| ArnoldRimmer said: Heise, publishers of germany's most highly regarded technology magazine, c't, have published their preliminary Xbox One vs. PS4 comparison. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Angetestet-Xbox-One-gegen-PS4-2052893.html Short summary for people who don't speak german: Console itself PS4 is small and elegant. In comparison, Xbox One looks clumsy, but build quality seems good as well. Controller All in all, they slightly prefer the PS4 controller Camera There currently seems to be a problem that PS4 gamers cannot turn the Playstation Eye microphone off in online mode, so other online players could hear everything that was spoken in the room. Kinect voice commands are very unrealiable. They only worked in about 50% of the time, after about 10 minutes they were too annoyed and used the controller instead, which they say works much better and faster anyway. They say they'd like to see a Xbox One being sold without Kinect. Installation / Loading times Quick on PS4. It took them just 15 minutes from unboxing to playing Killzone. There is a 300MB update, but one can simply skip it. Xbox One requires much more waiting. From unboxing to playing Ryse took almost 45 minutes. There was a mandatory 500MB operating system update, and the instantly available updates for the specific games were even bigger: Forza: 6000MB The situation is similar with booting times: About 30 seconds on PS4, about 70 seconds on Xbox One. Menu PS4: Nice and clean, rather similar to PS3 XMB. Everything's fast, smooth and well-arranged. Xbox One: UI is very Windows 8-inspired, but too crowded. Switching between apps is a bit slow. Voice commands didn't work well etc. All in all, UI looks unnecessarily bloated and not intuitive. Multimedia It's already been announced that this will change, but right now, PS4 multimedia capabilities are next to zero. Xbox One is currently clearly ahead here. Social networks PS4 already has facebook integration and a streaming service (which seems to be pretty good). Xbox One so far has neither. Noise PS4 was more quiet; 0.5 sone in idle, 1.1 sone while playing Killzone. Xbox One had 0.8 sone in idle and 1.5 sone while playing Ryse. Even in standby mode, the Xbox One produces 0.7 sone. They say that while noise level is tolerable for playing games, but for listening to music of watching videos they'd rather use other, more quiet devices. Power consumption PS4 usually consumes a bit more power - up to about 147W while gaming (Xbox One: 123W). Xbox One had an extremely high standby power consumption of almost 20W, but PS4 wasn't really much better at about 14W. They clearly suggest deactivating standby mode on both devices for that reason. Graphics Despite PS4 having 50% more graphics power, they considered Ryse to actually have better graphics than Killzone, even though the game ran at lower resolution and framerate (but they also mentioned Ryse gameplay was very boring though). They did not have time to compare other, multiplatform titles so far, but said that they expect only marginal differences anyway. Conclusion Right now, they'd rather recommend/buy a PS4, not only because it's 100 Euros cheaper, but because it better concentrates on the main thing: games. |
Cool. I didnt need a website to know that, but its good to see some tech reviewers being honest.
