Perhaps the most memorable E3 conference day of all time happened today. We’ll have a handy list of what we learned about the Xbox One, PS4, and other various sundry future game products up soon, but for now the single biggest news of the day: PS4 will not have any of the hated game restrictions of the Xbox One and will retail for a full $100 less at $399.99.
With a 500 GB HDD, a faster architecture than the Xbox One, no forced (or initially included) camera peripheral, huge indie support, the ability to share/sell used games, the ability to play offline indefinitely, and all of the long-standing benefits of PlayStation Plus (except that it’s now required to play multiplayer online *shrug*) the PS4 well and truly blew the Xbox One out of the water today, even considering the fact that the excellent-looking Titanfall from ex-Infinity Ward studio Respawn Entertainment is exclusive to the Xbox One and PC. Unless Microsoft seriously rethinks its life and does a complete 180 on its policies, we definitely know which console we’ll be buying first for the office.
Look forward to more E3 coverage tomorrow with Nintendo’s incoming Nintendo E3 Direct and Best Buy demo event on Wednesday which we will be attending.We’ll leave you with some high resolution looks at the final design for the PS4 system in its Xbone-killing glory:
