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what's up guys Lew here and I wanted to sit down to do a quick comparison video of the two hottest products possibly on the planet right now the ps4 and the Xbox one there's a lot of controversy going on a lot of arguments going on in comment sections on a number of YouTube videos so I wanted to sit down and give you guys my take give you guys my personal professional opinion on what the hell is going on but before we get into that I do want to go over the specs of both of the systems for those of you guys that have been I don't know hiding under a rock or something like that this is how it breaks down to start we've got the price price is 399 on the ps4 and 499 on the Xbox one that being said the Xbox one does include the Kinect sensor and you will need the Kinect sensor in order to operate the system so a lot of people are speculating that that's part of the reason that you have a higher price point to start if you're into motion based gaming then you'd need to add the PlayStation Eye to the ps4 and that's around another 60 bucks I believe at this point so if that's something you're into you're going to get closer to price parity but I do like the fact of course that on the playstation side of things you don't need to have it in order to operate the system and you don't need to buy it if you don't envision yourself using it they both have blu-ray / DVD optical drive so that's the same they both have the ability to record gameplay there is game play DVR functionality built in they both got 8 gigabytes of RAM but it's a little bit different it's gddr5 on the ps4 whereas it's just regular ddr3 on the Xbox one that might sound like a major improvement but what you guys need to remember is the majority of games here that you're going to play on either platform are going to be cross-platform and more than likely performance and appearance on both will be relatively similar there is a slight performance edge to the ps4 on this front but from a general sort of gameplay standpoint I don't need vision is making any kind of huge improvement on your games and it's probably not the most important decision-making factor the CPU is also very similar you're dealing with an 8 core AMD chip on both of them they both got 500 gigabyte hard drives external storage is to be announced on the Sony ps4 it is definitely supported on the Xbox one via USB it will likely be supported on both once again no real game changer there cloud storage is available on both this is where things when we start talking about software this is where things get a little bit more squirrely there are mandatory game installs on the Xbox one side and as you guys have probably heard this has to do with some of the DRM that's going to go into the Microsoft ecosystem the inability to just swap games to use a disc and play a game anywhere on any console this is probably the most the single most controversial topic is this idea of DRM no use games no renting of games now Microsoft has come out they did have a press release or it might be on their official website where they stated that there will be authorized retailers that are able to sell use games but this is all really shady right now nobody has specifics on it and it sounds like it's going to be a complicated process so we're going to have to wait to find out more about that but we definitely know that the ps4 is has no such restrictions when it comes to used games when it comes to sharing games and when it comes to mandatory game installs the other controversial topic is the required internet connection it's been said now that the Xbox one is going to need to connect to the internet once every 24 hours to remain operational for a lot of people this is no big deal and I know myself included I've got internet all the time and everywhere and I personally get pretty freaked out when I lose the Internet in any one place so that's not a huge issue but I do know that this happens to be an issue for some users or else I wouldn't be getting the press and coverage that it is it's not just I suppose a question of whether or not you've got internet but also a question of privacy people don't like the idea of an always-on system staring at you with a mandatory Kinect in your living room at all times and I can understand their concerns whether or not it's doing anything shady or not it's still a little bit disconcerting to know that that's a requirement and that the system won't function without any of that or or potentially if anything is to change in the future in terms of how Microsoft runs their business and if your entire game library is tied into this DRM ecosystem who knows just how mobile your game library will be we don't know yet connect to does also offer up motion control for your gaming so it's not just strictly this device that you can use for interacting with the system so potentially speaking if you go to the ps4 side you would need to add the PlayStation Move and then on top of that the PlayStation Eye so there's a couple of different devices you would need so it's not just the eye and things could get a little bit more expensive but you know my opinion on motion based gaming is that we're not really there yet that's that's it's not something that a lot of people are going to be buying these consoles for at least not myself and a lot of people that I've talked to it's not this this deal-breaker kind of issue and so I don't think that really weighs too much into the average consumers decision-making on whether or not they want to get which system they want to get second screen this is something I would probably give the edge to the Xbox one on because smart glass will will be supported so you'll have the ability to interface with your console with you know a tablet if you choose to do that of course you can have second screen functionality on the ps4 using the PlayStation Vita so there is an option there subscription services have not got a lot of