Peter Crisp wrote:So, now we have the tech info and can compare the two next gen offerings has anyone changed which machine they're likely to get?
I was always going to get both as I've been saving for that for a while now so I'm happy that they seem to be at least slightly different from each other. Both options seem to have positive aspects.
Depends on the games, but as I was planning to sell my PS4 Pro (though I do still have the 20th Anniversary Edition PS4 packaged away) and Xbox One X, I'm now leaning towards Xbox as I don't want to temporarily lose access to my PS4 games. My soundbar only has 2 HDMI with 4K passthrough, and I've only room for 2 consoles under my TV anyway.
At the moment (if what we think we know about PS5 BC stands), a PS4 Pro and Xbox Series X works far better for me at launch in terms of retaining access to everything compared to a PS5 and Xbox One X. There's loads of games I haven't finished yet on PS4. When Microsoft has this seamless (hopefully) ecosystem, it's ridiculous that my library of PS4 games potentially won't work. All the games this year - Two Point Hospital, Doom, Resident Evil 3, Final Fantasy VII, Ghost of Tsushima, Cyberpunk, Watch Dogs Legion, The Last of Us Part II - are you telling me there's a chance these games won't work on PS5 or be upgraded as standard? Sony need to realise it's not 2013 any more. And because things have shifted more to digital libraries, I think more people expect them to be accessible at all times, rather than exist in the vacuum of 1 machine like they did on PS3 to PS4.
Sony understood the value of BC on PS2 and the first year or so of PS3, got away with it missing on PS4, but now Microsoft has brought it back (though let's not forget, MS didn't care for BC at all during the 360 era, or the start of the Xbox One's life), Sony could really be on the back foot here.