I've never advocated early adoption. And in this generation especially all of the potential benefits to early adoption were wiped out by the stingy design of either box.
However, I allowed myself to be suckered into buying a PS4. Partially because I felt it was an inevitability and partially because my brother agreed to go halves on it with me.
But goddamn have I been disappointed. There's nothing wrong with it per say, but I've got bugger all to do with it. Of my three very expensive games two of them are utter rubbish.
I couldn't imagine a game more disappointing than Watchdogs. Never before has a game's totally unengaging story made me want to avoid playing it so much. UFC is a huge step backwards from the THQ days. And Infamous is a pretty, but ultimately very standard, bit of sandbox fluff.
And that's it. I've spent £600 ($900) and had little more than a handful of days worth of gaming out of the box. It doesn't do Youtube so it never gets used for random internet surfing. It offers absolutely no useful new features that I've come across and is actually deficient in several areas compared to both my PS3 and my 360. I only have two blu rays both of which I'd watched to death before owning them on Blu Ray, so I've never even tested out the Blu Ray player.
I was all geared up for getting Destiny on there but having played the Beta on both PS4 and 360 there's hardly any bloody difference and I've got way more friends on 360 than I do on PS4 so I can't help but think that I'll be better off buying the technically worse version.
And the Playstation store is infuriating. Deals are only available to you if you buy Plus and anything free that they give you is only free so long as you keep paying for plus. And that might be all well and good, but I can't justify paying money for something which I am at the moment never using, because the games I have are shit. But I'm certainly not going to buy a game for full price when there's something there saying that I could get it cheaper, if I spent more money...?!
I want to get NBA 2K14. But it's £40 on the store whereas I could get it for 360 for £20 and I know I'd get just as much enjoyment out of playing it on the 360.
This isn't an attack on Sony or the PS4. I know that I'd be far more pissed off right now if I'd bought an XBone. But it's just a general sense of "Meh". £600 worth of "Meh" that I'm constantly trying to find reasons for switching on. And I know that plenty of people who have bought Indie games on the PSN are getting lots of play out of their box. But that's not why I bought an expensive console and to be honest having done so I can't really afford to buy any games anyway.
Fittingly the "Prove your humanity" box for this post is asking me to write the phrase "Hissy fit".
However, I allowed myself to be suckered into buying a PS4. Partially because I felt it was an inevitability and partially because my brother agreed to go halves on it with me.
But goddamn have I been disappointed. There's nothing wrong with it per say, but I've got bugger all to do with it. Of my three very expensive games two of them are utter rubbish.
I couldn't imagine a game more disappointing than Watchdogs. Never before has a game's totally unengaging story made me want to avoid playing it so much. UFC is a huge step backwards from the THQ days. And Infamous is a pretty, but ultimately very standard, bit of sandbox fluff.
And that's it. I've spent £600 ($900) and had little more than a handful of days worth of gaming out of the box. It doesn't do Youtube so it never gets used for random internet surfing. It offers absolutely no useful new features that I've come across and is actually deficient in several areas compared to both my PS3 and my 360. I only have two blu rays both of which I'd watched to death before owning them on Blu Ray, so I've never even tested out the Blu Ray player.
I was all geared up for getting Destiny on there but having played the Beta on both PS4 and 360 there's hardly any bloody difference and I've got way more friends on 360 than I do on PS4 so I can't help but think that I'll be better off buying the technically worse version.
And the Playstation store is infuriating. Deals are only available to you if you buy Plus and anything free that they give you is only free so long as you keep paying for plus. And that might be all well and good, but I can't justify paying money for something which I am at the moment never using, because the games I have are shit. But I'm certainly not going to buy a game for full price when there's something there saying that I could get it cheaper, if I spent more money...?!
I want to get NBA 2K14. But it's £40 on the store whereas I could get it for 360 for £20 and I know I'd get just as much enjoyment out of playing it on the 360.
This isn't an attack on Sony or the PS4. I know that I'd be far more pissed off right now if I'd bought an XBone. But it's just a general sense of "Meh". £600 worth of "Meh" that I'm constantly trying to find reasons for switching on. And I know that plenty of people who have bought Indie games on the PSN are getting lots of play out of their box. But that's not why I bought an expensive console and to be honest having done so I can't really afford to buy any games anyway.
Fittingly the "Prove your humanity" box for this post is asking me to write the phrase "Hissy fit".
But yeah, I'd say the new consoles were released a year(maybe even 2 years) too early. New-gen games take a long ass time to make so Sony could have better coordinated with developers as to when a proper supply of games would be finished before they released the PS4. It has some OK games as of now, but its still basically a hefty paper weight. This fall hopefully that will change a bit for the better.
