i guess though i hear it plays a lot better on wii u

console rivalry always have been and always will be... because most people can't or want to afford more than one console D:

True but it should be a no brainer that it is Ps4 so long as they don't screw up

Really depends if they produce a game for it which really tickles my fancy <w> ... if they localize any Super Robot Taisen game for it... I would buy one just for that D:

Kingdom hearts is my One and only Playstation exclusive favorite.

Yeah, I agree. Sony and Nintendo should be the ones fighting, not Sony and Microsoft. Microsoft's not even worth it anymore, really...

yeah but apperantly its selling out...so wtf

Wait, people are actually BUYING the Xbox One? Who the flip does that? They're just giving Microsoft more money to keep shelling out crap products like Bing, Windows 8, and the Xbox One.

yep best buy says they are completly sold out...don't know if that means much though.

Well, if people are buying them from Best Buy that probably means they're selling everywhere.

I'm waiting the whole thing out, personally. Besides, my PC still out-specs both of them. :P

Probably because of people like kids in my school who think Xbox is the "big men" system.

Fun fact... In Japan Microsoft systems sell horribly, mostly because of it being too american and unappealing.

for me there was always Sony vs Nintendo cause xbox... seriously quiting some exclusive games in PS3 and Xbox 360 they share the SAME games mostly of the time

Nintendo isn't even a serious contender if you ask me Wii totally turned me off to any future purchase from there main consoles other than maybe there handhelds. Granted there TRYING to get into the adult market now still the damage is already done.

Here here. Nice to see someone actually understanding that Nintendo is easily still in the run here. If anything, I consider it PS4vsWii U, cause Microsoft may have tried to tuck their xbone back in after trying to bend us over, and then say "Woospies~ We're not getting in pre-orders~ Don't worry, there's a patch, we wont do its no moreee~"

Bullshit. Just the fact that they could patch that crap is enough to believe they can put it right back in after suckering everyone to buy it. Plus, oh noes, the Wii U isn't selling enough in it's 1 year, it's obviously the worst console evverrr...just like the 3DS didn't sell much in it's first year and is now the best system evverrr. Ugh, so annoying...hell, PS4 doesn't even have many exciting games coming out next year compared to Smash Bros and Zelda, but cause they can't have amazing games right away...like no one does, obviously they're nintendoomed.

I can't really tell anymore if I'm just a Nintendo fanboy (considering I can't wait to get the PS4 for alot of stuff later), or I'm just not gonna be part of this gen of "fans". I like to call em whiners...complaining about shit we would've never complained about before. ...Am I gettin old? X3

Awesome journal, spread the word sistah!!

I'm a long time Xbox user but I'm not gonna buy the one.
The one is a stab in the back to every console player out there.

Equally I'm not going to buy a PS4 because I don't like them (people are welcome to them <3 just not my thing)

I agree with you, I can't understand why anyone's bent over to Microsoft on this.

As for Nintendo, any console they release is going back on their word.

Nintendo for the win.

I honestly cant afford all the different systems for sony's games, And Nintendo gives you all their games since Day ONE, in ONE system.

I call that a win.

Plus I grew up with Nintendo, with the very original (I still own it too!)

I have the NES, the SNES, the N64, the Gamecube, the Gameboy Advance Lite, And finally got the Wii Back. When the time comes, I will have the WII U and 3DS.

(cant really use the old consoles anymore but I do have them. just not with all the pieces)

Nintendo, for me, will trump all the other systems. Big time. (mostly because I dont care about super High definition.)

Skyrim low-quality looks exactly the same as Skyrim ultra-quality to me.

Have all those except the handhelds. The only one I don't have the cables for is the gamecube. Otherwise I still play my N64 and my SNES every now and then.

I play all the classics on my computer now. XD

i find the hype for consoles just retarded. no matter what console.
Then again i find the term console also missleading...

i call it system it is after all a system just like a PC just brutally nuderd, gimped, amputated, brainwashed and limited
PC, Mac Playstation,Xbox TVs and your microwave oven is a freaking COMPUTER adapted for certain tasks

so essentially a console is the same as a PC it got the same parts only certain things are diffrent. the only thing that differs them are their operative systems and input methods (controllers)
so we basicly all have the same thing its just that marketing is warping and dividing the consumers into sections with no real reason othern then MONEY. remember competition is good for the consumers

Money is power and power corrupts.

how about actually doing something good for the consumer (yeah as if a company ever would do that these days) and make the systems interoperable.

so a PC, Playstation, Mac, Xbox and ALL others can be united in 1 pool. imagine playing a multiplayer game on a PC with your friend who's on a Playstation and his cousin on a WII
but then the gamers are *united* and maybe then their eyes will open and they'll se that there are perhaps better options, and i guess it would make game publishers butthurt cause now there is no reason to buy the same product 5 times over just to be able to play with all your friends on diffrent systems. (dont get me started on DLCs aka consumer milking)

i compare todays buisness ethic with war strategies, and when it comes to gaming systems it falls to the Divide and Conquer stratagem. divide the customers base and thus reduce their abilty to fight back, then conquer them with DRMs, *features*, peer presure (fanbois) and utterly stupid ideas and restrictions.

