Folks that own both a PS4 and X1, are you able to justify both purchases thus far?

I own pretty much every current system, including handhelds and a gaming PC, except for an Xbox One, and I'm about to get one. Every system has amazing exclusives minus the Vita, but it's my one-stop shop for anime titties and indie games.

The things that finally put me over the edge for Xbone are Sunset Overdrive, Gears UE/Gears 4, Rare Replay, and Halo 5. I actually haven't ever owned a Halo game since Halo 1 on the original Xbox, so I'll probably pick up MCC while I'm at it. Tomb Raider is icing on the cake, Fable Legends looks interesting, Scalebound looks to be no slouch, and ReCore/Sea of Thieves are hopefully must-haves.

It's easy for me to justify my purchases when I look at the value long-term, and I'm okay with a particular console gathering dust for 3-6 months while I shoot through multiplats on the PS4 or exclusives on the Wii U/Xbone or get really hooked on a multiplayer PC game. It results in pretty much all of my extra money goes towards gaming, but that's a financial decision that my SO and I consciously make.
 
Dangansona said:
This is nuts to me. What are you playing on the Xbox every day?
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It's not only about games, I use it to watch TV, I use it to stream movies and music, for YouTube. Then there are games like Halo and Forza, which in my opinion are a lot better than the current games of the same genre on the ps4.

I guess it all depends on the games you like, the only exclusive ps4 titles I enjoyed were Knack and Tearaway Unfolded. And I'm super excited for Unchartered 4, but that's it.
 
FrsDvl said:
It's not only about games, I use it to watch TV, I use it to stream movies and music, for YouTube. Then there are games like Halo and Forza, which in my opinion are a lot better than the current games of the same genre on the ps4.

I guess it all depends on the games you like, the only exclusive ps4 titles I enjoyed were Knack and Tearaway Unfolded. And I'm super excited for Unchartered 4, but that's it.
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See now I'm finding it hard to believe that someone that managed to enjoy Knack doesn't simply end up enjoying every game they ever play, ever. :P
 
Love and marriage, love and marriage. Go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell you brother, you can't have one without the other.
 
Love having everything PS4 for exclusives and Multiplats, Xbone for Exclusives, WiiU for Nintendo games, and Gaming Laptop for a huge library of cheap steam games.

Even set on the portable side I adore my PS Vita since launch, my 3ds for the decent exclusives a couple times a year and I have a Nvidia Shield Handheld that is an emulation powerhouse!

Couldn't be happier, I use an Ouya as a doorstop as well!
 
I will say i use my PS4 purely for JRPG type of games since xbox is barren with these type of games

Nintendo for it's exclusive titles

xbox because all my friends are on it and its where I go to game most

but pc gaming is where the meat and bones are at for me at the moment along with wiiu because of mario maker and splatoon.
 
Xbox Box one purchase was absolutely not justified. Bought it it Jan 2014 and sold in Sep 2014 due to the fact there was absolutely nothing in the library or in the forseeable future that interested me that I couldnt get on ps4. Also the ui was horrible and the gamepad was a huge stepback from the xbox 360 pad. I probably used my Xbox One less than 10 hours the entire time I owned it. Imo the system won't be worth buying until its less than $200.
PS4 purchase has been justified many times over by Killzone, Infamous, Bloodborne, The Order, GTAV, Witcher 3, MGSV, Rocket League, Farcry 4, Assassins Creed:Black Flag, etc.
It also has the best controller ever designed and a great ui.
Use my ps4 at least several times per week.
 
Nope. I have both consoles, but i barely play the X1. I am happy to be able to play Halo 5, though.

EDIT: I also need to pile on the UI. It's really slow, unintuitive, and did I mention slow. The PS4 UI, while minimalistic, is super fast and easy to use.
 
Xbox will finally get some playing time with Halo but besides that its been a dust collector, occasionally would turn it on to dl a xbl gold game that I never will play, I do think the system is very good, Microsoft have done a great job with the stability of it unlike my ps4 which acts up a bunch.
 
Ive had a ps4 since launch. I went out and bought a xbox today for gears and halo and thats pretty much all i intend to use it for. Its what i did with the 360 as well.
 
The Xbox One has been justified many times over. The PS4 was my first current gen system so even though I haven't played a lot of exclusives for it yet, it was what I played all the multiplats on before I got the One so it's been worth it as well.
 
Just about. Forza has saved the Xbox from becoming a media player for me. I play all multiplats on my PC with the exception of PES which I play on my PS4 because that's the best version. The PS4 I have for the exclusives since I have alway preferred the types of games that Sony put out. Until Dawn is probably my game of the year so far due to it being so unexpected.

