Was anybody else underwhelmed by the PS4 event?

[famousringo]

dharh said:

famousringo said:

dharh said:

What exactly would be daring to you? And what could they possibly do, daringly, that would add more to gaming than what they are already going to do?

The only interesting things happening in gaming right now are changing interfaces and changing distribution. Bolting a trackpad onto the dual shock is the lamest "innovation" in interface since Donkey Kong bongos. Making a full commitment to Move would have been more daring, designing something new would have been fantastic.

For distribution, they tease the cloud, but offer no details whatsoever on what it can do, what it can't do, or what the terms are. They just say that there will be games on it at some point. Nice to know. If they were really going to do something exciting, I think they'd be talking about it more, so I expect this to basically be Playstation OnLive. The are good reasons why OnLive collapsed. 

Well here it depends on your definition of good innovation. I think a trackpad is the next logical step that could greatly enhance additional controls. I also think that a touchscreen, like that on the WiiU gamepad, is quite possibly the most expensive blunder of a controller since the Atari Jaguar's  15+ button Controller. It just doesn't even make sense.

They could not make a _full_ commitment to Move without basically throwing nearly ALL their current gamers out the window. We _don't_ want the move as the primary controller. Instead they did the smartest move they could. They integrated some of the Move functionality to enhance the DS4 at next to no additional cost.

OnLive collapsed because of many things, almost none of which apply here. We know we will eventually get PS1/2/3 games on PSN/Gaikai. They did talk about it plenty, some people were just not paying attention. We will know more at E3. They only had 2 hours to talk.

The Nintendo DS was not a blunder. Wii U's gamepad isn't the freshest idea, but at least putting a gaming touchscreen in a more balanced form factor (longtime peeve of the DS which is even more apparent when motion controls were added to 3DS) that can move independently of the top screen opens up a few new possibilities.

I seriously have no idea what you're supposed to do with the DS4 touchpad. Touchpads are kludges fitted into laptops because mice are even more awkward in laptop use cases. Mount them in a device meant to be gripped with two hands rather than laid on a level surface and it gets even worse. They might as well have added an extra thumb stick. If you have gameplay ideas, I'd love to hear them.