Xbox Live like you can on Steam. As for used games, unfortunately little known to the public, Gamestop had arranged a deal with Microsoft where you could buy and play Xbox One games used exactly the same way you can with current gen games.

Answer 2

So far unless you like the xbox one's exclusives you'll want to get a PS4.



If you aren't a tech person the next paragraph just explains why multiplatform games this generation will run smoother and look better on the PS4



Just looking at the specs it commands a 50% CU advantage on its gpu which is why it does 1.8tflops vs the 1.2 on the Xbox one. It also has a 100% ROP advantage giving it a 100% pixel fill rate advantage. And ram advantage is also on the PS4 with all 8 gigs being 176gb/s where the xbox one has 32mb of 133gb/s esram and 8 gigs of 68gb/s ddr3. This means most things will have to go through the slow 68gb/s ram on xbox one due to the extremely limited space on the esram



The xbox one has been made for advertising. If you don't believe me google it! Microsoft decided to make advertising a much more intrusive thing this time around because we are "too good at avoiding it" but they think by using kinect to mine demographic information from people in the room they can better tailor advertisements to the consumers wants and make us hate adds less.



Both systems are going to install games but they both will do it in the background while you play and much faster then the previous systems so don't worry about this.



The PS4 records 15 min of gameplay while the Xbox one only records the last 5 min.



Everything else they basically both do. You get all the online bells and whistles from both. Both are now offering free games each month with their paid online systems. (more games so far on PSN then xbox live but that's just for now.) Both do second screens with any tablet but PS4 also does it with the Vita which it can also use as a second screen any game that doesn't need the camera or it can be used as a controller if the developer wants to add support for it. There are so many little things they both do that is similar but not identical.

Answer 3

I purchased a PS-4 back toward the end of Nov 2014. The console was working great and it is a nice console to work with (play). One of the faults that I have run into (as many others have also) is that I have lost sound from the PS-4. If I play around with it long enough I can get the sound back just to have it revert back to no sound again. I contacted Sony to see if there were any patches to fix this problem which the answer was no and that I was the only one having this problem. I informed the technician that he needed to look on line as there are many others that are having this same problem. In the end he basically suggested (after I asked about returning it to the store where I purchased it) to return it to the place of purchase (in this case Best Buy). This is not a problem from Best Buy it is a problem from Sony and you really cannot receive good support from the support group. I love the system and enjoy playing the various games but this will more than likely be the last product that I purchase from Sony.

Answer 4

Ps4 pros:



-The PS4 seems more popular, especially with game developers who have praised it as being easy to make games for. So with those 2 things I think you can expect there to be by more games for ps4.

- it does have extras like videos, music, and other apps.

- it is cheaper

- The hardware is thought to be more powerful

- access to awesome exclusives, like the Infamous series.

- you have Sony supporting the machine, and in the past they have shown that they continue to make great games for years after the console is released ( ps2 still had new games up until this year, PS3 still has some great exclusives coming out - more than the Xbox 360)

- it has play as you download, so does xbox.

- overall Sony has been better for games all around for PS2 and in my opinion PS3 also.



Cons -

- will edit this when I have thought about it.



Xbox one:

Pros

- it seems to have some good apps / other extras such as Skype. I think it might have some useful features that will be helpful. Ps4 also has some extras, and they might add more as time goes on, but Xbox seemed to focus more on the extras.

- Xbox 360 was known for having good online play, so if you are into that, then you know that xbox has been good in the past for online. ( PS4 is also beefing up their online service, so it remains to be seen which system is better for online).

- some cool exclusives for Xbox such as halo.

- play as you download.

- the kinnect sensor - this may be a pro or a con, depends on how well it is integrated. PS4 has the PS Eye which is the same thing, but it is not bundled with the console.



Cons: these negatives are not really related to the machine itself, it is to with Microsoft and what they have tried to do with the Xbox one. The machine itself looks to be good.

- the box is ugly.

- likely that it will have less exclusives and less games overall in the long run.

- I thought the whole scheme they came out with to do with controlling the sharing of used games and forcing people to be always online seemed like a scam. They changed those policies due to bad feedback from consumers, but it still annoys me that they tried to do it.

Answer 5

I'm basing my choice on where I have the most friends and currently its the xbox. But for me it will also come down to whether I like the PS4 controller as I haven't like any of the previous generation of playstation controllers.



here are some proper facts:



PS4 is more powerful graphically but so was the PS3 and since developers make cross platform games for the lowest console powerwise they will make them on xbox and then port them to PS4 as its easier to add than to scale back a game. The only PS3 games I saw that looked better than 360 were exclusives and I feel it will go the same way. And none of it matters unless you run both conoles at the same time with the same game, otherwise you'll never notice a difference.



They both have a camera available and neither is watching you while you sleep.



they both have the same DRM/used game polices - neither console is applying their own DRM but both allow for game developers to implement their own like EA games and their online passes. PS4 has confirmed no games they make"" will have DRM but also stated that they will allow other games developers to do what they want with DRM, xbox one is the same.



They both have to pay for online gaming but PS4 is a little cheaper, plus you get some free games.



Xbox one is more expensive as it includes kinect, PS4 was going to be release at the same price point with the PS4 eye included but sony changed plans after xbox revealed their price.



PS4 has beter support for indie games (if you care)



both have blueray and 4k Tv support.



Xbox live is a better and more reliable online service than PSN (this comes from my PS4 mates) but since sony is now charging for the service it may improve.



They both have some sort of cloud support, currently PS4 is mainly for recording and streaming gameplay (though may change) xbox records 5 minutes and PS4 7-15 minutes. Xbox is more about trying to offload game processing bits to help their games to look better.



neither is backwards compatible.



your PS3 peripherals will work on PS4 as in headsets and move controllers but not normal controllers, you will have to buy an adaptor to use current gen headsets on xbox and no other ones will work, the adaptor may also work with old controllers but its not confirmed



I 'm not sure but I think microsoft removed the auto install of games to the hard drive as it was part of their DRM process

Answer 6

PS4..microsoft did a bad job with the xbox one

Answer 7

Ps4. I have a 360 and im tired of microsoft

Answer 8

All you'll find on yahoo answers is ps lovers. Google it for unbiased facts