Gadgetory

it's been a little over four months since the ps4 pro came out and even longer for the Xbox one s and ps4 slim so I think it's about time we have a little update on what's changed and we have to look forward to coming soon first let's take a look at the Xbox one app now when this first launched it was going for $300 but now you can find it as low as 240 for a 500 gigs bundled with Minecraft or pay a little extra if you want a different game or larger hard drive now one of the biggest ongoing strengths of this system is focused on being not only a gaming system but also a multimedia device having an HDMI IN 4k video support and UHD blu-ray support something that neither the ps4 slim or ps4 pro have and the largest number of streaming apps to choose from when it comes to actual gaming one of the biggest strengths the Xbox one has has is actual backwards compatibility with select 360 games the list of which have gotten pretty large and has a lot of respectable great titles on it it also has the more comfortable controller now one of the interesting aspects of the Xbox one that's either a big strength or weakness depending on your viewpoint is the idea of play anywhere basically any game that you want an Xbox one you can also play on a Windows 10 PC or vice-versa and share save files between them the downside though is that this means that there are no longer any true Xbox one exclusive as those are all going to be on PC as well meanwhile with the ps4 there are currently two different models to choose from the ps4 slim that originally went for 300 but you can now get as low as 260 bundled with Uncharted and the ps4 pro which still comes by itself no game bundles just yet at $400 now while the Xbox one has been focused on being an all-in-one multimedia device the ps4 has been much more focused on just gaming it does have some additional services like PlayStation View for watching TV channels or PlayStation now which allows you to stream play ps3 games though they have announced ps4 games will be coming in the future but the real focus is on the fact that both the ps4 slim and Pro are more powerful than the Xbox 1s while it doesn't have UHD blu-ray support like the Xbox one it does support 4k video and games on it that are patched specifically for it do offer native 4k resolutions or at least closer resolutions that are up scaled using a variety of techniques the mileage which does vary by game now since my last Xbox one vs. ps4 update there have been some changes mostly for ps4 thanks to the recent four-point-five software update the biggest things being that you can now use external hard drives with both ps4 slim and ps4 Pro something that was originally strength just for the Xbox one and more importantly for the ps4 Pro boost mode if they did include a couple other benefits such as being able to add your own custom backgrounds and a cleaner UI in some spots especially the notifications tab meanwhile there hasn't been any major software updates for the Xbox one recently but there has been a lot of talk for ones that will be coming sometime in April including removing the snap feature which will free up system resources and hopefully boost the performance of the Xbox one making the UI snappier and an interesting new feature called co-pilot mode where two players share two separate controllers but act as one the idea being that if someone has a disability and has problems using controller on their own they have a way to get a little help making the Xbox one the more accessible system for them now of course ultimately the reason you're thinking of getting a gaming system is well gaming and so always one of the big questions you need to consider is exclusives this is in my last video Microsoft has had some pretty good games coming out including Gears of War for Halo Wars - Forza horizon 3 and Dead Rising for though due to Microsoft's play anywhere approach these are all available to PC players as well meanwhile the ps4 is been pushing a lot harder for games that are completely exclusive to it with titles like King of Fighters 14 Yakuza zero Last Guardian and of course horizon zero dawn with a handful of games of exclusive to ps4 but also on PC like near automata and neo and if you look at a full list of exclusive since launch it's pretty clear the ps4 currently offers the larger catalog as of right now ps4 has been outselling Xbox one at about a two to one ratio but there are a lot of interesting things on horizon for Xbox one that just might turn the tide as I mentioned earlier there is a big update coming in the future that will add some new features and up the system's performance also cleaning up the UI but also beginning news later this year at e3 for their console upgrade the Scorpio a system that if early spec reveals are true will definitely beat out the ps4 pro in performance as well as brings vr gaming to Xbox one really interesting thing to me they've talked about recently though is Xbox pass a service similar to PlayStation now and EA access giving players access to a library of a hundred games that rotate in and out the interesting bits though are that the service would only be ten bucks a month half the price of what Sony charges for PS now the games would be downloadable not stream played meaning a smoother experience and any games currently on game paths will also have a 20% discount if you like the game enough that you want to buy it and own it permanently there are of course also future exclusives to get excited for like crackdown 3 CEO feeds cuphead and I swear someday below will come out on this system I've been talking about it in every single one of these Xbox one versus ps4 videos it just needs to come out sometime soon eventually please on the other hand Sony doesn't really have much in the form of upcoming hardware or major software updates that's all happened pretty recently what we do have though are a lot of major games coming out a lot of which do still have pretty unclear release dates though for sure this year we can at least look forward to persona 5 Uncharted Lost Legacy the crashing same trilogy and maybe Detroit become human with big future names like God of War 4 Last of Us 2 and Final Fantasy 7 remake coming out someday in the future as things stand right now my previous conclusions about these systems remains pretty much the same the Xbox one is the superior multimedia console and has an excellent small handful of 1st and 3rd person shooters while the ps4 is the much more dedicated gaming system with an excellent library of exclusives that should not be missed that being said though ps4 is pretty much gotten to the point where we're just waiting on more games come out while Microsoft has a lot of interesting wild cards on their way including Xbox game path and of course the Xbox Scorpio which we'll learn more about this coming III