Play Hard Gaming: Final Round Up; Playstation 4 or Xbox One?

With the release of Next-Gen Consoles mere days away, its time for a final match up. Have you made your decisions yet?

Specs-wise, Developers have since expressed that the PS4 is more powerful than the Xbox One, with a confirmation that most, if not all, Cross-Platform games, like the anticipated COD: Ghosts running Native 1080p on the PS4 but will only run Upscaled 720p on the Xbox One

The Xbox One will allow users to play CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays, while the PS4 cannot even play CDs but only DVDs and Blu-Ray discs. Xbox One will also be compatible with DLNA, meaning that it can be used as a Media Server.
The Xbox One will be released on Nov. 22, which is a full week after The Playstation 4 Nov. 15 release date. Furthermore, the Xbox One also costs more at $499 than the more budget-friendly PS4, which is going to be $100 cheaper. Sure, Microsoft's Xbox One will be more expensive, but take note that it will also include more such as the new Kinect which allows Voice Control for the Xbox One's UI, with Sony's Camera can be purchased separately for 60$

Analysts are predicting that Sony and Microsoft will ship around 2.5 million game consoles combined in the upcoming season.

The Xbox One will need the same Xbox Live membership to play Online games, which wont be much of a problem for people who are considering the Xbox One as they should have a background of how to Xbox 360's Xbox Live works. Its a different Story though, for Sony's upcoming PS4 as Shuhei Yoshida explained that "The main pillar for the PS4 will be online play. We're developing many new ways to play and connect which requires a large investment of resources. Considering the cost, to try to keep such a service free and consequently lower the quality would be absurd. We decided that if that's the case, then it would be better to receive proper payment and continue to offer a good service.

"Both Consoles are NOT Backwards compatible, Disc-wise, But Gakai, which Sony acquired June of 2012, has expressed that someday, they want to bring Legacy titles to the PS4 via their Cloud Service.

"We want to build a system that preserved the best of console gaming, so that developers can write to the metal, they can continue to optimize, they can continue to build better looking games over time and also have this part of the system reserved for the future." - Albert Penello, Xbox One's Director of Product Planning

With most next-gen games optimized to run at 60fps, will the majority of gamers really notice the difference? I still think that it all boils down to preference, and exclusive titles like Titan Fall for the Xbox and Infamous: Second Son for the PS4, though most of the titles for the PS4 has been pushed back to 2014. I find no reason to discriminate one console over the other as both obviously have their own pros and cons. Game On!

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- Sephie