šŸ•¹ šŸŽ® Xbox or PlayStation?

I am presently downloading Titanfall 2 Mulitplayer Tech Test on my PS4. I can remember the days when that was an XBox exclusive, or at least if you didnā€™t have a PC available.

Thereā€™s that new XBox One S coming out (or out, I donā€™t know). Apparently it does 4K visuals for stuff like Netflix, but it doesnā€™t do 4K games or offer a boost to existing ones.

The 4K Playstation is coming out this autumn and will do all that.

Meanwhile, the best place to play any XBox One games for the next two years is going to be a PC.

I hereby claim total and complete victory in this easy to predict contest. Tell your Nolan heā€™s had a hell of a beating.

I wouldnā€™t get too far ahead of yourself Pap, thatā€™s just the XBox One Slim I believe. They also have a boosted version coming out next year and its spec is much more powerful than the 4K PS Neo. Currently Sony are streets ahead in terms of units sold worldwide, but in the UK I believe figures are much closer. Itā€™s interesting to consider what might change with the release of the boosted models, but itā€™s unlikely the XBone will ever close the gap significantly worldwide.

For what itā€™s worth, Iā€™ve always been a Playstation man. Owned every version since the original and already have the Titanfall 2 pre-alpha downloaded after opening weekend last week. Iā€™ll PM my PSN so feel free to give me a shout if you see me online.

PS4 Pro nee Neo and Slim details released

For months, Sony has been coy about its updated PlayStation 4, acknowledging its existence but refusing to give any solid details. Today, the wraps finally came off, and the console-formerly-known-as-Neo is officially the PS4 Pro. Along with a slimmed-down version of the basic console, Sony confirmed the rampant rumors by announcing the Pro is powered by an improved CPU and GPU, features support for 4K, HDR and higher frame rates, and will be out sooner than expected.

Releasing slimmer, less expensive versions of a console is standard practice at around this point in their life cycle, so it comes as no surprise that the PS4 Slim will soon be joining Microsoftā€™s recently-released Xbox One S. According to Sony, this model is 30 percent quieter, 16 percent lighter and 28 percent more energy efficient than the current one, and is cheaper at US$299. A couple of small ergonomic tweaks have been made to the controller as well, and thereā€™s now a small light bar in the central trackpad.

10th November Ā£350 for the PS4 Pro

Originally posted by @BTripz

10th November Ā£350 for the PS4 Pro

Three hundred and fifty knicker to bang out 4K visuals.

Itā€™s a no-brainer and probably a pre-order.

Shopto.net no games or extra controller though :frowning:

Might be better to wait nearer the time thoughā€¦

One of the series Iā€™ve missed most since not buying an XBOX One is undoubtedly Forza. Originally Microsoftā€™s answer to Gran Turismo, I think it has become a better game than its inspiration. Not only that, but the series spun off into something even more up my street, Forza Horizon. I played the original on the 360, didnā€™t get to play the second because of its exclusivity. Iā€™m playing the third now on PC.

Oddly enough, when I bought it, I also bought the XBox One copy. Itā€™s part of a new initiative from Microsoft called XBox Anywhere, sort of like Playstationā€™s cross-buy facility. I donā€™t actually own an XBox One, but I have at least one game if I ever do.

Pretty glorious stuff. One of the compromises that the original had to make was a locked 30 frames per second. 60 would be the gold standard. Itā€™s running at 4K @ 60FPS on my machine. Itā€™s very nice.

Truly open world. Things arenā€™t walled off, making for some breathtaking jumps. Itā€™s like a large scale Burnout Paradise. Itā€™s got the rewind function from Forza, the handling is bloody lovely. There have been a few occasions this morning when Iā€™ve had to rewind, just taken the characteristics of the car, such as drivetrain, etc, and known exactly how to sort it.

Fantastic stuff. Already being feted as the best driving game ever. Not sure about that, but it is bloody gorgeous.

Only on XBOX One*.
* Not really, and itā€™s better on PC.

Mu-ha!

OK, if I havenā€™t got a UHD television and have no plans on getting one, is it worth paying the extra for the PS4 1gb Pro? Or should I stay with the 500gb slim?

Still worth it. Many of the games have better performance

Get a UHD TV. Picture is noticably better.

If it is massive, little noticable improvement below 60" or at least not worth the extra coin

Itā€™s bad enough getting bankerā€™s permissions to get a PS4 let alone an extra Ā£800 for a UHD television.

Anyway itā€™s going to be in the conservatory on a 32" screen!

LOLā€™d at this bit :-

Storage will be on a solid-state drive (SSD), which should dramatically speed up load times and cut down on the size of games and updates.

OK, agree about the load time but will an SSD cut down on game and updates sizes :man_shrugging:

edit: Feck me @pap that was a fast like!!

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I quite liked it!

Sounds boss, and it is good to see them trying to evolve. I really like this idea.

The second new feature headlining the PS5 controller is adaptive triggers, incorporated into the L2 and R2 buttons at the top rear of the controller. The resistance of these triggers can be programmed by game developers to have more or less ā€œgiveā€ depending on the action. So drawing a bow and arrow should feel different to firing a gun, for example, or accelerating a vehicle off-road might take more effort than doing so on a clear patch of asphalt.

You get a lot of white elephant ideas on consoles. Cough. Cough. Kinect.

This is a simple, feasible modification using technology that has been around for years and most importantly, is going to be pretty damn easy to program in to every game.

The rumble on the Switch really is decent, so the haptic feedback (again, something else that has been around for years) is going to be cool too, assuming Sony are operating with similar or better tech available.

For me, theyā€™ve got to do one thing. Make a machine that can do UHD at sixty frames per second. That is going to be the standard for a while. UHD is fucking decent, and while bigger resolutions are on offer, at gaming range on a reasonable sized screen youā€™re really not going to need any more.

Football on UHD is still blurry, I have a good tv and it canā€™t handle it, not convinced gaming in UHD on certain games will work at the moment, tearing, freezing are still all too apparent in this format, theyā€™re sending out apologies and patches before the release of games nowadays so Iā€™m not hopeful. They have never got to grips with the PS4 to be honest.
And resistance triggers is a great way to update your controller every 3 months.

The next generation. The Series X looks like a PC. Donā€™t like the look of the PS5 dev kit. This is likely to change before release - if only to bring down the bill of materials cost.

PS5 but if XBOX is any good Iā€™ll get that, I have both of the 4 and 1 now, PS pisses all over it too be honest, no competition.

Certainly true of this generationā€™s base models. Not as true in other comparisons.

The original XBox was a more powerful machine than the PS2 it was competing against.

The PS3 was more powerful than the XBox 360 in theory. In practise, the only places Sony beat out Microsoft were the exclusives and a lot of the better Japanese studios, such as Namco and Square Enix. In most cases, the 360 version of a multi-platform game looked better because Western coders had trouble getting all the power out of Sonyā€™s Cell processor.

The XBox One X is more powerful than the PS4 Pro. The XBox One S canā€™t compete with a PS4 on game image quality, but it does play 4K DVDs.

I suspect youā€™re right on this one. General rule is first to market is technically inferior.

To compare the PS/2/3/4 with any other games console regardless of capability (that means nothing as that is merely what it can do and not what a programmer can do with it) from the same generation is like comparing Russ Abbotā€™s greatest hits to a Bridge over troubled water.
Theyā€™re shit.

And Iā€™ll add I had nearly every single one since the mid 90ā€™s.