Ask Slashdot: Xbox One Or PlayStation 4? 375
An anonymous reader writes: I'm looking at getting the kids a new gaming console for Christmas this year. I'm stuck trying to decide between getting an Xbox One or a PlayStation 4. I'm really wary on the PlayStation because of the 5 PS2s with broken optical drives sitting in my garage; none lasted more than two years. On the other hand, I'm also wary of buying a Microsoft product; I'm a Linux user for life after getting tired of their crappy operating system. I've also considered getting a gaming PC, whether Linux or Windows, but it's more expensive and game reviews show most are not as good as a dedicated game console. The kids want Fallout 4, and I want Star Wars Battlefront and any version of Gran Turismo. We currently have a Nintendo Wii and a crappy gaming PC with some Steam games. So, which gaming console should I get that will last a long time?
Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
This has no place on Slashdot. At all. Period.
Ob (Score:2)
For playing games, or running a tehrrust operation?
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Indeed, what is this, "please google this for me?" If the kids want Gran Turismo then the only option is a PS4. If the OP broke five PS2s then that's not down to the minor quality issues Sony had with early models, that's his kids putting pop-tarts in it.
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It's had the same copy of "Ghetto Booty Babes vol. 8" since 1996 so that may not be a fair comparison.
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Re:Really? Then what are the HDDs for? (Score:2)
I still have the PS2 that I bought as an accessory for my Logitech G25 wheel for GT4 a few years ago and it still works fine last I checked (though some games are "sensitive" and take a little extra voodoo to load). But I thought everything since the PS3 loads everything from the internal HDD now.
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And yet here it is on Slashdot. Suck it up.
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Life is hard sometimes.
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Amen. I thought i was the only one. How the hell this did end up on AOS?
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This has no place on Slashdot. At all. Period.
Maybe he wants one of us to tell him to just get a PC with Linux and play Tux Racer?
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you mean more articles about bitcoin, don't you?
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>Guess what? Consoles have a 0% piracy rate.
Certain torrent sites would disagree with this statement:
http://thepiratebay.gd/browse/... [thepiratebay.gd]
Ask your kids. (Score:5, Insightful)
Also I agree with the First Poster. This doesn't belong on an Ask Slashdot.
Duh... Kinect (Score:2)
No brainer. Kinect is the future.
Re:Ask your kids. (Score:5, Funny)
My kids can play with Lincoln Logs just like I did. The Playstation is mine, dammit.
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This is the only answer that matters (Score:5, Informative)
If this is for the kids, then they need to make the choice. Mostly because online play tends to only work in console. So if all their friends have an Xbox one and they have a PS4, then they can't play games together.
If you want any kind of technical considerations or the like the PS4 is faster than the Xbone because of details with hardware design so it will end up rendering things at a higher resolution and so on. Also the controllers feel very different in the hands, and some people have a strong preference. I like the Xbone controllers much better and they are what I use with my PC (I have a PS4 controller as well).
Really though what matters is choosing the one that has the games you want, and that plays with the people you want to play with. The rest is secondary.
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I'd say the kids' social considerations come first (if the whole reason he wants the console is to play Call of Duty: Black Ops 9492 with his buddy Jim, and Jim has an Xbox One, then that's the console), and game choices comes second. Graphics and such come third.
I tried to talk my kids into a Steam Machine, but their friends are all on Playstation 4 or Xbox One or both, they don't know anyone that plays Team Fortress 2, or DOTA 2, or Counter Strike. The game they
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Well, here's my obligatory plug for the 2-headed dual-GPU nVidia box I built for my kids' Minecraft PC a few years ago:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com... [blogspot.com]
Bought all the parts used from Craigslist ($400 for the system, $150 for each video card, and $5 each for a 21" CRT), and it's still better than my gaming PC. There's enough Minecraft mods on it to keep them busy, but they also each have their Steam account on it that they can use for Altitude, Alien Swarm, Portal 2, DOTA, etc. And sometimes World of Tan
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So if I make them follow my FSF-aligned beliefs, I'm just going to alienate them from me and from the ideas of the FSF.
Then it becomes a question of whether I hate patent-wielding, FUD-spreading, monopoly tactics, proprietary operating system Microsoft more than I hate insecure customer data, insecure company servers, kings of DRM and bad rootkit DRM Sony.
At least the PS4 is running BSD.
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Slashdot has always had articles about games. Get over it
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Which games? (Score:2)
Which platform-only games do you want to play? It's a console. It's not about the uberhertz or septapixels, it's about the games. Which games do you want to play?
