Which new-gen console is more durable? Which can fall from a place high enough to kill a man and keep ticking? This is certainly one way to find out. Oh, and loser gets chainsawed in half.
Wiredās Battle Damage segment subjected the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles to an endless torrent of torment. Or at least, they decided to drop both of them from increasingly high places until they stopped working. First to let out a final, defeated screech was declared the loserā¦ and summarily chainsawed in half.
Unfortunately, after a 15 ft drop the PS4āor rather, a jagged box of shrapnel that once called itself a PS4āwouldnāt even turn on. The Xbox, despite missing sizable chunks of its boxy frame, continued to work like a charm.
We can only draw one conclusion from this: The Xbox One is INDESTRUCTIBLE. Dying after a 15 foot fall? Totally forgivable. I could probably be killed by a particularly nasty fall from that height, so I canāt hold it against the PlayStation 4. Xbox One, however, was like, āGravity? What even is that. Iām a box of machine parts so I literally do not know. Wanna play some games? Yeah wheeee letās play some games! Games, yeah, games!ā
Which, of course, brings us to the PS4ās cruel posthumous fate:
Not gonna lie: watching these machines fall and shatter and try their damndest to keep on working made me a little sad. Same with the PS4ās brutal execution. I honestly donāt have any particular affinity for either machine, but thereās just something heartbreakingāin a weirdly human wayāabout seeing them helplessly clatter to the ground. Even earlier, when talking about the Xbox, I couldnāt help but personify the hell out of it. Maybe I care more than I think about these boxes that have taken me to so many far away lands.
Related: Iām gonna go buy a bunch of pillows to put under the table where I currently keep my PS4. You know, just in case.
