First Round Of Xbox One Vs. PS4 Goes To Microsoft

Microsoft revealed its new console, the Xbox One, today, and the console race is officially on. It’s not close to finished, but both Sony and Microsoft have had a chance to give us a first look at their new consoles, and I’m handing this first round to Microsoft. Neither company exactly blew it out of the water, but in a battle of mostly-boring, unsatisfactory console reveals, Microsoft’s felt more together.

[greenpowerz]

This is the way most rational people see it.

Once people see Kinect and MSFT's Azure cloud computing platform boosting the Xbox One games shown at E3, this blogosphere crusade will be all but a distant memory.

I just don't see how a console reveal not showing an actual console, promising specs with games running on PC, vaguely talking about services and features basically in concept rough draft stage could have won this.

Talking about features and motion camera but only showing clips with no live demo, I mean come on. I think most of this post XB1 reveal noise is basically all about what I mentioned above. MSFT showed the console running apps, games and services on the console with crazy advanced features like multi tasking and cloud computing etc.

Sony was smart showing PS4 games running on PC even though the games and PS4 was not ready at their reveal, it conditioned media and fanboys to expect the same smoke and mirrors from MSFT and even effected xbox fans, causing them to want MSFT to one up Sony with the same smoke and mirrors.

[I_am_Batman]

At least they had games running on anything.

[sengoku]

Meh seriously read the article and to say M$ won first round was a bit too much biased to me.

the writer even start to reply to readers and admits M$ online once in 24 sucks but still maintains m$ won purely bases on sony was confusing because no actual console was shown LOLZ

what an ass

[2pacalypsenow]

Did you not see the videos for Killzone ? those where running on Ps4 hardware .

[HammadTheBeast]

Yeah, Xbox One definitely won right?

http://www.pushsquare.com/n...

@__@

[Dee_91]

Damnit Sony get your act together!
We care more about how the console looks, not about the games GAH!

for more comedy read his response to the last comment.
"Dave Thier ( the author ) , Contributor 1 day ago

I think it should be clear that neither Sony or Microsoft has outright said exactly what they’re doing about used games — Sony has said that you will be able to “play” them, but that’s not explicit, nor does it rule out some of the things people are talking about with Xbox. Neither company has been explicit, I think, because neither has really figured it out.
"
LMAO grasping at straws

[Masta_fro]

The reaction...]

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Hilarious...

[shutUpAndTakeMyMoney]

Always this ONE odd need to stand out stupid ass article.

[Conan-O-Brady]

Forbes putting a positive spin on MS's epic fail, who would saw that coming? They play a lotta games over their at Forbes. I know whenever I want the latest gaming news Forbes is the first place I go.......LMAO

TV,TV,TV,Sports,TV,TV,Sports, TV,COD....LOL

[theWB27]

Yea...cause there's no way Forbes would hire someone who plays videogames in their free time. Cause someone calls themself a gamin site means they must be some expert.

Most of the articles that get submitted on this site are from crappy writers just throwing their worthless two cents in. Or maybe because its positive Xbox...maybe that's the real problem.

[thehitman]

LOL that comment made me laugh

"TV,TV,TV,Sports,TV,TV,S ports, TV,COD"

Cus thats exactly how the entire conference went.
Xbox TV Xbox ESPN Xbox Home Xbox TV Xbox TV Xbox Game OMG GAME!!! Wait a second Xbox TV again GG.

[JoGam]

Well i want games, games, games, games, games, netflix.

Im cool with just that.

[MonkeyNinja]

Umm...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[stuna1]

Payoff!! Oh shoot, did I type that? I was thinking that.

[pandaboy]

Forbes is the only website left that is quite openly anti-sony and proud of it so honestly this doesn't shock me.

[Majin-vegeta]

Running on PC??Hhahahaha don't make me laugh Green.
Sony has stated many times the PS4 design was not final so that's why they opted not to show it.At least we got "LIVE DEMOS" and not pre rendered cgi crap trailers.

http://youtu.be/RiNGZMx2vhY...

