PS4 and Xbox One

you can get a good 20 hours out of MGS:GZ betw all the difft modes and objectives

in some ways it's kinda a better, more refined/concentrated MGS:V

Thanks for the heads up on the military appreciation thing- I'm still pricing out bundles for an eventual buy in the next few months, and that looks like the best deal by far (especially since i can sell the NBA game). Dunno why both this and the regular The Last of Us bundle don't include it on a disc, though.

man oh man do I love the XBOne controller; if it's not a game I'll be cross-playing on mobile I'll buy it for Xbox simply so that I can enjoy that fantastic controller. can't wait for the PC adapter to come out in November so that I can use a wireless one with my HTPC .

Has anyone seen if there's going to be a PS4 bundle with a 1TB drive that doesn't require paying an extra premium for a Call of Duty game and a ridiculous black-and-orange console?

Or - get a good deal on a 500gb system, buy this 2TB external drive, crack it open and stuff it into your PS4, voila 2TB PS4

p awful user experience that you get a new ps4 and as you try to play it it endlessly keeps downloading updates and patches for the game you want to play. with about 15 clickthrough menus about update 1.001 or whatever. guess i'll watch tv while patch two downloads for another 20 minutes.

Yeah, that has been my experience since I got it. Extra controller is a must. These babies can't handle my marathoning.

i had to get fifa with it as it was cheaper than without - but i intend to get the new pro evo and maybe trade fifa in. i got metal gear solid - will probably get dentistry or perhaps batman also.

any of you have the new pro evo? i'm LOCALGARDA if so - literally just turned it on.

I've never owned two consoles simultaneously, and I've never owned Playstation. I went with the Xbox One because that's the route most of my friends went. But I really really really want to play two PS4 exclusives, Until Dawn and Last of Us. Just not sure I want to invest 380 dollars for two games. There are no other Playstation exclusives I want to play. Decisions, decisions.

wait til Black Friday deal, buy & play those two games & then sell the lot?
I've been playing Dragon Quest Heroes and ehhhhh this game is not doing it for me, the maps are too small and I dislike tower defense games and was unaware that was a key mechanic in this game.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/10/22/xbox-hardware-sales-down-xbox-live-user-up-to-39-million.aspx
Wow I guess XB1 sales are really that bad that they need to hide the sales now... but I would've been more optimistic with the holiday bundles (Halo 5/Tomb Raider Reboot 2/Fallout 4/Forza Whatever).

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARHVKZ5K1b0

Xbox One at $300 next week, or PS4 at $350? Will Sony drop the PS4 price in response to the Xbox price drop (which is temporary but expected to go permanent shortly after)?

if u have to play "knack" the answer is clear

different is, PS4 doesn't need to pricedrop as it's actually selling

one deciding factor for me (i bought my PS4 late last year) was the general sense that most of my friends were gravitating toward PS4 and that it seems to have more momentum. that doesn't mean it's a better system, but it probably means you'll have more people to play multiplayer with (if that's a thing for you) and that there will be more system exclusives/games coming out for PS4 first, etc.

PS4.5? http://kotaku.com/sources-sony-is-working-on-a-ps4-5-1765723053

Yeah I'm still leaning PS4.

the one thing that tempts to eventually get an XBone is MS's backwards compatibility commitment (for the moment) which is nice considering the bajillion 360 games, physical and digital, that i have backlogged

but otherwise PS4 feels like the runaway winner at this point

Sony is still pushing 4K, huh

Xbox One Spring Bundle

or

refurb PS4?

?

forgot I basically asked about this four months ago

all the free games in the bundle would be nice but none of them really look like my kind of games, plus i usually just play one game at a time. so should probably get the refurb ps4 and a game i actually want to play.

good advice

I will never buy a refurb again if I can help it. Or, rather, I would prefer to be the one doing the refurbing if it came down to it.

that's what I was just going to ask, if refurb is ok or not. reading online it seems pretty risky.

