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the ps4 Pro has been on for about a year now and the Xbox 1x has just finally been released and that means that it's officially time for Xbox one X versus PlayStation 4 Pro I'm Bill Gates chairman of Microsoft in this video you're going to see the future to begin with let's take an in-depth look at the hardware of each of these systems and what it's going to cost you starting with the Xbox one X you're getting an 8 core processor that's clocked at 2.3 gigahertz you're getting a GPU that's capable of 6 teraflops 12 gigabytes of RAM and a one terabyte hard drive all of the cost of $500 meanwhile on the ps4 Pro you're still getting an 8 core processor but it's clocked at 2.1 gigahertz a GPU that's only capable of 4.2 teraflops you're getting 8 gigs of ram plus one additional gig of a slower Ram type so it just adds a little more power and you're still getting a 1 terabyte hard drive so overall across the board the ps4 pro is definitely the weaker of the two systems but this does come at the benefit of it being a more affordable system at $400 now as for the physical ability of these systems despite the fact the One X is the more powerful of the two it's also the smaller as well they're mostly the same as far as the width and height goes the One X is maybe just a hair taller and a little less wide but where you really see the difference is the depth of the systems where the ps4 pro has this kind of square design on the top which makes it a lot larger and have a much bigger footprint on your shelf as for the ports there's a lot of similarities going on here they both offer three USB ports with the ps4 pro having two in the front one in the back the Xbox one X doing the flip of that there was giving you an Ethernet port and an optical out as well the One X has a couple of other options on top of that however with an HDMI IN and an IR port and then for the looks honestly I kind of think that both these systems are actually kind of light downgrades from their slim versions I think both some consoles just look a lot better but we're talking about just these two against each other I got to give the looks to the Xbox one X it's just smaller its sleeker I like to kind of just clean box monoliths design that has going on the ps4 on the other hand while the triple stack has kind of grown on me still not my favorite now of course the big question when it comes to these two systems is which of them is gonna offer you the better 4k gaming experience because after all that's the point where this point 5 generation that we've been getting over their predecessors and the two systems have taken very different approaches to this now obviously like I said earlier with the specs the Xbox one X is the much more powerful system that's because this approach is just brute force its way into getting native 4k in its games so for big first party titles like Gears of War 4 4 to 7 you are seeing native real 4k resolution while some other games are some of the more taxing ones like quantum break I almost said quantum leap aren't displaying at 4k but get very close and then upscale to meet the difference on the other hand the PlayStation 4 is entirely reliant and this idea of using upscaling even their own big first party games like horizon zero dawn don't display a native 4k but instead make use of what's called checkerboard upscaling a technique that while not as good as native 4k gets surprisingly very close where depending on the size of your TV and how far you sit from it honestly the difference is almost indistinguishable now things get a little murkier when it comes to third parties because there's always that fear that instead of putting in the extra work to make sure the One X gets a better version and is using all the resources they'll instead just make one Pro version that will work just as well on the ps4 Pro and One X and thankfully that doesn't seem to be the case a lot of games out right now are showing clearly better versions on the One X verses of ps4 Pro some of them are very close margins but others are very large for instance even within two is a game that on the Xbox one X is running an innate aversion of 1800 P while the ps4 pro version is only at 1280 P now for reference if you don't know the technical term for 4k is 2160p so the Xbox one X version is much much closer to that so for the money the ps4 Pro is giving you an excellent 4k like experience for a lot of their games that for most of you is gonna matter in a normal entertainment setup but if you're looking for true actual 4k and getting the highest resolution possible in every single game the One X is the winner here so that's how the 4k gaming experience works up between these two systems but what about everything else what about the regular user experience between the Xbox one X and the ps4 Pro well to be honest back when these systems first launched I definitely preferred the user experience on the ps4 but as time has gone by Xbox has put a lot of work into upgrading a lot of their UI and services to making what I think is now a better system starting with UI for instance while I think ps4 is is a little more intuitive Microsoft's once you get the hang for it is really really good you remain page right here where you see all the recent games you've been playing you'll go down to your pins showing all the stuff that you've picked specifically that you go back to whenever you want going back up you can go to mixer community stuff entertainment for things like TV and movies or the store to buy more games in DLC and if you ever want to go to your list of games you already have you just hit the Xbox button go right here BAM all the games you have installed or all the games you've owned that you'd install later on just overall it's such an awesome experience once you get the hang of it meanwhile the ps4 like I said earlier things are a bit more intuitive at first but it's also more limiting on the main menu have this