Although with 124 hours in Horizon 2 and already 42 hours in Forza 6 I don't think I can say the xbox one isn't justified :)
 
PS4 has more exclusives I care about. The only exclusive game I own for XBox 1 is Rare Replay. But that said, I still feel like my XBox One is necessary to me because I prefer the UI, the online community, and most importantly, the controller. I'll always get the XBox version of a multiplatform game. I should probably start getting into PC gaming more though; I have a very good PC, and it's even hooked up to my TV.
 
For me it's been justified for a long time, I play both consoles. Some months I play one more than the other but that depends on what games are currently out.
 
I think there are two ways of looking at this. Is it financially justifiable and is it justifiable based on content?

For me I was able to purchase a Playstation 4 (whilst already owning an Xbox One) for a relatively cheap price so was justifiable in that sense. In terms of content on the PS4 I have only played cross platform titles but there are many exclusive I will be playing.

I also find the Xbox One is far superior for me as a media machine.
 
Well, no. Not too much. My PS4 is gathering dust until Kingdom Hearts 2.8, so so far I'm just happy with the XB1 - just for Rare Replay, and as a media player. I buy most of my games on Steam these days though.

I probably should have waited to buy a PS4, but I didn't because I loved PS3 last gen.
 
No. My Xbox one and PS4 are sitting in their boxes , along with my 3ds and Wii U. There aren't many games that I like nowadays and I am not as enthusiastic about playing them. I know now that I won't be buying consoles on impulse anymore. I might be happy with just watching people play games instead of me doing it myself.
 
I own all three consoles and a high end PC. I am happy with the wii u and ps4 but the Xbox feels like I wasted 400 bucks. I bought it to play MC collection because I was big on halo 2 back in the day and loved playing competitively. I obviously regret that decision and have barely touched my Xbox since MCC's terrible launch. My ps4 has the better console exclusives, the next thing I'm looking forward to on my Xbox is scalebound. Halo 5 I don't like but that's because I'm a purist with halo. Rare replay was a really nice surprise, so over the one year I've owned an Xbox I bought a total of three games. The last one being sunset overdrive which I didn't love but came bundled with the console. Rare replay is my favorite game on that console and that's just a collection of old games. My ps4 would probably be in a similar boat but there's games like until dawn that come out periodically and I got rocket league for free so I play my ps4 more often. The wii u is only for Nintendo games and is probably my favorite console since I buy all my third party games on PC.
 
My gaming time (without counting PC) is 65% on Xbone and 35% on PS4, mostly because i do all my multiplayer there, also Xbox fitness is a daily thing for me

The X1 started way better than the PS4, but each one is finding its own spot right now, both have fantastic exclusives and in the end it just goes down to personal tastes
 
I don't own both systems(got a PS4, Wii U and PC) though I tend to get all the systems sometime during the console cycle normally. This cycle I just really don't see the point. I don't think it's a matter of exclusives entirely. It's just that if you're someone that keeps all their games, the backlog always builds up and there's just way too much to play on the one system and way too much coming out.

Having one home system and one handheld is the right mix imo. The gaming PC is the platform of choice because it has such a huge catalog of games. It seems most of the larger console games this year has come to the PC - Bloodborne, Witcher 3 and MGS V were the three big ones and PC has two of them, the best version too.
 
So far not yet even if I didnt pay anything for them. They are a bit of a space waster but I do enjoy using them for streaming purposes at least. The PS4 is closer to satisfying the purchase with Bloodborne but it is the only game I have really been into on the PS4. I have yet to play some Xbox One exclusives that isnt some port/remake or remaster (I have so far Gears, Rare collection and Halo collection).
 
I haven't been able to justify the xbox at all, and barely the ps4.

got both day 1

ps4 I had bloodborne, guilty gear, driveclub, and destiny
xbone i had....... nothing

i really hoped there would be more games coming out than there were. I really wanted to play sunset overdrive and halo, and I just expected more games to come, but they didn't. It would be a great system if I didn't already have a PS4 and a PC, but the truth is most notable games now are out on all 3, and I feel that up until this point, my xbone was a waste of money and I regret buying it day 1. That's completely my fault, I fucking hate the kinect and I'm sad I paid an extra 200 on something I left in it's box until now.

at least at this point I'm going to be using it for RB4 and Halo, and I'm pretty pumped about both, as well as upcoming stuff like Crackdown. But I could and should have waited for the price drop and games to be there for me first.
 
leeh said:
I find it hard to believe you have enough disposable income, with enough time to justify having both. Time is the only reason I don't have both this gen.

So far life has taught me:
More Money = Less Time
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Well yea, more money = less time in general... but what you do with that time is a different matter. By having all consoles that time can be spent playing only the best or most interesting games of each, rather than falling back on a bunch of games that you're only playing because they're a part of the extended library for the console you own. If I didn't only have a Saturn for a while, I probably wouldn't have spent time playing Manx TT Superbike...
 
