N10: In the next two weeks the final two next-generation video game consoles will come to market with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One joining the already-available Wii U from Nintendo on November 15 and 22 respectively. With the new consoles, however, a new decision needs to be made: which one is right for you?
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I really want both, but the XB1 seems like it'll likely be more reliable as an early-adopt device.
I love Sony's sleek designs, but making the case small, the GPU big, AND jamming the power supply in there is just asking for trouble. Pretty sure a PC with those components, and that tiny case, would need some liquid cooling to stay cool enough during a serious gaming session, and the PS4 doesn't have liquid cooling, to my knowledge.
I can wait a year (or two) for my sexy new PS4. Let that monster APU shrink down to 20nm first, and the production line reliability kinks get worked out in some other livingroom than mine.
PS4's TDP is surely less than 150 watts, in fact the whole system power consumption is likely not much more than this (launch PS3s were about 210 watts). I am confident this is the case and we'll see it when they get these machines hooked up to meters.
The unit is small but the cooling solution seen on the teardown looks impressive and up to the job. Its akin to a large air PC cooler laid on its side with a nice looking copper heatpipe.
Having an APU makes designing the cooling system for these machines far simpler than their predecessors. Plus cooling design has advanced a long way since 360/PS3 launched, if only because the TDP of large dies has absolutely rocketed. Therefore cooling design has improved to keep up.
Back in 2005, 100w was considered a large TDP for a GPU with cooling struggling to keep up. X1800XT was hot, and loud. Yet it was 'only' 113w- now we have single cards that push nearly 3 times that. Made possible by lessons learnt in dissipating all that. That makes PS4 and Xbox One a cinch to cool by 2013 standards.
The problem with these machines is they will take a while to get on their feet anyway, Microsoft's machine looks like it needs more time, a bunch of stuff doesn't work on launch and is promised for later. Seems much better to wait and see there because it seems none of Microsoft's big plans and potential are being explored in the slightest early on.
What with the price disparity too, if it doesn't sell all that great as I half expect then Microsoft will lop a bunch of money off its price tag sooner.
It usually happens on the most expensive console. Sony cut a load off within a year because PS3 cost so much against the competition, I bet Microsoft will be forced to lower their price much sooner than Sony will.
depends what people are after x1 has Ryse Forza and DR and ps4 has killzone Knack gods amongst us etc and whole lot of Great Indie games with it I personally think MS has moved away from the gaming side to focus more on the Entertainment side and ps4 is more pure on the gaming side then the x1 also theres more power under the hood on the ps4 then the x1
its like comparing a Veyron to a aventador