Looks like Sony built PS4 to compete the Xbox 360, only with better graphics/specs

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That's it, I'm convinced. Xbone is going to take out this coming generation with 80% market share. All hail our new gaming overlord.

Oh and I think multiplayer behind the paywall is arse, you won't catch me defending it. IN fact I might just not be reading the right posts, or visiting the right threads but I haven't seen many Sony fans saying that their all fine and at peace with MP behind the paywall. They're resigned to I would say. But I was already committed to getting PSN+ on PS4 BEFORE they announced the multiplayer thing, because of the fact that I'll be buying 12 games per year for the price of 1 1/2 games. That's unbeatable value. And as the generation progresses the monthly "free" games will get better and better. Also there's no hypocrisy in saying it was a deal breaker when choosing between PS3 and Xbox360 and now committing to buying PS4. After all it's not like you can go to Xbone and play online with XBL Silver. So all that's left is Wii U. Obviously for the vast majority MP behind the paywall isn't quite enough to go Wii U only, and for me Wii U was only ever an option if Sony went all DRM up in my shit, which they didn't. Still if I'm a multi-console guy with Wii U and PS4 and I was into online MP then every multiplatform game with online I want to play I'd get it on Wii U because I support free online play.

Sony was being a bit of a dick saying they're dropping online pass as the trade off for paid online play. Dropping online pass does nothing for the person who buys a game new so that was really disingenuous and I didn't like them using that as an excuse.

So there's no getting around the fact that I'm disappointed Sony's taken that step. I don't know why online play on PC can be free and of good quality, but on Xboxes and now on PS4 it can't be that way, I've never seen a satisfactory explanation for it. But that annoyance pales into insignificance when put up against the ruinous policies MS is introducing with Xbone. PS4 paid online play is like a small gravitational anomaly and Xbone DRM is like a supermassive, galaxy destroying black hole. PS4 paid online play is like a snail in my cabbage patch and Xbone DRM is like a plague of locusts. PS4 paid online is like the common cold and Xbone DRM is like an outbreak of Ebola virus.