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Tamron on 29 June 2014
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Television

PlayStation 4 just doesn’t even have this kind of stuff as an option because it doesn’t have an HDMI in. It does have some limited ability to control certain television through a special kind of HDMI connection, but that’s not even close to the same thing.

Except it sort of does, i can use device link over hdmi to have it shut down the tv/av when the console shuts down.

Kinect, voice commands, and app switching

Talking to the Xbox is also the fastest way to get from one app to another. “Xbox, go to Twitch” will immediately launch the video program no matter where I am in the system. Even better, “Xbox, start broadcasting” will engage my livestream.

PS4 has the Share button, which includes some of these features, and it doesn’t have a slow interface for switching between games and apps, but it feels a bit sluggish compared to the instant response of Xbox One’s Kinect.

Is that a testiment to the feature or a testiment to the poor UI design?

You can take screenshots and start/stop broadcasting/recording via voice commands on PS4 too.

Twitch integration

The PlayStation 4 gives players the option to livestream their gameplay action to Twitch or to Ustream. Xbox One gamers don’t have that choice, but they instead get a Twitch app with slightly better integration. The Xbox One can “snap” apps while you’re gaming. This means that players can snap the Twitch chat to the side of the screen while still playing on the other. Xbox One players can see the chat while still streaming in full screen.

The streaming update to the PS4 added the same features, just saying, also if you snap an appto the side of the screen then youre not really gaming in fullscreen, are you.

Controller battery life

Sony’s DualShock 4 is an excellent controller. It feels great, it has a touchpad, and it has a built-in audio jack — it also runs out of battery pretty quickly. The Xbox One doesn’t have some of those features, but it also has much better battery life. It also uses AA batteries again, which means you can just always have some rechargeable Duracells ready to go when you do run out of juice.

With the DS4, once it’s dead, you have to get out the long USB cord or just give up for the night and let it charge.

I prefer connecting a cord to the controller over pulling off a battery cover and searching for AA's, if you only have one set of rechargables then the whole points moot anyway, xbox one controller batteries do last longer of course, but really, how is connecting a cable to the controller any more or less of a pain than replacing AA's? it's as if these people werent born in the days of wired controllers.

Frequent updates

Finally, Microsoft’s Xbox One update schedule has seen the console get a number of major upgrades every month. The company even has a program where gamers can volunteer to test out monthly updates before they go out to everyone. Through this process, Microsoft added support for external storage, real names, and Twitch streaming.

Sony is updating the PS4 a ton as well, but it’s patches are less frequent. This makes it feel like if Xbox One is lacking anything — like preloading digital preorders — Microsoft will get to it sooner rather than later thanks to its update schedule.

Why is it some people argue that frequent updates are a bad thing while some argue its a good thing? seems like its good or bad depending on the argument, to me ive had to update both the xbox one and ps4 more or less the same amount of times.

 

Can someone write one of these that's actually unbiased and shows a in depth knowledge of both systems?