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xbox one vs ps4 (2 Viewers)
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Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
It is a stupid good deal.
NCCommish
Footballguy
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
This isn't too bad either, from Amazon.
Microsoft Xbox One 500GB Gears of War Ultimate Edition Bundle + $50 Amazon Gift Card + FREE Game of Your Choice for a low $349.00 Free Shipping.
The console ALONE normally sells for $349 without the gift card or game. This includes:
Microsoft Xbox One 500GB Gears of War Ultimate Edition Bundle + $50 Amazon Gift Card + FREE Game of Your Choice for a low $349.00 Free Shipping.
The console ALONE normally sells for $349 without the gift card or game. This includes:
- Microsoft Xbox One 500GB Console
- Xbox One Controller & Chat Headset
- Gears of War 1, 2, 3, Judgement Games
- Early access to the Gears of War 4 Beta
- Another game of your choice (Halo 5, GTA V, Call of Duty Black Ops 3, more)
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
I can't imagine it is intentional that all of that comes free. I would get the deal ASAP just in case.
rick6668
Footballguy
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cstu
Footballguy
That's effectively the same as the Dell BF deal except you can't get FO4 yet and it doesn't come with an extra controller.
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
Only thing you need is a second controller if you plan on two people playing.
cstu
Footballguy
belljr
Footballguy
pricklypete
Footballguy
Great deal. I'm going to be holding out for a PS4. Own both PS3 and 360. Prefer the PS exclusives.
I'm hoping PS comes close to something like that by Black Friday.
I'm hoping PS comes close to something like that by Black Friday.
NCCommish
Footballguy
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
Not sure that Sony is as desperate to sell consoles as Microsoft seems to be as PS4 has sold twice as many units as XB1.
pricklypete
Footballguy
Yeah, I know, I've thought about that as well. Guess we'll see what happens.
I'm sure I will end up with both at some point.
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
Wouldn't it be easier to just give in and click submit. Click submit.
Thunderlips
Footballguy
NCCommish
Footballguy
Loan Sharks
Not a Wolf
You are getting the xbox for regular price, the killer is the headset. that is a pricey item. Then you are getting a lot of new games on top of it.
You are paying regular price for the console but you are getting $230 worth of stuff added in for free retail. Even if the prices are padded retail you are still getting a massive amount of additional value for the purchase.
Yes I am a PS4 guy and part of that is the value you get for your money, this is extremely high value. Most current deals will have a game included and perhaps a $50 XBL card for a added value of ~$90.
Loan Sharks
Not a Wolf
The "headset" is the crap earbud it comes with. added value +$90 for downloadable gears and one game.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Okay. I tried. 
Loan Sharks
Not a Wolf
Lol On a side note no lie, I had a customer today named Andrew Dufresne.Okay. I tried.
Thunderlips
Footballguy
Did he come across as if he had a silver spoon shoved up his ###?Lol On a side note no lie, I had a customer today named Andrew Dufresne.Okay. I tried.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
You should have made a reference to Shawshank Redemption. He probably would have found that fresh and witty.Lol On a side note no lie, I had a customer today named Andrew Dufresne.Okay. I tried.
Edit: We once had someone named Linda Carter apply for a position in our department. As you can imagine, this was a great opportunity for us to try to one-up each other for who is best in-house comedian, but sadly we all knew that none of us would be able to come up with anything that she hadn't heard a million times before.
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Loan Sharks
Not a Wolf
I met a young lady (23-24) and her name was Ashley Mergatroyd. And for the life of me I couldn't remember which cartoon character said "Heavens to murgatroyd" So I said "I apologize in advance because you have probably heard this a million times..." and she cut me off and says "Snaggle####"You should have made a reference to Shawshank Redemption. He probably would have found that fresh and witty.Lol On a side note no lie, I had a customer today named Andrew Dufresne.Okay. I tried.
Edit: We once had someone named Linda Carter apply for a position in our department. As you can imagine, this was a great opportunity for us to try to one-up each other for who is best in-house comedian, but sadly we all knew that none of us would be able to come up with anything that she hadn't heard a million times before.
GregR
Footballguy
The issue is more like having to have 5 dirt bikes because certain trails you want to ride again each require a specific brand of bike on them.I would not trade in a old system if I was still using it. That is what I am saying.
That is like trading in a dirt bike for a car and being mad because you can go off roading. Then limiting your choice of car based on off road capability.
It just makes more sense to me that if you still want to dirtbike keep the bike and buy the car you want regardless of off road capability.
The way it is now, I would need 5 consoles - PS3, PS4, original Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One - all hooked up to play all the old games I think are worth replays. Only the PS2 was eliminated by the full back compatibility of the PS3. Though Microsoft killing the original Xbox's version of Xbox Live basically killed for me a lot of the original XBox games they decided not to make compatible on the 360.
