My poor Xbox Fanboy brother... (Anecdotal )

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raf40928 said:

I have 3 friends that have both consoles and 2 of them say the xbox one is better. Some games the PS4 had load times while the same games on XB1 didn't. They said the XB1 is actually faster overall and I beleive them all because none of them are fanboys. Some of their thoughts conclude: GDDR is great for video cards but not necessarily faster for using it as system memory. The PS3 had a better CPU, but it had a weaker GPU and that didn't stop games from being good.  What good is maximum bandwidth when each core can only communicate at much lower bandwidth?  Its great for marketing. 

What I can't understand why Sony went with 2.4ghz wifi (only ) radio .. except to make it CHEAP.. while XB1 offers 5Ghz ( and 2.4Ghz ).. Newer routers offer 5Ghz channels and on my Asus Im able to get far superior connections speeds.

Depends on if you are talking initial load times or general gameplay load times.

If its Play and Go load times, Sony I am afraid smashes the Xbox Load times. I cannot find any figures for once the game has installed though, so that may be indeed different.

Assassin's Creed IV:

Xbox One (offline, no update): 5 minutes 50 seconds

Xbox One (with update, fastest connection): 7 minutes 2 seconds

Xbox One (with update, 10Mbps connection): 10 minutes 32 seconds

PS4: 42 seconds

The rest of these were tested on our office Wi-Fi which is around 9-11Mbps. It may have been faster on a wired connection, but you can compare your own connection speed here. These are our results:

Need For Speed Rivals:

XBO: 09:25 (including update)

PS4: 00:32

Just Dance 2014:

XBO: 08:48 (including update)

PS4: 00:45

NBA Live 14:

XBO: 16:26 (including update)

PS4: 00:35

FIFA 14:

XBO: 16:06 (including update)

PS4: 00:34

Madden 25:

XBO: 9:38 (including update)

PS4: 00:38