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Mbolibombo on 30 November 2015
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d21lewis said:
Post your thoughts on the system. I love that!


Granted I have only had the system hooked up for about 48 hours so my experience is rather limited. As the Wii U is my main gaming system right now I will compare those two a lot.

Positivies:

  • Lots of games. I mean there are tons of it, I have barely scratched the surface and while I browse I take a note of the game and add it to my list of games to explore when the time is right. 
  • Compared to the Wii U the hardware is extraordinary. Pretty happy that I got the 1TB edition since everything takes a ton of memory lol =)
  • Achievements. I was thinking about it before and have always been thinking it's a gimmick thing, granted I still think it's a gimmick but man am I enjoying that hah. 
  • Voicechat. I havnt really been playing any games where I have needed it but I have been missing it on the Wii U so I am still using it as a positive. 
  • The controller. I have played with it before but only limited time and at the time I wasnt a huge fan of it.. but as I continued to play with it it grew on me. Kind of like it now even though I still enjoy the Pro Controller for the Wii U more. Also where the hell is the R3 button? Some app asked me for it and I couldnt find it hehe.
  • Lots of stuff to explore.. Many applications.. Settings. God damnit I love settings!
Negatives
  • I think the PSN store is a bit messy. Much easier to explore the Nintendo E-Shop, but I guess once I get used to PSN it I will find it easier to use as well. It also lacks the awesome elevator music that is in the E-Shop.
  • Battery time on the Controller. While not really an issue (~8 hours of battery time is alot) when I am comparing it to the pro controller which has an 80 hour battery time it comes up short. I just have to get used to charge it after every sitting and it wont be a problem. With that said it's superior to the Gamepads 4 hour battery life.
  • One thing I really really miss is a list over how long an application have been running. on the 3DS and Wii U I can look up for ecactly how long I have played a game, watched youtube and so on. I hope they implement it at some point!
  • PSN is AWFULLY SLOW. I havnt had the chance to hook up an ethernet cable to the system so I am using WiFi and it's very very slow. I get about 0,3MBIT/s as a connection speed. All my other units hooked up on Wifi have proper speed (40MBIT/s). While I still always buy physical games it becomes an issue when I have to download gigabytes of patches to games when I launch them. 
As mentioned this is just 2 days in to my system experience and overall I am quite happy! Hopefully some of these issues I have with it will solve themselves over time. Mostly I am very happy to be able to play some of the games I have been wanting to play for some times but havnt been on a Nintendo system.
Also another Negative I came up with. I got 2 friends on PSN (and neither really playes the games I do or will play) so if anyone is playing the mentioned games feel free to add me! PSN: DR_Mbolibombo