I have a friend at work that got an Xbox One on day one and he was bragging about the features.  I actually like the idea of a PIP function on a game (my TVs have the option but they can only do one HDMI connected device at a time).  Anyway, every feature he bragged about for his Xbox One, I said "Xbox can already do that", "Xbox 360 already has that game", or "My TV can already do that."

I totally ruined his happiness.  I'm a real asshole sometimes.  :(

If/when I get an Xbone, I can see myself watching WWE while I play Call of Duty or playing WWE while I watch CSI or something.  I'll use it!

Not in Brazil, here I paid a thousand dollars less than the ps4 cost. =D
oficial Brazil Xbox One: US$ 1000.
oficial Brazil PS4: US$ 2000.

*jaw drops*

If I lived in Brazil, I'd probably read a lot more books.

I agree. People are writing off Kinect and the voice control of your DVR, blu ray player, and television tuner along with all the games you can play with it in the future as though it's worth nothing. The HDMI pass through is awesome. The Snap feature for games/netflix or hulu or TV or whatever else is awesome. You do get a lot of great apps that are fun like TED talks. PS4 is a great value, but people act like the Xbox One is stupid, and that's just biased.

Both the systems are great. People who love games should own both. But people who just own one or the other, as long as they made a choice that best suits their needs, are not stupid. Eithe r way!

I'm not planning on buying either console for probably at least another 7 months or so, so that's how long Sony and MS have to convince me to buy their console.

Right now with PS4 being $100 cheaper, and 'arguably' having the better lineup at this point...my choice would be Sony. I like the extra value you mentioned of the one month free live, and better headset (small issue though, I'll probably buy a 3rd party headset like a turtle beach anyways), but I just can't get past Kinect being bundled in. Obviously that's the main reason for the XB1 bein $100 more...as you put, the original Kinect was $150 back in the day. I don't want Kinect for games, and I'm just as fine manually hitting the power button as I am saying "Xbox On".

If they were equally priced I'd maybe buy the XB1, then try to sell the Kinect for $75 on Kijiji or something.

No when I tell you how much a book costs here =/ It is the damn taxes the corrupt government aplies to everything. And the brazilian people is too stupid to complain, and we are also a bunch of cowards.

Saying that you're paying extra because the console is bigger makes absolutely no sense. Yes, a couple of materials are used more in a bigger console, but that's cheap stuff like copper wire and plastic (as opposed to the expensive hard drives and chips. A bigger console is cheaper because it was easier to design and manufacture.

I don't think that the hardware itself warranted the price difference, at least not completely, but that's not to say Microsoft is just taking the money and pocketing it. They also are doing a major server upgrade, so the X1 hardware itself isn't the only thing on Microsoft's budget.

$500 for the X1 is, all things considered, a fair price, but so is the PS4's $400. If you're after a console, you'll probably lean toward the PS4 purely because it's cheaper. If you're leaning toward multimedia, you should probably get a Wii U, which does TV integration, web browsing, and youtube all better than the X1 at $200 less (Skype is the major loss.)

Oh, really? TV integration is better on Wii U? YouTube is BETTER on the Wii U? That's fascinating.

I own both, and I can tell you right now that you are either uninformed or saying falsehoods deliberately.

I own neither, but the Video Games Awesome with the Xbox One left me convinced voice commands were iffy, and I've heard numerous times that the Wii U can web browse while running youtube, complements to the gamepad. The X1's snap approach just looks cluttery, even when it works well.

I was just kidding about the "bigger" thing. It was a joke!