PlayStation 4′s reveal was big, but I’m still on the fence

Here Steph, let me push you over the fence. If you buy a PS4, I’ll let you watch me do the Carlton in my underwear.

I’m easily sold. Just preordered one.

Primarily for the Naughty Dog games I know will be released in the future.

Same here…
I will buy it but not on the release date…I think.
There was nothing that would shock me…
PS4 is a huge powerhourse that won’t be fully unlocked till it’s 3rd or 4th year…
It will be the same thing as with VITA, amazing platform and lack of games.
OK all titles will be released on PS3 and PS4 but… I won’t spend couple of hundred pounds to get better resolution if gameplay is the same.
And why….WHY….do they focus on social interactions and those stupid movie recordings? It should be a console not FACEBOOKSOLE……!!!!!

I’m sold.

Same feeling.
Nothing spectacular. No killer apps, nothing really that sells a system. Graphics were okay.

I liked MM demo a lot, I don’t know if this is a game or not it was great and inFamous announcement was good for the fans.

But… I’m on the fence. My biggest issue was Final Fantasy devs. They showed old demo that everyone knows about and then was announcement of announcement of a new FF game that everyone knew that it is coming in the near future.

P.S. Blizzard on the stage was cool too until they said that they are going to bring Diablo III port…

Microsoft… do something.

Microsoft are going to have to work hard to impress me now.

I assume Microsoft will support used games as well? That would be a monumental disaster if they didn’t. ;P

“Is this just a glorified social networking machine or a true gaming console?”

Come on, Stephany. This is a ridiculous question to ask, you should’ve left this out of your piece. I agree with you about not being overly excited in regard to the “share” aspect of the ps4, it doesn’t float my boat, but the whole night was about game developers. Making it a point time and time again to mention Sony designed PS4 with them in mind, specifically.

I would’ve loved to see the touch pad in action, I would’ve loved it even more to see the actual console, but Sony can’t show up to E3 with a presser full of old news. Especially when Microsoft’s next console will be there in full force.

Judging by PS4′s combined first part and third party dev of new and interesting games this past gen, they more then any other console manufacturer make consoles for gamers. The NYC press conference compounded that fact. IMO, anyway

I’m still on the fence for this, too.

There wasn’t a single thing there that screamed ‘must buy’. No game changer.

So I’m going to put this one down to bad timing on Sony’s part, and expect much, much more from E3.

” While I’m not too fond of the “sharing” aspect of the console, I hope we won’t have to use those features if we don’t wish to.”

Heh, yeah. I think it’s ironic how they’re always saying that the gamer is changing and this is what we want now, but… it’s just something they’re making up, isn’t it? I don’t know any gamers in real life who are interested in this stuff. The gamers I know don’t really want to be connected and share their experiences.

I’m not too impressed by the tech stuff either. It doesn’t seem a generation ahead. Unless the Wii U is what you’re comparing it to.

Glad to see Sony learned from some of their past mistakes, especially when it comes to platform-dev relations. Should see far fewer PC-to-Console exclusives. Cannot wait to play The Witcher 3.

Good article Stephany, I fully endorse it. I was just talking about the PS4 revelation with my father and we shared the same mixed opinion. Of course this meeting wasn’t that bad: I am really excited to see what Sony will bring to the table in the upcoming months up until the day the console will be released to the masses. I cannot wait to see what Capcom is brewing with the new engine (the tech demo the showed had a strange Dragon’s Dogma-ish feeling surrounding it) and to hear more about the Witness. Also, I found the floating old man’s head of the quantic dream’s target render to be quite surreal: the new engine looks indeed solid but I think that they need to improve the hair rendering (which didn’t looked that impressive to me).

Thanks for the read. I agree that this was indeed a move to beat MS to the punch.

Good:
1. Sony actually managed to NOT screw up (No major Giant Enemy Crab, 599 or RIIIIIIIIDGE Racer)
2. Showing long gameplay demo during console announcement.
3. Focusing on a lot of DEVELOPERS
4. The Witness demo + MM video thingy
5. TEH Graphixz

Bad:
1. Not a single megaton or WOW moment
2. Killzone SF’s gameplay looked kinda boring.
3. No humor or creativity during the show
4. Knack’s art direction & awkward presentation
5. Too much useless talk

“When Blizzard’s Chris Metzen took the stage, I heard at least three different people in the room shout out “StarCraft Ghost”.”

I really wanted to see THAT!! and then, the Diablo music played. They did mention in an appearance after the conference that the control for D3 PS would be using the controller to move the characters (there would be no effectively clicking to move characters), and they talked about how they’d put a lot of time into a controller friendly UI. D3 PS will be the PC version, patched up, and they’re exploring how to bring new/console players up-to-date with the plot.

Btw, interested in the Drive Club. I hope it is a spiritual successor to the Test Drive Unlimited series.

