Alright I've seen some pretty bad articles being written about the PS4, with various complaints about the conference and potential functionality of the machine. Many of these may be legitimate gripes for some people, or just trolling. But this one from a Japanese newspaper, Nikkei, takes the cake.
The author provides a comparison between the PS4 and the Wii U. Sounds fair since they are both next generation devices. First, they don't get into technical details like number of cores or TFLOPS of processing power. The only mention is the maker of the CPU, and no mention at all of GPU. One technical spec they do get into, however, is the amount of memory the consoles have, something easy for the average person to grasp. The PS4 is listed as 8GB. The chart goes on to list the Wii U as 32GB and 8GB in two types.
...I'm sorry what?
Okay so maybe the author mixed up system memory with storage "memory". Even professionals might have a slipup right, even if it is a pretty ignorant one? And even if the wording can make it sound like 40GB total? The chart continues fairly accurately with BluRay and DVD on PS4, and proprietary optical media on Wii U, the fact that PS4 connects to external social media sites to share game content while Wii U utilizes its internal Miiverse.
Then we get down to the operability controls and they say the PS4 uses a facial recongnition camera to track users movements to play games. Wait... so they are basically saying it requires Kinect? Everyone already knows the Kinect is garbage, especially in anti-Xbox Japan, and now it's basically being associated with the PS4. There's no mention of any other control scheme. On the Wii U side they say on there is a touch screen on the controller that can be used to control games. Much different wording here, emphasizing possibility and choice.
Utter ignorance? Or just plain bias? Either way, this is a terrible comparison! I realize it is aimed at the average simpleton so I can understand not getting into minute technical details, but this is outright deceptive, and even the memory comparison isn't looking like a blunder anymore.