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Seriously, ask your kids. You seem to have plenty of negatives in the direction of both consoles, but you should ask your kids so that they can be able to use the device which better matches with their own social circles, since that doesn't seem to be a factor on your part of your decision. Also I agree with the First Poster. This doesn't belong on an Ask Slashdot.
I agree w/ this. The platform chosen would depend on the games being played. Other than that, since he expressed a preference for Linux and a disdain for Microsoft, that would seemingly make it a no brainer. However, if the games his kids like are only there on Xbox, get that.
Gaming PC - he could get a PC and install SteamOS and fire it up. I myself am waiting for PC-BSD 11 so that the SteamOS jail gets included w/ it, and I can install it and play.
And I agree w/ the last as well - this que
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VI or EMACS? Debian or Redhat? AMD or INTEL? Apache or IIS? The list of flammable topics is pretty long.
You forgot 'BSD or Linux'
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vi? VI? do you also stroke your beard and tug your suspenders as you pine for the days of pine over a serial line?
vi is for lickspittles who say "by gum", "geewillickers" and "23 skidoo" as they ride their velocipedes.
you should be using vim, and probably already are since it was sometimes just a script that ran vim with a few options enabled to make it more vi-ish, or provided by the vim-minimal package.
Extremetech treatment (Score:5, Informative)
Extremetech had a decent article about this a couple of days ago (currently at 1013 comments and rising)
Link [extremetech.com]
Full disclosure: I have no kind of attachment to extremetech, other than enjoying their articles which appear to be rather more insightful than most of the tech press out there
Re:Extremetech treatment (Score:5, Insightful)
The specs don't matter. The gameplay and titles do. That's why the Wii wiped the floor with sales over Sony and Mcrisoft when it came out. It was woefully underpowered, and didn't have any HD capability yet far outstripped the technology leaders in sales, and even with the joke of a name. Why? Because they focused on gameplay.
Which modern system has the best portfolio of games and upcoming releases? That's how to pick which console to buy. The hardware should be meaningless in this decision. The hardware only matters when you play the same game (with same platform tuning) and try to compare. That's going to be a limited set of titles to worry about since most of them are really only tuned for one platform and a basic port to other platforms leaves them less than optimized.
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The specs don't matter. The gameplay and titles do. That's why the Wii wiped the floor with sales over Sony and Mcrisoft when it came out. It was woefully underpowered, and didn't have any HD capability yet far outstripped the technology leaders in sales, and even with the joke of a name. Why? Because they focused on gameplay.
This simply isn't true. The gameplay offered by most Wii games was utterly abysmal, and the real reason it succeeded was because it had a very marketable gimmick that appealed to non-gamers. People saw the tennis, bowling and golf games and instantly understood what the console offered.
After playing with the console for a short time people realised that there was no gameplay in most Wii games at all, and as such the console met with a quick death. While it was hugely successful for a few years, the sales
Pick based on the games you want: (Score:5, Informative)
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I don't really care why it's not (sony or logitech's fault) it's a USB device it should be usable
The situation is no better on the Microsoft platform. And Sony actually had real force feedback before Microsoft did (all the way back in the PS2 era) so you can expect them to be better at it.
A better PC (Score:2)
If the drivers for one of the OSes suck (Score:2)
Once in the game, the OS is irrelevant.
Unless the drivers are decidedly inferior on one operating system compared to the other, as demonstrated in Slashdot stories from July [slashdot.org] and October [slashdot.org] of this year.
None (Score:2)
Get them a Dreamcast, N64, Saturn, 3DO or Jaguar or any other old skool console. Dreamcast is awesome though event though I'm a die hard Jag fan.
They're both Jaguar (Score:2)
Get them a Dreamcast, N64, Saturn, 3DO or Jaguar
You said "Jaguar". Both the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 have a 64-bit AMD Jaguar CPU. DO THE MATH.
More seriously: Why is AMD reusing previous game console names for its technology code names lately? Jaguar was an Atari console, and GCN was the official abbreviation for GameCube.
What do their friends play on? (Score:2)
Re:What do their friends play on? (Score:5, Insightful)
This. My gaming friends and I are not hard-core gamers, so we went with consoles. A couple of them have been on Xbox Live since the original Xbox first came out, so we went with 360s years ago and are now moving to XbOnes.
If you are going with a gaming setup to play solo, look at what supports the most games you are interested in (since there are exclusives on PC, Xbox, and Playstation). If you are gaming with friends, see what they're getting.
