News I want PS5 over Xbox Series X — and it has nothing to do with specs

[admin]

I’d rather have a PS5 than an Xbox Series X, and exclusive games are the primary reason why.

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[Dave81j6]

More articles like this please. It gets to what really matters, price, games, and what games your friends are playing.

And yes as a fan of Xbox i could get defensive about Xbox exclusives, or offer counter points highlighting Microsoft's approach to console gaming ...

But none of that invalidates the points of the author.

Less mudslinging, more articles like this.

 

[takk78]

Dumb name for an article. Knowing the Series X has better Specs, it goes without saying that if a person preferred PS5, it would be for reasons other than than the specs. Unless you believe your readers think you always buy systems with inferior specs, then it's perfect.

 

[Kvally]

This is the reason I want the Xbox Series X over the PS5. I find Xbox to have the better exclusives. That said, I am buying both day one. I don't want to miss out on the GranTurismo/Uncharted/GodofWar.

 

[Ikuo]

And that's why Microsoft is so much ahead in term of Ecosystem. And so much better prepared for the next decade than Sony.

Like 2-3 years ahead PlayStation.

Xbox is platform agnostic.
It is player-centric, whereas PS is still "console centric"... A strategy that belongs to the past.

Xbox allows you to play wherever you want. xCloud ? PC ? Xbox Series X for the best premium console experience ? It doesn't matter as long as you use Xbox Ecosystem which is FAR better that PlayStation's.

And by the way, PlayStation WILL publish their games natively on PC or at least on PS Now (which is on PC too...), day one, like Gamepass. Trust me, they will.

Because subs and services are what bring money. Not console sales anymore.

 

[Flugen]

I love Playstation but you are way romantic in your opinion. Console that will make 3rd party games look better, takes the generation always. Maybe you are new to this. But exclusive won't matter. Check the sales and see where are Playstation exclusives compared to major aaa 3rd party titles.

 

[Ikuo]

I love Playstation but you are way romantic in your opinion. Console that will make 3rd party games look better, takes the generation always. Maybe you are new to this. But exclusive won't matter. Check the sales and see where are Playstation exclusives compared to major aaa 3rd party titles.

Yes

 

[Whetthis]

I will say that I enjoyed Cuphead, Ori 1 and 2, Gears 5, Forza Horizon 3,4, Sunset Overdrive, Killer Instinct and Sea of Thieves a great deal. Just as much as I enjoyed Spiderman, God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn on my ps4. The xbox live, gamepass and backwards compatibility and ability to continue play on almost any device is impressive. At launch of the series X I can play ALL my titles. And xbox live gold will still give me 2 free games a month. I played Journey To the Savage Planet on xcloud on my galaxy tab 4. That was amazing. to play a game like that on a mobile device. I also know that Microsoft has invested in first party content. Grounded looks amazing, Everwild from Rare looks beautiful, Halo will be a monster, The initiative is developing a big game and has top talent from the industry, Fable is in development, Hellblade 2 should be great, Outer Worlds 2 will be an exclusive. Naughty Dog could be developing a new FPS and it could be great. Perfect Dark may return in full force. We have no idea, this article is pure assumption. We will have to revisit this in a couple years to know if this article is baseless or is based on fact.

 

[Travix 3111]

Oh man, I am impressed how hilariously awful this article is. So impressed that I NEEDED to comment on it. I read a lot of gaming articles and this one is bad. But I have some suggestions of how to improve. I’m not here to hate, I’m here to help and you gotta be informed of what is actually going on with stuff like this in the gaming world. You state “Microsoft has made almost every Xbox-exclusive title available on PC as well. Sony has not done the same for PlayStation exclusives, and as far as I know, has no plans to.” Sony is making plans to bring their games to pc. Might I draw your attention to this article https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2019/...o-bring-first-party-playstation-titles-to-pc/. Now I know that Shawn Layden was pretty much banish from Sony so how about this article https://www.tweaktown.com/news/69991/sonys-first-party-ps4-exclusives-coming-pc/index.html and oh yeah, this article https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...idnt-bring-more-playstation-exclusives-to-pc/. It may not be day one like Microsoft is doing but it certainly pokes a hole in your viewpoint.

Also, Sony has not actually given you a reason to buy a PS5 for a game yet. So for the only confirmed PS5 game, Godfall, is also available on PC. Maybe you missed that in the world premier trailer. Which kinda kills that theory in your article. Here it is for you to watch again just in case you missed it

View: https/www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HhUpLqHyv4
. You oddly end your article asking the question “Which console has the games that I want to play?” and the answer is neither system has a game that you cant get on pc so far. In anything the facts point to anything but the PS5, but i digress, let's continue.

