Nintendo Fans! Who would you rather win this gen XB1 or PS4?

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UncleSes said:

DerpSandwich said:
PS4.

Right out of the gate Microsoft advertised their platform as a media device for everyone and exhibited a disturbing desire to shape how we all interact with our games whether we like it or not. Right out of the gate Sony advertised their platform as a game system that plays games for gamers, and exhibited their desire to have the best damn development platform possible.

Regardless of what games they have lined up and what they've been trying to do to put a band-aid on the situation, I feel that Microsoft only wants to damage the industry at our expense, as per Western corporate philosophy. Sony isn't perfect either, but for the most part they just want to make games and sell them to us. For our sakes I hope PS4 wins.

Thats kind of what Sony did with the PS2, have we already forgotten? The Gamecube was panned for only being a gaming device while the PS2 sold on the fact that it was advertised as a multi media device, even if games were still first. Seriously, back then everyone was convinced that gaming devoted devices were a thing of the past, you could argue they are, but the way Xbox One was treated, I wouldn't say so. Had Microsoft launched something like the XO back then it would have sold gangbusters, same goes if Nintendo had launched something like the GC now, but hey times change and I love contrasting the difference in consumer mentality (yes, this was quite off topic).

You've got a point, but I think it's pretty different this time around.  Really all the PS2 did was play DVD's.  At the end of the day even if they were driving sales because of that, it was still mostly playing games, and their corporate philosophy was (and still seems to be) just "make and sell games".  Microsoft demanded that we use a Kinect with our system even if we didn't want to, tried to literally force us into having an internet connection, and wanted to basically abolish the ability to play used games.  On top of that add the fact that they forced an OS on us that's built for touch screens despite the fact that we're not using it with a touch screen, simply because that's where the industry is going, and because they wanted to literally hinder our navigation so they could stick ads in our faces at every opportunity.  They apparently have the intense desire literally to govern how we play games; they've tried to actually get in between us and our games in various ways.

And that's what's disturbing to me.  I feel like it doesn't compare to anything the industry's ever seen.  I would never get on a person's case for buying an Xbone, but I'd be lying if I said the idea of people still buying one after all of that scares the hell out of me.