coverage and I I tend to believe this has something to do with the fact that you know it's been hidden underneath all of this controversy regarding the always-on and used game situation but you will need a PlayStation Plus membership as things look right now you will need a PlayStation Plus membership just like you've always needed an xbox live membership to take advantage of multiplayer if you if you look at the slide from their official presentation it also identifies PlayStation multiplayer etc as being one of the bullet points underneath PlayStation Plus so that's something worth considering there is a slightly extended cost in order to play online but it's once again similar across both platforms the other thing the last thing to mention in terms of differences from a hardware perspective is the region locking ps4s will not be region locked so that means you can play games from anywhere in the world and you can take your console anywhere in the world and have it function properly whereas the Xbox one will be region locked so that's something worth considering so that should give you guys a better idea of the hardware specifications of each of the two consoles but the thing to remember here more than anything is that they are more similar than they are different the fact that they're both running eight core processors from AMD and also the fact that most titles are going to be cross-platform means that the actual gaming experience should be very similar on each of the two consoles and hardware probably shouldn't be the sole reason why you select one of the consoles over the other if there is a bit of an edge it likely goes to the ps4 for having that gddr5 memory but other than that like I said don't make your decision strictly based on hardware so the things that have been talked about most in terms of analyzing these two consoles are obviously the ones that have gotten the most exposure the DRM the fact that your Xbox always has to be on you can't share games can't rank games etc before I get there I want to talk about price because price to me is maybe the number one consideration when a person walks into a store that's money out of your pocket for a product and you have to take a look at what you're going to be getting back so there's $100 price difference even though the hardware is incredibly similar yes as I mentioned before the Xbox one does have that built-in ability to look at television content in a very unique way television is not a big part of my life so it's very hard for me to give that say $100 value Kinect is not a big part of my life so it's hard for me to give it any kind of significant value either that being said to somebody out there in the world I know it's valuable to you so there's no reason to jump into the comments and freak out I think people are going to walk through a store this holiday season if you haven't pre-ordered already they'll walk through a store this holiday season when the next-gen consoles launch and they'll be comparing the two and you're going to have some nice little package put together by Sony which is going to be the console a couple games maybe an extra controller who knows what and it's likely still going to be less money than the base model Xbox one or at least it'll be less money than the Xbox one equip bundle and around Christmastime people are really you know sort of scrounging around for money they're trying to come up with gifts for everyone in a hundred bucks is significant especially right now what people are having you know economic issues and can't necessarily indulge themselves in consumer electronics like they once could so I think this is probably the number one reason why the PlayStation 4 is going to have success if you remember in the past with the PlayStation 3 it when it launched it was significantly higher priced and that resulted in my opinion in or partly at least in the success that the Xbox 360 had here in North America by being the more affordable solution at least for a while so price is a very very important consideration especially for people who are buying this thing as a gift and if you look on Amazon right now at pre-orders I believe the PlayStation 4 is still ahead of the Xbox one in terms of pre-orders I think people really want to hold on to their hundred bucks right now what I wish would have happened is that Xbox or Microsoft sorry created an Xbox one option that didn't include the Kinect didn't require the Kinect and gave people options options are never a bad thing if you've only got 399 to spend you can decide whether or not you need to connect as part of your experience and then add it later like they've done in the past I don't think that system is broken or you know ever was or is broken today so they should have stuck with you know a trident root system for modular upgrade ability when you see a component you need you go out and get it but point of entry is very important and having a three ninety nine point of entry is a hell of a lot better than having a four ninety nine point of entry and I think it'll be a major major component in the success of the PlayStation for this particular generation the next thing I want to talk about is something that hasn't been talked about all that much and that is ecosystems on both of these systems you're going to be able to port over your progress your trophies etc from previous gen consoles and a lot of people have invested a lot of time and a lot of energy in building up their profiles in each of those two ecosystems not just their profiles but their friends lists and and all kinds of things and maybe more importantly than that they've had to argue with people over the course of the last few years over which ecosystem was better for them to be in and of course that the truth was for a long time that the best ecosystem for a lot of people was the xbox 360 or the xbox live ecosystem so it's hard for people to make a hard shift for people to make a hard change for people to see a video