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Garland on 09 August 2014
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dangerguy said:
jnemesh said:
dangerguy said:
 

I don't really have an opinion, but your answer helps my point. Look where both systems ended up in overall worldwide sales 7-8 years down the road. Both essentially neck and neck at 83 million systems each. Both hugely successful systems with different things to offer. And this despite a really rocky first 1-2 years for the PS3 and multiplats looking inferior for at least the first few years compared to 360 (http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-360-vs-ps3-graphics-comparison-round-5/1100-6242816/).

What's happening today with regards to PS4 vs Xbox One is completely irrelevant to the end result 5-7 years from now. From PS3's launch in 2006 and through 2007 and really for years beyond that they got their ass kicked by 360, but look where they are now. It didn't matter. Nothing is going to be decided in the first couple years.

You are forgetting one crucial difference.  Last gen, the PS3 was also a Blu-Ray movie player, which the Xbox 360 lacked.  MANY of the sales of the PS3 were due to that one feature...also, the PS3 has a FAR larger library of exclusive titles.

This gen, the console that needs to come up from behind has inferior hardware AND an inferior selection of games.  How is that going to happen, exactly?

Any perceived inferiority that may exist today or existed early this year will be gone by this fall. Destiny is 1080p on both systems, they also just announced that Diablo will release for both systems at 1080p/60fps.  That's all gone, my friend. And for the few hundred fanatics like us that scour message forums and debate this stuff, there are thousands that don't and are completely oblivious to it. Every single other friend I have that I play with often, only 1 out of about 10 of us are even on message forums and gaming websites. And I'm that one. These guys are mostly casual gamers that have no idea that there's this massive framerate/resolution battle online and they all own Xbox Ones and love them and love the games they're playing.

You do realize that developers have to do stuff like reduce graphical settings, sacrifice image quality, etc. just to get the games running in Native 1080p w/60 FPS on Xbox One, right? Turn 10 had to do that with Forza 5. The hardware on Xbox One simply isn't strong enough to run all games in Native 1080p w/60 FPS without cutting corners/using compromises.

End result: Xbox One versions of multiplat games won't exactly look as terrific as the PS4 versions of multiplat titles when you put them side by side.

Another thing, once 3rd party publishers/developers get away from cross gen development with 360 & PS3, & as future 3rd party games gets more & more demanding, guess what? Xbox One will fall further & further behind. And those two games that you mentioned? They're cross-gen titles (Diablo III came from last gen), & they aren't exactly very demanding games to begin with, especially not graphically demanding.