When I'm tired and sick of my Xbox 360 I'll still be getting the Xbox One even though it's more expensive. PS4 is going to have a live online membership just like the Xbox Live Gold Membership even around the same price. If you want to game online with other players, you're going to have to get that. However, it's fair to say that Xbox's servers are about a 1000 times better than the PS4 servers. The game servers of EA and Origin are absolute trash. (I have owned a PS and an Xbox so I can say this without being biased)
Also, in my experience, Sony will probably backflip and do the same thing as Microsoft is doing with the required 24 hours online thingy.
Also the Xbox Controller > PS controller.
It's really embarrassing to see all the backlash towards Microsoft and Xbox on here.. The 24 hour online thing for example is obviously something completely normal since we all have laptops and computers at home and since most of us are online most of the day may it be on your laptop browsing through SYG on ATRL or sitting in the living room tweeting on your phone thanks to your home connection's wi-fi. Plus most of the people who already only play online always need to be connected to the internet as well. Unless your internet connection at home sucks, then you do not have a reason to complain.
Some of y'all do too much. Xbox for teh win.