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Ask Slashdot: Xbox One Or PlayStation 4?
An anonymous reader writes: I'm looking at getting the kids a new gaming console for Christmas this year. I'm stuck trying to decide between getting an Xbox One or a PlayStation 4. I'm really wary on the PlayStation because of the 5 PS2s with broken optical drives sitting in my garage; none lasted more than two years. On the other hand, I'm also wary of buying a Microsoft product; I'm a Linux user for life after getting tired of their crappy operating system. I've also considered getting a gaming PC, whether Linux or Windows, but it's more expensive and game reviews show most are not as good as a dedicated game console. The kids want Fallout 4, and I want Star Wars Battlefront and any version of Gran Turismo. We currently have a Nintendo Wii and a crappy gaming PC with some Steam games. So, which gaming console should I get that will last a long time?
Ha ha, Microsoft is the lesser of the two evils? Try to do at least a cursory check of history before making such asinine statements. Microsoft got started by Bill Gates stealing CP/M (overly simplified but enough for this thread), grew by literally putting competitors applications on a treadmill and randomly crashing them to make MS apps look slightly better than the ones their kernel intentionally crashed and starved, and used strong arm tactics to force leading competitors out of business. That behavior lead to over a well over a dozen anti trust cases in the US and EU, and hundreds successful damages suits by companies that were unfortunately put out of business waiting for their court dates.
Microsoft has broken network protocols, broken open network services, broken ISO standards so badly they had to amend their own to the standard, sold garbage APIs to competitors who made better products than them, lied in court, lied to consumers, and really only cares about executive wealth. Their morality is lower than that of Standard Oil in the good ole days of David D, and that is very goddamn low.
Sony's root kit deal was small potatoes compared to MS who's execs get hard every time they hear the tree magic words "Extend", "Extinguish" and "Exterminate". Before you try it, no they have not changed a bit as Windows 10 proves very well.
I have never owned an XBox, and will never own one. I have owned PS2, PS3, and PS4 and will continue down that path. While some of that is a personal boycott against MS, at least as much relates to the durability of the PlayStation. I know plenty of people that have had XBoxes break from normal to heavy use. I have never seen a PlayStation break down from being used, and ours gets abused regularly. The PS4 is on regularly, but I still have my PS2 and PS3 and both still work like new.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.