I bought my X1 last year for titanfall and haven't really touched it much after. I'll grab the exclusive games that I'm interested in for like rare replay otherwise I just stick to PS4. Most of my friends moved over to PS4 as well. i still enjoy my X1 just not as much
 
I only have Wii U and Xbox One, but even still Xbox One is hard to justify for now, since I only have three games I consider part of my collection: Assassin's Creed Unity, Rare Replay and Killer Instinct, the latter I wouldn't even have bought had I not reviewed it. On top of that I'm interested in three more games, Batman, AC Syndicate and Trackmania. Nothing else that's announced interests me (though I would certainly buy a phyical copy of Ori, but for now, it's just a DL game and therefore not part of my collection). So I would barely hit six games somewhere mid-next year. None of those real must haves. If I had a PS4, I'd buy GoW3 and Last of Us for it (first I'd try LoU and only buy it if I like it. I abhore Uncharted), nothing else so far. So PS4 would certainly be even harder to justify. So far, PS4 and Xbone were too mcuh focussed on stuff I hate in the physical market, like shooters, sports games and racing sims. Their extreme closeness in regards to the line-up also makes it easy to not have both.
 
I use PS4 on a daily basis. MGS5, Destiny, Mortal Kombat, Driveclub, Witcher etc.

My Xbox One has been gathering dust for a while now. Even though I just received my Forza 6 copy, I have decided to postpone playing it for the time being. Their bullcrap card system really put me off. But I do intend to get Halo 5, provided it is at least a bit good.

Wii U is packed away for a while. Waiting for Xenoblade.
 
I think so ya. I played a shit ton of ps4 multiplat games along w/ TLOU. My xbox one has mainly been my streaming machine (plex/twitch/espn). Feels like I use them both a ton, but I find myself on my gaming PC much more frequently now
 
Very interesting to see the differences in opinion on this matter.

I had a PS4 preordered but swapped for a WiiU and then ended up down the line getting an xbox one, then had a chance to get a PS4 but got a White Xbox One instead and sold the Black xbox one.

I love my Xbox One and Kinect and media player is awesome and the backwards compatibility will make space on my shelf for my ps4 if I decide to get one down the line.

But so far no PlayStation exclusive has appealed enough to me to make me buy the console, I know a few years from know will be a different story (FFVII remake - if it is exclusive), but I an wait until then.

The WiiU is a different beast. It hasn't been used in a couple of months, which is sad. I have Bayonetta 1 and 2 to replay and I need Splatoon, but I just cant be bothered with the poor battery life of the Tablet, and that has always been an issue for me, the amount of times I put it on to find the Tablet wasn't on the dock properly!
 
I own all gaming systems available on the market, yet i game on my Titan Black Sli PC 90% of the time.

I can justify only purchasing PS4 (bloodborne), japanese 3ds (monster hunter and all jrpgs), Japanese Wii U(Xenoblade X, super mario 3d world).

The other systems (X1, PS vita, etc.), I almost didn't touch them and cannot justify purchasing them just yet.
 
I'm on PS4 and gaming PC and am totally happy with both.

However, come Quantum Break next year, I'll be dipping for an Xbox One, too. Mainly because I'm a Remedy fanboy (even though I wasn't super happy with Alan Wake.) I think by that point there are more than enough great exclusive experiences on there to justify it:

- Dead Rising 3 (1 and 2 are all-time faves of mine)
- Sunset OD
- Halo MCC
- Forza
- Titanfall (if it has (m)any numbers playing now)

Add Quantum Break to that pile and I'll happily jump in. Halo MCC alone looks like it is a great purchase (would love to co-op the whole campaign with my partner). Will feel dirty having all three hardcore gaming platforms though. What is my life.
 
Nope. Master Chief Collection was too broken for too long for me to maintain interest, Sunset Overdrive didn't grab me like I thought it would, and the Rare collection highlighted the diminished appeal of a retro bundle when you'd never played any of them before.

Ori and the Blind Forest is the one game I've beaten and loved, but I only got that on Xbox rather than PC to help justify my purchase.

Forza Horizon 2 is legit, though I was deep into Driveclub when it came out, so I really need to give it more love. And I was really surprised to find I enjoyed Titanfall a lot more on console than PC, but by the time I double-dipped on that, there were few people left playing.
 
Barely used the PS4, though I'm happy enough with it. I don't have so much time for gaming and the Xbox is a much better media device, so I end up using that more (and buying any multiplatform games on the xbox). The most use the PS4 had was the two weeks where my Xbox was in for repair.
 
