Why should you have to choose between the Xbox One and PS4 this holiday season, outside of financial and retail availability reasons? You don’t have to choose, and if you want you can even have them on and use them at the same time through a single HDMI output to your television.
Microsoft jokingly suggested a few months ago that it would be possible to play the*PS4 through the Xbox One. There’s not a technical reason that it shouldn’t work, after all. The Xbox One’s HDMI passthrough was designed so you could connect your cable box and pass that through to the television. Of course, the benefit there for Microsoft is that the Xbox One is always on, always ready for you to use, and always aware of how your use your television. If you’d rather your next generation consoles only take up one HDMI port on your television set, however, it requires no work at all.
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From this video, there’s no obvious downside to having your entertainment center set up like this. You have access to the picture in picture functionality of the Xbox One, and you’ll have access to all of the apps and services on the Xbox One while playing your favorite PS4 games. It should be very easy to use your voice to snap between the two consoles, and it’ll keep you connected to Xbox Live should any of your friends sign on to play a game with you.
This method does mean having both consoles on every time you want to play the PS4, which is a lot of unnecessary power usage if you’re settling in for a long PS4 gaming session, but if this is what you want in your life then
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