| RubberWhistleHistle said: hey guys, IM BACK again. I cant seem to participate in this site for more than two days at a time, but im going to try again. Anyways, I think we can all pretty much agree that the hot topic in gaming these days is WHICH CONSOLE IS BETTER?!?! PS4 or X1? My question is.. why? I am 26 years old and have been a gamer my entire life, I own about 1500 physical copies of video games, I have at least heard of almost every game released for every major console, and even with all this background, I genuinely have no idea what this war is all about. These two consoles are the same damn machine, what is there to dislike about one that you cant say about the other? Let me give a short example, here. If you were to approach your every day pop culture gamer, and tell them, "eh, the PS4 really doesn't do a whole lot for me. Can't really get into it :/" We all know the response you would get. This gamer would, of course, ask you the question, "oh, so you're more into the xbox one camp?" You see, this response is what you would get 99% of the time (trust me, I have experience with this), but why would ANYONE assume that if you don't like the PS4 you must like the X1 besides the fact that there is this ridiculous fucking "war" that is happening between them. If yout ake away any notion of a war that is happening, you will see that if you don't like the PS4, you're not going to like the X1 either. They do the same things and get all the same games. The only thing that differentiates the two are exclusives, in which case, you would say something like, "PS4's exclusives don't really do it for me." Do you see the difference? You would attribute your distaste to the exclusives and not the console itself because to say you don't like it as a console would be to say you don't like the X1 as a console as well because they're, well, the same. So this is my contention: if you are a die hard XBOX ONE fan, then I am telling you right now that you like the PS4 as well. And vice versa. Don't give me this bullshit about how you love the X1 so much and you're a huge fan and then sit there and tell me that you hate the PS4. If you are one of these people, I would love to hear your explanation for what is so different about these two consoles that you are able to absolutely love one of them and hate the other. EDIT: just so there is not any confusion, I want to make clear (yes, it is the unpopular opinion) that I am all for console wars; i think they are fun. But only when the consoles that are warring are actually different. I don't see any fun in two consoles that are identical warring. I dont see the point and it's completely ridiculous. |
Interesting...I'd have to agree and disagree at the same time.
I agree that the two consoles are so much alike that its kinda strange to have a war considering that both share most of the games via multiplats.
However, it all boils down to exclusives, which isn't just a handfull, not by a long shot
xbone has
halo
forza
that tomb raider thing deal
ummm ahahaaha... i knwo that there are a lot more, including indies and stuff but ahahaha, again, i dont follow xbone games since i dont have one nor do i plan on getting one anytime soon
ps4 has
killzone
infamous
knack
drive clup
and.... ahahaha...again, dont know a lot coz i also dont plan on getting one anytime soon either
but thats besides the point, with all the retail and indie games that are exclusive to each console, those are more than jsut a hand full wich should be enough to sway any one to buy one over the other.
both maybe similar tech wise, but there are more than enough exclusive games to make them different, hence the console wars
But if you really want to look at a true war..think SNES VS GENESIS...now that was a true war. aside from the hand full of multiplats, most games were exlusive to one or the other. only games i could think of that were multiplats were ummm... mortal kombat and... well street fighter 2...kinda.. the snes had the world warriorsa and the championship ed while the genesis had that hyper thing so... yeah. ...ahh... now that was what you call a true war!
