..but if he's mainly interested in specs and a great online experience,
Online experience is the same on both consoles. Give me a break. This "online experience" nonsense was true back on 360 compared to the PS3 but nowadays there's no difference. BOTH have party chat, messaging, streaming/recording, matchmaking and other things that are identical. What can you do online that makes the experience so much better on Xbox One X that you CAN'T do on PS4?
OP, consider the fact that even if you were to get it for $250 which isn't a bad deal at all, after it's all said and done you STILL won't get those exclusive games you wanted to play on Xbox.
That's the whole irony of this, posters saying "oh but the best multi-plats are on *long list of 3rd party games*" doesn't mean anything. Those games are on PS4 also and let's be honest, there aren't night and day differences between the versions. There's no actual
game content differences, no Xbox 1 X exclusive content.
Some games may look a little clearer on Xbox 1 X and some look hardly any different unless you pause, zoom in and compare some distant foliage or aliasing.
You'll give up
Spider-Man, God of War, Uncharted 4, Bloodborne, TLOU Part II, Death Stranding, Horizon Zero Dawn, Detroit, Until Dawn, PSVR, SOTC, TLG, Ratchet and Clank and a few other worthy exclusives all because there's some games on Xbox that are
somewhat clearer?
Example from a upcoming game(RE2 Remake)
- Both Pro and XBX running at 1620p with elements of reconstruction on both.
It's not even native 4K on the X1X or Pro(running at same resolution actually) yet this "better multiplats" narrative is spread around online as if it's just 100% 4K/60fps on every X1X game.
Heck, even in this instance there's (from the demo) problems on the X1X version that makes it look blurry. To further drive the point home, look at the PS4 Pro vs PC version comparison? Image quality looks hardly different, what do you think the X1X version will look like? It won't look BETTER than the PC version.
tl;dr get a PS4 Pro and get ALL the games, multiplats included instead of getting the X under the guise of better multiplats and not having access to the things that matters most:Games.
Unless you don't care about
any of the PS4 exclusives at all get the Xbox.
