I think a lot of us don't understand the meaning of "competition"

[VanceIX]

Veknoid_Outcast said:

VanceIX said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:

I think that's more iteration than it is innovation.

Seeing as that almost every console in the last two generations was trying to tout other features instead of just core gaming (DVD! motion controls! blu-ray! kinect!), making a core game console with little focus on anything else is, in many ways, innovation for modern gaming.

OK, so let's set aside the fact that the PS4 is a multimedia machine, and is marketed as such.

Are you arguing that a console that retreats several generations into the past and embraces old ideas is innovative?

Compared to most of the consoles from the last few generations (with the exception of the Gamecube, perhaps), the PS4 has put MUCH less emphasis on multimedia. It plays blu-ray, but it dosen't advertise it nearly as much as the PS3 did. It does Netflix. Once again, not much advertisement. Sony's campaign and emphasis on the console this generation was almost purely on core gaming, with little emphasis on the other features. And I said it is innovative in modern gaming, as in it concentrates on pure, traditional gaming in an era in which manufacturers are increasingly wanting their hardware to be "jack-of-all-trades" and want to fundamentally change game controls in a different way every generation.