The ongoing classic: PS versus Xbox. This time, however, with a spicy little input: a recent tweet from the official PlayStation account, featuring a comparison chart (just in case they wouldn’t), set the internet onto flames all over again! In 2024, though, the plastic boxes under your TV are definitely not the whole deal-extensible ecosystems, exclusive games, and heaps of fanboy rage to power a small nation.
So before we can dive into specifics platform-wise, we must appreciate what each of them offers right now. The PS side, we have a great first-party line that gets grown men wet pants-never mind The Last of Us, God of War, and Spider-Man 2 that made everyone feel like a spider-slinging superhero.
On the other hand, the Xbox is perhaps playing 4D chess with Game Pass, serving up more games than anybody could reasonably play in three lifetimes for the lowest amount of cash in history.
The chart contained the tweet’s rather basic comparison specs- teraflops this, SSD speeds that-but every experienced user knows raw power isn’t everything. Who doesn’t remember when the darn Xbox One was said to be more powerful than PS4? The heck happened to that? Games, services, and which one of those controllers wouldn’t just give you a palm cramp after three hours of Elden Ring?
It’s funny how the tone is dead silent now. If anything, such a tweet usually popped that bottle of ire, and the comments section would become a battlefield for both platforms, rightfully dubbing the comment section war that just resurrected since 2007.
Or maybe people are simply tired? Or what if… just what if? Could we have matured enough to recognize that both platforms sustain their games in vastly different manners? Nah, who am I kidding- it’s going to be a full-out frenzy down there in the comments within minutes.
But then here, the real tea is: The console war does not even matter now. With all that being said, with PC gaming setting the world on fire, cloud gaming is a thing now, and Nintendo is doing its own weird Nintendo stuff in the corner, it just feels like this whole, “My plastic box is better than your plastic box” argument; so… two-thousand-and-late. Not that it would stop anyone from fighting till the heat death of the universe.
Really though, the best console is the one that allows you to play the games you want to play. Deep, huh? Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go cry in Starfield over not being able to play Final Fantasy XVI on my Xbox. The duality of man.
