Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-70.15.137.12-20130721140429/@comment-9854979-20130723173702

(prepare your anus for lots of sitting..this one's quite the lengthy tale)

A lot of the DRM on the Xbox One has changed after a large community backlash. Don Mattrick moved on to Zynga (which is a horrible gaming company on its own, now outfitted with a horrible chief executive), and Always Online has been changed - you only have to connect to the internet ONCE to get an update from XboxLive that fixes the DRM. I have no idea about any of the other DRM, but in doing some research, I found out that some people actually WANT the original policies re-instated (article here). wat.

As for me; and if I HAD to choose a console, I'd go with the PS4 (I'm more of a PC gamer, but I owned an Xbox360 for about 4-5 years now). I don't feel comfortable inducing myself under more years of Dorito's ads on the dashboard. If a company can't get its shit straight the first time, I don't feel safe in having that company have any sort of personal information of mine. Also, if you think about it, the 500GB hard-drive that comes with the Xbox One? Yeah, you're not really getting that. Who knows how large that inital patch is, in order to fix the DRM? 5...10GB? That's simple logic. You're getting less for what you pay an already substantial amount for. The DRM shouldn't have been there in the first place. In terms of hardware, the PS4 is dominant in one small category. The graphics card on the PS4, once again, surpass the Xbox's line of hardware. The difference is subtle (same company that makes the graphics cards, but Xbox is running off a 1.6 version of the hardware, while Sony is running their PS4 on a 1.8 version of the hardware, I believe [someone correct me on this if I'm wrong]), but the fact that you're paying less for more still stands. The Xbox took the ONE (no pun intended, heh) thing it was good at - being 'Game-Centric' and threw it out the window. You're flooded with ads and a mock of the already garbage Windows 8 Metric system for a dashboard.

Some will argue the exclusives on the Xbox One are better. The only exclusive that stood out for me was Titanfall. That's not even an exclusive anymore (PC release confirmed, my PC bretheren and sisteren!). But to stay on the "Elder Scrolls" topic side of things before I'm pulled over by the Forum Moderator Police Department, I think that ESO will stand out the most on either PC or PS4. PC has had many MMO's (clearly), and PS4 has a great service running with gamer-consumerism in mind.

Ironically, after giving that large essay of information (I know it's a lot to take in all at once), my true stance on the future consoles is this: At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how much RAM you have, or how much Gamerscore you've gotten over the years, how many Platinum trophies you've aquired, or how many badges you own on your Steam profile. Those are pointless digits, accompanied with a picture, and mean nothing in the long run. What matters is that you're having fun, and the adventures that you've been on. The social interactions between players, the community-driven services. This is what matters. Thank you for your time if you've read up to this point.