Competition
The Wii U can’t compete with the Xbox One in any way as far as hardware goes. But the Wii U has one clear advantage and that’s price (library is always subjective). You can buy a Wii U for $299 and it comes with a game, that’s a $200 savings and price will be a common theme amongst the different comparisons.
The PlayStation 4 is the Xbox One’s main competitor going into the next console generation, and it seems the launch roles have reversed. But speaking strictly hardware the PlayStation 4 has a sizable lead over the Xbox One, the following list is the same list of games running on Xbox One from earlier along with the fps for the PlayStation 4 equivalent GPU (again all games are 1080p, High settings, 2xAA unless noted otherwise).
Crysis 3: 1080p @ 50fps (Medium) < 68fps (PlayStation 4 Medium)
Metro 2033: 1080p @ 30fps < 46fps (PlayStation 4)
Hitman Absolution: 1080p @ 35fps < 50fps (PlayStation 4)
Sleeping Dogs: 1080p @ 45fps < 60fps (PlayStation 4)
Battlefield 3: 1080p @ 50fps < 65fps (PlayStation 4)
Tomb Raider: 1080p @ 55fps < 70fps (PlayStation 4)
Batman Arkham City: 1080p @ 60fps < 90fps (PlayStation 4)
The PlayStation 4 has an average of around 38.6% more fps over its Xbox One counterparts, which is not a good look if you’re a gamer looking for the best version around. However, these are for PC’s with similar specs., and for consoles it could be greater, but developers are unlikely to really push once console over the other. That being said the PlayStation 4 versions of multiplatform games could easily see higher native resolutions (which is rumored to already be happening), better in-game graphics, or in extreme cases the Xbox One version running at 30fps and the PlayStation 4 version running closer to 60fps. It’s a problem for Microsoft and normally good pricing would fix that, but the Xbox One cost $100 more than the PlayStation 4 due to Kinect coming with every console. A Kinect-less or subsidized Xbox One could realistically retail for $349 and put the squeeze on both the Wii U and the PlayStation 4.
Once again price is a killer for the Xbox One. For $500 - $600 you can build a gaming PC that’s pound for pound on par with the PlayStation 4 if not slightly better. PC prices have dropped so low that even retailers such as Dell’s Alienware line sells a PlayStation 4 equivalent gaming PC for $699. That initial price is still a barrier for most people regardless of whether it’s cheaper over time or not, or if they can finance their gaming PC, but PC is likely to receive the boost in mainstream gaming that it hasn’t had for decades and the Xbox One is going to have the hardest time adjusting if Microsoft goes back to old habits of sharing a 95% library of games with PC gamers after the first couple of years.
Overall the Xbox One can be see as a worthwhile purchase on it’s own, but when you start to compare it’s value becomes highly subjective and in most cases seems to depreciate when looking at what the Wii U, PlayStation 4, and PC offer in comparison. The Xbox One has a lot of promises, but the vast majority of them are still a work in progress. The Xbox One is in a tug-of-war battle with the good it has going for it and the things it has going against it. The specs. for the Xbox One are good, but the PlayStation 4’s specs. are better. The price for the Xbox One is reasonable, but the Wii U and PlayStation 4 are cheaper and a better gaming PC is around the same price. So the question becomes outside of exclusives why buy an Xbox One over the PlayStation or PC if multiplatform games have a better resolution and potentially run better with the PlayStation 4 being cheaper and the PC being a significantly more diverse machine. That is a question Microsoft needs to answer within the first year, or they’re going to experience hard times. HDMI-In, Entertainment, and apps aren’t going to convince people to buy the Xbox One, especially with most of the services being limited to the US and most of the services being TBA. The one true advantage the Xbox One has going for it is the Cloud, but the Cloud isn’t going to be the holy grail that the most core of Xbox fans want you to believe, but there is a ton of potential in there for improving online gaming. The problem I see with the cloud and Kinect for that matter is the collection of data. If the cloud and Kinect can collect your achievements, gameplay information and images, then what’s stopping them from collecting personal information for Microsoft, the government, or worse a hacker. I’ll leave you with that thought, and happy shopping to you all.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
For those who are interested here is the GPU breakdown of the PS4 vs. the XBO
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Rad...
Overall the PS4 is around 40% more powerful (some areas only 30% some areas up to 50%, most of the time around 40%).
That 40% translates into higher resolution and framerate for PS4 versions of games, and ultimately better graphics for exclusives.