To be fair, I hadnt mentioned anything Sony. People are too quick to defend, as though there is an enemy at the gates.
I simply pointed out that massive chunks of memory dedicated to OS's(3GB!! by the looks of that link posted =\) Is going to hurt a systems potential, with regards to gaming.
And then the usual, OMG DON'T YOU DARE SAY ANYTHING NEGATIVE, troops crop up.
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I suppose the memory footprint will drop lower and lower as the life of the console goes on, It did this time around. I think PS3's memory footprint is tiny compared to when it was first released. So hopefully that 3GB hogged can be reduced some over time.
I wasn't aiming it at you specifically, just a general realisation that the last 5 pages have been "XBOX One sucks, it's for watching telly and doing silly waving your arms games, PS4 is where it's at for gamers and pwns Xbox, I'm buying PS4 because I want to play games not watch telly" followed by "no it's not, there's loads of games announced and stuff coming at E3 and you will probably never notice the difference between them", smartly moving to "yes you will notice the difference, XBOX sucks M$", "no it doesn't, you suck", "no, you suck..."
Some people are quite interested in Xbox as a good all-round gaming and media device, some dislike that idea and think PS4 will be pure gaming focus, and others just think PS4 will be more powerful so will be what they want.
Interestingly no one has really seen what the games will look like properly yet and if there's any difference likely in the real world.
Still, it seems to have reached the point where no one is persuading anyone else of their point of view, hence the "time to abandon thread". Unless there's new info it's just going to go around in circles now until E3, at which point a variation on a theme debate will kick off once we see some gaming news
My gut feel is there really is just too many unknowns at the moment, but it feels like MS are going for a wider audience than just hardcore gamers this time. We won't know if that's a good or bad thing for a couple of years. If they get it right it could be significant as it could open the market up to much, much bigger numbers than just a pure console could achieve. I suspect if the specs are correct and nothing else changes PS4 will get an early lead as it's the hardcore gamers who are likely to spend top dollar to buy on release. Xbox may make ground back by being "good enough" for gaming and doing a bunch of other things that are becoming increasingly of interest to a lot of people outside of dedicated gamers for the under the TV spot. Much like now though unless you get your rocks off looking at the monthly sales numbers I think there's more than enough room in the market for both and both will do as well or better than the existing models.
it'll be interesting to see if the DDR 5hits the PS4 price or if Sony have deep pockets to subsidise, price could be crucial. If PS4 released at £499 and Xbox £399 that could make a big difference much like last time, especially for the crucial first Christmas sales. Saying that, Sony could go all in and risk it all by doing a massive subsidy releasing at £299 for example and doing a massive market land grab.
Either way, given the x86 architecture it bodes well for PC gaming
