I'm sure this article keeps getting reposted, I read it a few weeks back. As stated, it's a 1-3 months old, at the time there was one article doing the rounds saying Blockbuster and a supermarket chain had higher Xbox One pre-orders.............that was about the last good news for that console.
If you want to know how PS4 pre-orders are going in the UK, check out the sales rankings at Amazon, Shopto etc. PS4 has been top since pre-orders started, the Xbox One did tak...
It really is quite tragic that some people are so invested in "format wars", they willingly and knowingly repeat discredited nonsense.
What kind of society do we live in where it's more important to "win" an argument by being disingenuous or outright lieing............
You have to laugh at two bit websites, who've been around for five minutes, taking shots at long established, extremely credible gaming magazines like Edge.
"5 reasons the Playstation 4 will crush the competition
Why Sony is poised to win the console war."
By................CNN.
They posted two articles to generate hits, it's hardly serious, cutting edge games journalism. Hell, most of the Xbox One "advantages" stated aren't even gaming related!
Ah, the "cloud", it's amazing how a marketing buzz word can change perceptions about something as dull as online storage/servers. Better still, whenever a difficult question is asked, the powers that be at Microsoft can say, "the cloud will deal with that", knowing full well it's an intangible service which is so difficult to show whether it has any great benefit at all, never mind being essential.
Right now, all we can go on are people like Digita...
@Crazy Larry You are comparing the relative merits of RAM type, but ignoring the architecture of the machines, and how they allocate resources, i.e the OS.
As Digital Foundry stated before the console reveals, the PS4 would have been at least on par with the Xbox One with the originally rumoured 4GB GDDR5, due to it's architecture and allocation of system resources.
The Xbox One is a powerful machine, but Sony took a calculated gamble modules would be ava...
I really couldn't care less hw many games (exclusive or not) each console launches with.
I switch between consoles, I had a PS3, then a 360, back to the PS3, and now finally have a 360 again.
My PS4 pre-order is down to Sony getting their act together in the last few years, their focus on gamers with great serices like PS+, and their in-house studios that will produce wave after wave of exclusive titles..........not timed, 100% exclusive.
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