What is/are the most unimportant, facile, vacuous point/s of contention in the System War? Think about something that everyone else thinks is big but really means nothing at all (it could just mean nothing to you). I'm going to post my own examples, one for each faction:

 

Xbox- the cloud. Hey don't get me wrong, I accept MS as having the best cloud infrastructure. But others can build a cloud infrastructure too, and I haven't got fibre yet so it's just moot at this stage for me. 

PS4 - the graphics. Hey don't get me wrong, I accept PS4 as being most likely to have the best graphics, this is based on the specs. But I've seen PS4's graphics 1st hand and as good as they are I've seen more mind bending graphics on PC already. If I'm going to buy a PS4 it will be for great games, games that must have a PS4 in order to be played - not for PS4's graphics. 

Nintendo - the free online. Hey don't get me wrong, it's better for online to be free than to cost money. But with millions more players (and probably your mates) on competing online infrastructures ... I'd be more inclined to part with some money just to join my mates. 

PC- the ability to mod games. Hey - don't get me wrong, some people are hard out into modding their games. This is mostly a personal thing for me, I very seldom do this. Yeah it's nice to pull out a graphics fix or something sometimes (Dark Souls for example, in fact I was playing just last night.). But I can't accept that modding games is the big big deal that some people make it out to be. 

 

So go on. Tell me all about the superficial rubbish you've seen here on System Wars ... this particular post notwithstanding...

psymon100

[QUOTE="wiiutroll"]

[QUOTE="KungfuKitten"] PC hardware has some kind of magic decline?Kinthalis

Oh, you're just an idiot. Got it. Putting you on ignore.

Anyway...

[QUOTE="wiiutroll"]

[QUOTE="Kinthalis"]

 

What are you on?

 

Why would a more powerful PC have less of a lifespan?

KungfuKitten

[QUOTE="wiiutroll"]

[QUOTE="KungfuKitten"]

Uhm less overhead, legal team and marketing than consoles, more games, better games and multiple pricepoints. How can they compete? They'll likely be better in every way for a slightly higher upfront investment. People don't have 1600 upfront for a PC, fine. I can deal with that argument. But a decent PC at around the pricepoint of the Xbox One that would outperform them on all levels, would completely obliterate MS's marketshare.

Kinthalis

A) price point beating  xbone doesn't matter

b)  history has show that microsoft doesn't sit at side  and get  blow out

ex; lbm vs microsoft lotus

ex: netscape vs microsoft

C) those pc that are on par with xbone or ps4 will have less lifespan by long shot, both will hold more value then it.

D) marketshare of microsoft isn't even based on xbox  alone

What are you on?

Why would a more powerful PC have less of a lifespan?

Uhm less overhead, legal team and marketing than consoles, more games, better games and multiple pricepoints. How can they compete? They'll likely be better in every way for a slightly higher upfront investment. People don't have 1600 upfront for a PC, fine. I can deal with that argument. But a decent PC at around the pricepoint of the Xbox One that would outperform them on all levels, would completely obliterate MS's marketshare.

KungfuKitten

A) price point beating  xbone doesn't matter

b)  history has show that microsoft doesn't sit at side  and get  blow out

ex; lbm vs microsoft lotus

ex: netscape vs microsoft

C) those pc that are on par with xbone or ps4 will have less lifespan by long shot, both will hold more value then it.

D) marketshare of microsoft isn't even based on xbox  alone

This thread is gonna be another Robot Ron vs that Spanish PS3 fanboy, whatshisname. Fun times.Floppy_Jim

So the microsoft defends team is still in full force...

 

Sony have been praised by several developers for their decision to include of 8GB of GDDR5 RAM in their upcoming next generation console, the PlayStation 4.  The faster memory apparently gives more budget to developers to render out high resolution textures and free up other resources. Microsoft opted for 8GB DDR3 RAM for the Xbox One but according to them the on board ESRAM will provide the right balance of bandwidth and power.

According to Nick Baker, who looks after the Xbox Ones architecture team believes that GDDR5 is uncomfortable to work with and ESRAM gives the Xbox One the right balance for bandwidth and power consumption.

full: http://gamingbolt.com/xbox-one-dev-gddr5-is-uncomfortable-to-work-with-esram-provides-high-bandwidth-at-low-power

ramonnl

#ronvstorthread

[QUOTE="k2theswiss"][QUOTE="navyguy21"] incagnito son... plus ur browser isnt watching u...it is just recording what sites u used and such this on the other hand is a camera that is physically watching uConsternated

Firefox, ABP, NoScript, Ghostery, VPN...? :)

they are selling it at profit