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Hey everyone, I really appreciate all of the feedback! It was great to hear a lot of real opinions, suggestions, and information about both systems. It was a lot of reading last night / this morning to catch up on everything, but I feel WAY more informed than before.
I made this post to get some information to help me make a good decision on a new console and I think with all of your help it did. Didn't make this to troll/start a huge debate on here, but I guess it comes with the territory on a forum where people are passionate about their gaming systems.
[b]I made a random decision yesterday and pre-ordered the TTK PS4. I have enough store credit from previous trade ins at GameStop to make it affordable. Also will be trading in my 360 for an additional $100 off. So it looks like I will be starting from scratch, but I have enough friends on the PS+ network to make it fun.[/b]
Again, I really appreciate all of the feedback/suggestions/opinions from you guys. It was a great read and I think I learned all I needed to make the right decision for myself.
Also, thanks for all of the congratulations on me becoming a dad. Although I am still about 6 months out from having that new little one in my arms, I couldn't be more excited about it.
Thanks again, guardians.
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I've had a Xbox 360 for a few years now and most of my friends either have a Xbox One or a PS4 (it's about a 50/50 split). I recently found out that I am going to be a dad (due late January 2016) and because of this and all of the future late nights that come with that in my future, I got permission from the wife to upgrade, so help me figure out what to get.
Since I am already a Microsoft user, obviously going with the Xbox One seems like the easiest one to upgrade to, but I'm open to suggestions.
For the Xbox, I am already familiar with the Xbox Live stuff and I'm already paying the yearly online fee, no need to cancel service etc.
If I upgrade to the Xbox One, do I need to start over with new characters or would my character carry over?
Is the Xbox One backwards compatible with my current 360 games (Destiny, Halo Series, GTA5) or do I have to buy new games no matter what?
Any other benefits to sticking with Microsoft?
As for the PS4, I don't have too much knowledge about this system. I've heard it's got better graphics, but I've also heard the online servers are unreliable leaving you unable to play often? Is it worth it? What other reasons make it worth switching?
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Edited by SortaSteve: 7/10/2015 5:29:22 AMFirst and foremost get what your friends have. Playing with friends is the most important. Secondly your poll is a bad idea. This forum is filled with fan boys from each group and not knowledgeable players sadly. (At least not the #destiny forums you would probably get better results under #offtopic) If that doesn't matter get a PS4. It literally has better hardware than the xbox 1 so as games develop more and more the ps4s performance will be much better for graphics etc. Personally I, along with all my gaming friends, switched from xbox to Playstation on this gen of consoles because of the hardware. I can only say I would honestly never go back. No only does psn seem to be better than xbl was for me (way less party drops and game crashes) but the free games every month are ridiculous. Last month was almost $80 or stuff and already this month we have another $65 worth of free games. Edit: when it comes to online service people say PSN is down more but honestly it's not. The take more safety stuff into consideration for stuff like ddos attacks (example: last Xmas when PSN and xbl went down xbl went back up as fast as they could but had off and on problems. PSN purposely stayed down to stop and future tampering or chance of a further/real hacking) if you follow play stations Twitter accounts they give you warnings for maintenance like bungie does for updates. Any questions feel free to ask me.