E3 season is here in Southern California it's nice to have a tradeshow
close by and I'm really excited for this year's show because I'm actually looking
to get a new console i sat out buying one last year I wanted to see what
project Scorpio was going to end up being I moved the past few months I bought my
first 4k TV so I was really paying close attention to which one was going to be
right for me and I started doing research on which one I wanted to buy as I
watched Sony's and Microsoft's keynotes I realized that maybe I'm not alone maybe
you guys want to buy a new console - I'm not really a hardcore gamer I casually
like to play games I use my console a lot for media streaming so maybe you're
like me maybe you're more hardcore gaming but either way this I made my
decision for which console to buy let me run through everything so price
determining factor PS4 Pro it's $399 you can walk into a store right now pick one
up put in your bag go home start playing tonight or or maybe like an hour from
now depending on where you live I don't know product scorpio is now called Xbox
One X... x-x-box gonna set you back just shy a $500 which was I believe the
original Xbox one launch price but I won't be available until November so you
got to wait and even then I'll probably be in short supply you're gonna have to
fight some fights and parents for Christmas gift
it's not gonna be available until later on the year which is a big thing it's
not a game now November is very far away I know for a lot of you guys game
exclusives are the big determining factor for which console you buy you
don't care which one it is long it's got the games you want of course both offer
the typical cross-platform things like Madden NBA 2k Call of Duty battlefield
so a ton of exclusives especially on the Sony side it's a ps4 Pro was announced
last year we've spent a lot of time there keynote focusing on games they
also announced some exclusives earlier in the year you got things like Death
Sranding, God of War, Gran Turismo, Last of Us, a surprisingly badass looking
spider-man game and new DLC for Uncharted
Microsoft's less exclusive games at least right now things like Forza
crackdown and a new state of decay of course other games like new Halo
presumably coming Halo Wars - and I loved original Halo Wars I think I might
have been the only one but those sort of Microsoft staples of course will be
there as well so both our offer of course
arcade gaming and HDR support the xbox one x has the ps4 beat though in most of the
spec department specially raw specs kind of guess you would expect because
it's almost a year newer both consoles feature octa-core processor the Xbox one
is clocked a little bit higher at 2.3 vs 2.1 on the ps4 pro nominal but it is
there so it comes to memory that's a big deal for games on it certainly now
but sort of later on in the compost life span the Xbox one x has 12 gigs of GDDR5
the ps4 pro has 8 gigs of that same gddr5 both consoles shipped at least
right now with one terabyte of internal storage but if you just plug in a lot of
external hard drive options expand that if you need so physical media I don't
know where you guys fall on it whether it's dead to you where you still collect
them I've got some older blu-rays my wedding movies on blu-ray so I like to
have it but it's not a deciding factor necessarily but oddly the ps4 pro
can't support any of the new generation blu-ray so the 4k and HDR blu-ray will
not play on the ps4 pro even though Sony is one of the heads of the blu-ray
consortium the Xbox one X on the other hand can play any blu-ray you can find put it
in 4k HDR and it'll play so that may factor into your decision so if you're
coming from a legacy console you've got a Xbox 360 or ps3 or older backwards
compatibility might be something you want to consider so putting a physical
disk in the ps4 Pro from any other generation console is not going to work
Xbox One x different story support some Xbox 360 games even going to support
original Xbox games that list should be growing but you don't know the full list
right now so VR is an interesting one to talk about maybe your team sells bar I
think VR is the future or maybe you're like Richard Hendricks you think it's a
fad I'm not sure where you guys are on that but a VR is what you guys are
looking for playstaion 4 is going to be your
only choice it offers a really well-rounded VR experience games are
already available it works well it's pretty immersive and you can pick it up
today we don't know Microsoft's going to do for VR assumably it'll be something but
as of right now they don't have anything and not an
option. So let's get to a conclusion take its way decided because
I'm I'm excited so the Xbox one X certainly works done so 100 bucks is not
anything to scoff at like I said on bit more of a casual gamer than a hardcore
gamer most of what I use my console stores as a media streamer so I like the
ability to play any type of blu-ray so that it's active by 4k blu-rays or not
in the Xbox one I also have a lot of Xbox one accessories from my original
Xbox want to use those same controllers with it fact I prefer the way the
controller feels of the Xbox one and now the Xbox one X so for me I'm going to
wait I'm gonna wait until November I'm going to pick up an Xbox one X and be
pretty damn excited about it what do you guys think maybe I'm in minority of sort
of being a casual gamer announcer as hardcore I know maybe you guys are PC
master-race I want to know tell me why hope you guys enjoy a three coverage I
love this time of year just fun sort of season your stuff coming out it makes me
happy and I enjoy it anyway again comment down below if you guys enjoyed our
E3 coverage I'm Jon Rettinger from TechnoBuffalo