Hi All
This is not my usual section, so please be gentle.
A quick background, if you will bear with me.
I am, lets say middle aged, (more like 2/3 aged), I don't play games, I am not a gamer, I know almost zilch about modern consoles.
HOWEVER, years ago I bought my young at the time sons a brand new N64. They loved it, I thought MEH!
Bought them lots of games as time went on. Weirdly I started playing one called Banjo Kazooie, and I swear I didn't put it down for a month!
No interest in anything else until I started hanging out for Banjo Tooie. Again hooked until I finished it. Many allnighters.
Years later, I heard about Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts, so I went straight and bought a XBox 360 and the game (utter crap).
I never played a single game, but my now older boys loved the Xbox and many games over the following years.
However I HATE those stupid FPS kill everything and everyone in sight games, so no interest whatsoever.
Cut to now, about 2 years ago I heard about a Kickstarter fund for a new game Yooka Laylee, by the same design team as BK & BT from Rareware.
So ponied up my $200 for the game and a bunch of goodies. The Kickstarter was a massive success and now it is coming to the pointy end and I need to make a call.
As part of my package I will get a PC version of the game (curious but probably will never use it, BUT I need to decide on a console format.
My dilemma is this. My boys have grown and moved on, so they aren't really into new console games that much any more, so no advice from them.
So, I guess my question is, What is the best console to get, XBone or PS4, and which model of those is the best to get.
Remember I am starting from a base of near zero knowledge about these and will probably not use it for many other games (unless one of my boys gets interested again) but will use some of the other features.
I realize it's subjective, but I haven't kept up with developments so don't know what features I should look out for. Will be playing on a 10 year old (but good) panasonic 40" plasma, or a 4 year old middling 50" lg.
Gut feel is towards a XBone, because I think the older 360 games will run on it? but I want future proof as much as possible. Is there a new wiz-bang model coming soon I should wait for? Elite model ? SSd model"?
Price guide? Best place to buy? (not a great fan of EB Games, but if that is how it has to be!)
Any advice / guidance is much appreciated.
Wolfy