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Gamers already prefer the PlayStation 4 to Xbox One

Here’s how Sony did it.

PUBLIC OPINION HAS changed drastically in the past week, with gamers running from Microsoft’s coming-soon game console, the Xbox One, towards Sony’s PlayStation 4.

On Amazon, PS4 pre-orders currently outnumber Xbox One pre-orders.

Here’s how Sony did it.

  • Unrestricted Used Games: Unlike Microsoft, Sony announced zero restrictions on its used games, enabling gamers to swap, trade in, sell, and give away their games without limitation.
  • Price: Sony undercut Microsoft’s base price by $100. The PlayStation 4 will be available for $399.
  • Full Offline Capability: While the Xbox One requires a daily online check-in and verification, Sony won’t require any such procedure. No internet connection — no problem.
  • Design: Sony’s aesthetic nod to the PlayStation 2 was a modern take on a classic design.
  • Focus on Games: Sony still has social integration, but the console’s overall focus is still on creating the best gaming console possible. The Xbox One, however, has marketed itself as the one media device that can do it all. Purists were drawn to Sony’s more narrow focus on gaming.
  • Camera Not Required: With both consoles offering cameras for motion-controlled games, you don’t need to have it connected in order to use the PlayStation 4. Microsoft requires the camera to be plugged in at all times — fueling Orwellian comparisons.

And here’s what the PlayStation 4 looks like:

The design of the new system is sleek. The console is divided into four sections parallel to its four buttons on the Playstation controller.

Sony’s next-generation console will cost $399. No release date has been given other than the holiday season.

With Microsoft’s Xbox One slated for a November release, the PS4 shouldn’t be far off.

Here’s the entire console upright.

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    Jan 22nd 2017, 11:30 AM

    Absolute disaster of a country where life is cheap, disease is rampant, parents maim their children and turn them into beggars in order to survive and the rivers are polluted with floating corpses and the upper classes while away their time working on their British accents.

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    Jan 22nd 2017, 11:39 AM

    @Alex Falcone: you’re worse than David Hogan. You should use your opinionated big brain to say things less about the specifics of what happened instead of throw away generalisations

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    Jan 22nd 2017, 12:58 PM

    @Donal Proctor:
    It is a disaster of a country, and that’s why accidents like this happen again and again and again and again….

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    Jan 22nd 2017, 4:29 PM

    @Alex Falcone: Have you been Alex? At 1.25 billion people in India, 15k deaths annually makes their trains statistically a lot safer than our roads, scaling by population.

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    Jan 22nd 2017, 11:36 AM

    @David Hogan: How insightful and inciting of you David to say something so crass. Wasent the first thing that popped into my head to be honest. Poor people. Hope the death toll dosent grow further. Hope they invest money and make the rail system safer. Hope the rich poor divide in India narrows.

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