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Launch titles are never that great. Look at the 360. Only decent game that was launched with it was Ghost Recon. It took 12 months for the portfolio of games to grow. Plus, while devs are still building games for 360, the One games will be compromised as the game engine has to be descaled to run on 360 so things like FIFA14, the crowd is better on One and the play is slightly more fluid. There's a feeling of playing in treacle on 360 but it's still very good. Next year, when 360 isn't being supported, then we'll see FIFA taken to new levels. I'm just using FIFA as an example.
Other One only titles that are launched now, are built around a console that's still currently in development. We've got two or three big big patches coming up over Christmas that's going to work on some minor issues and optimisations. So, developers have had to work with an ever changing playing field, very difficult!
As for price drop, it'll be at least 12 months before we see the price of One drop, that's from an official source. Wholesale price isn't set to drop anytime soon.
Peoples' arguments that the PS4 is more powerful is kind of mute. When you have hardware that doesn't change and is the same for everyone, then the game can be built for specifically for that hardware and as such, the hardware performs better. So, while PS4 may be more powerful, there'll be minimal difference between the two consoles.
On a latter point, both consoles come with 500GB HDD. Sony's is built in, as is Microsoft's, but...the Xbox One has support for external storage, albeit not hotswap capable. What this means is that, you're going to need to upgrade your HDD. No bother for the One but for the PS4, that's going to cause issue. You'll have to open up the console, clone the OS off your old HDD and basically, run a second system on existing hardware.
There's always going to be an argument that PCs are better, yes they're more powerful but, while the developers have to build games for systems that range from budget 5 year old machines to top of the range machines, the games will never exceed the experience that consoles provide, if they do, it's marginal. I've played games on both console and PC and the difference is negligible.
The PS4, in my opinion, is just an upgrade from the PS3. There's nothing amazing there that's going to take tech for consoles forward. The Xbox One on the other hand, has some truly amazing technology in it. 3 operating system, the Kinect hardware & software, the ability to distinguish between who is talking when 2 people are stood in front of it, just from mouth movement...the list goes on.
I personally don't yet own a One but have been playing on them for the last few months, as I have with the PS4. I'm waiting to get stock on Monday, but when I do get one...yes I'm sure I'll feel that it hasn't changed my life but...give it 12 months and we'll all be using it day in day out. Just needs some time.
PS...related to the decent PC argument. My system has cost me about £1,200 and I have two monitors. They're only 1080p but I'd consider my system high end. £2,000 is madness unless you want to say you have the biggest GFX willy about. Any frame rate above 60FPS isn't noticeable anyway. Not sufficient to require me to upgrade to a multi-thousand pound computer.
Other One only titles that are launched now, are built around a console that's still currently in development. We've got two or three big big patches coming up over Christmas that's going to work on some minor issues and optimisations. So, developers have had to work with an ever changing playing field, very difficult!
As for price drop, it'll be at least 12 months before we see the price of One drop, that's from an official source. Wholesale price isn't set to drop anytime soon.
Peoples' arguments that the PS4 is more powerful is kind of mute. When you have hardware that doesn't change and is the same for everyone, then the game can be built for specifically for that hardware and as such, the hardware performs better. So, while PS4 may be more powerful, there'll be minimal difference between the two consoles.
On a latter point, both consoles come with 500GB HDD. Sony's is built in, as is Microsoft's, but...the Xbox One has support for external storage, albeit not hotswap capable. What this means is that, you're going to need to upgrade your HDD. No bother for the One but for the PS4, that's going to cause issue. You'll have to open up the console, clone the OS off your old HDD and basically, run a second system on existing hardware.
There's always going to be an argument that PCs are better, yes they're more powerful but, while the developers have to build games for systems that range from budget 5 year old machines to top of the range machines, the games will never exceed the experience that consoles provide, if they do, it's marginal. I've played games on both console and PC and the difference is negligible.
The PS4, in my opinion, is just an upgrade from the PS3. There's nothing amazing there that's going to take tech for consoles forward. The Xbox One on the other hand, has some truly amazing technology in it. 3 operating system, the Kinect hardware & software, the ability to distinguish between who is talking when 2 people are stood in front of it, just from mouth movement...the list goes on.
I personally don't yet own a One but have been playing on them for the last few months, as I have with the PS4. I'm waiting to get stock on Monday, but when I do get one...yes I'm sure I'll feel that it hasn't changed my life but...give it 12 months and we'll all be using it day in day out. Just needs some time.
PS...related to the decent PC argument. My system has cost me about £1,200 and I have two monitors. They're only 1080p but I'd consider my system high end. £2,000 is madness unless you want to say you have the biggest GFX willy about. Any frame rate above 60FPS isn't noticeable anyway. Not sufficient to require me to upgrade to a multi-thousand pound computer.
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