[Blackdeath_663]

yeah they even showed gameplay at tv show which is undoubtedly real http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[IcicleTrepan]

Ubisoft did say at the time that their 'PS4' watchdog demo was running on a PC and not the PS4. So he is right about that point. Also, the Square demo for PS4 was most certainly pre rendered CGI crap. How soon we forget eh.

[steven83r]

Still the Watchdogs demo was running on PS4 specs.

[Enemy]

Forbes have been writing up satire stories since yesterday morning. Pretty sure they're not serious, so the joke's on you, green.

The majority have spoken and Xbox One is a disaster.

[HeavenlySnipes]

The games (from the first party devs) were running on the weaker PS4 dev kits

Watch Dogs wasn't and that other Dragon game wasn't either

All the stuff they showed will be on the console or else they wouldn't have shown them. There is a little thing called false advertising that companies aren't allowed to do...

[SCW1982]

So you consider that cg trailer for Forza them actually running the game? Sad very sad.

[turnerdc]

Rick Lesley (designer at Turn 10) posted on Twitter that the trailer wasn't CG.

http://www.gtplanet.net/for...

Post number 85.

[Zechs34]

It was only a matter of time before this uber fail of a spinning troll reared its ugly head.

Pretty much everything in the MS reveal has been confirmed as fake, including the applause! How bad was that Skype call? Or the fact that nobody had a controller in their hand?

Pretty much sums up all the rumors, including the ones that say MS is behind by 6 months on development. Dont be surprised if those 8/15 "new" exclusives turn out to be Kinect and Live Arcade games.

I honestly wanted to be wowed by this reveal, only to walk away disappointed that they showed a glorified cable box doing what things in my home have been for years.

[Maddens Raiders]

This is nothing new, journos do this all the time. Just a few weeks ago a journalist from Boston I believe voted that Carmelo Anthony should be MVP of the year and not LeBron James. He was the only dissenting voice out of many many others who selected James, in hopes that his "outlier" of a vote would get him noticed and more largess, fame etc.

In this case more hits and rubbernecking from people curious as to what he or she is on about in the article.

There was bound to be one of these articles to come from a larger publishing outlet sooner or later.

[HurtfulTimez]

sigh... greenpowerz the more you kid yourself the more hurt you are going to be come E3 when everything you say and hope for does not come true once again just like yesterdays reveal.

xbox fans are getting kind of dillusional now. They expected a reveal that was going to blow sonys out of the world with higher specs, BC through a 360 soc that was also going to boost performance (yes i remember that rumour a few weeks back that got all the xbox fanboys excited) illumiroom, and a number of other things that that they expected...

BUT... all they got was a ugly vcr dated looking set-top box LMAO!

anyways hope you will enjoy watching films and then switching to music... because hey the whole world loves watching films then deciding they want to listen to music half way through it...

[CGI-Quality]

YOU aren't rational, though. So how can you speak for rational people?

[indubitably]

You are speaking to a site full of people that would have sung Sony's praises even if they announced a $2000 price tag.

This reveal was about the console and not the games, the e3 presentation will be about the games. And for me, the console is looking fantastic. The OS will run laps around the ps4's and will continue to advance as time goes on. Both consoles have a kinect like peripheral included with the system but xbox is the only system making good use of it.

If you are part of the minority of gamers that don't watch TV at all then I understand being completely underwhelmed by some of the presentation, but if not, you have to admit having the xbox be your hub would be useful.

[Conan-O-Brady]

The Xbox1's OS will run circles around PS4's?.... Xbox1 has 3 different OS's, how much of that 8gigs of ram is that gonna eat up?....the writings on the wall...Gamers were not MS's first concern here.

[indubitably]

It is hard to say for sure, but it is probably that it will be less than the PS4's OS. The intermediate OS's job is to manage the needs of either OS and I guarantee you the gaming will take priority over the suspended apps.

