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more welcome to a first for us this is our comprehensive image quality
comparison between five I don't have any handsfree but five different Platforms
in both Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag
and Battlefield 4 so we are going to be testing Xbox 360 to represent a last gen
console PlayStation 4 Xbox one as well
as an entry-level gaming PC so priced at around $550 worth of Parts including a
Windows operating system and a high-end PC representing around a probably about
a $1,500 to $1600 expenditure I want to
take a moment to walk you guys through our setup and how we're going to be
doing this so come on in first of all
down here we have our high-end PC running on a test bench it features a
GTX 780 and we've actually downclocked and jury rigged our 3960x to get
equivalent to 4770k Performance we've
got 32 gigs of RAM in there and SSD and it is just generally pretty beastly then
following up over here I've got an Xbox 360 I have a PlayStation 4 I'll try not
to to to wreck that I have an Xbox one
hiding over here in the corner and you can see the connect is actually living
on our entry level machine so this one
features an AMD um A8 5600k quad core
it's got only 4 gigs of RAM a Radeon
7770 graphics card and then a generic
power supply and a very entry-level case because we wanted to really reach a
price point that's more in line with the consoles than what the typical
perception of a gaming PC is which is that it's much much more expensive so
next up let's show you guys the setup that we use that will allow you guys to
download the full quality files at 30 megabit per second so you can actually
compare for yourselves so each one of
these platforms runs off of HDMI to an
hdcp compliant splitter right here so we've actually we have to swap them as
we go what this does is it strips out the hdcp protection that's on the
PlayStation 4 which allows us to capture it with the same degree of quality as
all the other ones so that then comes on over here all right so it's a able to
Output to our monitor there where we're actually playing the games and then to
an a media live gamer portable which is actually on the floor down there and you
can see slick is actually recording Battlefield 4 gameplay right now so then
what we're doing is we are archiving all of the footage all the test runs here
and we are going to make those available for you guys to
download while you guys are enjoying some gameplay footage I'm going to walk
through what I feel are the pros and cons of each of the platforms so we'll start with Xbox 360 they're cheap
they're about 150s on eBay and they come with a great controller still the
favorite of both me and Slick the problem with it is that while the games
run it's a miracle that they do it all because this is an 8-year-old platform I
mean they're full of jaggies and they look awful but I mean okay they're
running so if you're on a budget or you've already got the console and
visuals aren't important to you I guess it's a great option the only problem
that I have with it is that it doesn't feel like a good value I'm still
investing $60 a game into something that
I'll get to play in a way the developer never really intended it to be enjoyed
and that's not even going to be backwards compatible with my or that my
next console my new platform that I'm going to need anyway for upcoming games
isn't even going to be able to run I would have to Reby the game if I really
wanted to have the experience that the developer meant for me to have so that's
that's the only issue I have here it just feels like money that I continue to
invest in this platform is a bit of a waste next up we've got our low NPC the
pros for this is that it's 450 bucks without an OS or 550 bucks with an OS
that is smack in the price range of the next gen consoles not only that but the
functionality goes beyond gaming you can stream you can edit you can upgrade it
in the future if you do have additional funds available to you and it gives you
a lot of flexibility so you can adjust your graphical settings to for desired
performance so if you decide that detail settings are more important okay turn
down your res if you decide that resolution's more important you have
that ability to make decisions for yourself you can also get cheap
peripherals I mean when you compare the price of a PC webcam to something like
the PlayStation I it looks like a joke especially given that that PC webcam for
the sake of doing something like streaming on Twitch TV has exactly the
same functionality in terms of cons well there's no exclusive titles for it
that's uh that's for sure it doesn't include a controller unless you count the $20 that we budgeted for a keyboard
and mouse and this particular one doesn't have very high-end components so
I'm not sure if it'll last 8 years of heavy use the way that people would
expect from something like a gaming console it's also a PC but it doesn't
really have the horses for surround monitor gaming or some of the exciting
PC stuff that's coming like Oculus so I have to list that as a con for it as
well now in conclusion image quality was comparable to the next gen consoles with
a comparable price and this is the first time this has happened in a long time
we're used to new consoles launching with amazing hardware for the price and
the manufacturer is taking big losses on selling them but in 2013 you can
basically just build your own console killer PC for about the same price I
mean this is a great option if you don't care about the slightly better image
quality that you might get on the consoles or the exclusive titles next up
is our high-end PC and the pros of this are pretty easy it's very very fast with
