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nnodley on 15 February 2013
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Adinnieken said:
nnodley said:

I don't want in this dumb and pointless argument you and VGking are in, but what you wrote in the bold just irks me like no other.   Why would someone want to buy a ps4?  Oh, I don't know maybe because they want to and like the exclusives that are out for it.  Me personally am not gonna look at a peripheral that comes with the console and be like well the nexbox comes with a gimmicky kinect 2.0 that is it's main selling point and ps4 doesn't, so I'll buy that.  I'm buying a VIDEO GAME CONSOLE not an effing PC and I'm gonna look at the exclusives that come with each one and choose based on that.  That's all I want is GAMES.  And, also your asking the same question that can apply to all the consoles for each generation.  The ps360 are close in performance and the majority of the games look and play the same.  I'm gonna probably get both the ps4 and nexbox, so no I'm not a fanboy of sony.  It just makes no sense why you would ask that about just the ps4 and not the nexbox too.  

But, whatever.  That's just my rant over a pretty dumb question.

*edit* You have the right to ask what you want and I'm not attacking you.  This is just something that irks me a lot.  I could have put this in your thread, but it was more convenient to put it here.

Because, I'm a hardware guy and I like hardware. 

Despite why you bought the PS3, there are several key features that Sony has sold the PS3 on.  Unique exclusives are but one of those, other features were the motion controls of the  SixAxis controller, included Wi-Fi, included Blu-Ray ODD, Bluetooth, the Cell processor, Linux capabilities, etc, etc.  A few others were added later on as selling features, such as Move and 3D.

There had been, and still is, a lot of information about what Microsoft has planned for the future Xbox.  There isn't a heck of a lot for the PlayStation.  So the interest, especially in the face of so many people saying that they were interested in purchasing the PS4 simply based on the preliminary specs, is what was there that people would buy the PS4 for?

The only, and I repeat only, answer I can still appreciate is the very one you mentioned, exclusive games.  However, I would challenge you those exclusive games are generally only of significant interest to those who have already played the series.  That is, enough to inspire an early  purchase (i.e. not one after a price drop).

As for I didn't do one for the Wii/Wii U, well it's already out.  As for the next Xbox, it isn't a question for me to answer.  I already have formed an opinion as to whether I believe the next Xbox offers something of value for my purchase consideration. 

Trust me, I'm looking forward to the 20th to find out what Sony has planned.

So, I'm more interested in hardware and what companies have planned with it than with games.  Games I like and want to play will come along, that's a given, but hardware is the what I find cool.

I completely understand where your coming from,  but you did ask that question on a gaming forum and everyone is gonna say games is the number one reason.  Second would be price and if they have a lower pricer than the nexbox then a lot of people will choose the ps4.  To me what needs to be focused on most in a game console is games.  Being an entertainment hub should not be the priority, which from all the rumors is what MS is focusing on.  Sony is too, but they seem to be catering more towards the gaming side than anyone else by not shoving gimmick motion controls down people's throats.  I have PS move and I like it and it is great when done right, but motion controls are not my main choice when playing through a game for the first time.  

I guess that's why everything is opinions right now.  You want awesome hardware that gives you more ways to play and fills all of your entertainment needs.  On the flipside, I want awesome powerful hardware with just awesome games and a standard controller and that's it.  Almost every device in my house has netflix on it so that's covered no matter what and that's the only app I would use on my console.