After months of leaks, rumors and YouTube unboxing videos of consoles that hadn't even been announced yet, Sony finally made us privy to the future of PlayStation this week. On November 10, the PS4 Pro will come out, sporting enhanced graphical capabilities and support for 4K and HDR-enabled TVs.But the past week hasn't been entirely positive for PlayStation. For the first time since the PS4 launched in 2013, it's starting to really seem like the resurgent Xbox One might soon be the better option for would-be console owners. Here's why:SEE ALSO:Super Mario probably isn't coming to VR anytime soonPS4 Pro seems, quite frankly, underwhelmingWhile the game demos that Sony showed during the PS4 Pro reveal event certainly looked nice, it isn't immediately clear how it's worth the $100 price hike over the standard PS4.Unreleased games like "Horizon: Zero Dawn" and existing games like "Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor" looked only a bit better than they've always looked. It's certainly not the jump you see when you go from a console to a powerful gaming PC.To be completely fair, much of the appeal of this console is going to be support for 4K and HDR on newer TVs. Neither of those featuresshow very well in an internet stream.Still, the PS4 Pro feels a bit half-baked right now. For instance, the major selling point is 4K support, but it won't play 4K Blu-Ray discs, opting instead to exclusively support 4K streaming. The cheapest model of the Xbox Onecan play those discs.That might seem insignificant, but the name of the console is PS4Pro. It's for people who are willing to pay a premium for all the bells and whistles. For it to lack features supported by the cheaper competition is disappointing.It looks like the new Xbox One could be much more powerful than PS4 ProTechnical specs for consoles that aren't out yet can be a bit shaky. Things change over time and it's tough to directly compare two systems until they're both in our hands.Still, based on industry scuttlebutt, it seems like Project Scorpio (the upgraded Xbox One) will have a decent power advantage over PS4 Pro when it comes out next year. If someone has held off on buying a console for this long, why should they buy the PS4 Pro now when they can get something more powerful in a year'At the very least, it's difficult to recommend that someone buy a PS4 Pro until we at least know more about Project Scorpio. Heck, maybe the PS4 Pro 2.0 will come out next year and blow Project Scorpio out of the water.Regardless of how the two compare, this is a bad direction for consoles to go inBut let's say thereis a more powerful PS4 revision again in a year or two. Is that really how we want console gaming to work'Aside from price, the main appeal of playing games on a console instead of a gaming PC is uniformity. Until now, anyone with a console would have the same experience with games as everyone else with that console.You buy a console and it's guaranteed to play every game that comes out for it until the next one comes out.All PS4 games will still work with all PS4 consoles, and the same is true of the Xbox One. But if a game looks and runs significantly worse on the base console while being fine on the enhanced machines, that's a bit of a raw deal.On the other hand, if the differences aren't especially noticeable between versions, it's tough to understand why this exists at all. It's a precarious balance.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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