TechHive: PlayStation 4 vs Xbox One: Can't they both be winners?

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thumbnail PlayStation 4 vs Xbox One: Can't they both be winners?
Jul 28th 2013, 15:16, by Peter Smith

There's a lot of animosity between camps in the console video gaming world. Xbox fans love to troll the PlayStation users, and vice versa.

This is bad for a lot of reasons; it makes the videogaming hobby seem very immature, it makes it almost impossible to have a serious discussion about games on the Internet, and most importantly of all, it's completely counter-productive.

Believe me, the worst thing that could happen to gaming is for either the PlayStation or the Xbox platform to "win" in the sense that the competing company gives up and exits the market. Competition is always good for the consumer. Don't take my word for it, though. Let's look at some recent examples.

Choice fuels competitiveness

The most obvious one is the Xbox 180 situation. Microsoft announced one set of policies for the next generation of console gaming, Sony announced another. The public let it be known that they preferred the Sony way of doing things, so Microsoft changed their policies. If there was no PS4 coming, it's unlikely Microsoft would've felt any real pressure to change.

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