PS4 vs Xbox One: Part 1-The Games

[Runa216]

as it stands, I personally think the PS4 has a better list, but only because of my personal preferences, and not objective quality. See, with the PS4 list, there are games that look like they'll appeal to me. inFamous Second Son is far and away the best looking game of all the stuff we've seen thus far, yet I can't say it'll be the best reviewed. That honor will likely go to Titan Fall or Forza. However, no Xbox One game comes without some sort of a Caveat. For example:

Forza 5: High pedigree game series...but I don't give a shit about racing games.
TitanFall: Looks fantastic, but I fear it'll be another generic shooter with mechs.
Project Spark: looks great, but relies too heavily on smartglass and Kinect
Dead Rising 3: looks like a good game, but a bad Dead Rising game (lacks the heart)
Crimson dragon: Love dragons, but it looks like Lair 2 to me.
Killer Instinct: Woohoo! KI FEELING!....wait, free to play nonsense? bleugh. No thanks.
Sunset Overdrive: Looks fun, but this reliance on 'the cloud' makes me think "always on DRM" (which is still a thing with select games, s uch as this)
Quantum Break: Looks fantastic..but we don'[t really know anything about its gameplay!

To be fair, almost all of these complaints, criticisms, and hangups can be applied to PS4 games as well, but then I remember there's NOTHING on either list I'm looking forward to as much as the multiplatform games and inFamous. For example:

Knack: could be the next great platform/action game...but we don't really know much about it
Drive Club: Like Forza, it's a racing game. Might be good, doesn't appear so yet.
Killzone: *Fake cheers* yay, more futuristic action. I tend to love the graphics, but other than that, generic tripe
The ORder 1886: Love the team, love the concept, but like Quantum Break we don't actually know much about it
Deep Down: oh right, this is an exclusive? Looks fun, but I don't trust capcom
inFamous Second Son: This is the only one I don't have some hesitation about. Absolutely can't wait. This and Multiplats.

To be fair, PS4 has a LOT of indies and console exclusives. I have a mid-low end gaming PC, but if I CAN get it on console I generally tend to prefer it there, and while I don't think PS4 will ever compare to Steam for indie support, it's nice to see sony actually taking an active stance on the issue and being proactive. Stuff like The Witness and Transistor make me squee with delight more than most of those retail games. I'm no indie snob, but sometimes I just wanna do Terraria or Guacamelee, and I find those games better than pretty much any AAA title, be it Call of Duty or Uncharted, exclusive or multiplat.

So in conclusion, I think that at this point, Sony just barely edges out Microsoft due to inFamous Second Son, but I figure if history is any indication, the PS4 will ultimately have the better overall library. Microsoft has to be applauded for bringing the games - many of which look like they could end up really good - but in the end I do think Sony will bring more over time. For example, this year alone (the year the Xbox 360 practically gave up and the Wii is already dead), Sony has brought us Ni No Kuni and The LAst of us, and we're still waiting on Beyond Two Souls and more. Not to mention the indie support.

So yes, Microsoft brought it, but they lack any real inspiration or creativity from what I've seen. Sony has the creativity in the bag. I've always seen Sony as the middleground between saccharine happiness of Nintendo and the brown and grey dudebro fratboy aesthetic of Microsoft. That said, with Kingdom Hearts III and Final Fantasy XV both coming to Xbox One, that may change.