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Thread: Xbox One vs PS4
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1st July 2013, 09:59 #81
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Originally Posted by henners88
To Mark, that doesn't really make sense though? What do you do when you need to buy something that you're not clued up on? Personally I'll find a friend who knows about it, just like someone who doesn't know about cars will take a knowledgeable friend with them to go and have a look at a car. Plus these days you can just go on forums and tap into them for advice.
Like I said, there's this perceived complexity around PC gaming, that it somehow requires more skill than just normally operating a computer. With steam, all you need to do these days is put your username and password in and it'll automatically install your games for you. I went back to Perth last December, I fancied a game so I downloaded the steam client (no more difficult than installing firefox and everyone on here can do that) and installed my games and was away and playing in no time No scratched discs, no need for a collection of discs sitting out, no need to change discs when you want to play a different game.....
Don't get me wrong, I have a 360 which I use to play Forza 3 and 4 and I do like it for racing, but PC gaming is so much less costly than people make out and so much less complicated. I remember when we got our first PC in 1992, gaming was a bloody minefield!
Did you have enough RAM? Was the RAM actually upgradeable? Was your CPU fast enough? Did you have that port in the back for the joystick? Change to disc 2 now. Gawd, it was terrible! Even when we got our second PC back in 1997 it was still pretty poor, did you have the right version of direct x? The PC didn't have an AGP slot and back in those days onboard graphics was truly woeful.
Nowadays games are self patching, Windows update makes sure you're up to date and you can game with stuff that's 3 or 4 years old, case in point, my graphics card is actually just under 5 years old and still absolutely fine for the job. According to my normal upgrade schedule, I'm due a new PC in February, I won't bother with it though and might just get a new graphics card for 150 quid or so.Rule 1 of the forum, always accuse anyone who disagrees with you of bias.I would say that though.
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1st July 2013, 10:08 #82
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Originally Posted by henners88Rule 1 of the forum, always accuse anyone who disagrees with you of bias.I would say that though.
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1st July 2013, 10:11 #83
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I have only just recently upgraded my PC, probably spent somewhere around £500 minus the old parts i sold. In the end i now have a top gaming spec PC for around the price of what a new next gen console would cost and this would blow them out of the water. I'm not saying building a gaming PC is going to be cheaper as you wont want to settle for cheap components but for what you get out of a PC compared to a console its far superior. I will still want to upgrade at some point to a solid state drive and maybe a newer Graphics card but this is out of choice and wanting to improve performance further. The new Motherboard i have has HDMI so could quite easily plug it into the LED 3D TV i have and use it like a console but it's so big it's not something i would do.
I may sound like i am a PC fanboy but that strictly isnt true as i own both Xbox and PS3 and have owned every single version of both since i was a kid. The PS3 i now use only as a blu-ray player because the games suck and the less said about the controller the better. I much prefer Xbox except the fact it's owned by Microsoft and you have to pay £40 a year to play online. Despite these i have always preferred Xbox and with games like Fifa 14 and GTA V which come out later this year i for one will be keeping it just for these.
I probably will buy the Xbox One but not right away, will let the price come down first as £420 is OTT and get over the initial hype and bugs. I have read that it comes with a blu-ray drive so will most likely get rid of Playstation altogether and just have the Xbox.
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1st July 2013, 10:24 #84
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Originally Posted by JasonPotato
My graphics card is so old it doesn't even have a HDMI port on it and it still plays games just fine.Rule 1 of the forum, always accuse anyone who disagrees with you of bias.I would say that though.
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1st July 2013, 11:53 #85
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Originally Posted by Daniel
Out of interest, why do you think Microsoft are in a safer position with the new release? With their tablet and mobile division struggling, I know they need this to succeed, but the PS4 from what I have read appears to have had the better publicity. That is just my general perception from articles and news pieces I have stumbled across and you may disagree..
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1st July 2013, 12:11 #86
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What you need is the Xbox games, online community/features and Xbox controller on the PS4 console. That would be the perfect console.
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1st July 2013, 12:44 #87
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Originally Posted by JasonPotato.
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1st July 2013, 12:49 #88Originally Posted by Daniel2nd place in the big quizz challenge!
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1st July 2013, 13:21 #89Originally Posted by Alfa Fan...Funny how ev'rything was roses when we held on to the guns...
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1st July 2013, 21:36 #90
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Originally Posted by Alfa Fan
In fact I can play some of them at 1920 X 1080 and 60 hz on my 42 inch TV, which is quite remarkable for a 5 year old card.
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