thx1139 said:
platformmaster918 said:
thx1139 said:
Judging anything on the 1st reveal of the 1st games released on either the PS4 or the Xbox One is silly and shortsighted. From everything we have seen the consoles will be as close as any 2 leading consoles have ever been.
With that in mind it is the what else do the consoles do that will really be the differentiation. For me the Xbox One multimedia entertainment services is exactly what my family wants. We used our Xbox 360 as our main entertainment box in the house. The most frustrating thing is switching between services because of the time required to unload NetFlix and then load Hulu or YouTube or Xbox Video/Music. That is gone and then the ability to control your Cable box (Hopefully DirectTV as well or bye bye DirectTV) and add content is just totally awesome.
People dont seem to understand how powerful a draw the NFL with integrated Fantasy Football will be. Fantasy Football is an addiction in the US and it is growing. This sort of experience is the future and the Xbox One right now is leading it. Gone are the days of counting pixels in games. Haven't we seen over the last 2 generations that the box with the absolute best hardware specs wasn't the winner and the next generation wont be different especially with these consoles so nearly exactly the same hardware spec wise. |
I don't see the fantasy stuff as very essential for anyone. Is it really that hard to look on your phone or computer? Hell I don't even check fantasy stuff once the lineups are set cause I can't do anything about it then. I wait till the Sunday games are done and see how my guys did...on my computer...or my phone...or if I had a tablet I could do that. Multitasking was cool but I'm sure PS4 will be able to do it only you'll no use your voice or have to wave around (not saying either is better but it doesn't make a big different either way).
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Not going to argue about the convience of having the screen automatically show you that a player on your team just scored for you rather than having a phone or PC or table next to you.
Also you didnt pay attention this does not require a wave or voice to show you the Fantasy Updates. It uses the Xbox One to overlay the fantasy information over the game your are watching. Hell you dont even need to be watching a game to see the Fantasy Updates. I am a Bears Fan and mostly watch Bears games, I am interested in how my fantasy team is doing and wouldnt mind while I am watching something else or playing a game getting a NFL Fantasy Team update popup.
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I wasn't talking about Kinect for that I was talking about the general multitasking I think both will do. I don't check my fantasy team on my phone and say to myself "man this is inconvenient" because it takes seconds. Not a selling point because there's nothing to fix. The best thing they showed was not having to switch inputs to switch from TV to games but is that worth a $400 box? Not for me and again I don't think of it as a terrible inconvenience to press a button on my remote. That's one of the easiest things I can do I don't see how it could get much easiers. In other words these things are nice but not selling points over another console for me. They're convenient but what we already do is convenient so it's not improving on that...at least not noticeably. It's like how I won't use PS4 to check Facebook I'll use my phone because when I'm on my game console I'm using it to play games and not for other things that I can do on a million other devices very conveniently.
