Xbox One Vs. PS4: Should You Even Bother?

3. Line Up

A lot of attention has been given to both consoles€™ release line-ups. With a few exclusives on either side of the fence, there isn€™t anything that sets one ahead of the other apart from personal preference. There has never been a clearer example of why to give it a little time. Both contenders have a decidedly lackluster line-up. With nothing outstanding that can€™t be acquired on the current console generation anyway, it makes it hard to truly justify dropping over a third of a grand on a machine that will only give privileged access to a couple of competent exclusives. For the PS4, there are Knack and Killzone: Shadow Fall. Going by the consensus of reviews, Knack is novel and mildly entertaining, but frustrating and lacking polish, whilst Killzone is incredibly pretty and usually good at what it does, but nevertheless an unremarkably typical FPS. On the Xbox One, there is a wider selection giving the options of Dead Rising 3, Ryse: Son of Rome, The Fighter Within, Forza Motorsport and - most highly anticipated of all - Powerstar Golf. It is harder to judge this lineup as they have yet to be released. It certainly appears to be a bit more solid and trying to push the envelope a bit more, but as before this is possibly something you will be using for the next five years, give or take, so wait it out a little and judge it on what is to come, not what is in the now. So put your feet up, wait it out and pick up a better deal with a more informed choice once you are done with Dark Souls II, which will be releasing on PS3 and Xbox 360 in March.