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It's pronounced "Xbone"
PS4 (Score:3)
Get the PS4... It's the faster machine, can run games at a higher resolution, and has a bunch of exclusives purely by dint of the developers not being able to make it work fast enough on the Xbox. There's something like 100 more games available for it.
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That's ridiculous. First, I don't know of ANY 720p games where they are 1080p on the PS4. The situation you often get is that the games are 900P on the Xbox One, but with a higher and more stable framerate than the PS4. If you can tell the difference between 1080p and 900p, I salute you...because I can't and I game on a 50 inch tv from about 10 feet away.
There are more than 100 games available for both consoles. As far as exclusives, they both have them.
The Xbox One will allow you to watch TV in a window sn
Re:PS4 (Score:4, Informative)
The fact that there exist games where the Xbox One can do 1080p/60 does not mean that in all cases it can. There are several games that render at 1080p on PS4, but 720p or 900p on Xbox, e.g. Assassin's Creed IV, Batman Arkham Knight, CoD, Destiny, Diablo III, Dragon Age Inquisition, Far Cry 4, Just Cause 3, Lords of the Fallen, Metro: Redux, Shadow of Mordor, Pro Evo Soccer 2015, Project Cars, Shadow Warrior, Star Wars Battle Front*, The Evil Within, Thief, Tom Raider: Definitive Edition, Watch Dogs*
* These games don't do 1080p on PS4 either, but are still higher resolution on the PS4 than on the Xbox.
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Actually no, I can't find a single title where the Xbox can do a higher resolution or frame rate than the PS4. And that's not surprising - again, the PS4 has more powerful hardware.
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I disagree. First, You're going to spend more on a gaming PC than you will a console to get a benefit over consoles. Games are tailored to the hardware in consoles. With PCs, there isn't that amount of fine tuning.
But, the biggest point is that you lose out on console exclusives. I have a Skylake i5 and a 7970 to play PC games on and an Xbox One to play console games on. Things like Sunset Overdrive (probably the best Xbox One exclusive so far for someone like me) didn't come out on PC. You also get free ga
Never heard of the waived-fee repair? (Score:2)
I'm really wary on the PlayStation because of the 5 PS2s with broken optical drives sitting in my garage; none lasted more than two years.
There was actually a defect found, and due to a class action suit you could have gotten some or all of those 5 PS2s repaired free of charge (regardless of warranty status or even if you bought it third hand).
I bought for $20 a used PS2 in exactly this condition, knowing about the waived fee repair. There even were answers to the scripted questions the Sony rep would ask online so that you could streamline getting the repair approved (boiled down to saying "it says disc read error" "still says disc read err
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IIRC they did charge a small fee under certain circumstances. I think I had to pay 20 bucks to get one fixed, but that might have been a 39001 rather than the 30001 series with the DRE defect.
They don't charge a lot to fix PS3's either and they actually FIX it, you get you your same PS3 back. I have a CECHE model PS3 that was having graphical glitches and freezes.
As someone who owns both... (Score:2)
If you only care about graphics, get a PS4. Of the two, it is simply the most powerful console (though a mid-end PC or better will easily beat it. However as we have seen with Ubisoft games and more recently, Arkham Knight, PC game ports are more likely to be unoptimized and buggy if not outright broken.) PS4 is the most popular console at the moment and will probably have the superior ports of multiplatform games. It also has some great exclusives like Uncharted, Gran Turismo, Infamous, and LittleBigPlane
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As a note, if you have Wii-U, your kids (or you) can play the games on the pad while the TV is used to display whatever romance dramedy is totes pop, or whatever.
Just bought an Xbox One (Score:2)
I just purchased a 1TB Xbox One a few weeks ago. I typically purchase most major consoles per generation (although I'd tend to buy for Xbox if it wasn't exclusive), but wasn't impressed enough with any of the new generation until Fallout 4 pushed me over the edge. Here's why:
* I'm an Xbox gold member, and they recently started offering me free Xbox One games, so I already had a library building up
* Xbox 360 compatibility means I may be able to ditch my 360 sooner
* I prefer the Xbox style controller
That's
In all honesty... (Score:2)
Go with "which platform has more of your friends using it" and "which controller do you prefer".
The irony with this generation of the console wars is that the fanboy bitterness is greater than ever, but the differences between the rival platforms have never been smaller. Yes, there are some minor spec differences, but for the most part, you need a magnifying glass to spot them. And single-platform exclusives are in decline; the cost of making games these days means that most games are multiplatform.
