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I've never been an xbox girl. In my adult life, I've almost always gone for nintendo or sony's consoles. (though I do own an xbox 1s for 4k movies coughyournamecoughcough) and I feel that this new xbox is really just more of the same and its not particularly...a box...
Its a rectangle....Its neither an X nor a box. When will they make a true xbox?
I'm kidding...That argument has probably been used un-ironically far too often.
The *new xbox* isn't really impressive to me, IMO the console generations are impressive but only under certain terms.
The ps1, ps2, and ps3 were impressive because they broke the mold, the playstation was a very different console than what I was used to, and a ps2 was just as different because it had a different feeling to it while still retaining backwards compatibility with almost all of the ps1 games(there were like....8 games that didn't work with the ps2 in the ntsc-us region...)
The ps3 was amazing looking, but the feeling it had was kind of....dry...With the ps4, its like the ps3 ps3 looking at a mirror of itself. Neither are bad consoles at all. but they are a bit....dry...But I think the ps4 is effectively just a suped up ps3. The ps3 was not a suped up ps2. the ps2 is not a suped up ps1, and the ps1 was not a suped up snes.
The ps4 is more appealing to play, despite being a suped up ps3, not because of superior graphics, or better management of memory, but because it feels better to play by a little bit. The controller is ever so slightly more ergonomic, the games CAN flow better, and it just "feels" better, if that makes any sense.
All that being said...
The xbox was definitely a different experience. The xbox was much more...."elite" I mean the 360 even had an edition called the "xbox 360 elite"
It had more more dedicated FPS games than sony or nintendo, it had a little more in almost every field except for what I cared about when the console released; JRPGs, since then I have broadened my horizons with games. (but even now the ps3 still feels a bit....dry)
While I've never been an xbox girl (though I have given each of the respective xbox consoles a try, from the xbox classic to the xbox 360 to the xbox 1S) Each of the xbox consoles have retained the same feeling and as a result, its a little off-putting. I feel like the xbox brand is kinda like using a golf club with sandpaper gloves. Sure its a great idea that can keep the club in your hands, but how comfortable are they to use with extended use?
So that's something to be said for it, the consoles creation team at MS knows what they want for the console and it works for that fanbase, I guess.
The *new xbox* is one of those consoles that is just "more of the same" to me.
I watched the launch trailer in 4k. It doesn't look particularly impressive to me beyond the hellblade(?) games graphics, but something about it looks unrefined...But with this process, things usually get better closer to launch.
I'm going to wait til I hear things about the launch games reviews and the consoles UI before I say anything further about it, but it seems as though microsoft is definitely aiming for the same audience as the xbox, the xbox 360, and the xbox one/S/X and that's not a bad thing per se.
But it wouldn't hurt to shake things up either...
With everything that I've said, I guess it's also possible that I'm biased or judging prematurely based on my experiences with xbox in general thus far.
however, while I am still interested in the dev builds for the consoles....its just that's kinda where my interest stays with xbox consoles and if the same game is on ps2/ps3/ps4, then I'd go with the playstation versions every time.