[rainslacker]

Yeah...Kinect has enthralled people at E3 since it was Natal. /s

Also don't expect to see any sort of practical implementation of Azure at E3. We'll likely get marketing speak no different than we did at the after conference on this technology.

"I just don't see how a console reveal not showing an actual console, promising specs with games running on PC, vaguely talking about services and features basically in concept rough draft stage could have won this."

Gasp...no box. How awful Only people that cared about that were people like you. Guess they could have shown off something similar to that monstrosity that was the XB1 w/included Kinect bludgeoning device.

Sony promised specs, and there's no reason to assume they won't deliver those specs. What specs did MS give? 8 Billion transistors and 8 GB's of RAM. Transistor's....really?

Those PC's were PS4 dev kits, built to the specifications of the PS4. Believe that everything that may have been shown at the Xbox reveal is on a dev kit. Every game shown ever at a conference is on a dev kit.

All the services and features they mentioned seemed to be pretty fleshed out, and working in demonstrations...far from concept or rough draft stage. You can even go look at the uploaded videos of game play demonstrations that they did at the conference. Remind me again where I can view those game play uploads that MS said they can do with their streaming/editing feature? Maybe we can watch the unfinished EA sports games again...

So yeah...I think Sony fans have some strong ground to stand on compared to:

"Talking about features and motion camera but only showing clips with no live demo"

[ChipdiddyChip]

Day one buy for me, both consoles too. I can afford it! Haha!

[kneon]

Sure I could buy them both if I wanted to, I spend more than that each week just in bars and restaurants.

But that doesn't mean I'll go out and buy a console that has no games I want to play and tries to squeeze every last dime out of you

[maxgamehard]

Same here, I can afford both, but I wouldn't support a company who is so restrictive like this and has a anti-consumer approach.

[Silly gameAr]

Me too but why buy something that I don't want?

[Conan-O-Brady]

What do they say about fools and money?

[Pintheshadows]

A fool and his money will soon buy a paddock of racing unicorns without seeing them before putting up the cash?

[clevernickname]

Enjoy your Forza and Kinect 2.0 Sesame Street. When you're done playing those games you can always use your Xbox to watch TV.

[ACESupERIC]

Some people have more money than sense

[rainslacker]

I have $1200 saved up in the event that I want to get both. Then some more set aside for day 1 games.

Luckily it looks like I can buy more PS4 games, because there is no way I am letting MS in my house if they don't get their act together.

[ChipdiddyChip]

Fanboys make me laugh, why are so bothered about what I choose to buy, it isn't up to you what I buy. Plus get out abit more, both X1 and PS4 are just consoles, there are more important things in the world.

[L0YD]

are you high?

[Number-Nine]

lol

[imt558]

WTF, Forbes???? You are worst than Patcher....

[Thatmattkid]

Oh forbes you crazy!

[DivineAssault]

whoever wrote this article is smoking crack.. A video game console is for video games.. Not just TV, Sports, & COD.. I wanna see the 15 exclusives theyre releasing lol.. I bet half of em are kinect titles too... Sorry but MS didnt wint the 1st round of anything.. PS4 reveal smoked em.. Games, games, games, easy to develop for, refined controls, good hardware, publishers praising it, developers loving it, fans excited for it, etc.. How exactly did MS win the 1st round? I see nothing but upset & let down fans

[soljah]

for me i look at where the money from ea company is being invested in their systems, sony seems to be investing in games and gamers.
ms not so much. 400million on a football deal? plus ms seems like it making it harder to just play games.
kinect,pay for play,no used games,drm.fixed hard drive,etc

[AngelicIceDiamond]

If your talking about entertainment and Apps sure. I'm having a hard time seeing how they won anything else.

[Sky_Walker]

As a hard core gamer I have to agree but only time will tell if MS gamble with the XB1 and making it an all in one gaming machine will payoff.