main line right here that has all the different installed games and apps that you have along with updates and the store and going up above you could find everything else you need like friends lists notifications messages settings all that good stuff the problem is is that it's not really that easy to actually a find control over where you want things to be all the games and apps they have listed here are based on what you've most recently launched you can organize them into subfolders like this which makes a little cleaner but ultimately things are constantly shifting ground based on what you're starting up when which really gets annoying over time compared to the Xbox we're able to easily strip between different menus and always have to go back to this main one and then find your way to different subsections it's just gets a little tiresome it's perfectly usable but at the end of the day comparing to Xbox 1x it's just a little more clunky while there are of course differences between these systems there's a whole lot they have in common as far as the regular user experience goes for instance multimedia they both offer a lot of the same big-name apps like Netflix Hulu crunchyroll HBO Go YouTube and for some specific ones like Netflix they both offer 4k HDR video support they also both offer Spotify for music something that was originally exclusive to Sony but made its way to the Xbox more recently they both allow you to stream to twitch they both have kind of faked broadcast TV options like PS vu on the ps4 and sling TV on the Xbox one and as far as their memberships go they're basically the same idea now where they have the same price they both allow you to play games online and they both give you a small handful of free games every month we start seeing some differences again though with some of the more unique services on each system for instance on ps4 you can get PlayStation now a service that allows you to stream play games over the internet with a large catalog of ps3 and some ps4 titles which also acts as kind of the backwards compatible option for the ps4 the point is is that it lets you stream play games for a monthly fee on the other hand with Xbox you've got Xbox game Pass and EA access to separate services that also charge a monthly fee but instead of having to stream play over the Internet which can sometimes be a really big problem for those you with worse internet connections you just install the games and play them right on your cyst which leads to a much better experience but both of them have catalogs that are much smaller than PS now there's also a difference in terms of what kind of additional gaming options you have on these systems for instance the Xbox one has pushed very hard on having actual full-blown backwards compatibility offering the ability to play 360 and even some original Xbox games on your Xbox one now it's not the full catalog for either of these systems but the list is continuing to grow with a very large number of 360 games available right now and more original Xbox games planned for the near future on the other hand with the PlayStation you don't have any real backwards compatibility I mean they push that you can do ps3 games through PlayStation now and there are some select ps2 games that you can buy digitally but neither of these allow you to just put the disc in your system and play them like the Xbox one does on the other hand something that ps4 does offer the Xbox one doesn't have at all is we are gaming with their own headset the PSV are given the list of games and this isn't gigantic but if vr gaming is something that you're really interested in getting into that's currently something that you can only find on the ps4 as far as console gaming goes another unique benefit of the ps4 Pro worth mentioning is that while both systems allow you to remote play on a PC the ps4 pro has the additional option of remote playing on the PS Vita giving you a way to play your ps4 games handheld so so far thanks for looking pretty good on the xbox 1x I mean it's got the more powerful hardware great updates to the user experience some awesome services but there is one big wall the system is still running into and it's one of the defining things about this generation and that's game exclusivity I mean just look at 2017 on its own you can list all the big-name Xbox one exclusive on one hand Super Lucky's tale Halo Wars 247 cuphead and soon player unknown battlegrounds will at least be console exclusive to them meanwhile the ps4 you've got neo Nier automata persona 5 horizon zero dawn GT sport higher hell blade a new uncharted so many more games that I can't even just list them all right now that just Dwarfs the list in comparison this isn't to say that the exclusive the Xbox one has are necessarily worse it's just that there's not as many of them so chances are if you're looking for more games that will cater your tastes sony is gonna give you more options now you may love Gears of War halo and not care about Uncharted or any the games the PlayStation great but Phil you're just looking for the most choices Sony is winning that market hard right now you know back when this generation started there was a lot of favor in ps4s camp it had the better hardware they had more exclusives and just overall the sales supported that it was the more popular console but as a result Xbox has been fighting tooth and nail to deliver better software and more recently better hardware and as a result honestly if software libraries were the exact same I'd have to say the 1x is definitely the better system but within the context of what games are available what you can grab at a lower price point the ps4 Pro is a very tempting offer you know if you're the kind of person that just likes to play big-name triple-a games that are available on every platform the 1x is definitely the solid choice but if you want to have as many games available at your disposal with only one console the ps4 Pro still has a huge advantage