Digital Foundry vs. the Xbox One architects... or the end of the secret sauce craziness

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endimion said:

yeah I posted a one sided argument, we are on the MS forum, not the main one,  or the sony forum

PS4 doesn't have facial recognition or voice control out of the box and certainly can't be compared to kinect tracking... comparing the two is like comparing a SD movie and an HD one on picture quality yeah you have the same movie but come on...

My box is alays on almost so it won't change much. the point is to be able to switch fast and seemlesly between two devices without changing remotes, pad, source on the TV etc... pure convenience, ease of use and fast switch nothing more.... and you can still use the app snap while watching TV which is the brownie point part... so might be stupid it is more convenient and enjoyable for me than the current sate of things

Multi tasking on PS4??? well first they should get a 21st century looking OS before even trying to do multitasking...and if they do we haven't seen anything about it so far... at least nothing close to multitasking like we saw on XB1

but hey like I said the PS4 is more powerful than the XB1 and will probably get better looking game in the end.... you can't have all the good things on one side of the game court right...???? PS4 will be the  grahic beast, XB1 will be the multi purpose entertainement box... I think it is pretty clear by now... and people will have to chose between better graphics or better entertainement and when I say better I mean more accessible, easy to use, well put together etc.... not the content itself...

But games dont need/require facial reconition/voice control... and there have been very few games that have proven this to be actually useful. Many people play games at home in the evening and dont want to be talking to their device. Same with Kinect you say Kinect is like comparing SD to HD... that's not a helpful description really. Kinect is like Laser Disk... might have some benefits but most people don't care/want it.

Multi tasking... again this is a console and multitasking isnt really that useful/benefitial. But again, the PS4 can do it if needed. Have you not seen the Vita multitasking video, that is enough for most people. The multiple OS's might help switch between TV and Games quickly, but you know already it takes me about 1 second to switch between Sky and my game on PS3... it's not an issue. 

Everything you have suggested is not required to make a good gaming console... and the other items are generally already covered by the PS4... which believe it or not is just like the PS3, which is a pretty good entertainment device. 

In terms of entertainment device, the PS4 has most of their stuff outside the paywall, while the XBO is behind a paywall.

So every point has a counter point ;)