boneyjangles
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I'd say the power of the Xbox One and the PS4 was similar enough that it made next to no differnce. The gap between the two was way closer than it was in the previous generation. PS3 was at bigger disadvatage vs the 360 to me, I remember a few of my favourite titles looking noticably worse on PS3, missing foilage or building detail. When I look at my friend playing Battlefield 4 on his Xbone, it's pretty much the same shit, maybe a slightly lower res, but I would struggle to notice. Both consoles are moderate power, low risk, safe, balanced, cheap-ish, and setup for making a profit from as close to day 1 as possible.
But did the slight power advantage, even if it doesn't translate to much on screen, account for the difference in sales? Maybe not that much.
I knew I wanted a PS4 over an Xbox One when I saw that E3 presentation spearheaded by Don Mattrick. Forcus on TV, TV guides, Halo TV series, limited exclusives, but at least the price was expensive, right? Sony was focusing on gaming, Microsoft were lost in the casual world after some Kinect success the previous generation.
But even if you didn't see the conference (again, I doubt most did), and the power difference doesn't seem an issue, you have a much bigger, uglier, more expensive, boxy looking console that comes with a huge external power brick, vs a sleek slim console with an internal power brick for less money. And that's before we get into nitty gritty about Memory architecture, reselling games.
MS just fucked up in so many small ways, it was cumulatively terrible in comparison, while not being objectively -that- bad. Whereas Sony generally got everything right, while not being objectively -that- good!
As for Scorpio VS Neo? Depends on the price/power ratio. Hope Sony aren't too underpowered whatever happens, becuase I'm not switching and to be honest, I'm ready to ditch my PC finally.
But did the slight power advantage, even if it doesn't translate to much on screen, account for the difference in sales? Maybe not that much.
I knew I wanted a PS4 over an Xbox One when I saw that E3 presentation spearheaded by Don Mattrick. Forcus on TV, TV guides, Halo TV series, limited exclusives, but at least the price was expensive, right? Sony was focusing on gaming, Microsoft were lost in the casual world after some Kinect success the previous generation.
But even if you didn't see the conference (again, I doubt most did), and the power difference doesn't seem an issue, you have a much bigger, uglier, more expensive, boxy looking console that comes with a huge external power brick, vs a sleek slim console with an internal power brick for less money. And that's before we get into nitty gritty about Memory architecture, reselling games.
MS just fucked up in so many small ways, it was cumulatively terrible in comparison, while not being objectively -that- bad. Whereas Sony generally got everything right, while not being objectively -that- good!
As for Scorpio VS Neo? Depends on the price/power ratio. Hope Sony aren't too underpowered whatever happens, becuase I'm not switching and to be honest, I'm ready to ditch my PC finally.