I would avoid a refurb just because deals are/will be plentiful with the new/slim/upgraded consoles coming out. Though X1 has already seen massive cuts this year, PS4 deals will be coming soon enough. Not to mention VR...

Based on the research I did after my old PS3 went tits-up, if you do get a refurb, make sure that they have legitimately reballed the GPU and haven't just done a reflow. The difference being that the reflow just involves melting the existing solder and is much less reliable, whereas a reball involves completely replacing all of the solder points on the GPU. It's more involved and therefore more expensive but well worth it if you want something that's going to last. And from what I've read, a professional reball may very well improve on the work done in the factory.

but there's no way to know what was done in refurbishing a specific console, right? i guess unless you have the knowledge to open it up and see for yourself.

Yeah, not without taking it apart. I guess if you buy it from a physical storefront, ask them to show you their (solder) balls. I doubt they'd have them if they don't use them.

there have been new PS4 deals for around 250 recently, keep an eye on https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4Deals/

and anyway, Bloodborne + Last Of Us + some of the exclusives coming in next year or two make PS the obvious choice for me.

I ended up getting a new PS4. Due to convoluted reasons, I ended up getting the Uncharted 4 bundle, which means I get play Uncharted 4 (yay) but also have an embarrassing PS4 with Uncharted 4 artwork on it (boo).

i only played the first 2 but i hear the 2nd is the best of the series so i feel confident in my determination that they are... not great games.

does the uncharted 4 artwork peel off

Scalebound cancelled http://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-exclusive-scalebound-has-been-canceled
Struggling to think what Xbox has for this year, that Rare pirate game and ... ?

Project Scorpio still seems to be on track for Holiday 2017

The Scalebound gameplay video was so incredibly stupid it's no loss.

Yep it looked bad. Scorpio sounds great on paper - but what games will there be for it? Xbox exclusives lineup seems fairly week, and unless they have a ton of stuff in the works, I have a feeling
that people will upgrade and then wonder why... reason being that most third party developers are going to develop for both the PS and Xbox platforms at the same time, thats just how it works financially, so it seems like the only major advantage to Scorpio if it doesnt have major exclusives would be improved framerate and resolution on those cross-platform third party games - which is great of course... but why not just get a PC?

crackdown 3 is the only thing i'm looking forward to this year, but i'm looking forward to it a lot - the first game was one of my favourites of the last gen

is there a good all purpose xbox one thread? trying to find out what's worth playing on the Game Pass.

(currently installed: Witcher III, Outer Worlds, Outer Wilds, Forza 4, Nier Automata, Doom, Gears 5, the 2nd Ori game)

forza horizon 4 is the best exclusive

i think yakuza 0 is on there now which is one of the best games of the past decade

some good indies: yoku's island express, steamworld dig 2, lonely mountains downhill

Some random ideas:

Two Point Hospital
Rocket League
Fallout New Vegas
Untitled Goose Game
Subnautica
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Bridge Constructor Portal
Hollow Knight
Life Is Strange 2
Minit
Slay the Spire
Ori 1
Astroneer
Children of Morta
Wargroove
Doom
Wolfensteins
Void Bastards
Steamworld Dig 2
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Dead Cells
Dishonored 2
Monster Hunter World
Tekken 7

I played thru LIS 1 on the PS3 but have been wary of LIS 2, is it comparable in terms of quality?

I forgot to mention I installed and played thru the first hour or so of Yakuza 0...seems ok so far but not totally sold yet

I've only done episode 1 of both Life Is Stranges. I know the second one didn't resonate as much with fans of the first, but I found it pretty moving. Maybe too corny for some.

Yakuza 0 really shines with some of the goofier side missions and mini games, IMO. The cabaret club game totally derailed me from the main storyline.

yakuza 0 is god tier

I feel like this chip shortage might end up giving my xbox one a slightly longer shelf life in terms of developers not wanting to release stuff only for next-gen consoles :)

Yeah they’ll release games for the prior gen and they’ll run badly and then they’ll apologize to the small number of complainers or whatever