game_on said:
It is not unreasonable to want to talk about gaming and of course you can favour one system over the other, but your X1 topic was a bit overdone imo. To me at this time both systems have not enough value to justify a purchase, just like you just said. But I think the differences between them are not that big that one of them is totally awesome and the other crap.
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I don't actually consider them all that different. The PS4 and Xbone are actually almost identical in my mind, which makes the Xbone even less relevant because almost every good thing that you could say about it could be countered with, "but you can do that on PS4 only slightly better". That's the reason I'm far happier with the Wii U, it feels distinct and different. Hell, if the Xbone had focused entirely on FPSs and Sports games I'd be completely uninterested but at least it'd have an identity of it's own, rather than what it currently has which is PS4-Lite.
Compared to PC there's always the arguments for convienience for "out of the box" playability that means PC is never going to be the defacto correct choice. Add in the over-reliance on digital distribution, open nature of PC, and requirement to be a least semi-literate in computer science to game on PC and consoles still make sense; it's why I don't know a single person who games entirely on PC but I do know a few people who game solely on consoles. Having two near identical consoles though, that doesn't make sense for me.
My rule for consoles is as follows; I won't consider a console until it has a minimum of 5 games I'm genuinely excited for that are currently available and cannot be played on a system I already own. Graphics alone is not a good enough reason to upgrade, only gameplay changes count.
By that rule, Watch_Dogs doesn't count because it's not out yet, and when it comes out it wouldn't be a justification for a PS4 because I can play it on PS3 and Wii U.
My games for Wii U where - Super Mario 3D World, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Darksiders 2, Rayman Legends, Warriors Orochi 3: Hyper, The Last Story (Wii), Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii), Pandora's Tower (Wii), Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii) - The Wii games counted because I didn't, and still don't own a Wii.
My games for Vita where - Soul Sacrifice, Tearaway, Persona 4 Golden, Gravity Rush, Ragnarok Odyssey - Although my favourite and most played Vita games are games not listed (and I don't even own all 5 of these yet), all the others where also on PS3 or 3DS so I wasn't allowed to count them. My rule stops me needlessly spending too much money.
Now PS4 hasn't quite managed five titles yet... in fact, it hasn't even managed one. InFamous Second Son will be the first when it comes out. Final Fantasy XV (if it doesn't suck like XIII did), The Order: 1886, Tom Clancy's The Division, Cyberpunk 2077 and Batman: Arkhan Knight will also all likely make the list eventually but none of them are out yet and everything else I'm looking forward to is coming out on PS3. Metal Gear Solid 5, The Evil Within, Mad Max, Sleeping Dogs 2 etc. The problem Xbox One has is everything on that console I could conceivably care about is either better on PS4 or coming out of PS3, so why would I even consider it. It has only two games even worth mentioning, Titanfall, (which I'd get on PC if I actually wanted it) and the new Halo which is over a year away, and both a First Person Shooters, a genre I am completely uninterested by.
I'm not saying people have to agree with me, if someone said they prefer the Xbox One because they want to play Halo and Titanfall, don't care about the slight difference in graphics, and prefer the online community and achievement systems on Xbox Live... great, they've found a reason to preference the Xbox One over the PS4, but I just can't see it myself. I've not been so disinterested in a console since the Atari Jaguar; and that's special.