great image quality the best available there's fantastic anti-aliasing
technology and better detail levels available with the horsepower to really
take advantage of them there's great functionality outside of gaming you can
do high-end video editing or other content creation and they're amazingly
upgradeable and flexible throw triple monitors at it racing seats with
surround monitors flexible game streaming is available to devices like
steam box in the future sure other PCS or even Android devices like NVIDIA
Shield the sky is pretty much the limit here in terms of flexibility on the
negative side it's expensive as all balls I mean high-end Hardware just
playing costs a lot of money and also just tends to have more issues than
mainstream stuff that is the the drawback of living on the bleeding edge
I mean a lot of the time it gets patched but you do have to live with it in the
meantime I guess the summary here is that none of that really matters because
you get to join the Glorious PC gaming Master race initia into which includes
procedures that make your penis larger if you're a man your breasts larger if
you're a woman and your beak stronger if you're a bird uh no but seriously it is
the best gaming experience so it's a great option if that's what you're after
it's just really expensive compared to everything else here next up we've got
the Xbox One the pros here are pretty uh complicated I mean there's the
additional functionality with the IR Blaster and cable box integration as
well as Microsoft Services there's the wife and kids appeal with silly connect
dancing games and I mean really to me connect being included really is a
selling point if you expect something like this to end up under the tree and
when you factor in the fact that Sony wants $60 for their inferior camera it
starts to look like not a bad value the fact that potentially Microsoft can
leverage their Cloud servers to deliver better gaming experiences in the future
is a really cool thing that I'm excited about and finally voice control is a
definite plus for this console in terms of the downsides the first one I've got
here is voice control you'll notice this was listed twice because while it's
really cool and it works we haven't really even gamed on the thing yet we've
only benchmarked it and it's already annoyed us a couple times by accidentally picking up our voices and
interrupting our gameplay I'm also not impressed with the controller the
joysticks feel a little loose and the rumble motor is loud and pathetically
weak and I mean there's also no support for things like live streaming on Twitch
this is the kind of thing that even Sony managed to figure out and obviously if
you're on a PC is extremely easy to do so there's a few things that Microsoft's
got to fix but at least a couple of those can be done in software in summary
unfortunately for gaming it's just playing technologically inferior to the
PS4 it's already running at 720p in new games albeit with similar detail
settings to the PlayStation 4 so from a distance the image quality might look
quite similar but we could really see the PlayStation 4 pull ahead in
Assassin's Creed 4 where it's running at 1080p the flexibility of the Xbox one as
an entertainment device could be a great value in the long run however so it's
going to be up to you whether or not this one's a great option and I think
it'll depend on whether you're going to use those features or not which leads us
to the PlayStation 4 the pros well first up more games run at 1080P or at least
higher resolutions with satisfyingly beautiful Graphics it's small and
relatively sexy compared to Xbox One in our estimation with just plain better
gaming Hardware inside and no gigantic power brick outside it's got higher
power consumption while gaming and idling but in standby it's actually much
better so we've got to give the nod to Sony here because let's face it a lot of
the time game consoles are sitting in standby now I'm not a huge dual shock
fan but it's defitely better than the Xbox One controller for me so I'm going
to points toy here in terms of cons well
it just doesn't really do much else yet so there's no IR Blaster no included
connect and I mean there's Sony just being Sony like the hdcp protection on
this console almost prevented us from making this video for you in a timely
fashion and they do weird stuff like build in Twitch TV streaming then limit
the quality and prevent you from archiving it so people can only watch
you live I mean it's it's better in terms of
Hardware but sometimes again Sony does weird stuff like in Battlefield 4 their
betterness was less noticeable because upsampling from 900p adds visual
anomalies that make it look kind of soft and weird so we we couldn't decide
really whether it was better to have 720p with jaggies or 900 900p with
visual softness and weirdness so I mean the summary I guess here is that the PS4
looks like a great device it's still not for me personally cuz I really can't
live without a keyboard and mouse but it's great bang for the buck game
hardware and from what we've seen here Sony's done a good job of delivering the
hardware that Gamers and developers want and hitting a very appealing price point
with it so overall conclusions now I
think many of you might have expected me to go rah R raw PC is the greatest in
this entire video but that's really not what we're trying to achieve we want you
to make up your own mind we're more than happy to give you our thoughts and if
you made it this far that's awesome but before you spend your money take a step
further and check the links in the video description we've uploaded sample
footage from each console to YouTube and provided links so you can download the
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