The State of the PS4 in 2015 [Kotaku]

[Ganoncrotch]

Netty said:
"The PlayStation 4 is an unexciting video game console, all things considered. It’s a box that you put under your TV, and it plays video games."

That has to be the weakest critique of any game console I've ever read.

That first line just had me backing away from it right off the bat, you could say that about every single console in history, unless they come with a built in screen, the consoles themselves have never been super exciting, I mean the Pikachu N64 had his cheeks light up red when you turned it on, but what do they want? More consoles like the CE models of the 360 for Gears and Halo with Sound effects from the game to make it exciting to turn it on?

I'd rather just have a powerful system with a lot of Software which is either on it or on the way for it due to its large marketshare, people said it was bad the wii getting so much shovelware but ya know even at it's worst it still meant there was a ton of variety to pick up and choose from and the market leader will always be the place where those games ends up, if you are launching a game which you know will have a less than 1% attach rate then dropping it on a system with 100m users at least means you can break the million sales mark, that is the advantage the PS4 has started this generation with and will probably keep onto unless they continue to make fuck ups like charging people 15 a pop for "BC" with ps2 games while their rival ports some of the best games of the X360 onto the system for free if you have the disk still laying about.