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Arkaign on 12 April 2014
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TarHeeLsALLday said:
Arkaign said:
The biggest boon this year is when the floodgates open on the cross-platform titles. The vast majority of them will look better on the PS4, and we live in a social-media instant-access world. Month after month we'll have people constantly confronted with the fact that the PS4 just plays those games better.

I'd even go so far as to say that the cross-platform games will help PS4 more than their exclusives like MLB The Show, because people that read reviews and see the screenshots will be able to really see what they're investing in.

Remember, most people have NOT bought a next-gen console yet, but when you see that one system dominantly offers better multi-platform performance, I can see the gap widening even more than it is right now.


The PS2 and Wii prove the majority of consumers don't give a crap about graphics when buying a console. Besides the minor gap between PS4 and XBO is nothing compared to the ridiculous advantage the OG Xbox had over PS2. The naked eye can't even tell a difference between PS4 and XBO multiplats and you have to break down every little pixel and post selected screenshots to tell a difference and that is assuming every person has a 1080p TV which not everyone does.


Lol. It's more than a minor gap, and the other comparisons don't hold water.

Wii sold on casuals and the trendy 'Cabbage Patch Doll' kind of temporary craze for the most part. Never before or since have you seen so many consoles that nobody ever bought a single game for. If anything, mentioning Wii shows how it failed to get a decent attach rate because the graphics were too sub-par to do justice to ports of popular series of that timeframe.

OG Xbox didn't do all that well because of timing and library. It took too long to get the titles flowing, but the fact that it had any success at all was largely due to the technical merits it offered.

And finally, you can tell an immediate difference with a good TV between the PS4 and XB1 on most multiplats. BF4 and COD (both massively popular series) you can tell at a glance at a gamer's typical 50-60" 1080p set. Yes, the naked eye can easily tell 720 vs 1080, unless you have terrible vision and/or a terrible TV (those with those awful 1366x768 '720p' TVs for example). To deny this basically begs the question of why those people would even buy a next-gen console to begin with? After all, Titanfall 360 runs closer to the XB1 in terms of resolution than COD Ghosts does between PS4 and XB1 :P