PS4 Manufacturing Costs "Much Smaller" Than PS3
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They've got a few more things:Lunar Templar said:
1. More likely to have fewer or even no ads on the dash (compare ps3's dash with the 360's dash, guess which one I considered cluttered and ad-riddled vs linear and simple to navigate without stabbing your eyes with marketing you're forced to see because you had the gall to buy their system? Microsoft pours money into figuring out how to market to people in system by overcoming ad-blindness (their answer, put the ads front and center instead of off to the margins, asses).
2. No mandatory Kinect. If you believe that the kinect will be be used for marketing, which Microsoft fully intends to do if possible, then this is a problem.
3. Indie friendliness. Microsoft has traditionally been a huge dick to indie developers. Sony is going out of their way to make the experience as positive as possible. That means a lot.
4. More powerful. While that shouldn't make a huge difference now, as we approach the last few years of the next generation it will begin to show in the same way that the ps3's asset category limitations on asset size are beginning to show now with games like Skyrim where the assets bloat.
5. Cloud computing = always online gaming. Microsoft's push to encourage online computing will essentially make every game that uses it an always online game. It'll be exactly like Sim City 5 only this time instead of it being a lie that the servers are necessary to process in-game calculations, it'll be true for no other reason than to justify the DRM. Like, yeah, it processes lighting physics but that could have been done by the system too.
6. The future of one's gaming library. Along the lines of the ps4 not being douche nozzles, you've got to wonder what Microsoft will do in the future. Are they someone you can trust to not screw with your existing library even if backwards compatibility is available.
7. Exclusives. Microsoft may be able to do better this generation but the past generation was largely filled with fantastic playstation exclusives that convinced me of the ps3 being a better buy after a rocky start. This is largely because a ton of games that are a console exclusive for Microsoft also become playable on the pc (of which I have a very powerful one) whereas the playstation exclusives tend to stay there. As such, there were a bunch of memorable exclusives for Sony and only a handful of Microsoft's that I played and remembers (Halo, Gears of War... something else?).
8. Background downloading and applying updates is completely known for the ps4. Oddly enough, I haven't found information on the XBO regarding this.
So what we have is a console that is tit for tat equal to or better than the XBO. It can absolutely say it does what the XBO does and more, especially with the XBO playing catch up. The things the XBO has is the kinect 2 that some people do love and will enjoy and it also has some exclusive titles that are the best reason to buy a system in my opinion. I much prefer ps4's titles so far but if someone reading this prefers the XBO exclusive announced so far then that's completely up to the individual.