PS4 Vs XBone comparisons? - The Bear and Badger

LtPidgeon

I'm just about to pick up a PS4 and XBone. The Xbone is for FH2 and I'm looking to get Drive Club, Mordor, Diablo and maybe Destiny on the PS4. Is there any particular platform that has the edge in multi-platform titles? Is Destiny better on either machine? From what I remember the PS4 seems to be the slightly better system, is that correct? I seem to do most of my online gaming (COD, BF etc)on the PS3 and only really use my 360 for MS exclusives as I prefer the lack of chatter on the PS Network whereas everybody and their granny seems to be yammering away on Live. Is this still the same on the shiny gen?

I also have a Vita so that will help with Remote Play.

Kow

Pretty much looks like ps4 for you then. Although I think the bone has the edge on exclusives and still has the better online service.

Billy

Gotta consider the player base for the games you are looking at, there's loads of ps4 Destiny players for example.

djchump

Every single multiplatform Digital Foundry face-off calls them in favour of PS4: http://www.eurogamer.net/?topic=digital_foundry

LtPidgeon

Kow wrote:

Pretty much looks like ps4 for you then. Although I think the bone has the edge on exclusives and still has the better online service.

I am getting both consoles, but I'm just looking to make sure if either machine has the edge.

Also, do the Live and Plus memberships transfer over and continue as they were? Can I also go back and use my Plus membership on my PS3?

IanHamlett

Which one has the best version of BayonetsBayonetta 2?

TRollololololololllll

LtPidgeon

IanHamlett wrote:

Which one has the best version of BayonetsBayonetta 2? TRollololololololllll

Thankfully I have my WiiU for that.

Kow

Psn plus and live both transfer across and continue working on previous consoles too.

Paul the sparky

LtPidgeon wrote:

Kow wrote:

Pretty much looks like ps4 for you then. Although I think the bone has the edge on exclusives and still has the better online service.

I am getting both consoles, but I'm just looking to make sure if either machine has the edge.

Also, do the Live and Plus memberships transfer over and continue as they were? Can I also go back and use my Plus membership on my PS3?

Yeah Live and PS+ carry over, you can claim the free games in advance from the websites.

Surprised one of the PC master race hasn't been in to point out the error of your console heathen ways.

wonderbanana

Destiny on PS4 a no brainer if you have both as more Badgers there.

Everything else go where friends are imo. Despite the bollocks by the press spouted and Digital Foundry, the differences are not worth writing home about.

Kow

Yes, nvinewrd fnvidiacardhe same price as a console. I'll be having one anyway.

Argh, swype has gone nuts.

mrsmr2

PS4 seems to be this gen's 360.

Kow

There was a lot of hoo ha about that earlier in the year but they seem pretty much the same now. Some nonsense about pixels but that's about it.

Vela

IanHamlett wrote:

Which one has the best version of BayonetsBayonetta 2? TRollololololololllll

cockbeard

Thought this was gonna be pure clickbait. Wondered if I'd find Mod and Davie fighting to the death

Vela

Im actually interested in how people who have both systems can compare the new game purchase experience from

1. Getting home and putting the disc in the tray
2. Entering any digital codes/online passes
3. Starting day one patches
4. Installing game
5. Being able to play it.

Does either system have an option to get to step 5 in under an hour?

Yossarian

I'm impressed that we've made it half a page without anyone leaving the forum.

Roujin

I'm enjoying the couple of games I've got so far for my PS4 - Destiny, Ground Zeroes, the 10 minutes of P.T. I could stand before something finally happened in the corridor and I pooped myself and turned it off.

However, the UI and the networking and the friends list shit is fucking terrible, I only have a 360 to compare it to, but I weep every time that expanse of poorly used blue space appears on my screen. Every menu is fucking tedious, and laid out with no thought and the options button is retarded when it wants me to use it even when an object only has one option associated with it.

AND WHERE THE FUCK IS THE TRACKPAD NAVIGATION IN ANY OF THE MENU'S OUTSIDE OF THE TEXT INPUT WINDOW!? Fucking hell Sony, lovely console hardware, fucking terrible UI.

What really bugs the tits off me though is that the console appears to be obsessed with health and safety. That warning about epilepsy every time you start it up, an entire H&S manual contained within the shitty system menu. What in the actual fuck does this need to be hardwired into the console for? ZZZZzzzz......

djchump

Yossarian wrote:

I'm impressed that we've made it half a page without anyone leaving the forum.

We're really slacking these days.

LtPidgeon

Cheers for all the info.

acemuzzy

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Spock

Fucking well done everyone!

James

Vela wrote:

Im actually interested in how people who have both systems can compare the new game purchase experience from

1. Getting home and putting the disc in the tray
2. Entering any digital codes/online passes
3. Starting day one patches
4. Installing game
5. Being able to play it.

Does either system have an option to get to step 5 in under an hour?

I have both so feel qualified to offer opinion,

1, both have reasonably large patches but downloaded and installed pretty quickly. Download speeds on PSN seem much improved from the PS3 days. The xbox has a nicer feeling disc mechanism.

2, a kinect equipped xbox makes scanning codes super easy. It's the same old chore on the ps4.

3, neither are as quick and easy for downloading game updates as a 360. The xbox games I have seen to have larger patches.

4, with the games I own, the ps4 has been much quicker than the xbone for getting the games installed to the point you can play them.

5, as above.

Other thoughs:

Ridiculous install and patch times from the PS3 are thankfully a thing of the past.

Neither pad is as good as the 360's. The ps4 one hurts my hand after extended play sessions.

The ps4 interface is basically the same as the ps3 but slightly better.

The Xbox ones interface is basically the same as the 360's but slightly worse.

Edit: think I got going on the ps4 in less than an hour (ac4) and well over an hour on xbox (dr3)

GurtTractor

What's the paywall situation with the XB1 these days?

Yossarian

James wrote:

Neither pad is as good as the 360's. The ps4 one hurts my hand after extended play sessions.

Glad to have read this. I've never got on with Sony pads, but everyone saying how much improved the new ones are made me think that maybe they'd fixed it this time around. In between the pads, the exclusives and the fact that I've already started Destiny on the 360, I think when I do finally jump, it will be into Microsoft's loving embrace.

Yossarian

GurtTractor wrote:

What's the paywall situation with the XB1 these days?

It went ages ago. As far as online stuff available for free or paid for, both consoles are on a par.

James

Oh the ps4 pad is definitely better than previous playstation pads. But for some reason it makes my ring and pinky ache on my left hand after a while.

Yossarian

Dualshock pads make my hands cramp on sight.

Dark Soldier

Thread disappoint.

Guys come on now.

Kow

Online for xbox has disimproved since 360 but is still way ahead of psn in terms of efficiency and quality of connection.

Kow

There.

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