Which next gen console is the best media player?

I was expecting the Xbox One to run away with this one, but now that it's been all but confirmed that the Xbox One does not in fact replace your cable box and basically just uses Kinect as a glorified remote control with multifunctioning capabilities, I'm just not sure. Which console do you think makes the best media player? Here's how I see it.

The Xbox One:

Pros: Blu ray, access to tv and internet all on the console on a single screen, HBO Go, Hulu+, Netflix, Amazon Prime, media on xbox live, smart phone compatibility

Cons: Kinect voice commands seem kind of lame, motion commands seem even worse, possibility of having to be a gold subscriber to access the functions

Playstation 4:

Pros: Blu Ray, PSN media, Netflix, Hulu+, Amazon Prime, Vita functionality (not sure about this one)

Cons: As far as I know, you will have to (gasp) use your tv remote to start watching tv. You also can't browse the web on the PS4 while you watch tv, and I don't think HBO Go has been confirmed.

Wii U:

Pros: TVii basically does everything Microsoft did on the Xbox One without having to use voice commands/arm waves. Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix are incorporated into the tv guide so you don't have to use separate apps for your digital services. You can browse the internet/chat with friends while watching tv without using tv real estate.

Cons: No Blu Ray, No HBO Go

lol, blu ray is such a shytty format that now even the nextbox requires installs.

PS4 is best at everything

I don't see installing as a problem when the system has 500gb :|

PS4 is best at everything

heeweesRus

I don't see installing as a problem when the system has 500gb :|

Joedgabe

if you have to install them then games could have come on a cassette deck for all the difference it makes.

the whole thing is just silly.

bd was a shytty format this gen and now it goes on to next gen to be an even more senseless unneeded addition.

we would all have been better off just buying a bd player if we needed one and having some super cheap format for games to come on since we are just going to install them and never ever get the disc out of the box again.

Obviously the Xbox dONE because it is what it's designed for.

Since I can have my media business on the PC, the console would have to be designed and built for gaming. PS4 fits that category.

[QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

I don't see installing as a problem when the system has 500gb :|

Riverwolf007

if you have to install them then games could have come on a cassette deck for all the difference it makes.

the whole thing is just silly.

bd was a shytty format this gen and now it goes on to next gen to be an even more senseless unneeded addition.

we would all have been better off just buying a bd player if we needed one and having some super cheap format for games to come on since we are just going to install them and never ever get the disc out of the box again.

The only real advantage of owning a physical representation of a game is that you can take it to your friends house or another system and play it. or just resell it. After that is much better to own a digital version of the game altogether. Besides unless you're going to be buying digital games there's no point in having that much spaces.. and if you are buying digital then there is no reason to complain about the blue ray disk. And having to buy another blue ray player to watch movies is a drag if you want to save space :P

Either or both are fine media boxes to those for whom money is nothing to worry about. For spending conscious people here is a better solution.

Buy a Raspberry Pi for $35 USD. Run Raspbmc. Take a hardrive and/or memory card and play content. Done.

Buy a Raspberry Pi here. Download Raspbmc here. 

Yesh MS is going to win a poll here.... Oh wait it's for media player. :(

OP. Can you please add the option of "I'll just buy a $35 Raspberry Pi like wakefulness says"?

Thanks! ^^

I know you said console, but I just dont use consoles for that kind of stuff.  PC all the way.

Sony: Proven and established media services including music, movies and games. Normally has a more open system for external devices and media types.

MS: Pay multiple times for things like cable, internet, used games, netflix and hulu.Want's a cut of profit from anything that plugs into it.

Seems obvious to me but this is SW and some lems are still lurking.

lol, blu ray is such a shytty format that now even the nextbox requires installs.

Riverwolf007

I don't see installing as a problem when the system has 500gb :|

Joedgabe

[QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

I don't see installing as a problem when the system has 500gb :|

mems_1224

[QUOTE="2Chalupas"]Does XBOX One have a coaxial input? Did they really not address this fundamental thing? That was one thing that sort of could have made it had value to me. If I could return my leased cable box (which is like $15 a month just for the DVR box), and use the Microsoft box instead by plugging it directly into cable. If the XBOX just gets in between a still-required cable box and the television via HDMI, I'm not sure I see the point at all. It's just more clutter and just another wire/connection required (extra connection between cable box and XBOX and then to TV = THREE layers instead of two). Something I don't want at all, and frankly it's embarassing to call it the "one" device if it isn't even replacing the cable box. JamDev

Then this is literally the dumbest idea ever.  hahaha. only microsoft can come up with this shit. It's a cable box, without coax, and you still need your REAL cable box anyway. So what's the point again? If it had coax input and they were working with cable companies... maybe they were onto something. 

[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="Joedgabe"]

I don't see installing as a problem when the system has 500gb :|

AmazonTreeBoa

obviously xbox one will be the better media player.  PS4 probably the better gaming machine.  Both can do both well.  So people will decide what they value the most.

[QUOTE="JamDev"][QUOTE="2Chalupas"]Does XBOX One have a coaxial input? Did they really not address this fundamental thing? That was one thing that sort of could have made it had value to me. If I could return my leased cable box (which is like $15 a month just for the DVR box), and use the Microsoft box instead by plugging it directly into cable. If the XBOX just gets in between a still-required cable box and the television via HDMI, I'm not sure I see the point at all. It's just more clutter and just another wire/connection required (extra connection between cable box and XBOX and then to TV = THREE layers instead of two). Something I don't want at all, and frankly it's embarassing to call it the "one" device if it isn't even replacing the cable box. 2Chalupas

Then this is literally the dumbest idea ever.  hahaha. only microsoft can come up with this shit. It's a cable box, without coax, and you still need your REAL cable box anyway. So what's the point again? If it had coax input and they were working with cable companies... maybe they were onto something. 

No, just look at Wii U TVii lol.

I feel the same though (I don't subscribe to cable, but I do use an antenna to record things in WMC).

obviously xbox one will be the better media player.  PS4 probably the better gaming machine.  Both can do both well.  So people will decide what they value the most.

NFJSupreme

console is supposed to be about gaming not mediaboxonesuckbox

PS4 is best at everything

heeweesRus