or to see some specifications say you know what it's time for me to move over to PlayStation or vice versa it's time for me to move over to Xbox it's not an easy decision to make so I understand why people are so passionate about this they've invested a lot of time in becoming you know branded on one side or the other but if you look at this from you know a blank consumer perspective somebody who's never owned either one and walks into the store which is really the way that you should look at a lot of consumer electronics purchases then then the perspective changes a little bit you sit there and you say well my considerations are different now because I'm not tied in to a specific ecosystem as you guys know your investment in games for example in the past has really helped dictate what ecosystem you stick with if you've got you know a bunch of Xbox 360 you know games on the shelf the likelihood that you're going to want to convince your friends to also get an Xbox 360 is much much higher but I see this new console generation as an opportunity to start fresh an opportunity to just pick whichever one is better for you whichever one you think sounds better on paper whichever one you can afford for that matter and then you know go from there don't worry so much about where you're coming from where your allegiances were there's really no purpose to be allied with a hardware component it's just a tool it just gets a job done and you know for the most part it should be entertaining you not forcing you to go on the internet and then and be angry if if your console is making you angry or your console allegiance is making you angry something is wrong something is broken you shouldn't have to defend anything whichever product is better will win and you can be a part of that success or failure for that matter but most importantly remember that whichever one you choose it's about entertainment so go out get your entertainment and there's no need to come on here and then etcetera you shouldn't have to do that if you believe in your choice if you're happy with your choice and you want to see success in your choice then you shouldn't have to do that my advice for you is to really just analyze the data that's out there stop thinking about where you stood in the past or how many people you convinced to be on a specific platform look at these things as they are in the modern format with the modern specifications and the data that's available to us right now I'm going to go out on a limb I'm going to say that so far based on the information that I have the PlayStation 4 looks like the better value I like the way that Sony has played the PR I like the way they came out and have been just really casual really upfront about the use game situation that's a feature that we've always had and we shouldn't have to fight for the pricing which as I said before is really really important people care about it a lot and then the last fact they're not having to have an always-on connection which as I said in my opinion not nearly as big a deal as it's being made to be but nonetheless some kind of requirement that is really unnecessary whether it's a big deal or not it's unnecessary so why is it there you have to wonder you have to ask questions I'm not a huge conspiracy theorist or anything like that but it is there and it really doesn't need to be there in order for you to play it play your games the only reason it could be there is to verify DRM or who knows what else that's not really for us to have to understand all we have to do is sit there and be entertained we shouldn't even have to consider something like that the other thing that's really pissing me off is the way that that the Microsoft PR people or the Microsoft representatives are sort of brushing off all of these concerns that are going on in this massive online community here on YouTube reddit everywhere else everywhere that people are talking about this they're just avoiding it and when and where they're not avoiding it they're actually slipping up even further you have this new video that came out where they're basically telling people to keep playing their Xbox 360 kicking them to the curb saying next-gen is not for you if you have issues with you know the new one I don't really think that's the right play you have to pay attention to what people are saying and you can make adjustments you don't need to be dead set in a certain way and I think they're coming off as arrogant more than anything else in not even really addressing people's concerns the concerns are real Microsoft needs to man up come out talk about them potentially make changes at least make people feel a little bit more comfortable about why these things are there and how they're going to be lamented more specifically just being quiet about it avoiding avoiding it or further entrenching themselves in it is not doing them any favors and it basically built the entire PR engine for the sony electronics group because all they had to do out and do is come out and say oh hey our our console doesn't do any of those things our console is just like other consoles it's like older consoles it can do all the things you'd expect a console to do I mean that's that's the greatest PR platform they ever could have come up with and they didn't even create it Microsoft created it for them by causing all of these issues or creating these issues that didn't need to exist that people obviously care about YouTube is the perfect representation of that you can check down below when you're looking at the thumbs-up and thumbs-down on this particular video people do care you do care I do care and if Microsoft wants to play ball in this particular marketplace they have to pay attention to the people they're trying to sell to anyways that's my take you could call me a ps4 fan point I'm just analyzing the data this is what's available to us right now if you guys enjoyed this content if you 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