The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

To each his own, wasn't dogging you about it anyways. I guess I just never cared about the trophies on PSN and they were just a little side thing.

Any of you regret their PS4?

I thought i would cash out for one sometime down the line once my student debts cleared out but has time goes on, the more it feels the generational jump wasnt big enough. Theres hardly any games taking the full advantage of 1080p / 60 fps, either by hardware limitations or devs taking the easy way out. Now a year later, i sure feel more inclined to invest in a normal pc that just dwarfs this generation consoles specs. Especially since most pcs now offer supperb tv support and a ton of steam games that offer the controler option to just sit back in the couch like you would with a console. The hype wore off.


From the perspective of a guy who doesnt drown in green paper and cant own every systems.

You aren't getting a PC that"dwarfs" console specs for ~350, which is what you can get a ps4 for (which usually includes a game and controller)

The ps4 visuals can be pretty great, but most devs aim for higher resolution and textures while capping FPS to 30. If that bothers you then I doubt it will get significantly better over the life of the console

Rombo_sl said:

Any of you regret their PS4?

I thought i would cash out for one sometime down the line once my student debts cleared out but has time goes on, the more it feels the generational jump wasnt big enough. Theres hardly any games taking the full advantage of 1080p / 60 fps, either by hardware limitations or devs taking the easy way out. Now a year later, i sure feel more inclined to invest in a normal pc that just dwarfs this generation consoles specs. Especially since most pcs now offer supperb tv support and a ton of steam games that offer the controler option to just sit back in the couch like you would with a console. The hype wore off.

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if time and money are a factor imo PS4 is better if you enjoy AAA games, PC is better if you enjoy RPGs, older games (like 2-3 years behind everyone else) or indie games.

PS4 pros
- Bloodborne, Destiny Exclusive
- you can play GTA5 during the holidays, not 6 months later
- no time spent on drivers, config, etc
- you don't have to worry about online hackers, cheaters, whacky DRM (Hardline won't work if you swap GPUs), and a host of other things, you just play
- you can buy a game in store at launch, play 2-3 weeks, trade it in for most of what you paid and just keep doing this forever. Or rent from redbox/gamefly/etc. Cost of gaming can be very low per game.

PC pros
- exclusives like Wasteland 2, Homeworld Remastered, Pillars of Eternity, MMOs, and more indie/bundle games you could ever possibly play
- for FPS everyone is on an even playing field (kbm) - you will get your shit pushed in though if you try to game MP FPS with a controller on PC
- everything is digital (which can be bad if the game sucks and you have no way to return it)


I think it just comes down to whether you really, really, really like AAA 500-team games that are what everyone talks about, or you prefer smaller indie games that are more quirky but unique. If its the former you really have to play them on consoles, the PC ports tend to be messy fucked up things for a long time. If its the latter PC is by far and away the best choice, especially with stuff like humblebundle.com and indiegala.com


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xbox one
Pool Nation FX ($9.99 ERP)
Child of Light ($14.99 ERP)

360
Gears of War: Judgment ($19.99 ERP): Available from April 1-15 on Xbox 360
Terraria ($14.99 ERP): Available from April 1-15 on Xbox 360
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag ($29.99 ERP): Available from April 16-31 on Xbox 360
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel ($19.99 ERP): Available from April 16-31 on Xbox 360

weak ass shit on xbox one

you can also "preorder" the f2p Neverwinter Nights game on xbox one, releases 3/31
Neverwinter

I don't regret mine. For awhile it was unused until I got BF4, COD:AW (LOL), Shadows of Mordor, Bloodborne DestinyDiarrhea. To get a beefy PC you're looking at $1000+.

driveclub is $30 this week at gamestop ($25 used copy), but imo it doesn't hold a candle to forza 5 or horizon 2 so i wouldn't bother, especially with the free fast and furious FH2 free game coming out next week on xbox

Why haven't we received our free drive club yet?

That is some stupid shit. I mean.. people are still playing it consistently enough that they're worried people would get pissed?

Rombo_sl said:

Any of you regret their PS4?

I thought i would cash out for one sometime down the line once my student debts cleared out but has time goes on, the more it feels the generational jump wasnt big enough. Theres hardly any games taking the full advantage of 1080p / 60 fps, either by hardware limitations or devs taking the easy way out. Now a year later, i sure feel more inclined to invest in a normal pc that just dwarfs this generation consoles specs. Especially since most pcs now offer supperb tv support and a ton of steam games that offer the controler option to just sit back in the couch like you would with a console. The hype wore off.


From the perspective of a guy who doesnt drown in green paper and cant own every systems.

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Word on the street is $ony & M$ are releasing slim versions of next gen systems in q4 with upgraded CPUs. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony bundled PS4slim with No Man's Sky or other PS4 Christmas exclusives. I'd wait until then if there's nothing you're aching to play.

meStevo_sl said:

I could see slim revisions of these pretty bulky consoles, but not hardware upgrades that would only serve to splinter the user base. Maybe if they're done in an unnecessary way like supplementary hardware to support the VR efforts, and current owners would have to buy an expansion kit otherwise, that kind of thing.

That being said, can't say I wouldn't be interested in an upgrade, if that pans out at all

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PS3 and Xbox 360 all had cpu upgrades throughout their life. Maybe you are thinking clock speed, but what they usually improve is efficiency of the CPUs and size

No regrets on the ps4. I can play much of the xbone games on my pc and with what is left Sony clearly is better with exclusives. Combined with Microsoft's early arrogance I see no reason to support them this generation.

These days I mostly buy my stuff on ps4 and torrent what is on pc to check things out. I think the last game I bought on pc was wasteland 2 and h1z1. I haven't found much of interest otherwise. I really haven't used my pc all that much there just hasn't been much of interest to me that wasnt on ps4 and with game fly it's pretty cheap to rotate through games. Even mediocre ones.