Hi gaming. Right, Crazy title sentence that makes people go "Huh wait what?!"
Here's the thing. On the xbox 360 and PS3 we had two systems that played video games at 720p. And Boy did Gears of War look fucking awesome when it came out. But right now im sitting infront of my Xbox One. Staring at these comparisons between the PS4/Xbox One. And honestly, I think I got tricked. By the end of the 360's life cycle there was only a few games that could run 1080p. They usually had slightly shittier textures as it was the only way to get 1080p. Only a select games managed to hit 60FPS. (Which made a massive difference, Halo 5 at 60FPS is night and day to go back to a FPS at 30. Tracking people, moving quickly spinning, running, animations, everything looks better at 60)
So when the Xbox One and the PS4 came out, I guess I was expecting to own a system that would be able to run every single game at 1080p through and HDMI cable. And every single FPS, Racing game, arcade all would be 60FPS. (shit maybe more for things like racing when they don't have to render everything in the background)
But once again I turn to the new titles and both the Xbox One, and the PS4 (which is marginally better in a few cases....Honestly its really the same thing different brand and marketing, Pepsi vs Coke) I feel like we all got ripped off.
We got so upset at price tags and yelled and stammered we wanted cheaper consoles. And, we got them. We got lowest bidder technology produced in 2010 sold at a discount in 2013. both the PS4 and Xbox One have horrifically small Hard drives. The Xbox One has a 5400RPM 500GB hard drive... I mean seriously we can go buy drives with twice the capacity and 30% faster for 70$ at a store. I would have paid 70$ more for a 1TB 7200 RPM drive. I would have saved me buying an external hard drive 5 months ago. And not to mention the reduction in loading screen times. (and pop in...Hello GTA)
The GPU's in both the PS4 and Xbox one have the same specs as GPU's that cost 120$. (Which are pretty much the lowest tier GPU's in 2013) I would have spent another 50$ on the next tier GPU.
the CPU, the Memory, the speeds of the memory, the fans, the power supply all scream lowest bidder technology. Whoever could produce it with the least cost to Microsoft or Sony got the job.
We are what, nearly 3 years into the consoles lifetime and we are struggling to keep up with things that happened 5 years ago. 1080 really started to appear with LCD's in 2008 and 2009 becoming the standard resolution. Now monitors are already on 4k resolution and others are cranking out 144Hz refresh rates. Some being able to hit 1440p and 144hz. And while I dont expect to be able to run the highest resolutions. There is simply no excuse to be unable to reach a resolution and a framerate that other hardware could do 5 years before the Xbox One and PS4 were released.
Now there are developers who have incredibly well optimized games that can hit these numbers. But its insane to think that we can expect anything more from these consoles for the next 3 years. most companies release shitty un-optimized games (Looking at Ubisoft here....) or games that flat out, are just buggy as hell (Bethesda..thats you this time)
I would have paid 600 for an Xbox one if they had put in the better GPU, and the better HD, the better CPU and headsinks, fans, and power bricks. Not asking for top of the line. Simply the stuff that could have at least lasted more then 1 year after it was produced.
And if I was naive and got the cheaper console, I probably would have felt like an idiot today. Like buying the Wii for a new COD title. I got some hardware that would run really good xbox 360 games. Not something that could run games in 2017.
TLDR: The console that costed 600$ on release would have been kicking the shit out of the other one today and there would be no comparisons that could be made.
Have a nice day. :D
Submitted by Mimical Xbox 720 Release Date 2015
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