Ockman

Ya know, you might be right in terms of sheer numbers, in terms of quality titles, I don't think I feel that way. Don't get me wrong, some people might love sony's exclusive games, and good for them, but like I mention in the my original post, the only exclusive to have hit PS4 that I would call a system seller was Bloodborne. Everything else, from Killzone, Infamous, Until Dawn, even the upcoming Uncharted 4...not worth it to me. I personally have always thought the Uncharted games were not that great in terms of gameplay, only in terms of visuals.

@shoey920: Maybe future titles, but I feel like this summer at this current moment in time, there are more exclusives I wanna play on Xbox that aren't on PC or coming to PC. Some of them are older games, so others might overlook them, but I still wanna play Halo 5, Sunset Overdrive, a bunch of those Rare Replay games, etc...

By the time Persona 5 comes out, if it looks good enough to get a PS4 again for, I could consider doing so. Also, if it still comes to PS3, that is an option.

@shivermetimbers: that certainly crossed my mind, but I don't think I could have traded the PS4 for a video card that was any better than what I'm current running, and I'd need to save up some money either way to get a new video card, which I may do later this year anyway.

With a lot of the recent discussions about the Playstation Neo coming, I have been kinda been feeling a little disgusted with the Sony regarding the PS4. It's not that it didn't have any games of value on it, but I feel like I'm not completely alone in thinking that from the start, the PS4 felt under-powered. As a console gamer though, I figured this is what we're gonna get for this generation though, and you make the best of it. I didn't think games have visually looked horrible on PS4 exactly, but I do feel there have been far too many games that have bad frame rates, while my mid-tier PC can run the same games pretty excellently. Yes Yes, I know, before anyone says "you complain about graphics, and you get an Xbox One? lol" That's not really the reason I decided to do the trade...it just seemed like PS4 simply doesn't have much to offer in terms of exclusive to warrant owning one when you already have a PC, while Xbox One at least has a few. Not to mention the backward compatibility that continues to be added.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but besides games just not performing great on consoles in general, my biggest issue with the PS4 since it's launched is there has been VERY few justifications for it's existence as someone who also has a PC. The library of games is just a scaled back version of PC, with a handful of exclusives, but I feel like Bloodborne is the only game that has come close to feeling like an exclusive that may have been worth having a PS4 for.

I won't deny that I've actually been playing my PS4 a lot lately...been playing a hell of a lot of Hitman, and Binding of Isaac Rebirth...again the problem is though; I didn't really need to get these on PS4. I could just as easily have gotten them on PC, and probably for cheaper I might add. This past week on PSN, they had a sale for Golden Week, and I kept looking at what games interest me during this sale, and while there were some...most of the games I ended getting, I actually decided to just get games that either had Vita versions like Digimon Cyber Sleuth, which was cheaper, and could play on my PSTV. For other games, I got a PS3 version of some games which were also cheaper, like Nitroplus Blasterz. I even discovered that my copy of Binding of Isaac now works on my PSTV, which it didn't at first.

Which brought me to what the title says...I ended up meeting someone on craigslist, and we just did a trade where I gave my PS4, for his Xbox One (which he also gave me an external 2tb drive with, and a few games like Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront and Dead Rising 3). My decision behind this was not because of power clearly, because the console games on PS4 games that have performance issues, will still have those kind of issues on Xbox One I'm sure. The reason the thought crossed my mind though, is there were a bunch of games I could ONLY play on Xbox that were just really appealing to me. I never did get around to playing Halo 5, Sunset Overdrive, multiple games in Rare Replay, and those current console exclusive games I got with the system, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Dead Rising 3.

I made this thread, because I started to miss my PS4 a little...mostly because I did have a hefty library on it, which I'll still have digitally should I get another one. I am almost tempted to buy Hitman again on Xbox One though, because I was so addicted to playing that recently. I do feel like if I ever do get a PS4, trading it away now was the better idea if it goes down in value once the Neo comes out. And I'll probably have the extra money to buy a Neo when they're out too if I do still want a PS4 again, although I am starting to think about going into upgrading my PC more in the future instead if this is gonna be the future of consoles. Do you think I fucked up, or was this good idea you think? Does the Xbox One have the better library of exclusives if you were to own one of the current gen consoles (not including Wii U of course, which I've had since day one, and will keep because it's awesome in it's own way).

