Paying more for very little, if they want to be a big bad entertaiment system then it best do everything evtertaiment.  Cause as far as gaming PS4 will flat out destroy it.  What does bone do that makes the extra worth it ?? voice commands and what.  

500 console, 50 Live 25 rechargable battery 80 LE Forza 5 (only decent ex and it lacks content, not including day one $dlc)  add tax and im at $740.  

PS4 400 PSN + 50 + 60 Killzone - add tax and im at $576 ( im not counting the $$ worth of free PSN+ games)

So where is this incredable value you speak of  ? For a vast majority of people, bone will not be worth the price.

Yes but with PS4 there is no "free" multi player.  I always play multi player so PSN is not an option for me.  I do play PSN on the PS3 and while it works, one thing that annoys me is the constant update that takes so long.  Sometimes I only have a short period to play and booting up to have to do an update along with DCU update which takes hours doesn't give me much gaming time.  That and I find some of the social games on PSN doesn't seem to have anyone talking on the headset.  I like socially chatting while playing so it's a - on PSN.

90% of the games released will be multiconsole and the PS4 versions are going to have better graphics and/or framerate.

Not only does Sony has their first party exclusives, which it's debatable whether you like Microsoft or Sony exclusives better, but Sony is also going to get the majority of the Japanese exclusives, especially after what happened last gen, so more of a variety on PS4.

The more powerful system has historically been marred with pricier cost. For like the first time the more powerful system is cheaper. AND Sony's 1st Party Stable is just too good to ignore. Sure Halo is more popular than anything Sony has, but Sony has far better variety and the quality of them all is only rivaled by Nintendo.

I'm not sure if this is a reason, but the game install wait on the Xbox 1 are awful. I just started using my Xbox 1 a few hours ago and installing dead rising 3 took at least 35 minutes, installing games on the ps4 its no more than 3 minutes. BTW Hi! I'm New here.

Casuals will not notice a difference between Xbox One and PS4 graphics. The hardcore are the ones buying games right now and making a huge deal about it. If every exclusive on Xbox One looks as good as Ryse or better Xbox One will be more than fine. That games looks phenomenal. The funny thing is I asked my wife if she thought Ryse looked better than the 360 and she said not really. It is going to be hard to convince casuals that PS4 looks better than Xbox One when they can't even see a difference between last gen and this new one.

-720p will not be the norm for Xbox One this gen. 900p for 60fps games and 900p-1080p for 30fps games depending on developer needs and wants.

-$100 makes a difference but I still believe MS will eat the $100 and price match PS4 soon. We will see.

-Size and powerbrick make no difference whatsoever. If they did then everyone would buy a WiiU since it is tiny.

-Once again casuals will not notice the difference between the multiplats.

-Batteries for controller does not sway buyers. Play n charge works as well or better in my opinion than integrated batteries.

-Live has dedicated servers for every game so I don't see how Plus is better. Games with Gold starts in 2014. Unless Sony commits to dedicated servers then Plus won't even compare to Live.

I work with gamers day in, day out in Ireland and all's I can say is amount of Xbox gamers moving onto the Ps4 is huge. I think the Xbox 1 will sell well in the north America, but its going to lose a big chunk of its uk and Ireland market share.

The PS3 is not the PS4. The fact that we're paying might bring more money into the fold for increasing the overall value of multiplayer. PSN will always be free. You can cross-chat, video chat, watching netflix and enjoying everything else with your friends is at no extra charge. For those who don't like multiplayer, PSN is still 100% free for them. Again, the PS4 will show major differences in online from the PS3. It's already been reported that PSN is way faster than Live. Lets hope this translates to loading screens as well because during the 7th gen 360 games loaded faster since there was less content on each disc and the PS3's RAM was taken up so everything ran slower. This gen it seems a lot of the third party gamers have switched back to Sony so that little theory about no one chatting might come to pass. I've chatted with many people on PSN though during the PS3 era, mainly because of my effort to initiate conversations and I joined a couple teams in COD and Last of Us.

Every multi platform game thus far has both run better and at a higher resolution on the ps4, remember people are playing these games in their native resolutions on large screens not downscaled lossy videos on YouTube in a little window.

Even on a dinky little 32" TV the difference between u20 and 1080 is noticeable at average sitting differences.

For the whole of last gen subtle differences in resolution and graphical ability were a major talking point for Xbox fans who often paraded the fact most Xbox 360 multi plats looked better, even if you had to literally flip between screenshots of the two in a gif to notice it.

Now there's an obvious and growing graphical difference those same Xbox fans have changed their tune, some are still around though, holding on to and championing ryse as the graphical king for example, as more games are released these people too will eventually switch tact to championing gameplay over graphics as if multi plat titles play differently, as it will be the only leg they have left to stand on.

To put it bluntly, the spec is one of many rounds of ammunition Sony fans are using to give Xbox fans a taste of their own medicine, and likely will for the entirety of this generation, so I would suggest you attempt to get used to it or practice ignoring it, or you're going to have a bad time.