every new system introduce a new *feature* that is downright intruding on the consumers. Xbox1 dropped certain features due to the customers havent *adapted* to the point where they would accept it. but that idea will come back sooner or later, and trying to organize consumers against this is like organizing centipeds to conduct a space launch using frogs as fuel.
so sooner or later they always get their wishes through and the consumers will at that generation forget what they didnt like about the previous generation since its still there but its not a *new problem* and thus are used to the old issues.

just think about it even IF they didnt drop the features that ppl rampaged about and put it on the market as announced, it would still sell due to fanboism. fanbois or brainwashed as i call them
are great at applying peer presure, and peer pressure grows over time as more and more buy this product even though they didnt want it and then activates fanboism by defending their purchase because they are too good to be wrong about *their* decission, only rarely will a product fail unless its extremely subpar performance/function wise hey maybe that why the slapped TV into the system......

XBox's whole business model was to cater exclusively to hardcore gamers. As such, Microsoft has a lot of fanboys that were singing the praises of the XBox 1 even before they nixed all the bullshit business practices.

Nintendo, meanwhile, has essentially removed itself from contention altogether by catering predominantly to "casual" gamers. And by "casual," I mean gamers who have never played anything else and therefore aren't aware of what a miserable piece-of-shit product Nintendo is putting out for them, relying on their inexperience combined with the fan followings of their many licensed franchises to compensate for the facts that their hardware struggles even when playing ports of PS2 games and most of their games depend on poorly designed, gimmicky controllers.

So people are talking about PS4 and XBox1 as the rivalry, not because Nintendo is no longer a contender, but because Sony and Microsoft were competing for the exact same portion of the market.

I say "were" because it seems like Microsoft has become more obsessed with competing with Apple than Sony. They're trying to turn the XBox1 into this all-in-one "does every friggin' thing you could ever ask for" system, completely forgetting that Sony tried the same thing with the PS3 and it didn't exactly work out for them.

Me personally, I don't think there's really a rivalry period. Nintendo's done the aforementioned prioritization of treating their consumers like suckers, and I fail to believe Microsoft isn't going to come out with some other B.S. features designed to punish anyone who buys a used game. For me, Sony literally won this round of the console wars by default.

I know, right? Why do they keep fighting when we all know PCs will always win out as the best.

*cough*i have an xbox 360*cough*

I am going to be honest when I say that the Playstation consoles first and formost have more exclusive games to their consoles. Have better graphics and a overall better system when compared to any of the xbox systems. As well as that Sony has a more extensive game library altogether. That being said I grew up with nintendo and I am kinda meh on their new system right now. But i agree that the Xbox is eventually going to disappear and leave only Sony and nintendo.

i hope the ps4 plays ps1 games cause my ps2 took shit on me after bought god of war for 5 bucks brand new at a store

Afraid the answer to that is no, they've allready talked about how there's no backwords compadablity at all unless you want to buy it again and play it though the internet on hardware at there place, and if your internet is lousy, that's not working as well.

they need to pull their heads out of their asses and think of the players and not their wallets

Meh, the only console I care about is the Wii U for the exclusives, aside from that the hardware I'm packing is more then enough for the "consoles", in fact I say once you get a decent rig, PC gaming is a whole lot cheaper with Steam Sales.

I stopped bying new consoles at launch after the Dreeamcast. It was the last time a system came out at a decent price point (200 bucks) and with games I want to play.

Gaming is my bigest time killer and now a days I get a console when it starts to get somewhere about 15 or so games I want to play (though as of late a lack of money has been my bigger problem). And I mean it has to be that many just to that system, not on crossplatform games.

As of now, the only system I'm looking to get in the near future is a PS Vita, mostly because thanks to PS Plus and Cross Buy, I have about 20 games ready to go for it and it's nice to get a new system with a library like that ready to go (and that count isn't putting in PSP games I can use on that). I had a 3DS at launch, had it stolen and lost all the DLed games that I got along side all the ambasitor games. While I put no miney into the games, that still left a bad taste in my mouth that has made it hard to care about getting the hardware again even as game after game I want to play comes outfor it. The Wii U has about half the games of interest so far and by next year I'll likly be looking into it even with the same fealings for it come to me as the 3DS. As for the other two, I'll get them eventualy, but I'd say there at least going to need another year or 2 to warrent more then 300 bucks out of me.

To be honest, the thing that bugs me most is the prices for the old hardware. Why is it still over 200 dollars for a PS3 or 360? Every Gen before now have come to an end with the hardware at 150 at the most and this time the only one that has done that is the Wii, and alot of that is that it is just way oversaturated in the market early in the system's life.