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I stuck to XB1 for backwards compatibility and Gears of War, but on the other hand I failed to see an obvious advantage to the PS4. What's the "killer app" of

by 2000UltraDeluxe 4y ago

I stuck to XB1 for backwards compatibility and Gears of War, but on the other hand I failed to see an obvious advantage to the PS4. What's the "killer app" of the PS4? Apart from exclusives, both seem similar. Both seem to be considerably worse as a media box compared to the good old 360 with it's magnificent built-in DLNA compatibility and CD-ripping.

Ralfp 4y ago
PS4 killer app was option to buy bare bones ps4 + gamepad package vs Xbone taking forever to enter some european markets and insisting for so long that I asolutely need to pay much more because only bundle on market is one with Kinect I have zero interest of using. It also had very strob library of exclusives. If somebody told me I’ll spend 400h in front of TV playing souls game I would’ve laughted them off, but Bloodborne did it. They also had other strong titles like Uncharted, Horizon, Last of Us.
jaroniscaring 4y ago
The killer app was definitely the exclusives, no amount of features would make up for missing out on playing a lot of the best games in that time period.
anotherman554 4y ago
PS4 is a gaming device with similar hardware, the "killer app" is going to be a game. It seemed to me that Sony invested a lot more than Microsoft in making games during the PS4 era. Microsoft seemed to think Gears of War and Halo were "good enough" while Sony was producing a lot more exclusives. Microsoft must have realized they were getting slaughtered due to lack of games since they started buying gaming studios towards the end of this era.
adamdusty 4y ago
Killer apps for me: Games was HZD and Spiderman. Hardware was rechargeable controller, and the PS4 itself. All my friends' xboxs would get stuck updating and they would have to force restart several times. Nothing like that has happened to me on my PS4.
goosedragons 4y ago
Remember that at launch it was $100 cheaper and more powerful. Multi-plats on PS4 outperformed Xbox One almost always. Usually the PS4 version was 1080p native, Xbox One 900p. Plus storage could be easily upgraded with a screwdriver. And you got the exclusives too. All of the Xbox One's benefits mainly came later when they added backwards compatibility, 4K Blu-ray support, Game Pass etc.
q-big 4y ago
> What's the "killer app" of the PS4? At least for some gamers that I know: PlayStation VR

Ralfp 4y ago

PS4 killer app was option to buy bare bones ps4 + gamepad package vs Xbone taking forever to enter some european markets and insisting for so long that I asolutely need to pay much more because only bundle on market is one with Kinect I have zero interest of using. It also had very strob library of exclusives. If somebody told me I’ll spend 400h in front of TV playing souls game I would’ve laughted them off, but Bloodborne did it. They also had other strong titles like Uncharted, Horizon, Last of Us.

jaroniscaring 4y ago

The killer app was definitely the exclusives, no amount of features would make up for missing out on playing a lot of the best games in that time period.

anotherman554 4y ago

PS4 is a gaming device with similar hardware, the "killer app" is going to be a game. It seemed to me that Sony invested a lot more than Microsoft in making games during the PS4 era. Microsoft seemed to think Gears of War and Halo were "good enough" while Sony was producing a lot more exclusives. Microsoft must have realized they were getting slaughtered due to lack of games since they started buying gaming studios towards the end of this era.

adamdusty 4y ago

Killer apps for me: Games was HZD and Spiderman. Hardware was rechargeable controller, and the PS4 itself. All my friends' xboxs would get stuck updating and they would have to force restart several times. Nothing like that has happened to me on my PS4.

goosedragons 4y ago

Remember that at launch it was $100 cheaper and more powerful. Multi-plats on PS4 outperformed Xbox One almost always. Usually the PS4 version was 1080p native, Xbox One 900p. Plus storage could be easily upgraded with a screwdriver. And you got the exclusives too. All of the Xbox One's benefits mainly came later when they added backwards compatibility, 4K Blu-ray support, Game Pass etc.

q-big 4y ago

> What's the "killer app" of the PS4? At least for some gamers that I know: PlayStation VR