My first
Fallout 4? How old are the kids? (Score:2)
Why I chose PS4 (Score:2)
The swinger though was probably Morpheus/Playstation VR. Obviously it's not out yet, but I've been waiting for decent VR since I was a kid (ie for over two decades) so the possibility of it coming to a home console holds a lot of excitement. Whether I end up getting it depends on reviews etc but, with all other thing be
Consoles are about games (Score:2)
Don't buy a console like you would buy a PC.
Consoles are not general purposes machines, they are appliances to play games. So you should focus on the game experience rather than the back end (hardware and OS). Sure, the back end has an influence but it is just a mean to an end. In your case, it's easy : Gran Turismo is a Playstation exclusive, and the other two are multi-platform, so that's PS4.
As for reliability, just because the PS2 had a notoriously failure-prone optical drive means nothing about the PS4
Xbox One if they're kids (Score:2)
Get them an Xbox One and spring for a copy of Rare Replay. They'll have fun for months.
If you were just talking about older teenagers, I might say a PS4. But, the Xbox One has growing backwards compatibility and more and more games for kids. A PS4 might have slightly better graphics, but really you don't notice the difference while playing and, if graphics mattered THAT much, you'd be getting a PC instead of a console anyway. But, the Xbox One is much better for media AND offers backwards compatibility with
My answer: Playstation 4 (Score:2)
I personally went for a PS4 as an "upgrade" to my PS3, but if looking at blankly recommending either, I'd still say PS4 at this point:
(cue people calling me a shrill)
* Larger game library (currently)
* minutely better HW specs
* upcoming VR headset (H1'16)
There are a few exclusive on XBox that people would be interested in (HALO?), though on the topic of exclusives it is a matter of checking out what games you want to play. The XBox-unique Kinect is dead in the water currently, as are the Playstation's PS-Mov
Parenting failure (Score:5, Insightful)
The kids want Fallout 4
Why am I not surprised that on Slashdot all the comments are just about the technical merits or whether the kids will grasp the game play of Fallout 4? The game is rated M. That's like an NC-17 movie.
Re:Parenting failure (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I have been playing M rated games since I was 9. And I grew up perfectly normal. For instance, last week I tried to stab a guy but I hit his belt buckle...
Re:Parenting failure (Score:5, Funny)
Pfft kids these days and your nurtured upbringing. Back in my day we jumped on each other's heads in the hope that we could collect enough coins to buy magic mushrooms.
From a game nerd (Score:2)
I first started coming to Slashdot because this site had some good articles about video games. I might not be an expert sysadmin, I'm a little bit fuzzy about the difference between Vi and Emacs, but I know a thing or two about the video games. Given all that we currently know about both consoles, I'd recommend the PS4. Most multiplatform releases are available on the PS4, and there are a number of upcoming impressive exclusives on the PS4 that aren't available on the Xbox One. In terms of hardware, the two
Software (Score:2)
They're not made to last (Score:2)
Pick the Game first, then the Console (Score:2)
When shopping for any new gaming console, NEVER pick the hardware first. Since this is for some kids, figure out which games the kids are going to want to play. If any of them are exclusive to one console or the other, then your decision has been made for you. If Gears of War or Halo is on the list, your getting an XBox. If Gran Turismo or Ultra Street Fighter IV are on the list of games that they want to play, get the PS4.
If the games that they want are multi-platform, then the next things to consider
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If the games are multiplatform, you buy the more powerful hardware or the one with more units shipped. The PS4 is both of those, so for a multiplatform game it is correct just on that.
The games will be designed for the most powerful platform or the one with the more units shipped. The other platform will receive ports of varying quality.
Why be mutual exclusive? Get all 3 (Score:2)
Just get a PC, PS4, and XBone -- that way everyone is happy, and you can properly evaluate which one was the better investment down the road.
Note: PC kick console's asses to the curb and back. Consoles barely do 1080p @ 60 Hz, PC gaming is doing 4K at 120+ Hz. There are tons of Budget PC Gaming Rigs [reddit.com]
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It's worth considering a PC, for the reasons you list. But PCs are also a pain in the dick in the way that even a console that wants to always communicate to the mothership can't touch. Never had a video driver error an any console, for instance. Star Wars Battlefront on my PS4 is a video game- on a PC, it insists you install Origin, which does god only knows what (it used to literally scan your drive and upload parts of it to EA), and spams you with ads. PC gaming supports split screen gaming terribly a
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Every platform has its strengths and weaknesses. There is no such thing as an "perfect" platform.
