The big debate has riddled gamers for the last 6 years, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360? What about PlayStation 4 or Xbox 720? With the next generation of consoles approaching, which direction will you head in?
Let's be honest, we dont know huge amounts about the next generation big dogs and what we think we know will most likely end up to be rumours. This means that the only assumptions we can genuinely make are based on what we know from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Lets put it in perspective, the Xbox 360 tops the PlayStation in global sales but only simply because of the fact that it has been out 1 year longer than the PS3, if it were the other way round than the PlayStation would have quite the advantage on the market by now.
Hardware wise we dont see much difference between the consoles, they have very similar graphical outputs and whilst the Xbox 360 contains more RAM, the PlayStation has VRAM and obviously a Blu-Ray player. What is important here is what the next generation consoles could offer to its customers and from what we know; Sony might be bringing a console that will offer much more.
Sony owns the rights to Blu-Ray so that takes the possibility of having it in the next Xbox out the question, secondly the Xbox 360 has had many different versions, much more than PlayStation. Not only this but the original 360 didnt support HDMI cables which are now the standard, PlayStation always offered this.
These facts can be a very clear look into the future; the PlayStation looks like it will be heads and shoulders above the 720 technology wise and appears it has the ability to be much more innovative with Sony at the helm. Yes its true, the Kinect does have dominance over the Move and this is something that is a pro for the 360/720.
Regardless of the PlayStation being this or that and having certain advantages over the 360, the 360 sells very well and Microsoft know their audience better than Sony do. The Vita is hardly flying and the Kinect and Move went head to head and the Move lost that battle dramatically.
So whilst the PlayStation seems that have more potential, Microsoft know what needs to be done to create a more successful console.
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Well if I can't play my original PS3 titles on the next gen.....I will be going Microsoft!!!!
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if the used game goes ban in full effect for both consoles then neither for me.
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All I care about are the games. If a console has a game I want to play, I'll buy it. For the current gen, I bought the 360 to play Halo 3 and Gears, I bought the Wii to play Zelda, Pokémon and Mario games, and I bought the PS3 to play Ratchet and Clank games. I will most likely buy all 3 of the next gen consoles IF they have the games I want to play. I don't care about online multiplayer but I don't want games that require an constant broadband connect to play the game. I also don't want a console that requires you to link games to your console and forbids you from selling the games when you are done with them. We'll have to wait and see. So far, Sony is on my crap list for all the nonsense they have done in their EULA and ToS.
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I might not buy them on day one. The first one I'm gonna get is the one whose got the best games lineup - launch or announce. I'm thinking with the Wii U launching first and if they have Super Smash... then I'm sold. haha.
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Microsoft can have the same technology sans Blu-Ray capabilities, HD-DVD practically used the same technology just a different read/write algorithm and encoding.
Just look at how many different companies have Blu-Ray players and recorders, Samsung, Panasonic, Pioneer, LG, Toshiba, Dynex, Sharp, etc...
Toshiba and Samsung were Microsoft's company of choice for their DVD drives, so why couldn't they license a Blu-Ray player for their next system?
They would have to have something that could be paralell to Sony to at least be functionally alternative.
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Microsoft can have the same technology sans Blu-Ray capabilities, HD-DVD practically used the same technology just a different read/write algorithm and encoding.
Just look at how many different companies have Blu-Ray players and recorders, Samsung, Panasonic, Pioneer, LG, Toshiba, Dynex, Sharp, etc...
Toshiba and Samsung were Microsoft's company of choice for their DVD drives, so why couldn't they license a Blu-Ray player for their next system?
They would have to have something that could be paralell to Sony to at least be functionally alternative.
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but whenever i get both the sony just gathers dust.
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They could have a Blu-Ray drive but it means they would have to pay Sony for its usage, also I highly doubt Sony would let one of their biggest competitors use a part of their hardware that is a selling point for their console.
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In the last few months I've decided to go back to just downloading games for PC for a few reasons.
1.I don't play them enough anymore or use the consoles enough to make it worth the investment because of the following three reasons.
