PS4 versus XBox One: Which console you should buy and why?

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Dmick90 said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

I never said Sony was my friend. I'm just telling it like it is. Everyone was grilling Sony hoping to god they wouldn't follow Microsoft down the path of DRM or else we would've all been screwed. Read the interviews since feburary. There were rumors about Xbone having DRM since before the year started and the rumors continued past the PS4 reveal and was outted after the Xbone launch when Microsoft did an interview with Cinema Blend which rocked the foundation of the internet scene. If Sony would've used DRM it would've fucked Gamestop for good or at least knocked out their sales considerably to hurt them and thus the second hand community. Being that Sony didn't and everyone saw that fans sided with Sony with an ovation at E3 they backed off of DRM. This was known as the Sony "Drops the mic" moment at E3. That is the sole reason why Sony won E3. 

They literally dedicated a segment of their E3 to showing Microsoft how to treat consumers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ht-0Hne4EU

You might think I am kissing Sony's ass, but I am not. They could've just as easily been dicks  like Microsoft. They are responsible for why the Xbone has no DRM and I can buy it DRM free and I thank them. They might not always have had the gamers best interest at heart, but in this instance they did. This was very, very good for business.

"This was known as the Sony "Drops the mic" moment at E3." Come on dude that's a little dramatic. I've been gaming since 1993, and i've been around long enough to remember the fall of Atari, Sega, 3DO, etc. I've seen way worse things happen to those companies because of poor business decisions. If you bought a console from one of those companies you were basically screwing yourself over. So this is the first time Microsoft screwed up in the videogame business, big deal, it happens to every company. Sony went through hard times with the PS3, and Nintendo with the Gamecube. Microsoft will recover from this too and people will forgive them.

The only anti-consumer thing Sony did this gen was take the ability to use another OS on the PS3 off and they paid for it dearly. Microsoft tried to drop DRM on us full-time and impose and authentication pay-wall for every used game loaded onto the Xbone that you didnt buy new. This pay wall would essentially manipulate people into buying new rather than purchasing used at used game outlets including Gamestop unless they paid the fee. Much like EA's online pass where there would be a fee to play online if you bought a game used. This azure network situation would affect your ability to play a game at all. You could not borrow a game from a friend without paying up to the paywall or anything. It was anti-consumer hell until Sony stated they wouldnt do such a thing. Microsoft realized they fucked up terribly and took off almost every anti-consumer part off of the Xbone and it took them literally a month or two before they were finished.