Sony Tries to Downplay Microsoft’s Project Scorpio Hardware Power

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Azuren said:

Pemalite said:

It's funny because a large portion of the Wii U's game library is exclusive, yet that has proven not to drive console sales to any great degree.
Are exclusives really important? Sure they are. But I think 3rd party is more important... And if Microsoft can entice PC devs over to the Xbox, then they will be onto a winner.

Right, but what happens when a console has NO exclusives? Well, I can either get a PC and a PS4 to get roughly 90% of the games released within 8th Gen, or I can get a PC and an XB1 and have a fairly redundant library. It's an even more extreme scenerio of PS3 vs XB360; most of their libraries were shared to the point that unless you just HAD to have Halo and God of War it was almost a bad decision to buy both.

The only way I can see the crossbuy thing working out in the end is if you have an XB1 and a Gaming Laptop, allowing you to take your games on the go. And even then: why not just get a laptop $300 more powerful instead?

Valid point.

With that said.. The Original Xbox didn't really have any exclusives, they were all on PC (Halo, Fable etc') and they still managed to beat Nintendo's Gamecube which had a ton more exclusives (StarFox, Mario, Zelda, Metroid etc'.)

I do own an Xbox One and Multiple PC's though, the value I find is that they are platforms that don't really compete with each other in the traditional sense... But they are platforms that augment each other.
Being able to buy a game on my Xbox One and play it in the loungeroom on a 65" screen... And then jump into bed and play that same game on my Laptop... Or having someone play on my Xbox One and I am on my high-end Desktop and playing that exact same game together... That's a big sell for me.

Most people are more interested in what their friends own, what games they are playing and rather play with them, that was one of the draw cards for the Xbox 360 and Call of Duty over the Playstation 3 for tons of people.

Goatseye said:

Azuren said:

Right, but what happens when a console has NO exclusives? Well, I can either get a PC and a PS4 to get roughly 90% of the games released within 8th Gen, or I can get a PC and an XB1 and have a fairly redundant library. It's an even more extreme scenerio of PS3 vs XB360; most of their libraries were shared to the point that unless you just HAD to have Halo and God of War it was almost a bad decision to buy both.

The only way I can see the crossbuy thing working out in the end is if you have an XB1 and a Gaming Laptop, allowing you to take your games on the go. And even then: why not just get a laptop $300 more powerful instead?

A $300 laptop to play Gears? Gears Gauntlet?

Most laptops have antiquated 720P twisted Nematic screens, Gears and Gauntlet are relatively light games that a moderately equipped Notebook can handle.