Anyone swapped their PS4 for a XBONE? (following the BC announcement)
I've been with 'xbox' since 2001 but last year I decided that I'd get a PS4 as I was burnt by the Microsoft announcements of the XBONE etc.
I've played some good games on the PS4 - Bloodborne in particular was fantastic, and next year PS4 has Horizon and Uncharted coming which look stunning... but as daft as it sounds I missed having an 'xbox' so decided to swap as it didn't feel right. Then the BC announcement was the icing on the cake.
So happy I did - the UI on the XBONE is far superior for me - and Kinect too. PS4 had and will have some good games, but I find the experience better on the XBONE.
Currently playing MCC, Horizon 2 and Ori. All are great so far.
Anyway, just wanted to share my experience on here! it's good to be back
Anyone else made a recent jump due to the BC announcement?
I've played some good games on the PS4 - Bloodborne in particular was fantastic, and next year PS4 has Horizon and Uncharted coming which look stunning... but as daft as it sounds I missed having an 'xbox' so decided to swap as it didn't feel right. Then the BC announcement was the icing on the cake.
So happy I did - the UI on the XBONE is far superior for me - and Kinect too. PS4 had and will have some good games, but I find the experience better on the XBONE.
Currently playing MCC, Horizon 2 and Ori. All are great so far.
Anyway, just wanted to share my experience on here! it's good to be back
Anyone else made a recent jump due to the BC announcement?
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For me though I would have gone for the Xbox One as well as the PS4 and not instead of. Of course your financial situation might not allow that, but at some point in the future I'd recommend picking up another PS4, you've already had a great experience on the PS4 and i'm sure you would again.
Enjoy your Xbox One
I bought a Wii-U at the beginning of 2014 because i felt it was peaking and that turned out to be right. 2015 was always gona be a strong year for PS4 so i picked one up at Christmas and so far it has been perfect. For me it is the superior console, technically and games wise so i find it surprising you jumped.
Xbox One hasn't convinced me at all yet. I will pick one up at some point but probably in a few years when i can pick it up cheap with a couple of games. I suppose you have done the reverse and can pick up a PS4 cheap in a few years, so much the same really.
At the end of the day though it comes down to what games you like and Xbox One has none for me right now (No desire to play another Halo, Gears of War or Forza game)
What happens when MS has persuaded enough people to make the switch/buy on the assumption of BC and they then pull the plug on the effort of adding more BC games?
http://news.xbox.com/2015/06/xbox-xbox-one-transforms-this-fall-with-a-new-user-experience
I think BC is just an emulator, all games can work except kinect 1.0, might require some extra code. The only problem is the game publishers. All your x360 purchases came with a license for that console only, some publishers will say yes and some will say no. Why would rockstar want to put the x360 version of gta 5 on BC when they can charge you £50 for the x1 version. We will soon see who the money grabbing b~ggers are:D
Wouldnt surprise me if we see all x360 games/arcade/indies on the x1 store for purchase as a possible sweetner for supporting bc.
Only downside will be gwg, one shitty x1 indie game with a 5+ year old x360 game.
They've actually moved closer to the PS4 format in my view. Not a bad thing as all, as I think that's the right way to go. The Cortana thing.... Interesting, but we'll have to see how it works in reality. For all the hype about Kinect and speech commands it's very limited and temperamental.
As for swapping consoles, I've enjoyed owning multiple formats for a very long time now.
I wouldn't say Kinect is 'temperamental'. I don't remember the last time I've had to repeat myself. I also wouldn't say limited, but I guess that is down to what you want from it.
The PS4 UI is awful.
Why not if the games are there and your friends are already.
Because it's not truly current gen, nothing visually looks stunning. It's like upgrading your PC to have slightly higher resolution playing the same games. Even Alien Isolation has jaggies to death.. sooo scary.
Kinda sums up the whole new generation for me
Saying that though I am still enjoying my new system.
Not my experience of Kinect I'm afraid. Sometimes it's impossible to wake the damn thing up (I've even tried saying "exbwocks" as that seems to work for the dudes on stage) and even when it does work it will sometimes carry out a totally different command. I find the whole UI to be over complicated. As a result it's slow, clunky, and difficult to navigate. I welcome the changes that are on the way - including Cortana. If they live up to promise then Xbox One should become a much more pleasant and intuitive device to use.
As for PS4's UI being awful, I'd have to disagree. It could use some customisation options, such as folders, and remains simplistic compared to the feature set available on PS3, but what is there is fast, slick, and easy to navigate. It's simple and gets the job done.
Disagree. Rise of the Tomb Raider looks really nice (not Uncharted 4 nice, but it's still a looker) and I have to admire the technical prowess on display in Forza 6 even if I'm not a fan of the art style. Ryse and Sunset Overdrive are also very good looking games.
So while Xbox One is demonstrably not as powerful as PS4, to say it's not of the latest generation is a nonsense in my view.
Anyway, the way it's been implemented is less than ideal and even if I had a 360 game collection I'd rather just buy a cheap 360 and play them on that instead.
Something to note, any 360 games that become available from Game with Gold and subsequently become backward compatible, those games are available to Xbox One owners that don't even own a 360, that's what I've read in another thread about BC. Could reap juicy rewards.
Yep, you can add the free Xbox 360 games to your account via the web store. I can confirm Xbox 360 GWG games do work on Xbox One. I currently have Defence Grid and Battleblock Theatre sitting on my Xbox One HDD.