RCBH928 wrote:
On a side note, not sure why the XboxOne is not getting as much love as the PS4. Its more or less the same thing with a different physical look.
The extra $100 for a Kinect few wanted didn't help them, but it's largely regional. In the U.S. the 360 was the best selling system last gen, and the Xbox One isn't all that far behind the PS4.
While there are additional reasons to speculate on, like lower GPU specs leading to slightly lesser versions of multiplatform games, or people still feeling burned from RRoD failures...it's probably in much greater part to the Xbox brand just not being as strong globally. It's the non-U.S. markets that see the PS4 really spanking the Xbox One, but the 360 didn't sell as well in those regions either.
The games on offer for the PS4 and XboxOne seem practically identical to me. I know there are a few special snowflakes for either platform but it makes it hard to discern any built-in value that would take precedence over cost.
I actually don't understand how the PS4/XboxOne/PC markets manage to co-exist. It's great for developers but it seems like Sony, Microsoft, and Steam are all chasing the exact same pennies.
Maybe now Nintendo will acknowledge Metroid has a fanbase?
Flake wrote:
I actually don't understand how the PS4/XboxOne/PC markets manage to co-exist. It's great for developers but it seems like Sony, Microsoft, and Steam are all chasing the exact same pennies.
I see it more as PS4 and Xbox One are competing and each have some exclusives.
PC has a bunch of stuff on those consoles... and a bunch of exclusives.
Wii U is a thing that exists just for people who want Nintendo first party games.
Flake wrote:The games on offer for the PS4 and XboxOne seem practically identical to me.
Things were like that during the 7th generation, and arguably the 6th as well.
Going back further, I love how distinct the N64, PlayStation, and Saturn were from each other. Same goes for the SNES, Genesis, TurboGrafx-16. Or the NES, SMS, Atari 7800. And so on...
noiseredux wrote:Wii U is a thing that exists just for people who want Nintendo first party games.
Which means, based on your current track record, that in two years you'll get hardcore into the Wii U.
nah. Wii was my first "last gen" console. And over time, I even bought a 2nd one. Yet I never had a phase where I was really into it. Even though I owned it the longest, it got way less use than PS3 and 360 did.
Luke wrote:I'm kinda sorta just getting into the 360. Have well over sixty games for it, have only played a few.
This is my situation with the system as well. Bought my first 360 last Christmas actually. I got my first PS3 around the same time also. But I haven't even booted the thing up yet.
Exhuminator wrote:
This is my situation with the system as well. Bought my first 360 last Christmas actually. I got my first PS3 around the same time also. But I haven't even booted the thing up yet.
Bioshock Infinite, Child of Eden, and El Shadai blew me away. I have plenty of games to play, but they're all so time consuming. And it's not like games are difficult...just looooooooong.
But I also have around twenty PS2 games that I haven't opened yet*, so my backlog is also stupidly long.
