Re: Xbox One/PS4-anyone buying into another console generati
PS3 was a passing fancy for some adults who were more enthusiastic about it than the kids they bought it for, but kids around here jumped wholehearted into Xbox 360 for the bulk of their online gaming experience and connectivity (my kids still go outside to play, but most of their friends don't). They either play together online, or rove from house to house as each parent lets them play for an hour and kicks them out again. The Xbox Kinect was a Christmas diversion and occasional dance-off spawned by over enthusiastic parents. Otherwise it collects dust. No kid would get caught dead letting their parents hear them communicate out loud with the Kinect, headphones and microphones are the thing. They could care less about voice and arm flailing commands.
The Wii was good for a bit while they were younger, and probably better in a house with girls, but around here, if you don't play COD Zombies or that horrid GTA series on an XBox360, then you don't play.
Amongst the 13-something boy crowd around here and my house, Xbox 360 is still the thing, almost no relative interest or knowledge of Xbox One, they haven't seen enough "progress" to understand why or if it is any better. The lack of backwards compatibility is a killer.
For some parents, including some "techies" like me that use Microsoft and OTA HD TV there was "some" promise of perhaps being able to convert to a nice integration of media and gaming, but really, Microsoft hasn't put any effort into figuring out how to cater to the Canadian media market. (And except for the hackneyed efforts of the cable industry, the whole VOD / Online Movie Rental scene is just RIPE for picking right now.)
Unless you're childless or a younger gaming fanatic parent, I don't think either system has that much exciting appeal. Maybe I'm too jaded now (but I do like console gaming).
I personally predict that neither platform will perform all that well in the marketplace.
