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How will you choose between MS & Sony's new consoles?

Josey Wales

If Sony and Microsoft release both of their new machines later this year how will you decided which machine to get? For the sake of discussion lets just say that they will be released this year.

Will it be brand loyalty? You've bought into the MS Live eco system or PSN and don't want to switch? Will it be the hardware specs of the machine or the launch line up of games? Will it be backwards compatibility? Price?

For me right now I have no idea which I would choose. In this current generation I bought all three (Wii, PS3, 360). I don't think brand loyalty will be a factor for me. In the end I will probably end up with both so I will just have to decide which one first. One important factor will be what Naughty Dog has lined up for the PS4 (or whatever they call it).

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VinLieger

C14N wrote: »

Getting a gaming PC is a lot more hassle and will generally come at the cost of owning any major exclusives, as opposed to buying both consoles which bags you almost all major exclusives (excluding Nintendo ones). Usually, most people who buy both will buy the second either second hand or at a much lower price too.

Clueless factless statement, you could buy a pc for less than the cost of the 2 new consoles and have acces to WAY more PC exclusives than there are exclusive to both console

Beefy78

MadYaker wrote: »

All you people saying you're going to buy both consoles in the long run should really just buy a decent gaming PC instead and save yourselves all the hassle and possibly a lot of money. You could get an awesome PC for the price of 2 consoles, it would outperform both.

Can we please go five pages eventually without a patronsing post telling us all to buy a gaming PC.

I don't want a gaming PC. I want a console. I don't get why that's a problem for some people.

ShadowHearth

Well anyway, I decided 100% I am getting ps4 at launch. So I will be juggling between ps4, pc, vita, 3ds. I might get xbox one few years in when it has price cut. So far it's only forza that I would love to play on Xbox one, but not worth buying inferior Xbox one. Plus we getting gt6 on ps3 and that driveclub on ps4. Enough of driving stuff for me!

C14N

titan18 wrote: »

Tbf, not going to getting into it, but pc has far more exclusives than a console.

I've been PC gaming since 2009 and the only major exclusives I have are Spore and Civilization 4. Okay, I will admit that strategy games and MMOs are pretty much always PC-exclusive but aside from that, there are very few AAA games that I know of that come out only on PC.

Pushtrak

DeSelby83 wrote: »

Are any of the vendors going to do any deals with pre orders or will they all just be a basic model does anyone know

No one knows. Nothing has been announced, though in fairness, early days yet. And I don't mean just in terms of E3.

[Deleted User]

Are any of the vendors going to do any deals with pre orders or will they all just be a basic model does anyone know

titan18

Pushtrak wrote: »

This isn't the thread for it [see title] but go ahead and start a new thread on it.

Oh, I don't want to, which is why I said I don't want to go into it, it's done enough tbh, was just in answer to a poster saying he'd miss major exclusives by going pc

[Deleted User]

Not sure if this has been posted already. Epic!

Snake Plisken

Won't be making the same mistake as last generation and buying both consoles, never play with my 360's and I don't like all the DRM attached to the Xbox One so PS4 for me! Now just to find out where to pre-order it from!

Azza

True, buy the format or formats you will think you get the most enjoyment out of.

So not a Vita then

Pushtrak

titan18 wrote: »

Tbf, not going to getting into it, but pc has far more exclusives than a console.

This isn't the thread for it [see title] but go ahead and start a new thread on it.

Grayditch

Hey, everyone just buy what they like the look of. Pc's aren't for everyone, nor are consoles.

Azza

C14N wrote:

buying both consoles which bags you almost all major exclusives (excluding Nintendo ones)

Let me fix that for you, buying both consoles which bags you almost all major exclusives (excluding Nintendo and PC ones)

titan18

C14N wrote: »

Getting a gaming PC is a lot more hassle and will generally come at the cost of owning any major exclusives, as opposed to buying both consoles which bags you almost all major exclusives (excluding Nintendo ones). Usually, most people who buy both will buy the second either second hand or at a much lower price too.

Tbf, not going to getting into it, but pc has far more exclusives than a console.

C14N

MadYaker wrote: »

All you people saying you're going to buy both consoles in the long run should really just buy a decent gaming PC instead and save yourselves all the hassle and possibly a lot of money. You could get an awesome PC for the price of 2 consoles, it would outperform both.

Getting a gaming PC is a lot more hassle and will generally come at the cost of owning any major exclusives, as opposed to buying both consoles which bags you almost all major exclusives (excluding Nintendo ones). Usually, most people who buy both will buy the second either second hand or at a much lower price too.

Pushtrak

MadYaker wrote: »

All you people saying you're going to buy both consoles in the long run should really just buy a decent gaming PC instead and save yourselves all the hassle and possibly a lot of money. You could get an awesome PC for the price of 2 consoles, it would outperform both.

