Why I'm trading my xbox for a PS4

Battlefield 4 Console
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I’m posting this here because I always blamed Battlefield for some of the things I’ve recently learned are actually the fault of the xbox.

Ever been in the snow on locker and everything is white? Like, not snow-storm-obscured vision but WHITE?
Ever been shot by a guy in a dark corner who you just didn’t see because the dark is so dark that it all blends into black?
Ever tried connecting a PC monitor to your xbox (which is NOT SUPPORTED, WTF) and noticed the colours are either crushed or washed out?
Ever found yourself tweaking brightness settings in game to 100% when you shouldn’t have to?

That’s because the xbox video output doesn’t work correctly.

Ever wondered why surround sound doesn’t seem to function? Ever noticed you are getting stereo when you should get 5.1?

That’s because the xbox audio output doesn’t work correctly.

Ever tried to plug another device into the HDMI input on your xbox? Didn’t work right? Lag? Stuttering? Crashes?

That’s because the HDMI input doesn’t work correctly.

Ever looked at the thumbsticks for your “elite” controller, and noticed that the sensitivity is different when you move in a diagonal direction?

That’s because the elite controller doesn’t work correctly.

Ever been banned from xbox because you were a beast and lots of noobs reported you for cheating?

That’s because the enforcement team doesn’t investigate cases correctly.

Nearly nothing works on this piece of junk! If you’re serious about your gaming, but not to the point of going to the PC, I strongly suggest you go PS4 and not xbox.

There are likely trade-in deals coming up with the PS4 Neo release, and I hope that you guys will save yourselves some hassle and take that opportunity to get a simply better console.

Selling my ps3 to buy an xhox one and play BF1
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Ps4 master race confirmed

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I hate to be the guy to start a master race thread and I know they’re not allowed here, but I simply can’t sit by and allow others to fall into the same trap I did. I don’t want to start a “master race” discussion, but I do feel obliged to inform my fellow gamers of the facts, in this case, that the xbox has major functions which have not worked for years and MS are simply not fixing them. If you choose an xbox over a PS4, you’re either a noob who can’t spot the difference, or a sucker like I was, who assumed a company like MS could make an actual working console. I’ve spent countless hours running tests and reporting them to MS, I’m involved in the beta program, I have waited patiently for months and filed report after report as instructed by MS. I’ve done everything that is asked of me and more, to try to do something positive and get everything sorted out. It’s pointless. MS don’t want to make sure that the box works for people who are the minority and want full colour depth and full surround sound and to be able to watch DVDs and such. They are quite happy with the casuals who run their laggy plasma as a monitor, don’t have the reaction times to care about dodgy controllers, don’t use proper surround sound equipment, don’t have their TV properly calibrated, don’t want to use a PC monitor, etc.

Basically, if you’re Joe Average, you’ll probably be happy with the xbox. If you want to do anything serious, you’ll find it doesn’t work at all, and microsoft don’t care since you don’t represent a significant portion of their sales.

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Welcome to the party

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Party is right! I must admit, I’m looking forward to playing BF4/BF1 on PS4 since I know that over there, there are more players, which means more servers, more variety, etc. Who knows, I might actually get to play the DLC I paid for! OMG!

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I think you need to play another 34 mins on xbox before making the switch.

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LOL I hadn’t noticed that! I don’t think I can even play right now since I’m banned for cheating. I’m no angel but I don’t cheat… but the awesome MS system allows lots of noobs to say I did, so away I go!

Edit: LOL here’s a good example of their poor work.
You can appeal bans on XBL.
You have to pay for it usually (Seriously?), but it’s in beta right now.
They have a questionnaire that you have to answer, to qualify to appeal. I thought I’d check it out (even though I have no interest in the appeal)
There is a question there, where they outline that one player is cheating, and another player trolls him. It asks: “The first guy deserves enforcement more, because he started it and he was doing something worse” True/False. To which I answered “True”. The emphasis here is on the word “more”. The questionnaire was marked as failed because that answer was wrong. They talk about how both are liable for enforcement. My answer didn’t say anything to the contrary. My answer was correct, and in accordance with the Terms of Use… but the people writing the questions don’t even speak English well enough, to understand what they’ve written and that their expected answer is actually incorrect.

Just shoddy work and lack of attention to detail all over this device.

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I’ll buy your xbucket. Send message on prv RRJP.

