Xbox One

[seieienbu]

I went through 3 PS1s and 2 PS2s.  Still on my first Xbox 360 and that thing got played more than any Playstation I've ever owned.  This may be a dumb tin-foil-hat thoery, but I think a lot of the outrage about Xbone was staged by Gamestop.  The motive would obviously be to keep their terrible business model of stupid-pawn-shop to screw people out of money.  After that, well, if you yell enough on the internet people will agree with you eventually so people joined in on the fun and suddenly it was super trendy to hate on M$ for all the evils they used to abuse kind hearted gamers.

Personally, I hate the PS4.  It plays the same games slower than the Xbox, the online infrastructure is worse, and I dislike the interface.  Running tournaments on PS4s is a miserable experience.  You have to go 3 menus deep to actually delete controllers so that the idiot who played on pad 2 sets ago doesn't f*ck up your game when he sits down with his wireless controller in his pocket.  PS4 got Street Fighter V and Shenmue 3 though, so I had to go Sony for the exclusives. 

[GohanX]

I agree with the early Xbone outrage, Microsoft was being stupid and thinking they could f*ck their customers just because they could.

They have since righted the ship and i generally buy Xbone versions of multiplatform games.

[jtucci31]

I went through 3 PS1s and 2 PS2s.  Still on my first Xbox 360 and that thing got played more than any Playstation I've ever owned.  This may be a dumb tin-foil-hat thoery, but I think a lot of the outrage about Xbone was staged by Gamestop.  The motive would obviously be to keep their terrible business model of stupid-pawn-shop to screw people out of money.  After that, well, if you yell enough on the internet people will agree with you eventually so people joined in on the fun and suddenly it was super trendy to hate on M$ for all the evils they used to abuse kind hearted gamers.

Personally, I hate the PS4.  It plays the same games slower than the Xbox, the online infrastructure is worse, and I dislike the interface.  Running tournaments on PS4s is a miserable experience.  You have to go 3 menus deep to actually delete controllers so that the idiot who played on pad 2 sets ago doesn't f*ck up your game when he sits down with his wireless controller in his pocket.  PS4 got Street Fighter V and Shenmue 3 though, so I had to go Sony for the exclusives.

Sony is definitely ahead of Microsoft in the exclusives department unless you're super into Halo and Gears of War. But when it comes to online they're both definitely flawed.

Though I don't know how any prefers the Xbox UI homescreen to the PS4 one. It's filled with adds and tiles and junk that feels so convoluted (though I have heard it's gotten a little better).

[seieienbu]

Honestly, both console interfaces are terrible.  Neither seem to exist to actually let you play games.  I liked the Xbox 360 interface back when it was around though. 

I agree with the early Xbone outrage, Microsoft was being stupid and thinking they could f*ck their customers just because they could.

They have since righted the ship and i generally buy Xbone versions of multiplatform games.

Gamestop is screwing people out of money.  MS was going to let you gameshare with people for free.  Congrats, people like you making internet posts allowed Gamestop to continue to have it's shitty used game pawning and now you have to buy every game yourself.

[GohanX]

Yes, I'm crying since I get to buy physical games on sale for $20 instead of them sitting in the digital store for $60 forever.

[GohanX]

Besides, who am I gonna share with? Nobody else bought a Bone but me.

[bartre]

Yes, I'm crying since I get to buy physical games on sale for $20 instead of them sitting in the digital store for $60 forever.

I will absolutely back this up.
plenty of games get pretty much abandoned by publishers and never go on sale after a certain point.
plus, Sony/MS store sales blow for anything that isn't considered a "classic" or an indie game.

[Punch]

Yes, that GameStop theory is very dumb.

[ClodBuster]

My Jasper chipset X360 bought in 2009 or 2010 is still going strong and has been used thoroughly.
The current user interface with the tiles is a smart idea, but there are problems. The ads are annoying, and there's little way of customization. Compare this to gorgeously customizable home screen of the Windows Phone interface to understand where Microsoft missed the mark.

Years later, I bought a Slim PS3. It gets used as a Blu-ray player and Youtube machine mainly. That interface is OK.

[seieienbu]

Yes, that GameStop theory is very dumb.

I get that on a lot of my theories.
 :oops:

I'd still rather game sharing was a thing than used games.

[Pfloydguy2]

as that way Microsoft wouldn't get any of my money.  I only have Cuphead and Ori & the Blind Forest

So they did get your money.

A little, yes!

This seems entirely ill informed, short sighted, and petty.  Xbone was going to be forward thinking and interesting.  In the end, it wound up being more of the same because of the stupid internet backlash to idiots complaining that they can't sell their $60 game back to gamestop for $12 in store credit.

Does your therapist know you get this angry about internet opinions?

I don't care about being able to sell games.  I've sold something like two games in my life, and those only because they were duplicates.  But I love buying used games.  One of my favorite things to do is browsing used game stores.  If Microsoft had their way, their products would never appear there.

[Punch]

Yes, that GameStop theory is very dumb.

I get that on a lot of my theories.
 :oops:

I'd still rather game sharing was a thing than used games.

Dude, GameStop is a US only thing. Don't be silly.

Besides, used copies are way better than having intangible goods on a "game share" service where rules can be changed at any second. You know how some games cut the audio off or just don't let you play it when you activate Video Recording?

I never had any Atlus employees coming into my house and taking my used copy of persona 5 off my hands yet.

[ClodBuster]

Gamestop also exists in Germany.

The PS3 had HDCP activated not only for blu-ray video, but also in game mode. So you couldn't easily record your games via HDMI.

The X360 had none of that HDCP on the HDMI port. Recording? No problemo.

[TheClash603]

Xbox One X is my go to multi-platform machine now.  If you aren't a PC gamer and wanna play something new, it's the best option.  I wish there were a few more exclusives, but that's what Nintendo is for.

[NightWolve]

I went through 3 PS1s and 2 PS2s. 

Hm, I never had a problem with either, still have my originals. Had great times with both systems in my younger hey day, before I started to backlog up and drastically reduce any scheduled "me time" for gaming to barely once a year...