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regift_of_the_gods writes:
"The results from the 2013 holiday season through January are leaking in, and they look grim: not great for Sony, bad for Microsoft, terrible for Nintendo. The PS4 seems to be outselling the Xbox One but both are far behind their respective sales totals of 2006/2007, when they faced off with the previous generation of consoles. An anonymous developer quoted in the TechCrunch piece notes: 'There are 2+ year old GPUs that outperform these boxes, and even budget GPUs releasing now in the $150 range outclass these machines... This means whilst the casuals are moving to mobile/web, the high end enthusiasts are moving to PC where games are better looking. The traditional consoles are caught in a pincer movement.'
Sony has just completed a round of layoffs at its Santa Monica game studio. Meanwhile, the future of Xbox within Microsoft remains cloudy, with the departure of CEO Steve Ballmer and the ascension of Stephen Elop as head of the Devices and Services group, which includes the Nokia/Lumia handsets and the Surface tablet as well as Xbox. There are rumors that Microsoft is negotiating to sell the Xbox division to Amazon, which seems to be trying to enter the game platform industry. Elop wrote the (in)famous 'burning platform' memo when he was CEO at Nokia, as a prelude to abandoning the Symbian and MeeGo operating systems in favor of Windows Phone; he also stated last year that he would consider divesting Xbox and Bing if he was named CEO."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by len_harms on Monday March 10 2014, @01:38PM
This is the only reason I did not buy one yet. There are maybe about 20 games worth looking at. Of those 20 none interest me. I could usually find 1-2 games out of a launch list that I would buy.
Pretty much when uncharted 4 comes out I will probably buy one. At that point the infant mortality issues should be worked out. There should also be a couple of interesting bundles. Till then I am coasting on my current library.
Of the two boxes the ps4 seems to be the one to get. It is *slightly* better than the xbox spec wise. However, my 2 year old laptop blows both of them away in performance. It should be *very* interesting in the steam world :)