Perhaps you are unaware but Sony’s first part studios are struggling… bad. Naughty Dog, Sony’s “golden child”, can’t seem to put out a game https://www.techradar.com/news/sony...-playstation-store-and-will-refund-pre-orders. Its probably from their unsavory practices in the workplace https://kotaku.com/as-naughty-dog-crunches-on-the-last-of-us-ii-developer-1842289962. But everyone (well, informed persons) knows that Xbox has been poaching their good developers from Sony’s studios like crazy (just google “xbox poaching sony developers” and there is no shortage of sources available). I’m not saying that exclusives sony will put out are going to be bad. I’m just pointing out that their talent is leaving and chances are the quality of exclusives is going to go down.

Lastly, 90% of the games available to play are going to be third party games. One can get into all sorts of tangents talking about which online service is better for competitive games and all sorts of other things that are less material. I’m just trying to wrap my head around how you’d want a PS5 over and Series X for third party games. Or that you’re going to play third part games on your pc that is an “admittedly old system”? I guess that somehow makes sense......

I hope you strive to be more informed before writing more articles. Heavens know that we need less fake news in our world. Also, I do want to assure you that I am an informed reader and I know that this article is your opinion and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It just happens that some people's opinions are garbage when compared to facts.

 

[Shperax]

I’d rather have a PS5 than an Xbox Series X, and exclusive games are the primary reason why.

I want PS5 over Xbox Series X — and it has nothing to do with specs : Read more

Its pretty sad given your job that you aren't going to have ALL gaming systems available. Thus the only conclusion someone could arrive at is that this article is proof Sony is now paying for these opinions. I'm not rich by any means but I spend on a single GPU more then what these consoles will cost TOGETHER. Why on earth would I pass up the opportunity to own them both. Especially if I was a writer on a well known tech website. Sorry but this article has "Sony shill" written all over it. Shame on Tom's Hardware for letting something like this be published.

 

[Enry117]

Nothing wrong about buying PS5 over Series X, just admit you're a fanboy tho. Right now there's no info on PS5, no games on PS5, no price, no reason to buy it. Pure fanboy choice. I think you shouldn't be writing on a news site, but on a personal blog. In these days and age, news sites like more to influence people than to report on facts, a very bad kind of journalism.

Since this is an opinion piece, I'll write down my opinions about a couple phrases in this article too. First of all Sony's exclusives were not consistently better through out the whole generation, they didn't have good exclusives up untill 2016 as Michael Ephraim admitted. And in my opinion (read it: don't take it as gospel, but...) from 2013 till now, Xbox One had the best exclusives every single year with: Killer Instinct ('13), Titanfal ('14), Halo 5 ('15), Quantum Break ('16), Forza 7 ('17), Forza Horizon 4 ('18) and Gears 5 ('19).

From the start of the generation people like to harp on Xbox because that was the "cool thing to do". That's because of journalists like the one who wrote this article, who just have a personal preference toward a console, and write fanboy comments instead of proper articles.

As this article sais, Sony exclusives are or are going to be on PC too, through PS Now or through straight ports. Sony's views are changing apparently, it looks almost like the few console sales, compared to the massive PC market, are not enough anymore.

All the games Marshal writes in this article he wants to play have never even been mentioned by Sony, wouldn't it be smarter to wait buying PS5 untill those games come out?

I'm not buying a Series X at launch either probably, eventhought there are a few games announched for its launch. I'm going to play those games wiith GamePass on Xbox One. But sure as hell I'm not going to buy a PS5 at launch, because there are zero exclusives announched for it right now, because it's going to have about 1/10 of the games availabe on Series X, if you consider all the backward compatible games, becuse I don't care about just graphics in games, because I care about value and because PlayStations are notoriously loud and it looks like PS5 is going to be loud too.

 

[Narefx]

Here is proof positive of how much your foot is down your throat and perhaps wait to see how things play out before writing www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2020/09/27/microsofts-plans-for-bethesda-on-xbox-series-x-seem-more-clear-now/


You can read a different journalist

 

[rgd1101]

Here is proof positive of how much your foot is down your throat and maybe you should consider a different career. https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproje...ethesda-on-xbox-series-x-seem-more-clear-now/


You can actually read a real journalist

you do know this article on Tomsguide came out on April?

 

[Narefx]

Toms guide itself may be confused
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/sony-vows-to-meet-ps5-demand-while-xbox-maker-microsoft-has-a-laugh