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J_Allard on 25 October 2013
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Aerys said:



You underestimate the impact of such news.

Like i said, its not about COD, its about the demonstration of the difference between PS4 and xbox one


With internet, information travels fast and easily become public( the rumor is already everywhere in the world on all the forums, its not just gaf who cares about the resolution, eveyrone care about power, everyone care about buying the best hardware , especially for a better price).
everyone = early adopters, those who look for the best ( this is why they buy a new next gen hardware, to get the new most powerful system and get the best console version of ac/cod/bf/... , if they dont care about this, then they buy a wii u with more exclusive games or just keep the current gen waiting for more exclusive games to buy a  next gen )


Do you know why Sony wins against Sega ? One of the main reason is that everyone believed PS2 was more powerful (even if it was wrong, so, now, since its true for the PS4, its a real matter )

Early adopters are almost all hardcore gamers who could not care less about a thing you just typed. And a majority of the rest also don't care about a thing you just typed. They want to play games and will buy a console based on what games it has. Or maybe price. Or maybe what their friends have. Power is irrelevant. When is the last time the most powerful console won a generation? The SNES? The NES? How is that Vita doing?

People buy new hardware to get new hardware. These aren't PC gamers spending money to get every little drop of performance they can, these are console gamers who buy the hardware for the games. There is a crowd of people who want "the best" but they are a tiny minority. If the Xbox One doesn't sell well, it will be because they launched overpriced at $500 compared to a $300 and $400 machine. It won't be because CoD, a franchise that has never been about amazing graphics, might "only" be 720p while the PS4 version might be 1080p.

And you're right, the Internet is an amazing technology used throughout the world to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another. And it's also great for sharing news. This rumor has certainly spread like wildfire. Of course, people looking at news like this on the Internet can also see amazing Ryse footage, which looks as good as anything on PS4 even at "only" 900p, and they can see Forza 5. And even Dead Rising 3, even though IIRC it's "only" 720p.

Or hey maybe you guys are right and MS's entire gen will hang on a launch port of a cross-gen multiplatform title which is still outranking the PS4 version in preorders and still has timed exclusive DLC LOL. Toodles. This thread has run its course for me. Oh and by the way, the PS2 WAS more powerful than the DC. And the reason the PS2 beat the DC was simply support. SEGA had no EA, and that killed them. Their biggest launch game was an arcade perfect port of a fighting game. They had virtually no "megaton" 3rd party system selling exclusives. Almost everything was arcade ports and new IP's. Compare that to PS2 which had big name 3rd party franchises like Madden, Street Fighter, Tekken, Ridge Racer, NHL. Plus support from companies like Rockstar and Free Radical Design with TimeSplitters. And the other main reason SEGA lost was money. They had none, everyone else had tons. LOL @ it being about power.