Or they could have just designed the console properly. 1.3 tflops and DDR3 in late-2013 are some piss-poor decisions to say the least. And then on top of that they bundled in Kinect, something the vast majority of core-gamers (Y'know, the guys that actually buy games and not just the box) could care less about. MS screwed the pooch in royal fashion and there's no getting out of it now. Policy and software decisions can be changed on the fly but hardware blunders are forever. And I'm saying this as someone that has been a Xbox fanboy for 10+ years! As soon as I saw the specs I knew they were in trouble. At that point I was hoping for a delay and a redesign. They didn't do it and now they're screwed. I've accepted it and will (Gasp!) be buying a Sony console for the first time since the PS1 way back when. Chances are you'll do the same eventually.

No, it isn't. That's PR bs. Yes, it does have over 10 times as much RAM but to most people, including me, the GPU is where the real meat of the console is and the GPU in X1 is approximately 5X as powerful as the one in X360, not 10X. The GPU in PS4 is approximately 7X as powerful as the one in X360. MS (And even Sony) likes to avoid the numbers and talk about "efficiency" when spinning their way to their 10X as powerful nonsense but the reality is X1 is 5X as powerful as the previous gen, PS4 7X as powerful as the previous gen.

They both should have been 10X as powerful though, especially considering that the previous gen was 8 fargin years long! Epic Games campaigned for next-gen consoles that were truly 10X as powerful, which would have meant 2.5 tflops machines. But both companies flipped Epic the bird and focused on profitability instead. Everybody keeps making out like PS4 is so fantastic but it really isn't. It's underpowered compared to what it should have been. X1, meanwhile, is extremely underpowered, so much so that it makes PS4 seem better than what it is.

Guess I'm directly the opposite of most people that play these games. I completed the campaigns of all three COD: Modern Warfare games (Did the first one on veteran difficulty as well) but I've never played a match of COD multiplayer ... ever. Haven't even tried it. Have beaten the campaigns of all the Gears of War games except for Judgement (Intend to get to that one eventually) but have played maybe a dozen matches total of multiplayer (Probably not even that many). When the first Halo was on Xbox I played multiplayer of that A LOT via system link and then later online with some service (I forget what it was) that allowed you do so (It basically tricked the game into thinking the games were local). That's the exception to the rule though cuz I've barely played any of the other Halo games online at all (I think the last one I even tried online was Halo 3) but have played through the campaigns of all of them.

I just don't get into online multiplayer. It isn't fun to me. I think a big part of it is my age. When I was young I probably would have loved it if it had been available the way it is today but as an older guy it's all about the campaign to me.

And something I hate is coop. I don't get why people play like that. It totally ruins the game. Is akin to playing with a God code cuz you can't die unless everyone dies at the same time. If there's no challenge it isn't a game ... you're just pushing buttons. And what really gets my goat is the people who will intentionally ruin the campaign of a game by playing in 4 player coop and then complain about the AI and/or difficulty. Hello!!!!!!! How in the hell was the game suppose to challenge you at all when your character is invulnerable since getting smoked is meaningless unless all 4 of you get killed simultaneously ... which is quite unlikely to happen?

Maybe PS4 but I don't think Xbox One will do that well.

Bs. You don't have 1080p and/or 60 fps on one console and 720p and/or 30 fps on the other with so many different games if the difference is only 20%. I don't know if it's actually 50% but it's certainly over 20%.

Lol, the thing about the batteries is not a big deal at all. The other type y'all are clamoring for is still a battery, just a different shape. Oh, GOSSSSSSSHHHHH! And a AA battery can be replaced when it goes bad which is a plus.

The real flaws with PS4 and Xbox One are:

PS4: Weak.

Xbox One: Ridiculously weak.

All freeing up those GPU resources is going to do is bring it back up to nearly 1.3 tflops ... and that's still crap.

I wonder why people around here even bother playing video games. According to the GS boards EVERYTHING sucks.

If the GPU was as good or better than PS4's I'd get it ... enthusiastically. But just a little over 1 tflop doesn't cut it. Both of these systems should have been a minimum of 2 tflops. At least PS4 is somewhat close to that.

They would have gotten X1 into my living room if it had sufficient power. But just a hair over 1 tflop for a box made in 2013 ain't gonna do it.