Re: Owners of both PS4 and Xbox One: Pros and Cons
Yeah, I left PC gaming a decade ago because I preferred the ease and comfort of console gaming. I realized I was going to to give up certain franchises and genres, but I gained time, money, and a lack of stress. I now compute on Macs that last forever (especially when upgrading to play a game is not on the menu), and game on whatever console delivers the games and value I prefer.
It is a weird balance, though. I would never buy a TV based on the kind of apps it has. We used to have a Tivo that did Netflix, so the fact that the 360 was not a big deal, until we realized it was a far better version of the app, and the Kinect added even more value.
Microsoft may have gone overboard, catering to its growing majority of customers that used the 360 to stream media, but I was excited to see Microsoft's effort to provide all of that functionality in a console from the start, as opposed to a the 360, which had all of this addd over time.
I don't understand Daniel's annoyance with people that do appreciate and talk about the media stuff, because I would think that it would help clarify what it is people like about the console. If someone seriously would not use the features we are excited about, then it is easy for them to discount their value to the console, and possibly select something else.
I can tell you right now, if I were to sell the XB1, it would annoy my wife and daughter. They don't really play any of the exclusives, so getting them on the PS4 wold be no big deal. But take away the Kinect and how we use to with all of our media stuff, and they would miss it greatly. Hell, I took the TV out of the console for awhile early on because it was having issues with our old Tivo, and they still asked for it back.
I kind of hope Microsoft goes whole hog and designed the console to be a full on DVR in which we just need to add a an external hard drive to. I'm not counting on that, though. I'm picky about my DVR's, and the Genie from DirecTV is awesome in a ton of huge and subtle ways.
Yeah, I left PC gaming a decade ago because I preferred the ease and comfort of console gaming. I realized I was going to to give up certain franchises and genres, but I gained time, money, and a lack of stress. I now compute on Macs that last forever (especially when upgrading to play a game is not on the menu), and game on whatever console delivers the games and value I prefer.
It is a weird balance, though. I would never buy a TV based on the kind of apps it has. We used to have a Tivo that did Netflix, so the fact that the 360 was not a big deal, until we realized it was a far better version of the app, and the Kinect added even more value.
Microsoft may have gone overboard, catering to its growing majority of customers that used the 360 to stream media, but I was excited to see Microsoft's effort to provide all of that functionality in a console from the start, as opposed to a the 360, which had all of this addd over time.
I don't understand Daniel's annoyance with people that do appreciate and talk about the media stuff, because I would think that it would help clarify what it is people like about the console. If someone seriously would not use the features we are excited about, then it is easy for them to discount their value to the console, and possibly select something else.
I can tell you right now, if I were to sell the XB1, it would annoy my wife and daughter. They don't really play any of the exclusives, so getting them on the PS4 wold be no big deal. But take away the Kinect and how we use to with all of our media stuff, and they would miss it greatly. Hell, I took the TV out of the console for awhile early on because it was having issues with our old Tivo, and they still asked for it back.
I kind of hope Microsoft goes whole hog and designed the console to be a full on DVR in which we just need to add a an external hard drive to. I'm not counting on that, though. I'm picky about my DVR's, and the Genie from DirecTV is awesome in a ton of huge and subtle ways.
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