I was originally an Xbox 360 owner and loved the console, switched over to Ps3 in 2011 and disliked/liked a few things about it but overall preferred the Xbox 360. This go around I am going with PS4 because of the more powerful hardware and don't particularly care for motion/voice control (maybe when it becomes more consistantly convenient than a controller I will be more proactive to use it), and the games are going to be on both for the most part. Don't get me wrong, I strongly dislike MS for trying to impliment their DRM system with little to no explanation on why/how it works to the public and being very shady with their transitions, but this all comes down to which cup of tea you prefer.
Since I use streaming for my TV consumption and do not have cable television sub, dislike the jankiness of the kinect as it currently is, and +90% of the games will be cross platform with graphics being higher on the PS4 (granted slightly in many scenarios), it didnt make much sense for me to go XB1. MS and Xbox have a great lineup of first party titles that I would love to play eventually, and could possibly get an XB1 at some point in time, but it all comes down to preference in games which, you could have the greatest looking game in the world and have it be the worst game, much like you could have the most fun game that doesnt look as good as PS4 games. Not that it is the case in this scenario, but people really love XB exclusives whereas most of the PS games are either polar opposites. Aside from Naughty Dog games, Killzone, Beyond two souls, sly cooper, God of War, Resistance are all pretty polar where some people love and a good bit of people are unimpressed.
It all comes down to preference in which games you want to play, whether one is more powerful than the other is nice when it comes to the multiplat but it will all be determined by the first party titles.
Yeah pretty similar to me really. I loved the 360 pretty much until the Windows 8 dashboard came, things seemed to go downhill from there on for me. I really loved the NXE dashboard, ha ha. I think the 360 was the "better" console overall for last gen. If only for the likes of Party chat, but it also seemed to have the more "definitive" versions of games. However when I got a PS3 (Which was I believe last year sometime, maybe just over a year), I really only got it because there were just too many exclusives building up I wanted to play, and the ones announced for the future.
I think PS3 really won me over for games alone, just a lot of exclusives. However, 360 was really worth it just for Halo 3 online alone. Was the most fun I ever had in an online game, seriously.
Halo is really the only game MS have that can really tempt me to get an X1, and judging from Halo 4, it just felt to me they were trying to cut corners in online, so yeah to me, they really do have a lot to prove for now. PS4 I'm trusting to get the awesome exclusives admittedly, however I feel I can trust them to deliver on that more than MS. Personally though I just insta-bought a PS4 as soon as KH3 was announced for it, ha ha, that was all I needed to know.
Really? Just moments ago you wrote the Xbox one off as not even being a legitimate choice. The new generation doesn't seem to be about new features that directly impact gaming. I'm actually really curious as to what features you think these consoles have that actual improve the gaming aspect alone. It's the smallest hardware jump in the history of consoles. I've been seriously disappointed hardware wise, especially when the mid-range PC I built 2 years ago is more powerful than next gen. It's a service generation. Cloud, better online features all around, social networking, etc.
I "wrote it off as not being a legitimate choice" in terms of gaming (kinda). If gaming is all you want to do on a console (Which should be the number 1 reason you buy a console), I don't see why you'd want an X1 over a PS4, unless you prefer MS's exclusives or online features as you say which may improve a game's potential. If exclusives didn't exist, I don't see why you'd want an X1 over a PS4, I just don't see the online features as making up something that significant.
Personally to me though, the features on X1 don't seem to be significantly better... X1 seems to record things on what you're doing now for DVR or up to 30 seconds ago I believe for example, while for PS4 it records everything in the past 15mins and you just upload what you want out of that past 15mins. Personally I prefer the PS4's approach to how it handles it, but it wouldn't bother me if the PS4 had X1's approach really either, but that may be because the sharing features for the consoles arent so significant for me really, it'll be useful when I do want to share something, but its not something I want to do regularly.
