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Edge #256: Why PS4 is your next console (Shots fired, post-DRM 180)
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Having a webcam in your living room forced upon you, bringing up major privacy concerns is definitely not broadening appeal. HDMI broadens appeal how? This makes no sense. People can still watch TV now without the Xbone. Oh, and yeh, those 'other things' that you faield to mention.
Your whole post makes no sense.
Tis the reason right here I still will not be purchasing an Xbox One. Your post is spot on though, and I still can't believe the people in charge of a billion dollar company thought any of this shit would fly with us.
MS needs to add a second SKU that drops the mandatory Kinect and drop the price to 399. If you want that camera in your house, more power to ya. You can buy the 499 version. I DO NOT want that piece of shit (Kinect) in my living room. I want a box, a controller, and games. THAT IS IT, how hard is that to understand MS????
I don't agree with EDGE on a lot of stuff but this article should be amazing.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Uh huh because people are going to suddenly forget what they tried to pull on them. Its like if someone spat on you and then wiped it off your face. I'm not going to forget that they spat on my face.
No, they should inform their readers as best they can and let them make an informed decision. Slapping "buy the PS4! it's the only choice" is nothing but system wars flamebait.
This isn't a bias situation. The PS4 is objectively a stronger machine. Now that they are both on X86, it's easy as pie to quantify the differences.
Gemüsepizza
Member
So listing facts makes people to fanboys?
Close minded? No.
I'm just not an imbecile.
See, I'm not an housewife who gets beaten by her husband every single day, but forgives him each and every day because he kisses her, buys her flowers and says "I'm sorry baby, but you made me do that. You know I love you"
I don't have stockholm syndrome.
People are free to buy the console. Like they were when it came with a spiky plug that you had insert it in your rectum in order to play games.
It's just that, this is the company that tried to screw you. The only company so far that did. And you're giving them the thumbs up.
Want games? You got three other platforms to enjoy your hobby. None of them do what microsoft tried to do.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Wait; what?! As an unbiased publication, isn't it exactly their ethical responsibility to report if a company like MS is adopting anti-consumer practices?
zomgbbqftw
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ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Whats funny is the article itself is going to be reasonably argued and will even give people reasons why they should get an X1.
But anyone thinking that out the gate Microsoft are going to compete with a PS4 nearly £100 cheaper doesnt know the uk market at all. While I do feel that further down the line microsoft will pull it back, The PS4 is going to destroy the X1 this hoilday and is going to purely on price.
Forget the specs, forget the games, if you offer two things to a brit that are of a similar ability and one is cheaper, 90% will buy the cheaper one. We are a nation of bargin hunters.
Makes sense why a british publication is just following the tide of sentiment.
But anyone thinking that out the gate Microsoft are going to compete with a PS4 nearly £100 cheaper doesnt know the uk market at all. While I do feel that further down the line microsoft will pull it back, The PS4 is going to destroy the X1 this hoilday and is going to purely on price.
Forget the specs, forget the games, if you offer two things to a brit that are of a similar ability and one is cheaper, 90% will buy the cheaper one. We are a nation of bargin hunters.
Makes sense why a british publication is just following the tide of sentiment.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Exactly, nobody wants them to fanboishly champion a console, but defending the consumers' rights should be their goal.
have you seen TitanFall? 'Nuff said. Conversation over.
I will never tire of this meme because this right here tells how MS biggest PR thinks their consumers are idiots.
Judging by this thread, I can unfortunatetly say, that he appears to be spot on.
Ol No Bones
Banned
I'm gonna love my ps4 but its not like they had so much more to offer than the Xbox at e3. If the drm stuff that people freaked out about wasn't there than this was microsofts e3 IMO.
It's disgusting when you compare console buying choice to domestic abuse, pretty disgusting. It's also the dumbest comparison I've ever seen. You are sticking your fingers in your ears and refusing to understand that for some people there was no issue with X1 policy for some people because they bought new, didn't lend ect.
Those platforms don't have all the games I want, not that matters, if someone wants to buy an Xbox One there is nothing wrong with them. There is something wrong with your view on it though.
LOL
Going to make a thread about how Edge have everything wrong?
No, I will call them idiots for suggesting PS4 is the ONLY OPTION because it's $100 cheaper and more powerful though, completely disregarding other stuff like OS, Games, ect.
Beyond price, which is huge, it's looking like Sony will ship more units in 2013 making a victory this holiday a foregone conclusion.
Next year is where things get interesting.
Shots fired once again.
Mr.Marston
Member
Its certainly had an effect.
hooijdonk17
Member
IncandescentPrecept
Banned
Edge has every right to take sides. They are not journalists.
Ol No Bones
Banned
Titanfall does look like the best thing to come out of e3 and you can not get it on ps4. If a Sony rep said the same thing about infamous nobody would care because like titanfall it's a system seller and it makes sense to point out those differences. For some reason people on here seem to be looking for things to be mad about when it comes to the Xbox brand.
