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Seece on 13 December 2013
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Aielyn said:
Seece said:
Yeah, just because the games don't have cartoon graphics they're exactly the same. What a joke, this just shows you how much you fail at identifying diversity. 

You can't find anything like Dead Rising, Ryse, Zoo Tycoon or Killer Instinct on PS4, and you can't find anything like Knack or Resogun on Xbox One.

Great job constructing that strawman.

I particularly like the part where you list Zoo Tycoon as one of the games proving that they're not "identical twins" (you DO realise that most instances of identical twins have minor variations in appearance between the two, right?). And it wasn't a comment about diversity, but overall lineup comparison. I'm not claiming that the game lineups are identical, but that they're close enough to identical that it's only really worth getting both systems if there's some specific game you want - and their feature sets are pretty much the same, too. On the other hand, there's a reasonably long list of Wii U games that are exclusive, and you won't find anything like them on the other two, either in terms of overall gameplay, or feature sets.

I used the description of "identical twins" to emulate the way that people often referred to the X360 and PS3 as "the HD twins", because they mostly got the same games, with a moderate number of exclusives - the Xbox One and PS4 are more similar than the X360 and PS3 were, with more third-parties releasing all of their games as multiplatform releases, rather than sometimes making them exclusives.

It's worth noting that it wasn't a disparaging remark, either. There's nothing wrong with their lineups being similar. It just means that the value in owning the two of them at the same time is diminished by comparison with owning one of them and a Wii U. The value in owning either one alone isn't in any way diminished.

But hey, why bother with a nuanced opinion, when you can just jump straight to the stupid console warfare, and lob idiotic remarks like "cartoony graphics" for no good reason?

EDIT: Oh, and I thought I'd throw in a Miiverse image I drew, to finish this post off.

Nope, still an incredibly weak argument. You can't claim they're twins just because they get third party games (and I bet bottom dollar if WiiU got all those third party games you wouldn't be calling them them the HD triplets.)

I suggest you go play an Xbox One and PS4 and you'll see they do things very differently, Xbox One is very focused on Kinect, whereas PS4 is focusing on Vita as an input device.