8 Reasons PS4 Owners Are Jealous Of The Xbox One

6. Early-Access Games & Free Demos

Steam may have lost its way in letting everybody and their fourth cousin submit their games to early access (where consumers can pay varying amounts to play a build of the game that then gets patched to retail state along with the developers), but on consoles, Microsoft are leading the fray making sure everything present is authorised by a team of people who actually care about what they're putting out there.

There's also the awesome fact that you can access timed trials of these games for free, to make sure you actually want to support them before putting down any cash. So far we've seen harsh survivalist experience The Long Dark and the fantastic No Man's Sky-beating Elite: Dangerous, both games that'll see full releases in the future, but are available for free right now.

Essentially - and more so over time - this will give Xbox One owners a nice bank of free demos for retail games months in advance - something Sony are woefully lacking on.