I know I say that too much, but I’m so worried about the Camera. Everything else is…. I don’t know. I don’t care about the Social Stuff, but when its there and I can just ignore it, thats fine for me. Most People want that kind of stuff, and Sony can’t make a Console for a Minority like me, that would be insane.
But when all the Time something pops up and remind me of that Social thing, and that there and what else, it will piss me off. It really depends on how its made and if I can just shut that all down.

When it comes to Games, they don’t really show something to get me hyped. But I have more than enough faith in ND and co., so I’m sure there will be a lot of Great Games, sooner or later.

But for now… well, its strange, I’m not starving for it, and I don’t really care when I can have that PS4. I can wait, and depending on what Infos will come, I can just not buy that thing and still be happy.

Good article, don’t agree with a lot of it but still worth a read

Just ask Pat if you can work some overtime Steph.

I’m primarily a PC gamer whos still looking at getting a PS3 hopefully at the next price cut, for the PS3 exclusives, Red Dead: Redemption and SSX.

Sony’s press conference last night totally sold me. I’ll keep playing FPS’s and multiplatform games on PC, but the PS4. *Drewls* So many possibilities.

I hope that Microsoft will shake the industry or STEAMBOX. Steeeeeeeeeeam bawks.

@15: Drive Club looked VERY interesting, and I have amassed belief from past games of theirs that Evolution are good for what they say. The way they folded the racing experience in to other elements, and it seemed seamless. If that occurs in the game that will be fantastic – this demo was a highlight of the conference. Straightforward, connected and creative! So I will be interested to see new ways of looking at existing concepts like that, from other developers and publishers.

What’s even more surprising, is that we’ve been shown a controller packed with more features than a Swiss army knife, but not a single one of them was demo’d.

If they were holding back the console box to focus on the controller, then maybe they should have at least tried to show us why we should want one.

What does the touchpad do, Sony!?

They’ve got to hold some stuff back for E3 when they’re on after microsoft.

So we’ve still got full reveal and games from Naughty Dog etc and a price I’m guessing in June. Couldn’t give too much away now.

ArcticMonkey pretty much nailed it. Sony teased us for next-gen and instantly every developer is now allowed to show off and talk about their upcoming games. We could see in the bizarre Destiny ViDoc what a pain it was not to speak about next gen. It’s still early in the year and next on stage will be Microsoft. Eagerly waiting for their annoncement.

I assume the big stuff will come at E3.

Last night was more of a confirmation that PS4 is real and a glimpse at the future of Playstation.

I’m not on the fence in regard to getting one – I’m onboard. I did however find the conference to be pretty snoreworthy. An hour would have been plenty if the fat was trimmed.

Hopefully some ‘must have’ wow moments coming for E3….

yup not too many wow factors, but I am sold cause I just know those share buttons are an OS layer thingy, meaning it’s up to devs to use it or not. I think pressing the share button is simply going to open up a “share your score on fb ” or something like that, so basiclly it’s up to you the dev to implement it and at the end the player to use it, i don’t see how it will really “keep you on the fence”.
lack of concrete info was a downer really, but see Sony knows microsoft will jump back after this and pump $ into making there E3 thingy big and so they need to keep something for laters, and that’s when (i believe) sony will bring,
a- the actual box,
b-naughty dog
c-sony studio’s next game
d-singularity.
Also the way ps3 is structured porting existing tech to it wont be a Pain in the proverbial ass, like with ps3. So yeah most of the devs might actually not have something to show right now but they should be able to get stuff up really fast..

“Is this just a glorified social networking machine or a true gaming console?”

I found the presentation completely hardcore-gamer oriented. I foresee the XBox presentation will be much more on the “conquer the living room” side, with a lot of media center, skype, remote-control your TV through kinect 2.0, Smart-Glass features, etc. Heck, you just need to see the Dashboard to convice yourself of the direction Microsoft is following.

For me the near (and sad) future is going to be a fight between Apple and Microsoft, both coming from different sources (casual stylish vs hardcore), but both wanting to appeal to the mass market, casual, TV-with-services oriented crowd.

The only third player with options imho would be a union between NVidia + Steam + Android, ala Project Shield meets Steam Box (not just Steam), but much better accomplished.

And I don’t see neither Sony nor Nintendo with a significant market share there.

I think jouno and people, like always were expecting too much.
Really? Does it matter if they did or didn’t show the “black box” (its black, and rectangle and is curvy, you heard it here first). Ok, it matters, but not as much as its made out to be.
I really think Sony did a great job here (8.5 on Dragon Scale), they just held back enough aces for future shows, there is E3 , Gamescom and TGS still to come, for Christs sake. They showed just enough number of first party games, so that they could provide a constant stream of games well after the launch (wiiu fails horribly here).
Next FF, maybe MG, and some other blockbusters at E3 and beyond? Colour be very very excited.