PS4 - absolutely, use it as my primary system + Bloodborne and Until Dawn.

Xbox One - originally bought it for D4 (which came to PC later on... *sigh*). Still waiting for that killer exclusive that makes it worth it for me, I rarely use the system otherwise. Only when I buy games digitally, since the local MS Store is (mysteriously) significantly cheaper than PSN.
 
leeh said:
I find it hard to believe you have enough disposable income, with enough time to justify having both. Time is the only reason I don't have both this gen.

So far life has taught me:
More Money = Less Time
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But I'd caveat that:

More money = less time = enjoy your free time more

I'm experiencing the same thing but I'm finding that I actually enjoy gaming more now that I only get an hour or two a day (at the very most)
 
outunderthestars said:
I wanted both, I bought both. I am an adult and can easily afford them, so I don't really feel like I have to justify buying them.
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Yeah, this.
My XB1 doesn't get used a lot, but Halo 5 will be in my system in 25 days. I've been meaning to pick up FM6, I just haven't, lol. Might grab it when I pick up Age of Ultron on Blu-ray today.


Conun said:
I might be happy with just watching people play games instead of me doing it myself.
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Ive had an XB1 since launch and picked up a PS4 for Bloodborne. I don't regret buying it but the PS4 hardly gets any use at this point especially since the Xbox is my media hub for everything even when I'm not playing games. I got MGSV for the PS4 just to have something else to do with it. Unless there's a noticeable difference I still usually get multiplats on the Xbox.
 
I'd have to say absolutely for my XB1. Its constantly being used for media, TV and plenty of gaming.

My PS4 however has been a bit of an ornament for the past year since I bought it. Have finished two games on it, The Order which was a pile of shit and Until Dawn which I really enjoyed. Played plenty of other games which I've either not enjoyed (Killzone and Infamous spring to mind) or games that I went back to way to quickly after playing elsewhere (TLOU remastered its also putting me off grabbing the Uncharted collection)

I do however need to grab Journey and Galak-Z at some point.

Picked up Bloodborne not long after release but I'd just come off the back of 100 hours of Dark Souls 2 and had a real hard time getting into it. Will probably save it for the lull after Xmas.

It's quite surprising to me that the PS4 exclusives that I've played just haven't done much for me so far. The PS3 was great for exclusives.

Hopefully Uncharted 4 changes that.
 
Yeah, my XBox sits unused except as a Blu-ray player so I don't burn out my ps4's drive. I enjoy everything about the Ps4 better than the One, and the irony is that I was Xbox last gen. I have three 360s. Looking back I would have not bought the One.
 
I have all consoles since launch and never use my XB1 anymore. This is coming from someone with a 390k gamerscore who primarily gamed on 360 last gen.

It just hasn't got any compelling games for me. I've never been into Halo/Gears/Forza/Kinect and all the other stuff is usually on PS4 already or comes out earlier like indie stuff like Broken Age. It's future just doesn't look very interesting to me either. With the exception of Quantum Break and Scalebound there is absolutely nothing else I want on it.

I also like the first party stuff from Sony and Japanese support as I adore JRPGs been playing them since SNES and I missed out on PS3 games while gaming on 360 last gen.

So I thought sod it I'm not gonna keep gaming on a console just for achievements and my profile because I'm missing out on many games that interest me in the process that i love and they're not coming on Xbox so I moved back to PS4.

I much prefer the ecosystem on PS4 too with its trophies, quick ui, flash sales, cross save/play between PS3/Vita. Apart from Ori and Dead Rising 3 I have played little else on XB1 that I could care about since launch.

I can't really justify owning both consoles as there's so many games on PS4 that I have or interest me that I haven't got the time to play... even the couple of good games that appeal to me on XB1 i won't get round to playing so it never gets used. If MS made compelling games like the first few years in 360 maybe things would be different but doubt that will happen. I loved games like Lost Odyssey for example.
 
I own both and a Wii U if that counts. I don't play console favorites. I want all systems to do well but I can't say that it's worth it to have both.

The PS4 is my most played system by far. The Wii U follows that due to the exclusives and unfortunately, the Xbox One is a distant third for me. Halo: MCC was the big thing I was looking forward to on there and we all know how that went. I'll be getting Halo V and Rock Band 4 on the Xbox One so hopefully that gets a lot more action for the system from me. I enjoyed Rare Replay but that didn't take up too much of my time before I moved on from it. If I could do it all over again, I wouldn't have bought the XB1 until right around now. Rather than getting it March of last year or whatever it was.
 
I got my bone last Christmas for $225 for a refurb kinect unit and 3 games from ms store. Sold the kinect for $90 and the games for like $40 each so yea I'm happy. It was almost free. Even had over a year of warranty till Feb 16.
 
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