2. Games and systems cost way too much for what you get. And Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft don't consistently support their products. Sony only updates to stop hacker who only hack to provide new features. Microsoft needs to stop changing the Xbox OS every few months, I've seen Japaneses instruction manuals that were easier to read then the new xbox layout. new features are great but if you want to change the look then make the stupid thing theme-able and let the users choose also too many RROD and advertisements to trust microsoft again. And Nintendo just need to go back to school. Blocks are not an efficient way to measure storage and storage should be upgradeable. not to mention they don't actually make next gen systems because they leave out next gen features like high def graphics and support for SDHC to cut down costs. I never thought I'd say this but I'll probably never buy another nintendo system again.
3. I don't like multiplayer that much. Now a days its almost impossible to find a good game that still has a single player campaign for consoles. I mean I like playing call of duty and halo online but it gets boring after a while. Its like solitaire, I like different types of solitaire and I'll play it if i need to kill some time but after a hour or so its just boring doing the same thing over and over again. Not to mention that they release a new one every few months so if you want to play multiplayer you have to buy the new one because no one else is playing the old one. I still have PC games from the 90's that had multiplayer online and when I go back to play those games now all I see is something they wasted time on instead of making the campaign longer or better. Multiplayer and single player should be separate games.
4. Games. games aren't worth what they cost anymore. too many bugs, not enough content, DLC is making developers greedy and lazy. Too many games are coming out with game stopping glitches that have to be fixed before you can play again. Too many games are being released incomplete with either a few missions missing or whole chapters missing. You don't buy books pages or chapters at a time or movies scenes at a time so why should you buy a game like that. I buy games because of the story, because I want to be entertained and games use to be more fun then just reading a book or watching a movie. but now the story in a game is just something the developers have to do, its an afterthought just thrown together so they have something to write on the back of the case.a perfect example of this is Metroid for NES, a game made when games barely had sound, graphics were low res and reused throughout the game, and cutsences were non existent. and Metroid: Other M for Wii, a game where the only different between it and a movie is the player interaction. Metroid had a plot, a start and an end, it had a story to it even thought it contained no dialog and almost no text even though it wasn't the last game in the series it still had an ending that made sense even if it had been the last game in the series that's how a story; a game should be. Other M, on the other hand had one of the most laughable stories most people have ever seen. The plot was broken, it had more plot holes then it did characters, and the whole story just made no sense. If developers aren't going to make games that have a better story then a wall with drying paint on it then i'm not going to buy them or the consoles they make for them. its that simple.
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i want to be fucked, have my money and rights stolen, and dangerous features removed. I don't want to think or decide for myself. I want to be ruled. Selling used games, making copies or not paying for every fart of the producers is evil and must be prohibited. i am not as strong as the other people so i must be protected from becoming a thief or worse.
I will buy the SONY crap.
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Or they could just repurpose the HD-DVD tech or use some other tech that uses 405 nm lasers.
Having Blu-Ray support would definitely surprise people, just like the 360 having the ability to read Mac formatted drives & devices but not NTFS surprised me.
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I'd probably spring for a PS4. Although I'm none too happy about the rumours of games becoming digital downloads only (think of my monthly internet bandwidth!!) and the "no used games" idea. That's just rude.
Also, wouldn't having only digital downloads of games be anti-competititive behaviour? All the games would be sold from PSN, so would that not mean that - therefore being a monopoly - they could charge whatever the fuck the want for the games and get away with it? I want my solid disk copies to stay in stores where they can have sales and competitive prices, thank you very much.
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i just got a ps3 so i'm sticking with that for at least a few years
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Well I may aswell throw my 5 cent worth in to the honking abyss that is console wars.
The reason i bought a PS3 over the xBox was the inovation. Sony tried something daring and new using the Cell Broadbans Processor and that was really cool. It still has not been utilised properlay and has a lot more to give it's pretty sad that they are phasing it out so early adn moving on to another console already. They did not help them selves but interupting the graphics coding by adding their own custom code layer either.
What really annoyes me about the next wave of consiles (and what annoyed me about the xBox in all it's forms) is that htye are just basic PC's. Sure the parts will be optimised and tuned to the specifics of the job but they will be the same thing that I already have in ym gaming pc. I don't see the point in buying an over priced console that offers nothing over a good gaming PC. The PS3 had the capability to do these things but never delivered on them due to bad management and implementation.
