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ArnoldRimmer on 23 November 2013

Heise, publishers of germany's most highly regarded technology magazine, c't, have published their preliminary Xbox One vs. PS4 comparison.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Angetestet-Xbox-One-gegen-PS4-2052893.html

Short summary for people who don't speak german:

Console itself

PS4 is small and elegant. In comparison, Xbox One looks clumsy, but build quality seems good as well.

Controller

All in all, they slightly prefer the PS4 controller

Camera

There currently seems to be a problem that PS4 gamers cannot turn the Playstation Eye microphone off in online mode, so other online players could hear everything that was spoken in the room.

Kinect voice commands are very unrealiable. They only worked in about 50% of the time, after about 10 minutes they were too annoyed and used the controller instead, which they say works much better and faster anyway. They say they'd like to see a Xbox One being sold without Kinect.

Installation / Loading times

Quick on PS4. It took them just 15 minutes from unboxing to playing Killzone. There is a 300MB update, but one can simply skip it.

Xbox One requires much more waiting. From unboxing to playing Ryse took almost 45 minutes. There was a mandatory 500MB operating system update, and the instantly available updates for the specific games were even bigger:

Forza: 6000MB
Zoo Tycoon: 3000MB
Ryse: 1100MB

The situation is similar with booting times: About 30 seconds on PS4, about 70 seconds on Xbox One.

Menu

PS4: Nice and clean, rather similar to PS3 XMB. Everything's fast, smooth and well-arranged.

Xbox One: UI is very Windows 8-inspired, but too crowded. Switching between apps is a bit slow. Voice commands didn't work well etc. All in all, UI looks unnecessarily bloated and not intuitive.

Multimedia

It's already been announced that this will change, but right now, PS4 multimedia capabilities are next to zero.

Xbox One is currently clearly ahead here.

Social networks

PS4 already has facebook integration and a streaming service (which seems to be pretty good). Xbox One so far has neither.

Noise

PS4 was more quiet; 0.5 sone in idle, 1.1 sone while playing Killzone. Xbox One had 0.8 sone in idle and 1.5 sone while playing Ryse. Even in standby mode, the Xbox One produces 0.7 sone.

They say that while noise level is tolerable for playing games, but for listening to music of watching videos they'd rather use other, more quiet devices.

Power consumption

PS4 usually consumes a bit more power - up to about 147W while gaming (Xbox One: 123W). Xbox One had an extremely high standby power consumption of almost 20W, but PS4 wasn't really much better at about 14W. They clearly suggest deactivating standby mode on both devices for that reason.

Graphics

Despite PS4 having 50% more graphics power, they considered Ryse to actually have better graphics than Killzone, even though the game ran at lower resolution and framerate (but they also mentioned Ryse gameplay was very boring though). They did not have time to compare other, multiplatform titles so far, but said that they expect only marginal differences anyway.

Conclusion

Right now, they'd rather recommend/buy a PS4, not only because it's 100 Euros cheaper, but because it better concentrates on the main thing: games.



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Somini on 23 November 2013
ArnoldRimmer said:

Heise, publishers of germany's most highly regarded technology magazine, c't, have published their preliminary Xbox One vs. PS4 comparison.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Angetestet-Xbox-One-gegen-PS4-2052893.html

Short summary for people who don't speak german:

Console itself

PS4 is small and elegant. In comparison, Xbox One looks clumsy, but build quality seems good as well.

Controller

All in all, they slightly prefer the PS4 controller

Camera

There currently seems to be a problem that PS4 gamers cannot turn the Playstation Eye microphone off in online mode, so other online players could hear everything that was spoken in the room.

Kinect voice commands are very unrealiable. They only worked in about 50% of the time, after about 10 minutes they were too annoyed and used the controller instead, which they say works much better and faster anyway. They say they'd like to see a Xbox One being sold without Kinect.

Installation / Loading times

Quick on PS4. It took them just 15 minutes from unboxing to playing Killzone. There is a 300MB update, but one can simply skip it.