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Well this is the next issue I have to deal with, with this junk machine: I don’t want to sell it to anyone. I’d honestly feel guilty, like selling a car that you know has a screwed up transmission or something.

If I had the money, I’d make a nice youtube video showing all the broken parts of it, and then sending it to the moon with some anfo, or maybe liquid nitrogen+hammer or something…

If I trade it in, it’ll be sent back to MS for refurb, so then it’s their problem… that was the best solution I came up with yet.

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good luck,

A good friend of mine has x1 and ps4 when I go around there it isalways laggy on the ps4 but not so much on the x1, I would go as far to say I dont think ps4 network infrastructure for dedicated servers is as good as x1.
Im pretty sure you will get less multiplayer network issues with x1.

May be you have a duff x1 because I dont see any of them problems, my brightness is fine my contrast good, hdmi works as I have a hdmi recorder plugged in pass through to the TV.

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I would like to point out I made a thread a year ago about This subject of the better console, im feeling pretty smug right now
4 Reasons Why the PS4 should Win The Console War

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@hagster: Look closer. It’s not my xbox, it’s all of them. Yours included. If you’re in the xbox preview program, I can link you to the appropriate threads discussing the issues. You can find some of the discussion about the video output if you search google for “xbox one black crush”. Be advised, there is a LOT of misinformation out there. You’ll need a thorough technical understanding of computers, to sort the wheat from the chaff.

This is the reason there’s such a problem. Most people simply don’t realise the xbox isn’t working, because it comes close. Close enough, that many just can’t tell the difference.

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Only 21 pages? Pfffft

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No I’ve never had any of those problems kdns

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IT was locked pretty quickly most people here need 2 weeks to get 21 pages

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Pls op add my alt RRJP, I wanna destroy Korpusdraige.

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I have found that same, reflective, perspective to be very, very interesting. I remember when the consoles were released, many said that the PS4 was better because it had better hardware. Which it does. But back then I said, that hardware was only half of the story, and that good software would outperform good hardware. Well, sure enough, the software is what has let the xbox down. The hardware appears to be perfectly capable of doing the job, but the programmers have failed to make it work.

For example, the video output. The system is capable of, and in some cases does, adjust RGB levels correctly according to sources and/or outputs. But it doesn’t always. So, you can’t ever get the full range of colours. Ever. They could surely fix it, but it’s only a problem for people who, possess the equipment needed to use these features, AND have the knowledge to discern that they are not working, AND care enough to refuse to settle for 2nd best. Those people are rare, and it’s obviously a business decision they’ve made, to jilt those customers in favour of the vast majority who do not fit all of those criteria.

Now, don’t get me wrong, Sony are a bunch of money hungry animals just like MS and I imagine they’d do the same… BUT…and this is a big BUT… They don’t need to fix this stuff, since it already works, since they got it right in the first place.

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I own both consoles but prefer my Xbox. Sound keeps cutting out on my PS4 which requires restarting my TV to fix. The R1 button also sticks on both DS4s I’ve owned, despite me taking them out and cleaning them numerous times. So freakin annoying. The right bumper on my Xbox controller on the other hand, is still fine, and I spam it constantly. I’ve also had my Xbox longer, but I could discern no build quality issues that plague it. It simply is the better built machine in my honest opinion.

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I need 100 threads to get 21 pages. I guess it depends how sexy your grav is. People do not like strong horse innit

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Yeh the x1 controller is pretty good. Exceptional build quality. Especially the elite.

But the thumbsticks don’t work properly. What good is a comfy controller that never breaks in hardware, if the software is permanently broken?

I’ll be going MnK on PS4 anyway, since they’re allowed there.

As for your sound cut-out problem, that’s probably either your cable or TV. You’ll notice that many report it and this is the fix for most of them. You’ll also notice that this is not something that effects every PS4, only some. That’s because it’s not the PS4, it’s the way it interacts with your peripherals (TV) (PS you can blame the DRM implementations in the HDMI spec for that behaviour. It’s by design. They don’t want people swapping cables around so they can record some content that was intended for one-time-viewing, so it cuts out when you remove the cable. A dodgy cable, will sometimes disconnect and reconnect rapidly, triggering that kind of behaviour). Try swapping out the HDMI cable and see how you go.

The issues I mention with the xbox, effect every xbox. Even the fanboys on the MS forums who said they didn’t have these problems, eventually admitted that they do have them.