Last year at Christmas, we already meet again to converse an important question: which console sliding the foot of his tree
A year later, though? you still have not resolved the issue, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have taken their brand. If you were a regular at the previous generation, you certainly already have a preference, but for those who are in the dark here’s a small point road to arrive safe and sound and happy on the morning of December 25. Match five points.
Catalog
The year 2015 saw both manufacturers set milestones for the year 2016, one and the other repellants or confirming anticipated titles, or with innovations to satisfy the player.
Not to mention the titles developed by third-party publishers that are typically outside their games on both platforms, each manufacturer has his sleeves strengths to kill. At E3 2015, Microsoft made an impression by presenting a solid offer for this year end doped exclusive Halo 5 Guardians Rise of the Tomb Raider or Forza Motorsport 6
. With fewer big exclusive titles this Christmas, Sony seemed to bet on the longer term, on the post. De facto exclusives are somewhat rare in the Japanese giant for the month of December 2015. Although Sony has managed to get hold of exclusive content and previews on popular titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 or Destiny King Corrupted.
For the time being, the xbox one takes the advantage to us.
In the months ahead, in early 2016, the battle will be tighter. Sony will finally launch its Uncharted 4, for example and games that shimmered in the distance will approach – with a special mention for our little darling nostalgic Shadow of the Beast. The Xbox One will not be outdone, with titles like Quantum Break, or Crackdown 3. To summarize, for immediate satisfaction, xbox one seems to have the upper hand on the longer term, both consoles appear shoulder to shoulder .
We admit, it’s starting to look like badly in a pitched battle to a draw.
Performance
We will not play scoffers PCistes by saying anyway The two consoles are far exceeded by the PC. On paper, the PlayStation 4 has had an advantage from the start. The opening of the seventh heart of its processor developers should reinforce this dominance.
However, the xbox one recovered a little power too by cutting ties with Kinect and reallocating some resources that were intended for him. But the strength of Microsoft’s console is also due in the cloud. John Bruno, then in charge of Xbox Live, we already explained in 2013. The Xbox One can count on the power of the Azure infrastructure to deport some calculations in the cloud. And titles like Crackdown 3 should largely benefit from it. Baby Dave Jones, founder of DMA Desgin, creator of the first GTA, draws its strength and potential in the cloud of Microsoft – particularly to serve a destructibility environments such as no a priori has ever seen. A power revolution looming Microsoft’s side.
The PlayStation 4 still prevails for now, but for how long?
The design, storage and bulk
Still no external change. The PlayStation 4 is in our view far more pleasing and less cumbersome. It also offers the possibility of being placed horizontally or vertically, which will facilitate its storage in your installation. The Xbox One will not support that does not laying flat. She has certainly shed its cumbersome Kinect 2, but the external power supply it is always there, incredibly big. It is not tergiversera, Microsoft could have made more compact, better optimized. Storage side, the two manufacturers now offer both discs 500 and 1TB in their console. A communion of spirit that warms the heart and you will avoid having too quick to clear the installed games and recorded video.
The PlayStation 4 wins for us, and below.
Peripherals, two different paths
We just said, Microsoft has abandoned its Kinect. At the time, therefore, for xbox one side devices. Yet this year, the Redmond giant has introduced a novelty that is appealing: its Elite Pro Controller. A highly customizable gamepad and adaptable to different types of games, which should appeal to those who take the game seriously and want to give every chance to succeed. Certainly, the price will cough a few, but when we want fraguer, you have what it takes …
Meanwhile, Sony has not released new controllers for its PS4. The fourth PlayStation gamepads are in great improvement over previous generations, especially for shooting games. However, Sony is preparing an accessory that could dig viciously distance with Microsoft.
We obviously talking PlayStation VR, former Morpheus project and virtual reality helmet that acoquinera the PlayStation 4. At its opening conference of the Paris Game Week at the end of the month Last October, Sony officials have succeeded on the stage to announce the titles that will be compatible “virtual reality”.
The offer will be varied in principle if not rich at first time. Have been listed Tekken 7, fighting game from a line that needs no introduction, Rigs, futuristic sports game with mechs muscular, Robinson: The Journey, beautiful and immersive adventure game and even the next Gran Turismo, king of the racing simulation on PlayStation since ancient times. For the record, PlayStation VR due out in the first half of 2016.
So yes, as we confirmed Hugues Ouvrard, Director France Xbox, Xbox One will be compatible with the Oculus Rift due out in next March, a priori. We will not speak here of the HoloLens the reality helmet mixed Microsoft, both too exciting and too limited for us to be an even seem credible device to the player. Anyway, if the virtual reality still has something to prove and that its price will certainly salty, it must be said that it is more dream than a joystick, as great as it is.
The PlayStation 4 wins the point.
Online services and a return to the Future
Since their launch in 2013, both consoles playing the same cards in terms of online services. The PlayStation 4 is in the footsteps of his competition. Online gambling pays and quality. The “PSN” seems to know a little more disconnection problems Xbox Live, but overall supply is similar. Subscribers are entitled monthly games for free or discounted. Sony highlights the offer “cross-platform” PS Vita, PS3, PS4, while Microsoft plays on Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
A draw?
Not necessarily. For with the latest version of its Xbox, Microsoft did enter into the world of Windows 10. This means in particular that it is now possible to stream the console games to PC under the latest OS from Microsoft. This update also opened the door to free backwards compatible Xbox games on the Xbox 360 One. If the game is on the list of compatible games (must be that the publisher has agreed), it now simply drag the cake of the title, you have had the foresight not to sell in the xbox one to be able to play after the game (adapted) has been downloaded.
A nice shot from Microsoft when Sony offered backward compatibility as via its PlayStation Now, a games on demand service via the cloud. A paid service and still not available in France, though. However, things have changed recently, Sony is about to open the floodgates of backwards compatibility for some PS2 games. Three titles are already available with the edition “deluxe” Star Wars Battlefront. A meager beginning.
The Xbox One takes all.
The day of reckoning
As in all wars throughout During the balance of the war between Xbox One and PlayStation 4 is obviously temporary. It seems that at present, Sony console still has a slight advantage, but Microsoft seems to have gradually nibbling advance that its competitor had since their launch two years ago. New battles will be delivered in 2016 around the big exclusive licenses and, of course, around the virtual reality, too, and around the price too.
Exactly, longer more expensive, the xbox one now displays the same price or even less, a few tens of euros, that of the PlayStation 4 as offers and bundles you will find online. A final argument to finally decide you when passing in hand …
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