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GregR
Footballguy
Torn on what to do about Xbox One. I had been leaning towards waiting for the Elite with the 1 TB hybrid drive to drop Dec 1. Basically same price as adding my own 256GB external solid state drive, but I'd have 4x as much storage at the faster loading speeds, even if not quite fully as fast as an SSD would be.
I wish they had a different stable of games they were offering though. Was never really a big fan of GoW, Final Fantasy, or AC. Maybe I'd like the newer ones better, but tried early versions of them and just didn't appeal to me as much. Also, I probably wouldn't get much use out of the headphones, probably re-gift them.
I wish they had a different stable of games they were offering though. Was never really a big fan of GoW, Final Fantasy, or AC. Maybe I'd like the newer ones better, but tried early versions of them and just didn't appeal to me as much. Also, I probably wouldn't get much use out of the headphones, probably re-gift them.
AcerFC
Footballguy
looks like its over
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
GregR
Footballguy
Both RAM and a hard drive are memory. RAM is much much faster to read and write. And RAM has always been much much more expensive. But technology got to the point we can now make a whole hard drive out of something RAM-like at a reasonable price. This is called a solid state hard drive.STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
A solid state drive might read 5-8x faster than a normal hard drive. Not everything you do is that much faster, just things loading from disk are. But it costs about 8x as much still. A standard 1 TB (1000 GB) hard drive is $50-60, a 250 GB solid state is probably $100-120.
A hybrid hard drive is a combination of standard and solid state drives to get the best of both worlds, speed but lots of space. It has a spacious standard hard drive, but also a small chunk of solid state drive. It tries to predict what files you're going to want next, and it moves a copy of them to the solid state portion so when you call for them you get them at solid state speeds. Run the Skyrim executable and it learns you are likely to access the files in Skyrim's Data directory that define the game world, and it puts as many of them into the solid state cache as it can. Games probably work really well with hybrid drives since the files the game will later use are predictable, and they get used a lot when loading new areas. Something like Word or Excel might not see a big boost from a hybrid drive.
So they are coming out with an Xbox One on December 1st that has a 1 TB hybrid drive as its main hard drive but costs a good $100 to $150 more than the Xbox Ones which all have had standard hard drives so far. You could also get the current Xbox One and then go buy an external solid state drive you can plug into the Xbox. People have seen from 25% to 65% reduced load times depending on the exact game. But getting your own external solid state, for the same price you'd only be able to have 250GB of games getting the boost. The hybrid drive, all 1 TB could potentially get the boost.
For whatever reason, people who have posted benchmarks of PS4 with a solid state drive haven't seen a worthwhile boost. I am not sure why, just disk reads aren't driving their load times like they are for Xbox.
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Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
Hell yes
Thunderlips
Footballguy
PR Richard is offering the 500GB with free controller and free game for 349.99. Unlike Target or the NewEgg deal, you can get Fallout 4 as the free game.
ETA: As it is...it's 50.00 less than the CRAZYINSANE!!!! Dell Black Friday deal for 299.99....so it might be worth 50.00 for some to get the deal/Fallout 4 early and guaranteed.
ETA: As it is...it's 50.00 less than the CRAZYINSANE!!!! Dell Black Friday deal for 299.99....so it might be worth 50.00 for some to get the deal/Fallout 4 early and guaranteed.
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Thunderlips
Footballguy
Thunderlips
Footballguy
Kohls BF add has the Ps4/ONE's(only the LEGO MOVIE bundle) 500GB bundles for 299.99 with no added extras...but you get 15.00 in Kohl's Cash for 50.00 spent......so technically that should be around 90.00 back in Kohl's Cash. Not the best deal for an adult gamer.......but might be great for a kid and a wife who likes to shop at Kohls.
GregR
Footballguy
Oof, now it's even more tempting. I never got into Final Fantasy when I tried it, but I wouldn't mind another sports game.
AcerFC
Footballguy
yeah, I would play nba, not so much final fantasy
GregR
Footballguy
I'm a little worried 500 GB is going to feel kind of small for the hard drive after awhile. If games are going to be like FO4 and take up 40 GB, and especially if going with digital downloads instead of having a physical disk, I could see that filling up fast.
Most of the bundles with the games that interest me are 500 GB drives. :(
Most of the bundles with the games that interest me are 500 GB drives. :(
Jobber
Footballguy
You're right on. You can plug any USB3 drive and plug it in for extra storage. I have a 3TB Western Digital I hooked up. Tons of storage.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
And storage is ridiculously cheap right now.
Sand
Footballguy
At least on the Xbone its more like 365GB available. Good thing adding a little external drive is cheap and super easy.
Will worry about hard drive space and speed later. Extras on the games and headphones too good to pass up.