Times are changing and we live in a world where social media and entertainment is becoming a part of our every day lives and people want that stuff giving to them as fast as possible and as convenient as possible.

MS is trying to make the XB1 future proof and make it the center piece of your living room.

I am buying a PS4 because I love games but at the same time its hard to deny the millions of social media crazed consumers who play games but also want to stay connected to the social life.

Like I said MS is taken a gamble and only time will tell if it pays off or not...one thing I have learned from history is to not dismiss MS so fast just because what they are offering does not look good for gamers.

[Chapter11]

Trololololololololol

[-Falaut-]

Oh this is rich. :D

[pop-voxuli]

Damn I must have watched the wrong conference!!

[xursz]

I don't agree with the headline. I feel like MS had 4 months to come up with a fine presentation and they totally botched it.

[sephiroth420]

im gonna buy a ps4 at launch, a wiiu for the exclusives, it may not be as powerful as the either ps4 or xbox one but i bet there will be some quality games after sifting out the shit, and then an xbox one for its exclusives to, i may be old fashioned but i dont like this whole kinnect thing, its cool you can tell your xbox to do stuff, but its really not needed, how lazy have you gotta be to not use a controller to navigate your console.

[Matt666]

How does it go to MS there revel was rubbish compared to Sony's (my opinion) what is it because Sony didn't show a console Wow big deal, so what if they didn't show it, it means there not rushing and they show it when there ready

[rytlok]

That was the worst unveil ive ever seen

[Ashlen]

Forbes may be the most biased publication ever to review this.

These guys have huge sums of real money invested in Microsoft, of course their going to try to push their own product.

Forbes may as well be called "Microsoft Magazine" when it comes to something like this.

[sephiroth420]

the only thing microsoft has over sonys console now is that theyve shown what it looks like, we wont know exactly whos won the "first round" until E3, hopefully a FF13 versus ps4 showing and release date will seal the deal for me and probably many others, i imagine a lot of americans will get the xbox and the most of the rest of the world will opt for the ps4.. also i wonder if the xbox reacts weird when you say sony related stuff to it, like in that pokemon game where pikachu goes crazy when you say sony lol

[KillrateOmega]

Yup. You're right Forbes. They did a real stellar job... /s

Here are some highlights.

[GhostTurtle]

Are you high off your ass?

[galmi]

So wait lemme get this, after going through the comments pple posted, i have reached one conclusion, YOU CANNOT SAY YOU LIKE THE XBOX ONE, its blasphemy, whether your reasons are genuine or not, it doesnt matter...some go as far as calling you a fool for wanting it or liking it...and i thought it was all about freedom of choice...freedom in general. Anyways, we all wait to see what the ps4 looks like and xbox one promises at e3

[thebudgetgamer]

I respectfully dissagree.

[jay2]

Get off the drugs dude.

[llMurcielagoll]

Because watching TV on a GAMING CONSOLE and games being an after thought?

Gamespot made something interesting, it is not much but people get to tweet what they liked out of next gen is it PS4 or XBOX 1?

http://uk.gamespot.com/twit...

I don't know in what UNIVERSE this "Round" goes to Microsoft.

[sashimi]

Forbes = microsoft employees, paid for propaganda enjoy :)

[CoryHG]

Troll article, yet gets approved.

[duli14]

Reading that article it sounds like Jek_porkins wrote it

[Flames76]

Yea no doubt the Xbox won the first round.The first 10 minutes was more exciting than the PS4 entire conference.With that being said the kinect being bundled and has to be plugged in for the console to work turns me against buying the Xbox one.Ive been with xbox since 2001 its the only real gaming platform but i cant support kinect being thrown at us when we don't wont it.

[Jamaicangmr]

What a load of sh!t article.

[MRMagoo123]

This is a satire article right ................right ?

[DirtyMagician]

HAHAHAHA you have to be kidding me! A set top box is winning a console war?

[tommygunzII]

That Xbox couldn't win an ugly contest against a VCR.