IncandescentPrecept
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michaelius
Banned
So they should sugar coat ugly truth and pretend both are great when one of consoles is superior choice in the name of politicall corectness and nut hurting feelings of fanboys of one brand ?
But but but false equivalency or something. Everything that guy has said has been refuted, hilarious.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Yep. Cheaper and more available are huge advantages here.
and the only exclusives that matter here are FIFA and COD. Titanfall wont be a system seller until after it becomes popular.
I've not read the article yet, but I guess it's just an(other) opinion, unlikely to drive people away from buying the Xbox One specially in the USA where "console" and "Call of Duty" are synonyms of "Xbox", the higher price might make it less dominant in the UK though. Meanwhile the usual suspects in Europe and Asia will still buy Sony over anything. Edge won't change anything.
Why? It's EXACTLY the same behavior. Someone is abused and forgives whoever abused them because they do a U-turn in their behavior.
What's disgusting is your ridiculous fanboyism that allows you to turn a blind eye on this issue.
Neither FIFA or Cod are exclusives.
We'd be fine. The PC will still be there, and there's always Nintendo...lol.
quickwhips
Member
Im either doing ps4 or pc after ms build. My buddies were there and stated ms is totally lost its way. I need to see ps4 ui in action not be a mess i know it will be or valve big picture to have media functions of live. They both fail in different aspects but hopefully i will be proven wrong in ling run. Sorta think ms is dead to me even if all games are dedicated servers.
RedNumberFive
Banned
So Edge is pretty much just saying what we're all already thinking. Good on them.
Well as it stands now SONY seems to be the only one who really cares about us. MS needs to learn from this massive mistake and never try and do this shit again.
I've already covered this before. Cumulative awards and/or product reviewers are not the same thing as prerelease coverage based entirely on information spoonfed via the the manufacturer at a controlled environment via a press event, and as such are not equivalent.
Indeed.
This. They do not need to strike a balance in this "conzole warz", they will tell you what they think you should buy. That is EDGE. They have done and will do this for whatever product/game they think is worth your time. There are bound to be many who disagree, and that's fine!
Big difference between journalists and consumer magazines.
Served cold.
JetBlackPanda
Member
No it isn't the same because it wasn't an issue for some people, what are you not getting???
The second X1 pulled something I wasn't happy with, I would have veto'd any purchasing plans. Nothing to do with fanboyism, you're just incredibly closed minded failing to see that for the portion of people that don't lend, buy new and are connected to the net, this wasn't an issue.
I've said in the past there is a myriad of things they could have done that would have them lose me as a consumer, none of what they did affected me though.
Stop being ignorant.
LOL you wanna talk about blind fanboyism, look at this guy. Sony doesn't give a shit about you, they're playing good cop right now and they're capable of pulling shit too.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
I'm no fan of MS lately;
But you can't forget that tables can completely turn from one generation to another.
Company philosophies seemed to basically switch.
Yellowflashdude
Member
Ok, I lol'd at the 'is microsoft dead?' part of the cover.
you cant bee srious...cmon, abused? really? And by who? If you dont like it you have other choices. It's not that microsoft is your abusive dad and is forcing you to buy his console.
Hardly. If a politician spends months pitching a platform that the majority of their constituents actively hate, shrug off concerns, and then when they see the early voting numbers quickly reverse their stance is our trust in that individual supposed to magically reverse course as well?
Microsoft's original Xbox One policies were blatantly anti-consumer. They might not have affected some of us, myself included given my purchasing habits, but that doesn't mean all should be forgiven. Trust is earned, not given. They burned away their goodwill with the past few years of not focusing on the core audience, pitching us a machine we had no interest in, and the absolutely god awful messaging during and after their original reveal event. I wouldn't tell anyone not to purchase the Xbox One at all. However, unless they're purchasing the console for the first party exclusives I might try to make the case that Sony is the one of the two that has made the more believable and direct case for us, the gaming audience. That argument is probably what the content of the article is composed of.
Roland1979
Junior Member
They really shoved MS over The Edge. The problem is not attacking MS, but trying to down a already burning plane. I bet MS is really on Edge after all this.
Guess which One is the Xbox brand and which Edge holds the Stinger?
Guess which One is the Xbox brand and which Edge holds the Stinger?
Ace Harding
Member
Why? It's an enthusiast magazine about consumer products. Read car magazines. They will have "car of the year," they will recommend certain cars over others, etc. These magazines have reviews with scores and will recommend certain products over others.
Look at Consumer Reports. Totally unbiased publication that recommends some products and suggests that readers stay away from others.
No problem with this at all. A hobbyist magazine doesn't have to stay neutral on everything.
If by being "Served cold" you mean "posted an entirely fallacious and incomplete argument", then yeah I agree.