Great hardware. Rubbish press conference. Designated pre-rendered trailers are considered tech demos? Timed multiplatform IPs are not exclusives. All entertainment aspects are covered, but at the end of the day, there are more peripherals and services you need to pay for and switch to, to get the full functionality of the console. Sony now knows the hardcore faithful are the ones that keep the system afloat. Just look at the reliability and lifespan of the PS2 and the regrowth of the PS3 community due to Playstation Plus.

The Wii U was a technological marvel, but it’s the same story with XBO. Great features and awesome tech. And they’re both loaded with unnecessary gimmicks. I’ve been waiting for this press conference to make a choice, and as a 360 faithful this current gen, I’m checking out. Especially when 10 minutes of an hour long PC was dedicated to a Call of Duty dev diary. I saw enough to say, “Yeah, I’m getting a PS4.” Mostly due to the simplicity.

Finally, the multitude of dealbreakers. No backwards compatibility. XBO games must be installed to your HDD and attached to your XBL gamertag. If you want to borrow a game from a friend or rent, you’re going to have to pay a fee. Which means after paying money to rent a game from a Redbox machine, you’d also have to pay another fee to use the disc. And since most games need to be installed, I doubt the XBO fee for borrowing/rental would be around $5-7 bucks. How fucked is that when they’re already telling us to pay for XBL with the same Internet we’ve already paid for?