And for what it's worth. These posts about the PS4 not having PS3 compatibiity are so funny. If you knew the basics about system architecture you would know that it's extremely dificult to emulate a PPC Cell processor on x86 systems. It wont happen because it's too expensive and dificult. hey are ditching it becuase the experiment failed and they are finding ways to please the people with cheaper faster and more reliable systems.
Of course all this is only based on roumer and speculation. The public don't know the final spec or even if it will be x86 based at all. It might go full custom again in the face of the old microsoft style of cheap and easy.
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.
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of course PS3, because I like play JRPG
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If PS4 doesn't play PS3 titles I will stay with PS3 for 3-4 years at least. I have huge amount of unplayed games on my shelf. When I upgrade I will definetly choose the one that allows second hand games. If PS3 or Xbox both restrict that I will choose whichever is hacked by that time.
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If they implement the anti-used games policy anyone should not go for either of them.If u do u are a part of the problem of degrading games industry, and that's that. The argument "PS4 will not support my PS3 games" for me is stupid, PS3 at start supported PS2 games and then it didn't with the newer versions, it stopped you from buying? I don't think so.Point is WE must boycott and petition for things we do not like. Idiotic DLC's which should be part of the game Day 1 but you have to buy them to "live the full experience", you just paid the FULL game and you don't get the full experience?WTF is that.Plus the trully genius anti-used games measure.How will that work with RENTING games first to try IF you want to buy them afterwards, anyone care to explain that to me? Fight for logic.-
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i play COD, my friends are on PSN, but maps come out earlier on XBL, so i buy both, and maybe the next Nintendo. Money not a problem for me.
Call of duty/Black Ops x/Modern Warfare x prestige editions on both consoles.
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I'm tired of hearing the naive "Microsoft can't use Bluray because Sony owns it" argument. Companies license/pay royalties to their competitor's all the time:
1) Sony pays Microsoft for Windows in the Vaio laptops
2) Toshiba (developer of HD-DVD) pays Sony so they can make Bluray players and Toshiba co-designed Sony's Cell processor
3) Microsoft makes Office for Apple's Mac
4) Google (developer of Android) makes apps for Apple IOS and Windows mobile
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Probably PS3, most likely solely for the controller, unless the 720 controller magically stops being FUCKING RETARDED. Fuck that off-centered stick nonsense. If that were the case it wouldn't really matter that much to me, since they're going to have 90% of the same library anyway. Though my PSN account has just about everything on it, since I've never actually managed to even activate my XBL account.
The only thing that would make me go for the 720 is if it were SUBSTANTIALLY cheaper; like, more than $100 cheaper, and they finally get rid of the gold subscription bullshit (and didn't practically force you to buy overpriced, underrated and tiny hard drives directly from them, or any other bullshit fabricated secondary costs).
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<p>Probably PS3, most likely solely for the controller, unless the 720 controller magically stops being FUCKING RETARDED. Fuck that off-centered stick nonsense. If that were the case it wouldn't really matter that much to me, since they're going to have 90% of the same library anyway. Though my PSN account has just about everything on it, since I've never actually managed to even activate my XBL account.</p><p>The only thing that would make me go for the 720 is if it were SUBSTANTIALLY cheaper; like, more than $100 cheaper, and they finally get rid of the gold subscription bullshit (and didn't practically force you to buy overpriced, underrated and tiny hard drives directly from them, or any other bullshit fabricated secondary costs).</p>
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I'm a massive Sony Playstation fan, but the PS3 seemed in a lot of ways a let down, when in theory it should have been the best machine on the mark. Practically it failed. Slow ass game updates, lack of a real social gaming experience when put up against the xbox party system , and a very bland and boring GUI. I think Sony are losing touch and can only hope that Microsoft pick blu-ray for their next macine, because when the only thing that put me off where multi-disc games and pay for network......that will be the icing on the cake. I will now be happy to pay for XBL on account of better reliability. It's tedious and frustratiing just how much the PSN goes down with only a moments warning, the network getting hacked was just another kick in the face.
Unless Sony actually brings credible PSN experience with the PS4 then I think they are going to lose A LOT of long term hardcore customers.
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