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what's up guys it's James $0.02 here and oh my god if you follow me on Twitter you know things have been blowing up on Jays to census account and here's why ps4 and Xbox one later in May a few weeks ago we were given a few details regarding the Xbox one and a lot of people were really wondering what is the deal with the Xbox one it seems more like a media console and so today both parties had their press conferences for their new console the Xbox one press release only lasted an hour and we were really left wondering what's the deal we really kind of left wondering more about the games we were left wondering more about the console what it isn't we're gonna get regarding the games because at the Xbox one release we were told all about the media aspects of it the fact that it can allow you to watch the TV that you already paid for and already have a box for whether it's satellite or internet or FiOS or you know cable doesn't matter you already have a box the fact that it can play Hulu and Netflix and YouTube and all that stuff who gives a shit the fact that you can minimize the screen and input what you're watching off to the side and have all all this area of your screen filled with sports scores and stats and ESPN and all that crap this is a game console who gives a shit about that seriously so we wanted to know more about the games Microsoft continued to call it nothing more than a media device so okay fine we expected III to bring us information regarding the games and such so what do we find out we find out in the interim the Xbox requires you to connect to the Internet at least once every 24 hours when playing with your own console so what happens after that 24 hours if you have an internet outage for several days and don't say this is 2013 that that doesn't happen I have Time Warner I'm the only house on this node I have a 50 megabit connection I am the only house connecting to the pole which is in my back yard and in the last year more than once we've been without internet for up to three days because of a connection you somewhere in the data center so what does that mean for the first 24 hours if I were playing on my console I could play offline games but after that 24 hours because the console can't check in I can't play my offline game anymore what the is that all about seriously and if I were playing at a friend's console I have to check in online every single hour when doing that what is that all about what is the point of that seriously ok so we talk about use games now in the Xbox one sure you can share a game with a friend a disk that disk has DRM content on it you can only share it with one person one time and that person has to been on your friends list for at least 60 days so that means you can't you know just meet a friend and yeah how many how many of you guys have met somebody and within a couple of days you like yeah ok let's trade some games so they give you a disc you give them a disc and off you go well you can't do that unless you've been with friends with them on your friends list for 60 days that's just seriously a bunch of bullshit so I found myself really wondering do I want an Xbox one I'm not a huge console gamer I mean look behind me this that this is my life I'm a PC gamer so consoles have just been not that big of a deal to me I have an Xbox 360 my wife uses it more than I do my kid plays Kinect on it it's not been a huge part of my gaming life when it comes to PlayStation I didn't know what to expect because I haven't owned a Playstation 2 or Playstation 3 the only Sony gaming device I've ever owned was the original PlayStation and even then I didn't play it all that much it wasn't all that exciting to me so then came a 3 and the Xbox one press event I expect I had high hopes I expected a lot so what does Microsoft do they bring out you know your typical games that you expect to see and we finally get the battlefield 4 multiplayer demonstration and what happens it starts off with no sound and then the awkwardness of the guy on stage a k-member his name because he was he had the personality of a doorknob he just goes ok we'll show you later and walks off stage and we're going what the hell is this shit this is dice people this is what you get with dice so then what do they do they bring us titanfall the game looks cool don't get me wrong to me it really seems like what battlefield 2142 successor could have been and it's just another shooter but with a mech suit so I just went okay they really didn't show us very many games we already know the DRM restrictions on it are retarded we already know that the Media Console is really what they're after and they didn't show us very many games so I really didn't have a whole lot of hopes then came the PlayStation 4 press conference and everything they showed me blew me away I didn't know what to expect I had no expectations whatsoever and I didn't really feel that I would ever want to own a ps4 because I hadn't owned a ps3 or a ps2 so why would I want the ps4 until I watched the two-hour presentation they showed a huge diverse collection of games to bring it back Final Fantasy they're bringing back Kingdom Hearts and I've never played Kingdom Hearts but just watching the reaction of so many gamers on my Twitter feed we're like oh my god Kingdom Hearts is coming back I can't wait Kingdom Hearts 3 um that made me want to figure out what the hell is Kingdom Hearts what am I missing so I want to go back and play and maybe do some emulators and see what that's all about they showed so many different games and when they walked out on stage to introduce the PlayStation 4 they introduced it as the world's most advanced gaming system and at that point my ears perked up and I was listening this is a gaming system that's what I care about I don't care about using it to watch TV that I can already watch or watching discs and blu-rays that I can already play on my blu-ray player I want to know what it can do that I can't do now and the more I watch the more I was just this is awesome we already know how I feel about used games here I know how I feel about DRM we already know how I feel about the online requirement so I waited and I didn't get my hopes up but by the end of the hour and 45 minutes or so I just was I want this I want this console oh my god I'm a PC gamer but I want this console and then they dropped the bomb they didn't dance around it they have been watching us they have watching the videos people like boogie2988 put out videos that I put out videos that all of us little guys have been trying to get Microsoft to listen to there is no DRM you can share it with as many people as you want as often as you want with whoever you want there is no online check-in requirement whatsoever you can play your offline games as unlimited as you want from any console that you want and it's a hundred bucks less the Xbox one comes in at $499 and the PlayStation 4 comes in at 399 dollars once again put the games on top it was all about the games to them so PlayStation 4 and and Sony you're gonna get my money you've made me feel excited about console and that doesn't mean I'm not gonna be a PC gamer I'm gonna continue to play with my my plate my mic see I can't even say computer my playstation here my computer always be a computer gamer at heart but now I have more options PlayStation 4 has made me excited I cannot wait for this holiday season I will own one and I would really love to get my hands on an Xbox one codenamed Durango simply to run over with my Durango Microsoft you had a chance you had a chance to take the Xbox 360 and have its predecessor just be something amazing and you drop the ball fuck you Sony I'll see you this holiday season