Microsoft and Sony are set to change the world of electronic gaming at some point in November.

Both companies are introducing new gaming consoles. Sony plans to release the Playstation 4 (PS4) and Microsoft will debut the Xbox One.

Some of the prominent features for the Xbox One are voice recognition that will allow users to talk to the Xbox. Players can switch game views or go from the Xbox to T.V. The Xbox now connects to your cable box. Another great feature is the multi-tasking option. For example, fans  can now play Madden while also watching football on ESPN. According to Microsoft’s web site,  the Xbox One also has a built-in wifi receiver.

There is a history of intense competition between Playstation and Xbox. Some users prefer the Playstation eye because it does not cost an additional $100, as with the Xbox One. The Xbox system is $499 and the PS4 is $399. But one reason it is $100 is that it comes with the Kinect sensor, which is required for most of the features like voice recognition.

Freshman Ryan Marks does not believe the Kinect camera on the new Playstation justifies the high price. “I do not think an Xbox Kinect is worth $100,” he said.

Senior Paul Flowers is excited about the Xbox. “It will be cool to see how they design the new controllers,” he said.

According to a Youtube video posted by tech reviewer Unboxtherapy, some of the unique features on PS4 are that players can play previous PS3 games on the new console, which is not possible on Xbox One. PS4 also has a supercharged cpu card, which makes the memory of the game system much better. It also has an enhanced graphic card, which makes the games look more real than ever before. One of the biggest attractions of the PS4 is the new and greatly improved graphics.

Unboxtherapy maintains the PS4 is better because it doesn’t require the Playstation eye, which is exactly like the Xbox Kinect. With Xbox, the Kinect is required to operate the console.

Marks is excited about the new and improved PS4. “There are many great features, like the great graphics and the improvement in memory storage,” he said.

Flowers agrees with Marks. “I want to see how the playstation turns out with the new graphics,” he said.

Freshman Mitchell Penn is skeptical about the PS4. “I don’t think the Playstation will have better graphics than the Xbox One,” he said.

Penn believes the Xbox will be better.

“I am really excited about the multi-tasking on the screen. I am also excited because a lot of my friends are going to get the Xbox One.”

The biggest change for Microsoft is that  Xbox One is designed so users cannot play used games on the system. According to Xbox.com, some authorized retailers like GameStop will continue to sell used games, but if I wanted to bring a game to my friend’s house and play it on his Xbox One, I could not because you can only play one game on one console. This sucks for us, but makes Microsoft much more money by forcing us to buy that game.

Marks believes that PS4 will be better. “You can play previous console games, but you cannot on Xbox One; that is a much better feature,” he said.

Flowers and Penn disagree. They believe that Xbox One will be better than the PS4.

There are also many things similar about the two systems. One thing is that they will both have blu-ray disc players, which play videos without pausing and run games faster without glitching. They will also both have a 500 gigabyte (GB) hard drive which lets you store many more things on your console. Another great feature that is on both consoles is the ability to record game play. For example, if a player highlights a play in NBA 2k14, he could record it and it would save onto the system.

Even with all of the incredible new features, Flowers believes that Microsoft should have made more durable games. “I think the features that would be better on the Xbox would be to be able to read scratched discs better and to make more durable discs,” he said. Marks and Penn both agreed.

Gamers in Beachwood will be flocking to the stores this month for one of the new consoles.