Poll: Which Next Gen Console will you buy? - Final version (honest!)

What console(s) will you buy during the launch window?

  • I will buy both consoles during the launch window

    Votes: 67 6.5%

  • I will buy an Xbox One only during the launch window

    Votes: 185 18.0%

  • I will buy a PS4 only during the launch window

    Votes: 395 38.4%

  • I will buy neither console during the launch window

    Votes: 286 27.8%

  • I'm still undecided

    Votes: 95 9.2%
  • Total voters
    1,028
Davey_Pitch said:
Then surely them changing their design to make it more in line with what the general public wants is to be lauded, not attacked? Not you particularly, but I do feel MS are kinda in a "damned if they do, damned if they don't" place. They misjudged what the public wanted, presented their vision badly, got blasted for it, changed to what the majority wanted, then got blasted again. Just seems a bit unfair for people to continue to have a go at them, even when they are trying to rectify their mistakes.
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I don't really care, in one sense. I didn't subscribe to their vision for the xbox one, so I picked the PS4, simple. I don't think Microsoft have made these changes because people where unhappy, I think they made these changes because they were scared to death of losing their share of the market and losing out in $ terms and not narrowing the gap that had become apparent.

I think the announcements were very, very badly handled. I think that Microsoft took the gamers for granted and were very arrogant in their approach and have now had to eat humble pie and they've had to change to win back the $ and keep their market share.

I'm not blasting them for changing.
 
Shamikebab said:
What basis do you have for believing they'll do that? Have they done it before? They would get sued if they did it.

In fact the only company that have done that....is Sony.
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It's very easy to believe they could do it. Their original plan is obviously what they wanted to do. If somebody forces you to change your mind about something, even if you have to do so you won't agree with it and will easily go back to what YOU originally wanted in the first place given half the chance.

It's pretty clear what direction Microsoft wants to take the industry, and that isn't going to suddenly completely change at the drop of the hat. They will simply delay their plans until they think they can get away with it.

And lets be clear, these original plans by Microsoft were horribly anti-consumer and overall terrible for the industry.
 
XeNoN89 said:
It's very easy to believe they could do it. Their original plan is obviously what they wanted to do. If somebody forces you to change your mind about something, even if you have to do so you won't agree with it and will easily go back to what YOU originally wanted in the first place given half the chance.

It's pretty clear what direction Microsoft wants to take the industry, and that isn't going to suddenly completely change at the drop of the hat. They will simply delay their plans until they think they can get away with it.

And lets be clear, these original plans by Microsoft were horribly anti-consumer and overall terrible for the industry.
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But you've given no previous examples :confused: it's like me saying I believe Sony will double game prices in 3 years.

That is the direction the industry is going, it's unavoidable. Every other media form is heading that direction and even PC gaming has gone that way. There is always initial resistance to new things but the praise for each and everyone of them has grown over time and the market share has gone in digital's favour almost every time (look at music, books, Steam) There are a lot of benefits, Microsoft just presented their plan appallingly.
 
XeNoN89 said:
And lets be clear, these original plans by Microsoft were horribly anti-consumer and overall terrible for the industry.
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I disagree, but I feel it's a pointless debate right now. If MS ever show some signs of backtracking (again) and going back towards their original policies it'll be a more relevant argument to have then :)
 
Davey_Pitch said:
My only concern with that feature is how reliant on bandwidth would it be? Could I easily stream a demo on a 6MB connection? If not, it's no real improvement over having to download the demo like we do now.
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Not sure, I imagine there'll be different quality settings and you choose one based on your connection speed, it must work to some extent as Gaikai have a stupid amount of subscribers.
 
Shamikebab said:
But you've given no previous examples :confused: it's like me saying I believe Sony will double game prices in 3 years.

That is the direction the industry is going, it's unavoidable. Every other media form is heading that direction and even PC gaming has gone that way. There is always initial resistance to new things but the praise for each and everyone of them has grown over time and the market share has gone in digital's favour almost every time (look at music, books, Steam) There are a lot of benefits, Microsoft just presented their plan appallingly.
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I think that's the way the market is going, but, but but buuuuut, I think gamers need gently, holdy handy walking towards that, given by the reaction of having it forced on them.
 
Craterloads said:
Careful, Suarez will hunt you down.
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He's too busy biting people and being a racist :o :p.

K1LLSW1TCH said:
Not sure, I imagine there'll be different quality settings and you choose one based on your connection speed, it must work to some extent as Gaikai have a stupid amount of subscribers.
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Could it not work like services, that kind of adapt to whatever connection you have? So you have a good connection, you get a good service, you have a poorer connection, you have a slightly poorer quality service?
 
Craterloads said:
This is the game I'm most looking forward too, although I reckon it deserves to be played on the PC to do it justice.
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Hopefully they are not to far apart.

XeNoN89 said:
It's very easy to believe they could do it. Their original plan is obviously what they wanted to do. If somebody forces you to change your mind about something, even if you have to do so you won't agree with it and will easily go back to what YOU originally wanted in the first place given half the chance.

It's pretty clear what direction Microsoft wants to take the industry, and that isn't going to suddenly completely change at the drop of the hat. They will simply delay their plans until they think they can get away with it.

And lets be clear, these original plans by Microsoft were horribly anti-consumer and overall terrible for the industry.
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I also think it's not the last we heard of the stuff they dropped. Still plan on getting one in a year or 2
 
XeNoN89 said:
And lets be clear, these original plans by Microsoft were horribly anti-consumer and overall terrible for the industry.
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I disagree to an extent. All it took was the ability to play a game offline contingent on having a disc in the drive to fine tune it, otherwise it certainly wasn't anti consumer outside of some internet headlines. The ability to resell my games and share with 10 friends was a stonkingly pro consumer compromise between protecting developers and customers and needed some kind of DRM to prevent ridiculous abuse.

Lets not forget Sony aren't exactly guiltless with the whole rootkit thing in the past and that publishers are continue to be free to use DRM on both PS3 and PS4, Sony just don't (as far as we know) provide the framework. If you look at their media film and music business they are hardly champions of the DRM free pro sharing IP movement, they just very cleverly let MS take the bullet and saw an opportunity.
 
Ive had the ps4 on order at my local indie since the feb announcement

The xb1 changes have made me decide i will look into getting one around titan fall like a lot of other folks

To be honest neither game has a killer launch app imo, im just going ps4 first as its cheaper, i like the look of the controller compared to ds3 and ive preferred there first party games for the last few years
 
It's funny, because I did think of picking up an xbox one for my brother for Christmas as he's a huge Halo fan :p.
 
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