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Cheebee on 26 March 2014

Wii U is cheaper too and has much more games. It's not really all about the price I think.



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alabtrosMyster on 26 March 2014

Then you have to add 60$ back to get the Gold service to play the game that's bundled in the box... and an infinite amount of remorse when you notice your games run in low resolution and frame rate compared to PS4 games... adn well, you are also not having as many games released on the shininy new system.

And well, if you want cheap + tons of games, get an old PS2 or game cube, maybe even an original xbox, they're pretty cheap now and most games are like 5$ a piece on them! that will save you a lot of money and people will believe you are honest when you say resolution does not matter.



LivingMetal on 26 March 2014
VitroBahllee said:
LivingMetal said:
JakNBlak1993 said:
Not really. Everyone wants to go where their friends are. And that place, is with the Playstation Nation.


Could be a valid point for some.  Anecdotally, I know a handful of people in real life who have said that they ultimately went with an Xbox 360 because they had a fair amount of friends who were online with their Xbox 360s.  It seems to more of this case this gen with the PS4 ouselling the Xbox One.


With that logic, consider that the gap between PS4 and X1 is primiarly to be found in Europe, and they are much closer in the US. So neither side has a runaway advantage in the US in terms of 'peer platform' choice.


Again, "a valid point for some."  Console gaming has evolved more and more to the point to where it's becoming less likely that console makers cannot relying on that one "big" feature to attract consumers.  You have to nickle and dime your userbase/marketshare by having more to offer.  Different combinations of features of the same product will appeal differently to different people.  I think in terms of the variety of titles, this helped pushed the PS3 sales past the Xbox 360 later in its life.  Sales of the PS4 has been higher than that of the Xbox One.  I don't think that being online with the PS4 was a major factor that helped it outsell the Xbox One, but it's one of the factors that helped it worldwide.



d21lewis on 26 March 2014
alabtrosMyster said:

Then you have to add 60$ back to get the Gold service to play the game that's bundled in the box... and an infinite amount of remorse when you notice your games run in low resolution and frame rate compared to PS4 games... adn well, you are also not having as many games released on the shininy new system.

And well, if you want cheap + tons of games, get an old PS2 or game cube, maybe even an original xbox, they're pretty cheap now and most games are like 5$ a piece on them! that will save you a lot of money and people will believe you are honest when you say resolution does not matter.


But what if resolution doesn't matter and you just want to play new games online with better controllers and stuff?  There's more to 7th gen/8th gen than resolution, right?



TheBlackNaruto on 26 March 2014
d21lewis said:
alabtrosMyster said:

Then you have to add 60$ back to get the Gold service to play the game that's bundled in the box... and an infinite amount of remorse when you notice your games run in low resolution and frame rate compared to PS4 games... adn well, you are also not having as many games released on the shininy new system.

And well, if you want cheap + tons of games, get an old PS2 or game cube, maybe even an original xbox, they're pretty cheap now and most games are like 5$ a piece on them! that will save you a lot of money and people will believe you are honest when you say resolution does not matter.


But what if resolution doesn't matter and you just want to play new games online with better controllers and stuff?  There's more to 7th gen/8th gen than resolution, right?

I agree with the "what if resolution doesn't matter to you" part.....but the play new games online with better controllers and stuff is personal opinion....which is also fine lol...



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zaanan on 26 March 2014
d21lewis said:

In business, you don't have to be number one to still win.  

Ah, but this is Microsoft. They don't feel successful if they can't annihilate the competition.



TheDarkLink on 26 March 2014
daredevil.shark said:

But PS4 is more powerful than Xbox One.

But the XBox One has better games than PlayStation 4 ;)



sub-zero-TM on 26 March 2014
vivster said:
Great. Now people can finally see that it's not the price holding the X1 back.


I agree 



daredevil.shark on 26 March 2014
TheDarkLink said:
daredevil.shark said:

But PS4 is more powerful than Xbox One.

But the XBox One has better games than PlayStation 4 ;)


But sony has more quality studios than microsoft.



LivingMetal on 26 March 2014
zaanan said:
d21lewis said:

In business, you don't have to be number one to still win.  

Ah, but this is Microsoft. They don't feel successful if they can't annihilate the competition.


Now, I didn't go there.  :)