Actually, it would underperform. Performance, here, being measured in games I'll want.

MadYaker

All you people saying you're going to buy both consoles in the long run should really just buy a decent gaming PC instead and save yourselves all the hassle and possibly a lot of money. You could get an awesome PC for the price of 2 consoles, it would outperform both.

C14N

Limericks wrote: »

No but it has gaikai which will allow you to play a ps3 back catalog post launch by streaming the game from a server farm akin to onlive.

I'm a bit dubious now about Gaikai. It's not out until next year and even then, no sign of a European release date. I worry that it might be like Hulu and never make it over here or best case scenario, like Netflix and we get it about 4 or 5 years late.

WarZoneBrother

Would be interesting to see a Poll with each console and which one people will buy... PS4 for me anyways ...

aN.Droid

Professional Griefer wrote: »

Is the PS4 backwards compatible? I know the xbone isn't.

No but it has gaikai which will allow you to play a ps3 back catalog post launch by streaming the game from a server farm akin to onlive.

Professional Griefer

Is the PS4 backwards compatible? I know the xbone isn't.

Varik

C14N wrote: »

I'm fairly sure those are both placeholder prices. In the last two generations, games have been €60 at launch. Not to mention that most shops will include at least one major game in a bundle.

Most were around €70-75 for the PS3 and 360 at launch, Sony first party game were €60 but that was it.

C14N

Pushtrak wrote: »

I think JRPGs are pretty much all going to be on PS4 this time around..

I'd say the Wii U will get a fair few too, Nintendo are very popular in Japan.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The story is so ****ing god awful that jumping in at any point doesn't matter. I'd go so far as to say it's the worst piece of fiction ever written by mankind, and I include Twilight in that as well.

Even worse than Grease?

el dude wrote: »

€70 games is going to be pretty rough though.

mcgovern wrote: »

Amazon are listing most Xbox 1/PS4 games as £55, so that should be around €65. Hopefully that will drop to €60 as you say, closer to launch.

I'm fairly sure those are both placeholder prices. In the last two generations, games have been €60 at launch. Not to mention that most shops will include at least one major game in a bundle.

[Deleted User]

I just put a deposit on a ps4 in gamestop. Can't wait till the damn thing is out

Unearthly

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

So, having given serious thought to it, my main issue was with the games shown, and initially I was more interested in the Xbox One exclusives like Dead Rising 3, Forza 5, Titanfall and Halo 3, than the likes of Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Killzone which I have never really been into. But when you consider that Halo 3 and Titanfall won't be around until 2014, it means the only thing I am properly sad about missing out on at launch is Forza, and I can't justify buying what I believe to be an all-round inferior console for €100 more just for that. So I am pretty sure I'll be getting a PS4 at launch, and will likely pick up an Xbox One sometime down the road when the price drops.

Correct approach

That's what I did with 360 and ps3. At the time there was no logic in me buying a ps3 over a 360 so I waited til it was cheap and had a huge game library

Mikeyt086

So, having given serious thought to it, my main issue was with the games shown, and initially I was more interested in the Xbox One exclusives like Dead Rising 3, Forza 5, Titanfall and Halo 3, than the likes of Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Killzone which I have never really been into. But when you consider that Halo 3 and Titanfall won't be around until 2014, it means the only thing I am properly sad about missing out on at launch is Forza, and I can't justify buying what I believe to be an all-round inferior console for €100 more just for that. So I am pretty sure I'll be getting a PS4 at launch, and will likely pick up an Xbox One sometime down the road when the price drops.

Grayditch

Spose I better go pre-book a console for the first time in my life.

XBOX HERE I COME.

No, wait, that didn't sound right...

Nody

Skerries wrote: »

You take that back!!!

nothing is worse than Twilight

50 shades of gray; fan fiction porn of Twilight (no joke).

Korvanica

Pushtrak wrote: »

I'm indifferent to how it looks, though I'm indifferent to how consoles look generally. Some have said they think it looks like the XO (as an aside, I'd rather that was how the console was referred.. Or X1. Xbone sounds stupid.) but my first thoughts when I saw it was it reminded me of the PS2 in a way. That isn't to say it looks exactly like a PS2 but I think there was definitely some inspiration there from it.

Inspiration was drawn from 2 PS2 slims on stacked top of each other id say ....

Pushtrak

I'm indifferent to how it looks, though I'm indifferent to how consoles look generally. Some have said they think it looks like the XO (as an aside, I'd rather that was how the console was referred.. Or X1. Xbone sounds stupid.) but my first thoughts when I saw it was it reminded me of the PS2 in a way. That isn't to say it looks exactly like a PS2 but I think there was definitely some inspiration there from it.