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welcome to today's episode of ask the experts on my right is one expert Jeff Bakalar from seen it yeah and I'm Peter Brown from GameSpot today we're going to answer your questions about media functionality on the next-gen systems or lack thereof whoa let's not get ahead of ourselves Mohammed from facebook wants to know well the playstation 4 support media playback functionality including mp3 mp4 s ati's stuff like that it doesn't even play CDs yeah yeah you're right it doesn't even play audio CDs ya know the real answer here is that no none of that stuff is gonna work why not what's the problem the problem according to Sony is that they didn't really think that it was important they said that it's going to come so it's not you know the ps3 was such a versatile robust media playback device it was the greatest DLNA all the movies I had on my nest I'd play right off my ps3 it was fantastic throw anything at it accessory I'm cavies throw anything at it it would play the xbox one isn't any better off no in fact it's just as bad yeah it will play an audio CD but that's about it there's really no way to bring your own media yeah and it's actually really shocking this to me when you offer especially with xbox one playstation 4 has no saving grace in this either but with xbox one it's the all-in-one Home Media Console that's got to include bringing your own content yeah and being a versatile media player which neither of these consoles are ya I mean they do have some functionality one of the more important things in addition to bringing in your own media formats streaming netflix hulu amazon prime all those work for both systems right I think YouTube is only on xbox right now okay and you've got blue right now in the xbox one which is not an option on the 360 correct that's worth something Microsoft is also gone to great lengths to support their xbox fitness program right which is different than traditional entertainment like a movie or TV show what it does do you a year free service where you can work out watching all the I don't know p90x insanity videos all the new line of work out videos that out there and popular the xbox one gives you those actually uses the connect to judge your performance that's correct so it's got some interesting stuff but it doesn't have the things that people are really asking for the big thing with that sort of stuff is it's up to you like it's a good crunch sure but it's up to you to be honest don't think that you're just going to lose weight because you bought an xbox one oh they're probably going to gain weight to be totally honest with you I'm nan wants to know well USB drives work with the new consoles the way they used to in the past nowhere near where they used to to be totally honest can really only do like managerial sort of stuff game saves I know people were downloading the update to xbox one yes before it came out and the PlayStation so that they wouldn't have to just you know plug in their console and sit there for three and a half days way to update the short answer is that no you can't bring anything on a USB Drive outside of you save files and updates and stuff like that my little conspiracy theory in regards to the Xbox one is that Microsoft really wants you to buy this stuff they don't really want you to bring it over and have it for free you know they want you to use their service right I mean and then you get into the whole sort of complexities with their proprietary you know interface they love that I love look what I Drive so if you're thinking about buying the new consoles it kind of comes down and what's really important to you a lot of people love the functionality we've talked about today that's absent in the new consoles when it was present in the ps3 and xbox 360 we were let down yeah and I think if you're going into these systems thinking that they're going to be the all-in-one that they used to be you're also going to be a little bit disappointed guess again some of these things may come down the road but that's still just talk at this point we'll see what happens but uh yeah Jeff you have anything else you want to add just bummer City yeah you're bummed out well thanks for joining us today folks will be back tomorrow with another episode of ask the experts for gamespot i'm peter brown and for CNN i'm jeff bakalar thanks for watching