I pretty much agree with everything Jeff says. I just don't understand what the heck is going on, but I kinda think that the people saying this cruel things and doing dumb crap like issuing death threats may not be exclusion to video games, because as the audience of gaming gets larger, so do the types of people that the hobby attracts. These are people are that so far gone, that whether they followed video games, or something else, they'd probably be issuing death threats to someone else who was doing something they didn't like on the internet. That's just what I think anyway.

That's why as social media has gotten larger and larger, I find myself wanting to just back away from it more. As someone who grew up with nothing but bullying from other children, I still feel hesitant talking to other people, especially online, because I know just how cruel the human species can be. I don't understand it personally, because to hurt someone and find joy out of it is a concept so foreign to my values, but I'm aware that it exists out there. That's what a lot of people need to remember, but this whole situation is sad because some people who might have good values got themselves roped in with this whole crusade on the basis that they thought it was a fight worth fighting for.

Even I did on some level, when it was just about Zoe Quinn. I still think some of the things she did seemed really shady, and I don't care for her personally because she was always looking for attention it seemed like. That being said, I never really started joining the crusade against her, I had these thoughts to myself, shook my head, and moved on. The internet has made so many people forget the value of keeping thoughts to themselves, because there is literally a forum for every discussion. Expressing something is not always as healthy as keeping it to yourself, because while I too was thinking Zoe Quinn deserved to called out for some of the things going on with her, getting into large discussions on the internet about it, has led people to go from having thoughts, to getting angry, to where we are with this whole stupid gamergame thing. It got out of hand, and it just makes everyone involved look, and maybe feel gross.

Seems like so much of this shit happens on twitter. Twitter is a horrible thing, and full of so many assholes, and I don't know why so many people use it.

@turtlebird95: I do have a Wii U actually (look at my avatar, love me some EarthBound and Nintendo, heh) and yeah, I tend to agree it has the best selection of exclusives so far. I can't deny that it's lack of sales and catching on have bummed me out this past year or so. Nintendo is doing the best they can, but man third parties do nothing but shit on the system. I think the gamepad is awesome, and I even ended up playing certain third party titles like Assassin's Creed 4 on Wii U because I think the gamepad screen adds something for the gameplay. I'm in the extreme minority though I guess.

I'll gladly get Hyrule Warriors and Bayonetta 2 this year. If Smash Bros does come this holiday, that might be fun for a bit too sadly I'm not much into Smash Bros cuz I have no friends here to play with :(

@ll_exile_ll: The thing that sucks is I kinda like them all, lol. I do like Halo more than Uncharted, but I'll still play both given the choice. Gears of War I think is better than God of War....Sony's first party stuff has never really blown me away. One thing that Sony does usually have going for it though is that oddball Japanese support that I like. I will occasionally pick up the weird Japanese game that most people might laugh at. Like I recently just finished Akiba's Trip, which wasn't the greatest game by any means, but I like that it was there. Xbox One probably won't get as much of that.

@corruptedevil: Yeaaaahh, I saw that too, and it really got me excited. I don't think my PC in it's current state would do MGS5 justice, but with an upgrade it might.

Part of me is really excited those games are coming to Steam, but I'm one of those oddballs who kinda has always felt that MGS is a Playstation franchise, even though I know it's not. Plus while I do really like PC gaming more than I ever have before, I feel like if something's wrong with my computer that I forgot about, I might not reach that buttery smooth 1080p/60fps that I know Phantom Pain is gonna have on PS4. Like I said in the OP, god...Ground Zeroes just looked friggin amazing to me. I thought it looked alright on Xbox One because the 60FPS really helps but it was only 720 on that system. The1080 resolution on PS4 made it so much better. I found I was getting head shots so much easier on PS4 because of the higher resolution.