I've been custom building PC since the 90's and haven't had driver issues on PC in **years.** Stop buying cheap-ass parts. Go with nVidia, Intel, Asus, and Corsair. For ordering parts: Newegg, Micro Center, NCIX, Amazon have all great prices, and most importantly: ratings. i.e. Don't buy a part from NewEgg if the 4/5 and 5/5 eggs combines have a score of less then 80%.
PC
+ Mods
+ 4K resolution
+ 120+ Hz framer
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> I've been custom building PC since the 90's and haven't had driver issues on PC in **years.** Stop buying cheap-ass parts.
Dude, parent is talking about budget PCs, and you say not to get cheap parts. If you have to do a huge amount of research to get your video drivers to work correctly, that's an argument in favor of consoles for this application.
The whole thing is about gaming in a living room and whatnot, and you're suggesting a HOTAS setup? Yes, if you fucking need Elite Dangerous, you need a god
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+ 4K resolution
+ 120+ Hz framerate
Not a chance in hell ANY PC gamer is getting 4K at 120HZ or higher framerates. you can't even BUY a display that can go higher than 60 and most guys with $2000 in video cards are having trouble staying anywhere near 60hz at 4K.
PS4, but... (Score:3)
Of the two, I'd recommend the PS4.
Here's my reasoning:
1)- Sony is not very evil right now. Sony supports the gaming industry. Even most of their evil is in part dedicated to the continuance of the business practice of many smaller studios.
2)- Microsoft is at peak evil right now. Microsoft tried to kill off the revenue streams of all the local mom-and-pop stores (and of course, Gamestop), they tried to have an always on camera be required, they tried to eliminate disks, they tried to make the Xbone dial in every day to ensure it wasn't being used in an unauthorized manner. They also have just a shit ton of ads. Just so many fucking ads.
3)- The PS4 is more powerful than the Xbone and has sold a shit lot more units (so many that Microsoft stopped reporting consoles sold). To a lot of people this doesn't make sense- you may not care if something is slightly more or less powerful, and you may not care about graphics, and you may not be concerned about who ELSE is playing which console. But in the console world, this has HUGE ramifications, because it controls what gets ported, what is the core product, etc. If the more powerful console is the most powerful, it means that games will be designed for it (or PC) and ported over as an afterthought, losing stuff in translation. It's not about who is better, or how many pixels you get to pix- it's about the games being designed and tested on the primary gaming machine, which is without question the PS4.
4)- Better hook to the Japanese developers. Microsoft doesn't have much presence in Japan, and treated them as an aftermarket, which means that the J developers give them the cold shoulder- the products will appear on the PS4 and be very well supported.
But let me say this: for powerful games, the PC is the way to go. For portable games, a tablet or a powerful phone is the way to go. For unique games, a Wii U or portable Nintendo is the way to go. The PS4 and the Xbone are both fighting over the "I'm your blu-ray and I play PC ports plus a few system specific titles". In that niche, I think PS4 does it right, and Xbone takes it on the chin. If Microsoft can go two console generations without trying to "embrace, extend, extinguish" all of console gaming, maybe I'll give them a second chance. But Halo isn't worth giving up the host of system specific titles that PS4 has, and Halo isn't worth giving up all of console gaming to Microsoft's ecosystem.
But do consider the Wii U. The games it has are not that common, but they are truly excellent.
I went XBox One. (Score:2)
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My 7 year old loves Viva Pinata via Xbox 360 backwards compatibility. She also plays several of the other games in Rare Replay. She loves LEGO Marvel Avengers as well as a few other lego games. They just added all the Sonic the Hedgehog titles to backwards compatibility as well, so I'll get those for her soon. There are plenty of games on the One for seven year olds....not so much a 4 year old.
Nvidia Shield. (Score:2)
My Android STB has 8 cores, plays 4k content decently well. My wife's Christmas present is going to be a Bluetooth NES controller so we can play the games we grew up with.
PC (Score:2)
Now get off my lawn!
ps4 (Score:2)
PS4 optical drive problem... (Score:2)
Dont worry, they dont want you using that drive anyways, download everything to get rid of the scumbags that would dare to buy or sell a used game.
Real patriots buy everything new and in download form that is easily controlled with DRM.
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A set of consoles that plays the latest Gran Turismo, the latest Halo, and the latest Super Smash Bros. is going to cost you $1100 anyway. Yet despite this, and despite the lack of mods that extend games' replay value, certain console fans love to trumpet how much cheaper their preferred product is than a gaming PC.
