The big decision that we all must face is finally approaching, a topic that’s been consuming gamer lives since the announcement. PlayStation 4 or XBOX one, which one will you be purchasing? Now I do know some die hard Microsoft users who will stick with the Xbox one through and through, and that’s perfectly fine, I myself am faithful to the SONY PlayStation, so of course when the chance was brought up, I pre-ordered my PS4.
Instead of going into the normal tangent of saying whose better than who, let’s talk about each console and you can decide which one suits you better. With the XBOX one there seemed to be a huge thing of conflict surrounding the features: Used Games, 24 hour online check in, backwards compatibility, and the Kinect always on. For example when the console was first introduced into the gaming world, these were the many problems that had gamers not amused. Selling used game was going to become a more difficult process, which involved going to a retailer like GameStop, where they will basically use a disk to extract the content from your hard drive, sort of like a parasite, and return the contents to the games disk. So sharing with friends will be close to impossible, and the preferred method of purchase would have to the online download, which is frowned upon in the community since many gamers prefer to have a hard copy of the game on them. But with the rise of anger, Microsoft decided to stick with how they have been doing it all this time, so these feature will not be available, but a new feature is added that seems to actually make the players happy, ‘family sharing’ whereby users can let other users “borrow” their digital copies of games, also another great feature that was in it from the beginning is that the console will have 8GB of RAM.
Moving on to the PlayStation 4, there have been some rumors from Edge, a gaming publication based out of the United Kingdom that the Ps4 has something up their sleeves against the Xbox one and this being that the PS4’S is about 50% faster than the Xbox one. Now that is still under rumors and can’t be confirmed just yet until the gamers of the community actually have a go with the system, but this rumor might be the curve ball that PlayStation needed. Some features seem to highlight in the PS4 though, for example it will now have a sharing function known as Gaikai, which will instantly upload the last several minutes of their gameplay, as well as instantly letting friends join in your game or even take over the controls for you. The main goal of Sony is having a more social platform with gamers, in which it seems like everyone will be connected, and the social features are optional and can be disabled at any time. So with the facts on the table which one will you end up choosing?