Xbox One requires much more waiting. From unboxing to playing Ryse took almost 45 minutes. There was a mandatory 500MB operating system update, and the instantly available updates for the specific games were even bigger:

Forza: 6000MB
Zoo Tycoon: 3000MB
Ryse: 1100MB

The situation is similar with booting times: About 30 seconds on PS4, about 70 seconds on Xbox One.

Menu

PS4: Nice and clean, rather similar to PS3 XMB. Everything's fast, smooth and well-arranged.

Xbox One: UI is very Windows 8-inspired, but too crowded. Switching between apps is a bit slow. Voice commands didn't work well etc. All in all, UI looks unnecessarily bloated and not intuitive.

Multimedia

It's already been announced that this will change, but right now, PS4 multimedia capabilities are next to zero.

Xbox One is currently clearly ahead here.

Social networks

PS4 already has facebook integration and a streaming service (which seems to be pretty good). Xbox One so far has neither.

Noise

PS4 was more quiet; 0.5 sone in idle, 1.1 sone while playing Killzone. Xbox One had 0.8 sone in idle and 1.5 sone while playing Ryse. Even in standby mode, the Xbox One produces 0.7 sone.

They say that while noise level is tolerable for playing games, but for listening to music of watching videos they'd rather use other, more quiet devices.

Power consumption

PS4 usually consumes a bit more power - up to about 147W while gaming (Xbox One: 123W). Xbox One had an extremely high standby power consumption of almost 20W, but PS4 wasn't really much better at about 14W. They clearly suggest deactivating standby mode on both devices for that reason.

Graphics

Despite PS4 having 50% more graphics power, they considered Ryse to actually have better graphics than Killzone, even though the game ran at lower resolution and framerate (but they also mentioned Ryse gameplay was very boring though). They did not have time to compare other, multiplatform titles so far, but said that they expect only marginal differences anyway.

Conclusion

Right now, they'd rather recommend/buy a PS4, not only because it's 100 Euros cheaper, but because it better concentrates on the main thing: games.

The same conclusion most gamers will make this upcoming generation. We're already seeing this!



deskpro2k3 on 23 November 2013

I'd say that is a pretty good comparison.



Muffin31190 on 23 November 2013

oh dis gon be gewd



HesAPooka on 23 November 2013

Sounds about right



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DonFerrari on 23 November 2013

For must of us the important part is the last paragraph... cheaper, more focused in games, buy a PS4.



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selnor1983 on 23 November 2013

Lol.
I wonder if these websites know many of us have set up our xbox ones and set kinect up properly and wait for it it works 95% of the time. Lol

Poor dudes. I like knowing me having an xbox one pisses off some sad internet goers. Anyhow. Have fun chatting, im off to play killer instinct with 6 mates. We all own killer instinct and xbox one. And we are addicted to this game. Best fighter for ages.



ArnoldRimmer on 24 November 2013
selnor1983 said:
Lol.
I wonder if these websites know many of us have set up our xbox ones and set kinect up properly and wait for it it works 95% of the time. Lol

I think you don't realize that unlike most previous reviews/comparisons, they were NOT testing the american/english version of the consoles, but the german localized version, because that's the one that their readers will buy in stores.

And while - from what I've heard/read so far - voice control doesn't even work very well in english, Kinect's english language support is easily better than its german language support, so your personal experience is not necessarily representative for everyone in this world (assuming one even considers your - usually over the top enthusiastic - experiences of Microsoft products credible)

selnor1983 said:
Poor dudes. I like knowing me having an xbox one pisses off some sad internet goers. Anyhow. Have fun chatting, im off to play killer instinct with 6 mates. We all own killer instinct and xbox one. And we are addicted to this game. Best fighter for ages.



game_on on 24 November 2013

Even if the PS4 is technically a better gaming device, I'd still prefer the Xbox One. Reasons: better exclusives imo (until now that is), better controller and I expect the 300.000 dedicated servers to make a difference in the online experience. If I would only play offline, then I'd consider a PS4.



FatedReality on 24 November 2013

That last paragraph just about sums up the reason why I want the PS4 over the One, that and I perfer playing Sony exclusives. Cant be with out my Infamous and Uncharted. (:



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