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Old 11-25-2013, 03:27 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Devryn17 View Post
LOL I don't know YOU! How could I say how it's a better value to YOU? I explained why it's a better value to ME. Halo 3 is considerably older than the free stuff Sony has offered.
1. I don't hate XBox. I own the original and the 360, and last generation, the 360 was my goto for a long time...Then I had FOUR red rings. FOUR! I bought a PS3 after the fourth one (which was out of warranty). I didn't buy another 360 until the Star Wars bundle came out, and its ONLY because I wanted a console that looked like R2D2. Kinect is GARBAGE, incidentally, and it will always be garbage. I don't want a camera, so the camera "value" is a zero add for ME. Free games are a big VALUE ADD for me. There are always 6 PS3 games and 6 Vita games available at any given time. If this PS4/Vita Bundle is anywhere near the $500 Microsoft wants for it's console and camera, then there is some real value to anyone who's on the fence.
2. The PS4 is faster. It's GDDR5 RAM and system BUS are much faster. Optimization will always be better on the PS4, so this disparity in game resolutions will always be a thing that PS4 will win. Also, worth noting, is that system tasks like processing video, and the OS are mainly processed on separate processors used for that specific task, and not the main processor/APU. XBone only uses the one processor for everything, including the Kinect (which reserves about 30% of the systems processing power at any given time).
Like I said, FOR ME, the PS4 is a better value. I will likely pick up an XBone eventually. There will undoubtedly be some exclusive that makes it an impulse buy, but FOR ME this is where I see the value, and that's what I explained. I don't KNOW YOU. I can't speak to what YOU'LL FIND OF VALUE. For me, free games (and some great ones at that), combined with a faster system and the ability to remote play mean this is a console I can use on the regular, I'll always have something to play, and it doesn't matter if the TV is being used by someone else in the house or not.
That is only going to be beneficial to proprietary games. Developers of multi console titles aren't going to utilize the extra hardware the PS4 has. So there will be very little difference between games on the various systems.
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