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arcaneguyver on 12 July 2016

The PlayStation branch mismanaged the Vita completely, and their 1st party offerings are often too cinematic or talky for their own good. (Specifically I remember wishing narrators in both Puppeteer and LBP3 would just shut up and let me play at times.) I wish their quality control was stricter for 3rd party. Also, much like the Vita, they simply don't advertise their non-tentpole games enough. The PSN storefront is a mess on all platforms, and OS updates are infrequent and rarely add anything of real utility. Also, they're guilty of gouging consumers a bit with online play gated behind PS+ and those damned Vita memory cards.

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Oh, yeah, and they sold their fucking mascot to Activision. There is no clear 'face' of the PlayStation, at least outside Japan.



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IkePoR on 12 July 2016

Vita Vita Vita. Where to start? How about where we'll stop - memory cards. Sony can fuck right off with how they handled them. Straight up sabotaged Vita with it's own tomfuckery.



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Kresnik on 12 July 2016
arcaneguyver said:

Oh, yeah, and they sold their fucking mascot to Activision. There is no clear 'face' of the PlayStation, at least outside Japan.

To have sold it, they'd have to have owned it in the first place, which they never have.

foodfather said:

But what they did to Ghostbusters is unfathomable. Doubt I will ever buy a Sony product ever again.

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OT: Disregarding Vita as a product after less than 12 months on the market.  To be honest, moving from fad to fad and never committing to any of them in the gaming space.



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Boberkun on 12 July 2016
hershel_layton said:

My biggest issues with Sony are:

No games. Paid online. 



iTzCharlie on 12 July 2016

Fanbase



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HylianYoshi on 12 July 2016
arcaneguyver said:
The PlayStation branch mismanaged the Vita completely, and their 1st party offerings are often too cinematic or talky for their own good. (Specifically I remember wishing narrators in both Puppeteer and LBP3 would just shut up and let me play at times.) I wish their quality control was stricter for 3rd party. Also, much like the Vita, they simply don't advertise their non-tentpole games enough. The PSN storefront is a mess on all platforms, and OS updates are infrequent and rarely add anything of real utility. Also, they're guilty of gouging consumers a bit with online play gated behind PS+ and those damned Vita memory cards.

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Oh, yeah, and they sold their fucking mascot to Activision. There is no clear 'face' of the PlayStation, at least outside Japan.

No, they didn't. Sony never had complete control over Crash. He was always owned by Vivendi Universal, they just had a publishing/developing deal with them. When that deal ended, Crash went multiplatform, and later on Vivendi Universal and Activision merged. So Crash was never sold to anybody.



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Darwinianevolution on 12 July 2016

PS + mandatory for online multiplayer. Take that away and I would buy a PS4 Slim.



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Mr.GameCrazy on 12 July 2016
Darwinianevolution said:
PS + mandatory for online multiplayer. Take that away and I would buy a PS4 Slim.

Yeah, I don't like that either. I wish it was optional for online MP like it was for the Vita and PS3.



Barkley on 12 July 2016

No Wipeout. T_T

Home menu on ps4 needs updating, you can't pin games to it, you can't remove games from it, you can't set a limit other than (15) or (unlimited).

Would like the ability to change my psn profile name.

PSN could do with an upgrade as regards to download speed.



pokoko on 12 July 2016

1. I had PS+ back before it was needed for multi-player. I'm fine with the concept but only if it offers value. Unfortunately, that value has declined a lot and I cancelled.

2. Playstation needs more kid-focused games. This is part of the reason the Vita crashed.

3. They need to step in and get some first party developers back into check. I know World Wide is a loose umbrella, where different studios have a lot of control over their own work, but some clearly need more guidance. Polyphony comes to mind. I think they're working on Japan Studio, however.