“Is this just a glorified social networking machine or a true gaming console? ”
Completely disagree. When you see a conference where more than 3/4th of the time is spent on showing games, wowing indies and so on, you know this statement is a erroneous to ask, as its a gamers console, first and foremost.
I will agree that some talk just wont make it at launch, but hey, press conferences are all about hype.
What I am a bit disappointed about is lack of Vita show, but they told more info will come soon later this year, so I am fine.

I really wanted to see a box. I want to see how much HDMI ports will be in it. Haha.

Yeah, box matters. Because by the end of the day you are going to buy it (If you are interested in it ofc)

Stephany Nunneley impressions absolutely do not matter, because i dont trust so-called games journalists who lie people, not very familiar with the game industry, inventing imaginary PC ports. This article is a waste of time for everyone

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@32 Obviously not trolling at all..

@32 wow I think you crossed the line on that one, do you have evidence on the lies and not being familiar with the game industry?

I’ve been following this site for two years and I think all the journos here are rather honest

It’s time that loki was banned. He’s never posted a single comment that isnt just provocative trolling.

Yes, where’s the banhammer people?

Loki is more than a troll, he is a cunt.

I was disappointed by the lack of any new, really exciting games, but I think Sony’s got a good start on the next-gen race. Hopefully we’ll hear more before E3, that’s a bit long to wait…

Great rundown Steph. It pretty much sums up how I feel.

The fact that they’ll be focusing on services like social etc. is actually comforting. The thing that turns me off the most about consoles right now is just how old fashioned they are.

It’s like they’ve never seen an iPhone or a modern PC program. Hopefully this time you’ll get more for your subscription.

I thought another really great thing was the idea of Gaikai x PlayStation Store, or its equivalent, particularly to lead to a situation where you get to try EVERYTHING. If you like it, you can buy it. You need not download the full demo to begin playing. That’s brilliant!

“Perry said that users should be allowed to “instantly experience anything that you want”, and “try for free, and pay only for games you fall in love with”. http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/what-gaikai-brings-to-the-playstation-4/

I like what I’ve seen so far. That’s about what I can say for now.

Oh, and the controller is awesome.

Only 3 things holding it back now then.

Revealing the actual console, more games (preferably new ip) and pricing.

Like I say I’ve already pre ordered but I hope and assume that these will all be addressed soon.

Don’t worry Steph I have a feeling you’ll be off that fence come E3

It is a slightly soulless feature here. I don’t get the point of it. It is quite common to read things like this. Thousands of articles with the same theme “I’m not impressed”.
People tend to expect too much. The console wasn’t shown ? perhaps its look and design is not finalized and set in stone yet. It is nothing worth worrying or even mentioning. Several titles were shown and tech demos were at hand to showcase console’s poweress. It is logical and acceptable. If sony showed and revealed everything now,the console would lose momentum till launch. a journalist should know that. You were expecting real time game play of 25 titles in their final development stages ?

I think Sony did things 95% right.
They showed the tech and they showed the will to push forward.
Few analyzed what Killzone and Infamous meant.
Sony could have just put a 4 and a 3 after the name of the IP, but they didn’t so that they can use the universe people love but still refresh it.
The tech is right for a next gen console.
It’s not an high end PC but that’s not what a console gamer wants or can afford.
The social aspect, I don’t like it but it will be optional for sure.
Also Sony showed the support of devs; CDProjektRed, Blizzard and Bungie are big news because they didn’t developed for a Sony hardware lately.
And they now have buzz, they stopped some people to buy a WiiU and wait, they tackled MS and they will have loads of press until MS presents the new hardware.

“Sony could have just put a 4 and a 3 after the name of the IP, but they didn’t so that they can use the universe people love but still refresh it”

what was the difference between Killzone 3 and Killzone Shadow Fall in terms of gameplay? Hmm?

@46 I make your words mine! Was going to write a comment but you stole what I was going to say

@47
All of the gameplay, absolutely all of it, was captured in the small segment they showed. There is no more, that is it.

@46
“Sony could have just put a 4 and a 3 after the name of the IP, but they didn’t so that they can use the universe people love but still refresh it”

That was a good point. Even old IP wasn’t just a flat sequel. It allows them a fair bit more freedom in approach. They have to prove they have used it at some point, but it’s good that they have taken this approach.

@45 Malarkey.

The point was to reveal the console. The console wasn’t exactly revealed. If it was just to let us know that the console will be revealed soon, that just serves to make it an anti-climax.

Of course they’d be able to detail it and still keep momentum up until launch. They have a metric fuckton of games and features to showcase. That’s what they have a PR department for, no?

Why wouldn’t someone be on the fence? They don’t know what they’re buying at this point.

I just wish they would’ve shown more gameplay material instead of just talking how unbelievable the stuff is that they haven’t showed us yet. Apart from Second Son there is nothing that would make me buy the system at this point.