I pretty much play everything online so obviously it will be the 720 for me. Playstation network is terrible.
Didn't PlayStation Network shut down for like 3 months? Sounded fun But anyway, I'll be going for the 720. However, I'm really eager to play Kingdom Hearts 3 (assuming it comes out in my lifetime). But I have my suspicions that it'll fall out of Sony exclusives, and move over to Microsoft.
Well, if you're just a gunbro looking to be a gunbro in a game with a lot of other gunbros, then sure, I guess picking up the 720, Gears of War 5 and Halo 6 should be plenty enough for you. Maybe throw in a Forza 7 to make it look like you're real diverse.
I've given up much hope of SE making that anytime soon (or it being any good). Though I think you're right, it will probably be multiplatform. Or 3DS/Vita exclusive.
I gotta believe they're withholding some information about this "always online" thing. I just gotta believe they'll provide a way to play offline, or at least give some reason as to why they're doing it and why people should buy into it. I'm an Xbox guy, and I'll wait until the reveal and until I get all the info before I truly judge it.
I don't doubt that Microsoft has been thinking about always-online. Whether they'll actually do it is something else. They may back off if backlash is strong enough. I've always been a Sony guy anyway, so I'm definitely leaning toward PS4. If the 720 is indeed always-online, it'll just be the nail in the coffin.
There's some good reasons to do it. Just not enough to justify doing it (at least IMO, but I think it is a popular opinion). I could see them maybe doing some sort of activation thing. Maybe you have to activate every game you play (with online connection). But always-online, and something that kicks you off after 3 minutes like the rumors say? Just seems like a horrible decision. I know people in this industry were stupid with Diablo 3, SimCity, etc., but I just don't see why they'd do this (especially now with the backlash). edit: And yeah, like AtheistPreacher says, I have no doubts they've thought about this (as has probably everyone in the industry), but it is another story to actually do it. I could see all/most major players all agreeing to do it (for the better of the industry...or some untrue BS), but not a single party.
Microsoft released a statement: I personally doubt they go with an always-on console with the backlash they've received from it. It remains to be seen how they will handle online DRM and the possibility of no used games, which will likely be a deciding factor for me.
Clearly many gamers switched from ps2 to 360/Wii considering Sony's lost in market share. The console race has been going to back and forth between companies for generations now. If anything consumers have shown they have no loyalty.
Yuuup. This will not happen. It just won't. To make this decision would be to gift-wrap this generation, tie it in a pretty bow, and hand it to Sony. Even if they were silly enough to do it, they'd probably eliminate it after a few months via a firmware update or something. Unless, of course, Sony reverses their semi-official stance on the matter at the same time.
Neither for now. I'll stick with my PS3 and 360 for at least an entire year before I go looking to buy a new console. Generally the first year a system comes out, there aren't many good games and after a year or two you could find a pretty solid bundle deal. Plus there are tons of current gen games that I haven't even played yet so I'm pretty sure I could go through a full year (maybe longer) just fine. Eventually though, I'll pick one and I'm leaning toward PS4 judging from what little I've heard of 720. Also as someone else already stated, the PS3 exclusives were much better so they got that going in their favor.
I'll probably go the 720 unless I start to hear the ps4 is far superior. Have a 360 and ps3 now and play all my games on the xbox, prefer it as the gaming console and the ps3 for my media.
This. **** multi-player. The next generation of consoles is the first one I'll (probably) be getting since PS1. If xbox asks me to be online all the time, they can go to hell. PS4 it is. I'm seriously concerned about this movement towards making games and consoles more online oriented. Why do companies think this is such a great idea? My guess is that the people who want to play online do not significantly outnumber people that do not. This perceived desire for multi-player stems from the first group being generally extroverts (and, hence, they're more audible). While I'm on a rant, I read somewhere that EA would not publish single-player-only games anymore? Is that true? Would certainly not put it past those greedy bastards.
Honestly, I don't understand people that think this way. To me it's a pretty big reach to be so positive that Xbox will continue to have the superior online experience (assuming that you even believe it does today, which I don't). Yeah, maybe they will. But it's entirely possible they won't. As far as I can tell, when you really boil things down, what Live has on PSN is 1. Cross-game chat, 2. a clearer user account system, 3. a different UI. So, right up-front, I can say I don't actually care about cross-game chat, but clearly many, many people do. And it's been confirmed PS4 will have this. So there's one major difference gone. On the user account system bit, what I've read has pretty much indicated that PS4's user account system will work pretty much exactly like the 360's does now. So there's another difference gone. UI-wise, my opinion changed just within this generation. The 360's original Blades interface was really excellent. Then they tossed it for something that let them display a wall of ads more easily, and now I hate it. That was a change that happened within this generation. You don't think the changes will be bigger across generations? No one has enough information right now to conclude for sure which will have the superior online experience. You're doing yourself a disservice if you just automatically buy the next one because you liked the first one. Is Terminator 3 automatically a great movie because Terminator 2 was great?
Some of these things aren't really even specific to PSN or XBL. If a game is choppy, it is either connection issues (yours or other party) or maybe just bad network code. Nothing inherently better about XBL. A lot of Sony games used dedicated servers, which would probably offer better network play. MS did lead the way here, so I expect some cool things from the next iteration from XBL. On the other hand, Sony seems to have wised up, and I think they're starting to do more development outside of Japan (I think the engineers there probably didn't understand what people would want to do).
