Yeah right now, none of them are super compelling. I am leaning towards the PS4, but without a hard reveal, and some compelling games(and the console decently priced), I’m not sure where I’m at this generation.

I’m leaning towards the PS4, but waiting til E3, and more info on the consoles and games are announced. That said, the PS4 does appear to have the graphical advantage as it has 30% more GPU cores, and higher bandwidth GDDR5 memory(but I assume it’ll suffer from the lowest common denominator as many games will be cross platform :/ ). There’s a great article on Anandtech that breaks down a lot of the hardware info.

Sounds like a scumbag Microsoft meme: It’s future proof, so we’ll make sure it’s highly compatible with the dying medium of television.

It better be posted back on speed run.

I guess it comes to the ship of Theseus argument. If much of the engine is replaced, is it still the same engine? That comes down to who is using it, and if they appreciate the changes I guess.

I believe they’re just talking video output, and not of playing games at 4K natively.

Yeah they’re more likely to just upscale the games.

The size of a 4K movie, even compressed is huge(100GBs+). It would take several Blu-ray discs to play it, and even then, as you said, the hardware may not even be capable of handling it.

I imagine it’s to do with game sizes, and the limited hardware(a guess). Making a video at 4K with conventional methods can be upwards of 100GBs, I’d hate to see how large a game at that size would be.

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/home-entertainment/1290532/how-much-hard-disk-space-you-will-need-for-4k-video-files

http://gizmodo.com/5914426/the-first-cinema-resolution-movie-download-available-to-consumers-is-160gb-and-absolutely-breathtaking

PS4 and X1 aren’t likely to support games at 4K, but both support the 4K resolution as an output.

Uh…the PS4 is totally 4K ready. Where are you getting this info?

And network TV! That’s still a thing right?

And online gaming! That totally wasn’t around on the PC before 2002!

If I get one, there is going to be Styrofoam, and plastic covering it up.

If I get one, there is going to be Styrofoam, and plastic covering it up.

I am so excited for this game. The more I see the more I get hyped!

The racy artwork irked some of the employees at the company, including a woman who works with an all-female team of data scientists there.

That’s some gender equality right there.

Hook up 360 through Xbox One. Create…a box the size of a small European country.

I’m interested to see how many resources both consoles will be taking to do these multi-tasking abilities. If they have them permanently quartered off, or if it’s adaptable.

I’ve mostly heard the RAM on the PS4 is universal and can be split however between the OS and the game.

“when the time is right,” Would have been last year FYI.

The lack of Alan Wake 2 as a starting title for X1 lost any direct interest for the console(I would have dropped every misgiving of the X1 just to play that game were it coming out within the next year). I’m glad it’s still on the table, but SUPER sad it’s not an opening game for it.

That sucks. The avatars were a great idea, horribly realized. Why a full on game was never made to utilize the avatars and avatar items in an RPG setting was sad. A few XBLIGs were the closest to do this.

The PS4 has more GPU cores(30% more) than the Xbox, and universal GDDR5 memory, which depending on the Xbox’s implementation, will also deliver that performance faster.

Source. Info on second page.

I believe it will be all of those things. And more.

-So far Xbox has been detailing new features, such as increased player count, and possibility of large persistent worlds(a la MMOs) will be included.
-Offload certain tasks to be computed in ‘the cloud’.
-Allow you to access your saves, and even play games not installed on a friends Xbox from ‘the cloud’
-The Halo TV series will likely only be accessed behind this wall.
-This is just speculation, but it’s likely any of the apps will likely require a Gold sub to download and use.

Let’s just hope the PS4’s online connectivity stays free.