I go away for 1 weekend and this what happens in here?
End of the day buy whatever you want, but you cannot ignore the fact that X1 specs are inferior to the PS4 and I would be tight I paid that intro to have M$ cut the prices the way they did. Which in my mind is a desperation move because they have been killed in sales every month since they dropped. I owned PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox, & 360, and I won't lie and say that I will not own a X1 too eventually because I know that I will, but the better buy is PS4. Sure you can say you have better game, but Xbox has always been more about the interaction and groups and PS has been more about the game and single player types.
You figure
Halo, Gears of War, Forza, and a couple other exclusives vs.
Metal Gear Solid, God of War, Gran Tourismo, Infamous, Last of Us
You can clearly see the difference in the type of games as far as exclusives go, so you really cannot compare. You say that we finally got party chat, but PS users could say that MS guys finally got to use a Blu-ray player in 2013/2014 in their systems. Didn't look into it because I really don't care, but can X1 systems plug in a HDD and play movies/music off of them? I know the PS3 could and most if not all of that functionality is back in the PS4 or being addressed in updates as they come out.
The PS v MS debate can go on for eternity and still be no where further in the debate than as far as it is now...which is nowhere
Finally on the barrage of clips of the X1 player playing....anyone decent that plays enough will get these clips. Your clips are either you getting the kills 2v1 with your teammate assisting in helping killing them as well, or you "slide + shotgun/punch" people. We can record games and clips as well. Is it as easy as X1, probably not, but we can do it and it really proves nothing in this debate. But we can go to the numbers and see who is who among Crucible/PvP players in this thread.