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XboneWins said:
My 2 cents:

Xbone fits better in my AV stand, PS4 looks just weird. Xbone has the better controller, better UI and it will have the better games.

After owning every Sony home console, I will not be getting PS4.


If you dont have a PS4 how you know it looks weird in your AV stand?



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Cthulhu said:
XboneWins said:
My 2 cents:

Xbone fits better in my AV stand, PS4 looks just weird. Xbone has the better controller, better UI and it will have the better games.

After owning every Sony home console, I will not be getting PS4.


If you dont have a PS4 how you know it looks weird in your AV stand?

Uh. Have you seen the picture? That thing is hideous. Well at least it is improvement over the foreman grill they made last gen. :D

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XboneWins said:
Cthulhu said:
XboneWins said:
My 2 cents:

Xbone fits better in my AV stand, PS4 looks just weird. Xbone has the better controller, better UI and it will have the better games.

After owning every Sony home console, I will not be getting PS4.


If you dont have a PS4 how you know it looks weird in your AV stand?

Uh. Have you seen the picture? That thing is hideous. Well at least it is improvement over the foreman grill they made last gen. :D





tuscaniman99 said:
Kinect voice controls work 95% of the time. Anyone saying otherwise isn't using it properly. Simple as that.


In ENGLISH

If everyone spoke english, and with the same accent, mainland europe wouldn't make fun of SIRI.



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

WTF? That is insane. I thought the WiiU was ludicrous. Hopefully they can get that down with patches like Nintendo did.



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I stopped reading when it said kinect only works 50% of the time. It works amazingly well, I've been using it all weekend long and have only had to repeat like 3 commands. You don't even need to speak loud or slowly either, it picks up everything. And before anyone says "well maybe it works in english".....I live in Germany, I'm using the german commands (reluctantly so, I might add). No idea how on earth they tested it to get such a bad percentage. Kinect is amazing, and navigating with it is super fast and super easy



ArnoldRimmer said:

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.


I don't understand how everyone says it "concentrates on the main thing - games". The two launch lineups are considered pretty equal right? and the first must own game of the generation is expected to be Titanfall, right? Somehow PS4's lack of multimedia capabilities are viewed as an advantage? As if it's a zero sum game, and more features means less gaming capability?



So, nothing new.



XboneWins said:
Cthulhu said:
XboneWins said:
My 2 cents:

Xbone fits better in my AV stand, PS4 looks just weird. Xbone has the better controller, better UI and it will have the better games.

After owning every Sony home console, I will not be getting PS4.


If you dont have a PS4 how you know it looks weird in your AV stand?

Uh. Have you seen the picture? That thing is hideous. Well at least it is improvement over the foreman grill they made last gen. :D

You say that when on top of already having an external power brick, literally half of the Xbone's exterior does in fact, resemble....

Yeah, something isn't adding up here.



Madword said:
freedquaker said:

Here is my comparison:

Hardware:
PS4 is slimmer, sleeker, sexier, thinner, lighter, with power brick integrated
XB1 is clunky, bulky, ugly, heavy, with an external power brick

Controller:
Both controllers are great, one may be better than the other with respect to personal preference
But ps4 takes the edge due to integrated rechargeable battery, integrated speaker & motion, and touchpad as well as the share button

Games
XB1 has a better launch line up, but the upcoming games and history definitely gives the edge to PS4. For now, it's a slight edge but given that it's almost certain that PS4 will be a much better hit than PS3, just wait this gap to increase a lot more in PS4's direction.

Graphics performance
PS4 is theoretically at least 40% faster though this can be as much as 2x. The performance gap in reality may change from zero in some third party games to as much as 2.25x; either way PS4 is well ahead.

General performance
So far, PS4 is far better; much faster installation times, faster Browser performance, faster UI, instant sharing, longer video recordings etc. There is not one area where PS4 doesn't exhibit higher performance.

Media Capabilities & Multi-tasking
Xbox is potentially better, but the execution is very problematic now. PS4 does everything promised and very fast at it, such as limited multi-tasking, smooth and fast game installs, responsive UI etc... XB1 promises a lot more, but the execution and reliability are poor. Multi-tasking is superior but having more than 2 or 3 apps open is barely a niche. Snap mode sounds promising but execution is horrible. Kinect might be appealing but all it is good for so far is the voice commands, which doesn't really need anything but speaker which PS4 has integrated in its controller! Plus most of this functionality can be enabled by PSeye camera and/or some software updates. In short PS4 does less, but does it much better than XB1.

This is correct if you are subscribed to online services. Otherwise, PS4 is outright better, while XB1 just cripples pretty much everything but single player gaming.

Internet capabilities
PSN is cheaper than XBL, has more bonus materials, and so far proved to be faster and more reliable. We'll see how it will turn out.

Pricing
PS4 is better, period.

In short, my long run prediction:
PS4 will give a better hardware with better gaming and general performance and a more diverse, more balanced and much larger gaming library at a lower cost than XB1. The execution will be better although it will be a less capable machine than XB1, where it matters much less. It will do slightly less, but it will do it all much better.

Pretty much this.

A guy at work is a bit of a Xbox Fan, and was defending it with "It's future tech" (whatever that means) but so many people in the office have said... overall for playing games PS4 is the better option (which is what it's core job is for, for us early adopters), he has kinda accepted it now. There are so many things in the PS4's favour, in terms of good design.

Smaller, power internal, quieter, controller rechargable, hard disk swappable, faster browser.

I don't doubt that the xboxOne is fine for playing games, and when it drops to a more reasonable cost I might get it for Dead Rising 3, but it's hardware is poorly designed compared to the PS4 and its nearly £100 more expensive. There is very little to argue against really.

 

This is really insane...How microsoft managed to fail like that ...and being $100 more expensive...Insane



Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:

 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m