Hi there,

As some of you may know, toward the end of last year I swapped my PS4 for an Xbox One. After making this announcement, some people in the thread showed interest in a direct comparison of the two machines. Well now I've owned both for the same period of time and felt that I could be fair in making a fairly objective comparison of the two.

I'll break it down into sections and then announce a clear winner at the end of each and an overall winner at the end. No draws.

Here goes.....

Current Exclusives

PS4

Of the exclusives available on the PS4 I have played the following:

- Infamous: Second Son/First Light

- TLOU: Remastered

- Knack

- Driveclub

Of these the only one worth my time was TLOU: Remastered and that's only worth a go if you haven't played it before on PS3. Brilliant game, very little replay value in the campaign.

Xbox One

Of the Xbox One exclusives I have played the following:

- Titanfall* 

- Dead Rising 3

- Forza 5

- Forza Horizon 2

- Halo: MCC 

- Killer Instinct

* = also on PC

Of these games I really enjoyed Titanfall, Forza Horizon 2, Killer Instinct and Halo: MCC (when it finally stopped deleting my save files and started connecting online.....grrrr). FH2 and MCC are really great games.

Winner: Xbox One

Main reason: FH2 and MCC

Upcoming Exclusives

Bias note: Clearly this is a very subjective topic in a very subjective thread. So take this one with a handful of salt and add it to the grain you ate before reading this in the first place.

PS4

Of the upcoming PS4 exclusives I am interested in the following:

- Street Fighter V*

- Bloodborne

- Uncharted 4

- WiLD

Xbox One

Of the upcoming Xbox One exclusives I am interested in the following:

- Scalebound

- Halo 5

- Gears of War

- Quantum Break

Winner: Xbox One

Main Reason: Gears + Halo. Honestly if SFV wasn't coming to PC I might consider swapping back and would probably hand this article to the PS4. Thankfully that's not the case and so the overall winner is....

Overall Winner: Xbox One

Reasons: The games. PS4 is the better machine, of that there is no doubt. It's smaller, sexier, slightly more powerful and isn't bundled with useless accessories. However I buy these machines to do one thing: play games, and the Xbox One has more than a slight edge over the PS4 in that respect. If you prefer the PS4 library: go for it. There is absolutely nothing that the Xbox One can offer you that could make it more appealing than the PS4 if not for the games.

So there you have it, my take on which console is better after around 5 months of owning each machine. Thoughts?

While PS4 users play games the others are waiting the next Halo or [I don't know what will release on Wii U] to play something.