The OP said he was going to wait. You said, well Transistor is coming soon! Which I interpreted as: maybe you shouldn’t wait.
I simply pointed out the fact that whatever the OP typed his OP on will run Transistor and so this particular game is probably not a reason to not wait. If he absolutely must play transistor on day one, he can do it on his 10 year old laptop or his $2,000 macbook. Eve with a gamepad if he wants that.
On the other hand, yes, it might be a reason to choose PS4 over Xbone when the time comes.
Maybe you should have interpreted it as “You should wait until Transistor comes out.” Which is, you know, what I said.
Have you ever tried to play games on a budget box? It’s not quite that simple or guaranteed. Plus, Transistor will look much cooler on my 42" TV than it will on my half-broken 21" monitor. I’m guessing a lot of people are in that boat.
IR remotes are old news. My official PS3 remote is Bluetooth. Weirdly I still can’t seem to get out of the habit of pointing it at the PS3 despite having owned it for several years.
Include me in the “waiting” crowd. I’ve gravitated towards PC gaming of late, mainly due to several badly bugged games on consoles that took forever to be patched (and in the case of Fallout: New Vegas still badly, badly bugged) but I have no doubt that exclusives will drag me in at some point.
I’m not familiar with the Google+PS4 integration. Certainly Google does almost everything Bing does and more, I’m sure there’s a side-by-side out there. But I think the important question is what does Bing do on the console that Google doesn’t on the PS4 and honestly I don’t know the answer, but I suspect that Bing’s integration is far more advanced and useful. Bing powers the News, Sports, Weather and a bunch of other apps on Windows 8 and I suspect that it will do similar on the XBOne.
This gets at the point of what I was emphasizing with the MS advantage in Services. While the PS4 will be able to check a lot of boxes on items like chat, music and storage it’s the ecosystem it’s lacking. Xbox Live Music, for all it’s flaws, is going to be much more widely used and your preferences will travel with you if you are in the MS ecosystem, this user base also probably means more artists and better ongoing support. Skype doesn’t even need explaining. Ultimately side-by-sides only tell part of the story.
Just like Windows Phone loses the argument against Android and Apple due to app stores and ecosystems, PlayStation loses the argument for game consoles to MS+Windows 8 backed XBox. I suspect this gap will widen as the Windows Store grows and Windows 8 Modern Interface gain users because more and more apps and services will be cross-platform between Windows & XBox.
PS4, for better or worse, will always probably be a game-centric device. XBOne aspires to be more than that. Time will tell what the market wants, but it’s something buyers must consider.
Yes, but I don’t want another remote. I have a Harmony 700, I can program it to control my friggin’ window AC unit! I can control the PS3 dashboard - it just won’t turn it on. It’s absurd.
What you described is much more than I pictured. I just thought you meant a search engine. But since you mentioned ecosystem, Sony has the Sony Entertainment Network. Looking at the website, it has the ecosystem you say is lacking. Music, Movies, TV. PlayMemories is Sony’s answer to SkyDrive. It stores only media files, though. No documents. I don’t know how widely used SEN is but it’s there.
Microsoft is smart to leverage One/PC synergy(they still say that, right?) but Sony is no slouch in the ecosystem department.
I’m worried about the automatic sharing functions of the new consoles. Right now, it takes a little bit of effort to put gameplay video up, so many/most people that do it put a little effort into it. They select interesting footage, edit it, maybe do commentary or something, something that makes it interesting. Obviously not all gameplay footage is interesting, but the fact that there’s a barrier to entry to make it means people will take more care to make it worthwhile.
If 10 million new people with youtube and twitch suddenly are given one-button sharing and streaming, it’s going to be like twitter, everyone is going to post something because they think people will want to know what they had for lunch or when they take a shit. They’ll just flood youtube with stuff that isn’t carefully selected, editing, etc. The signal to noise ratio with gameplay video will massively plummet.
Like I said, Sony is checking the boxes. But just because it exists doesn’t mean people are using it. If people aren’t using it you don’t have an ecosystem, you just have a framework.
I just read that. It’s not definitive, and it’s not good journalism for that matter. I’m not sure if the writer was stupid, or a Microsoft shill, but he basically writes up an article about the differences in hardware, which all favor Sony significantly, and then dismisses them as being all the same. Why write an article detailing the differences only to try to dismiss and downplay those differences as much as you can?
The idea that a 9% higher base core clock speed is a viable sidegrade to having a full 50% more unified stream processor clusters is absurd, and yet he gives a bullshit self-serving quote from a Microsoft PR guy and acts like it’s a real argument. He also dismisses a 50% increase in resolution as oh pretty much the same thing.
I’m no ps4 fanboy, and they’re both shitboxes on account of choosing to use tablet processors for their CPU which is ridiculous, but it’s stupid to pretend the PS4 isn’t significantly more powerful than the Xbone. Maybe the extra services/gimmicks/games can make MS a winner, but it’s clear that the PS4 is the more powerful gaming machine.
I assume people are using it. I don’t know how widely. They’re not just checking boxs as you say. Go to the website and look around. That’s not ‘Microsoft’s doing it so we might as well do it, too’.
I know when it comes to console gaming discussions you can’t help yourself, but what you said is not really accurate unless you’re filtering the article with a heavy bias.
Here’s the section you quibble with:
Emphasis mine.
Not sure how you’re reading any of that as either pro-XB or dismissive of the impact of the differences. They say multiple times that the silicon in the PS4 is the differentiator.
Of course, it’s a matter of opinion but Ars has shared theirs on the pixel wars. Take it for what you will, but it doesn’t sound like bias or stupidity to me.
Anyway, PS4 is $100 cheaper and maybe marginally more powerful (close enough that no one should give a shit, tho) so if you have to get something this year or you’ll die, I’d say get PS4. Honestly the better thing to do would be wait until one or the other has more of a library built up, an exclusive game you can’t wait to play, or a price drop.
As for me, if I were to get anything this year, it would be a Wii U. Laugh all you want, I want some more Mario and Zelda. For everything else, I’m not convinced my PS3 is not enough yet. I really don’t think Sony needed to put out a next gen system yet, other than to keep MS from getting a head start on installed userbase.