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But if your kid wants to play Gran Turismo, or Super Smash Bros., or Madden NFL 16, then you need to get a console and no PC gaming system is an acceptable substitute.
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How did you get up to $1100 for including the best version of smash bros?
"Best" is subjective, and a lot of people associate that with Melee. But I was referring to Super Smash Bros. For which is the latest with the most characters.
Exclusives per hardware dollar (Score:2)
None. Nor can "I want all the exclusives" work unless you're willing to buy used previous-generation consoles as well, as not all games have been rereleased in Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Store, or Virtual Console. Some games even get pulled from these stores after a while, such as BPS's Yoshi's Cookie. So perhaps a better metric to incorporate access to exclusives is number of worthwhile exclusives per dollar of hardware cost. And among current platforms, PC exclusives on GOG and Steam tend to come out a
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True, but the Forza Motorsport games are excellent and are only available on XBox. So, I'd call that one a draw.
Do you want 1080p or good lighting? (Score:2)
don't get upset because a game might not run 1080p
Especially when "this game runs at 576p" whiners ignore that sub-1080p games on a given platform are more likely to use sophisticated lighting than "give me 1080p or give me death" games, and the human visual system draws more information from light and shadow than from edge detail.
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The craze over frame rate and resolution is due to exclusives being relatively minor. This means that most games a player might be interested in are available on both platforms, but not with exactly the same performance. Most games play slightly better on PS4, which means that unless Xbox One exclusives are what drives your purchase, PS4 tends to be a better choice
I doubt 4K will be the focus of the next generation. This generation already the issue is more frame rate, with games struggling to keep it high
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How should children under 16 go about "earning it"? Their house and yard chores already pay for their rent and food. Not every child on the block can have a paper route or run a lawn care service.
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I guess no one explained how multinational corporations work. Sony BMG is a completely separate entity from Sony Computer Entertainment. They do not share people or policies. They have as much in common as they do with Starbucks. If Starbucks served you a bad coffee, would you boycott the Playstation? Because that's basically what you are advocating.
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Microsoft products are forbidden in my house, I dont trust Sony either but at least they didnt try to sneak a constantly monitored microphone into my living room.
I think that both platforms have their own reasons for owning one. I bought both PS2 and Xbox when they came out and the thing that really pissed me off was that a game like Battlefront that had a really good LAN game option would not join the game if it was started on different consoles. Seriously, the most petty way to say 'fuck you' to console owners.
Consoles are pretty much the same but intentionally "uncompatible". If they were compatible then the argument really would be which one provided a better g
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The PS2 controller connectors on the console seem a bit touchy, we managed to break one - but the drives on both of ours have continued to work for about as long.
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Early model PS2's have drives that can flake out with Disc Read Errors after some years. However, the 50001 FAT model series (the one with integrated IR) are built like tanks, and about as heavy especially if you have the PS2 HDD in it. I never had a slim so can't compare them to FAT PS2's.
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The XBox One was originally based off of Windows 8 and Hyper-V, but the newest version of the XBox software is based off of Windows 10. That's not necessarily a bad thing (it's pretty stable), but I've noticed some odd issues with the controllers becoming unresponsive after the Windows 10 based update.
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If you're building a Windows gaming PC, bite the bullet and install Windows 10. You're going to need DirectX 12 support eventually, so you might as well install it now than get forced to upgrade to Windows 10 later.
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But the result is as you described, and that won't change soon.
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OtherOS was never advertised and was never officially supported. And don't bother linking to the image of a PS2 box with the "supports linux" bullet point. That was a 'shop.
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1) Matter of Opinion. Sony has some damn good exclusives as well (e.g. Uncharted, LittleBigPlanet, Infamous, Gran Turismo, etc.) It all depends on where your tastes lie.
2, 3) Kinect is pretty much dead at this point. Since it is now an optional $100 addon, few people are buying it and no one is making games for it anymore. Since a good portion of the media center stuff requires Kinect (such as changing channels on the cable box) a good portion of the media center integration is useless as well.
4) Evil multi
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Poster says: "The kids want Fallout 4, and I want Star Wars Battlefront and any version of Gran Turismo."
You say "Buy an SNES or an NES ".
First, it's "a SNES".
Second and more relevantly, what the fuck kinda grinch are you? If the demand is for Fallout, why would you recommend a system from the 80s or 90s? That's nuts!
Note that current kids- who, like we when we were younger, tend to have more time than games- will play the fuck out of a new title just as we did SMB3 or w/e.