I doubt PS fans care that much considering this thread is merely 2 (!) pages long... Outside of a few nerds, nobody entered the thread. Everybody's on resetera anyway nowadays.
We reached the point where you have to zoom 600 % to see something in DF comparison videos. Basically, there's no difference anymore your eyes can see. The main difference is getting 60 fps and we're still waiting for that on consoles (which is a good reason to own a PC).
I know, I have a recent PC, where the best version always is, and I barely can see the difference with my PS4 Pro (to be fair, difference was already really small with my first PS4...)
When you add this new Xbox has roughly zero recent exclusive and can't play all the PS4 exclusives either, you barely have anything to get excited about.
Yeah, it plays multiplatform games well, but my PC already plays them better anyway, and if I want them on console, PS4 Pro version looks the same, so what's the point ?
Well, you cared enough to add a lengthy response with the exclusives argument and the "you have to zoom 600%" to see the difference argument. These are the same arguments used every time by both sides to deflect the power argument.
Last gen(640p vs 720p), this gen (900p vs 1080p), and now (1440p+ vs 1800p+) . The loser claims no difference the winner the opposite. Considering this is a performance thread I would expect that's why the "nerds" are here.
A vast majority of consumers bought the PS4 for power and price the exclusives coming out now are a nice bonus, but outside of something like Uncharted 4 that sold almost 10 million(which is a symptom of large install+pack in) not many care. Idon't have an Xbox , but I do have a PC and an OG PS4, which gets used rarely. I bought Injustice 2 (PS4)on an impulse recently only to be burned when I found out it released on PC. The Japanese exclusives are great for the <= 1M people that actually bought them, but they are not selling consoles. If we want to talk about exclusives to get excited about, even if it ends up being timed. The X is getting Player Unkown Battlegrounds. It has sold 21 million copies on Steam and has 2.5 million concurrent players. That's pretty exciting for Xbox fans wouldn't you say?
To the last point it's the most powerful console you can buy and you can't build a PC to match it at the same price with out heavy compromises that defeat the purpose of buying a PC, if you are going for higher fidelity/performance. A lot of people don't want PCs, they want a console. The Xbox One X is a great value at $500. A comparable GPU is almost $300 right now, so for $200 more dollars you would need to buy a CPU, MB, RAM, Storage, and a case. I will leave out controller and OS as an equalizer for XBox Live.
TLDR: Xbox One X is the most powerful console which should be exciting enough in a hardware
PERFORMANCE thread. Bringing up exclusives is ultimately a defensive move to deflect from the power gap. Trying to compare a PC to a console is never a good idea, unless you are buying a PC to play those exclusives as well, but in general you can't substitute a PC purchase for a console purchase regardless of exclusives.
Edit: I really wish the Alienware Alpha would get a decent update.
