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Edited by High Kicks:
9/3/2015 4:03:25 PM
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Looking to upgrade my console, tell me what I should get and why
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Hey everyone, I really appreciate all of the feedback! It was great to hear a lot of real opinions, suggestions, and information about both systems. It was a lot of reading last night / this morning to catch up on everything, but I feel WAY more informed than before.
I made this post to get some information to help me make a good decision on a new console and I think with all of your help it did. Didn't make this to troll/start a huge debate on here, but I guess it comes with the territory on a forum where people are passionate about their gaming systems.
[b]I made a random decision yesterday and pre-ordered the TTK PS4. I have enough store credit from previous trade ins at GameStop to make it affordable. Also will be trading in my 360 for an additional $100 off. So it looks like I will be starting from scratch, but I have enough friends on the PS+ network to make it fun.[/b]
Again, I really appreciate all of the feedback/suggestions/opinions from you guys. It was a great read and I think I learned all I needed to make the right decision for myself.
Also, thanks for all of the congratulations on me becoming a dad. Although I am still about 6 months out from having that new little one in my arms, I couldn't be more excited about it.
Thanks again, guardians.
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I've had a Xbox 360 for a few years now and most of my friends either have a Xbox One or a PS4 (it's about a 50/50 split). I recently found out that I am going to be a dad (due late January 2016) and because of this and all of the future late nights that come with that in my future, I got permission from the wife to upgrade, so help me figure out what to get.
Since I am already a Microsoft user, obviously going with the Xbox One seems like the easiest one to upgrade to, but I'm open to suggestions.
For the Xbox, I am already familiar with the Xbox Live stuff and I'm already paying the yearly online fee, no need to cancel service etc.
If I upgrade to the Xbox One, do I need to start over with new characters or would my character carry over?
Is the Xbox One backwards compatible with my current 360 games (Destiny, Halo Series, GTA5) or do I have to buy new games no matter what?
Any other benefits to sticking with Microsoft?
As for the PS4, I don't have too much knowledge about this system. I've heard it's got better graphics, but I've also heard the online servers are unreliable leaving you unable to play often? Is it worth it? What other reasons make it worth switching?
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Edited by Semperfi1999: 7/10/2015 3:09:54 PMTo be honest the biggest factor is what type of game do you enjoy playing the most? Which company has exclusives that cater more to your tastes. Most big name FPS games are multi console so those don't matter which console you get (for the most part there are some perks one console may have over another but the base game is available to all). So its more about your friends and the exclusives that are available. Since you have a Xbox previously with MS's new released information that they are allowing backwards compatibility for 360 games that is definitely a positive in the Xbox corner for your situation. Plus you already have the online subscription so you can continue rather than having to purchase this if you got a playstation. Now this being said from just pure games stand point the PS4 has won this generation in terms of being the best of the new systems. It has almost 2 times the number of sales as the Xbone does for this generation. And the PS4 is designed as mainly a gaming console that can also do other things (like Netflix and play blue rays). Where as the initial design of the Xbone was a all in one cable box system for your household entertainment that can (oh yea) play games. So the philosophies of the different companies are pretty apparent at least regarding their initial direction. Since this though MS has definitely taken strides to minimize this glaringly obvious gap in the difference between the consoles regarding gaming vs all in one (when you spend the first 45 min of your console announcement conference without even mentioning a game then its hard to argue that it is primarily a gaming console). For me personally staying with Sony was the better choice. Why? Friends that I already had plus more games that I enjoy....plus Naughty Dog (need anything else really be said about this?). But with the recent announcement regarding backwards compatibility and the fact that you have already paid for Live I would say Xbone would probably be your personal better choice (assuming that these are the deciding factors that I have mentioned). If MS didn't come out with backwards compatibility then I would have stated that for a gaming console you should get the PS4 since it has definitely been the console that has pushed games since day 1 vs MS who is just now catching on to the fact that a gaming console needs to be more about the games and less about the everything else it does.
