- on sales performance:

The PS4 clearly has the advantage in total global sales compared to the Xbox One.

- on price:

- Price-wise there isn’t much to separate these two. The Xbox One comes in at $360 while the PS4 is at $350. Xbox Live ($60 a year) PSN ($50 a year)

- on power:

In terms of performance both hardware come with an octa-core x86-64 AMD Jaguar processor paired with an AMD Radeon GPU and 8GB RAM. While with some games the Xbox One runs on 1080p, the PS4 generally supports higher resolution across the board. However, constantly running at 1080p could result in compromised frame rate, which means that the PS4’s performance isn’t without fault.

- comparing the camera:

The PlayStation Camera may be cheaper than Microsoft’s Kinect at $60 to $150, but the Kinect has a broader catalog of motion-based games.

- on games:

Both platforms have large catalogs for games and their own exclusive titles. While Xbox One focuses on first-party games, Sony emphasizes third-party titles as PS4-exclusive titles. Xbox One wins in this regard with backward compatibility for some hard-hitting Xbox 360 titles, while Sony is till working to get backward compatibility with PS2 titles.

http://www.dailysunknoxville.com/playstation-4-vs-xbox-one-who-is-the-dominant-force/20155447

Agree, disagree?

About what I would expect from North American media.

A lot of X1's best exclusives are not first party, and apparently 360 games count now. Not PS Now games though.

These guys are really going to struggle next year.

The article is full of sh%&

Slight biased towards xbox one, in the way everything is worded towards the PS4.
But basically in all those areas he mentions the PS4 was the winner, and it felt like he didnt want to write that.

Thank Christ we're passed the point when the US media can affect sales. Never let proof get in the way of hackneyed narratives.

I had the same feeling. It's always nice to get a second opinion. :P

I think it's funny that people are still trying to push that 1st party narrative for the XBO. I guess its true if you only focused on two months this year, instead of looking at the past two years.

Of course, it's even more funny that no matter how much this narrative tries to get pushed, it doesn't matter anymore. The war's over, man, war's over.

They are unable to compare the hardware ("Both have a CPU, a GPU and some RAM, so they're the same!"), they talk about the "broader catalog of motion-based games" as a good point for the Xbox, and think that the Xbox wins the games comparison thanks to the BC...


Next time, please let someone who understand something about the consoles, or even (but I'm dreaming) someone competent write the article.

Glad there is still unbiased media out there.

The PS4 has a lot more 1st party or 3rd party exclusives than the xbox one. A lot of bloggers either can't count or just conveniently forget.