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FatedReality on 03 March 2014
deadly2choke said:
Goremichel said:

Ohhhhhh yessssssss..... PS4 is totaly overrated!

This.

 Sony fans just buy anything blindly, no wonder the PS4 is breaking record numbers.


At this point theres much more people buying the sytem then just Sony fans...



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ethomaz on 03 March 2014

Of course... it is weak compared with less than %5 of the PCs in the world.



Pavolink on 03 March 2014
AZWification said:

It doesn't play Nintendo games. I am hopeful that this will change once Nintendo goes 3rd party as many  amazing analysts predicted!

Finally real good games. I'll buy one.



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IsawYoshi on 03 March 2014

Water.



Xenostar on 03 March 2014

Weakness seems to be not enough factories making them.



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DarkD on 03 March 2014

I could give you a pretty decent list... For starters, the most creative and risky games are going to be relegated to the indie market. Last gen we had things like Little Big Planet as one of the very few games of this type to be introduced outside of the indie market, this gen, the number of those games is going to be even lower. A lack of diversity in genre is bad for a console.

There is nothing to bring in the casual gamers.  With the PS2 there was the DVD player, with the Wii there was motion controls, so what now?  Slightly prettier graphics?

I don't know about your families but mine can't even use the PS3 menu system without help... I can use it of course, but don't expect a casual to see Sony's menus as anything but confusing.

For my third weakness, I give you, developers running away. Irrational games is just one of the many studios who don't wanna develop triple A games anymore. Last gen bankrupted a whole lot of developers, and it should only get worse now. Less developers hurts everyone.



deadly2choke on 06 March 2014
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
deadly2choke said:
Goremichel said:

Ohhhhhh yessssssss..... PS4 is totaly overrated!

This.

 Consumers are rational, no wonder the PS4 is breaking record numbers.

Fixed.

how did i miss this thread

anyways i wasnt being serious

i would never talk bad about my own....i would rather commit a seppuku than do that :P 



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Soundwave on 06 March 2014

That they don't have Microsoft's deep pockets is a potential weakness if MS wants to start money hatting and price dropping.



mornelithe on 06 March 2014

Yes, it has 2 weaknesses:

1) Microsoft's parity clause
2) "Alarmingly, one source has suggested that PlayStation 4 version of cross platform titles could be “castrated” so both versions of the game look identical. This would be done to “avoid ruffling any feathers” and “damage perceptions of a cross platform title, not to mention Xbox One.”



whatever on 06 March 2014
Troll_Whisperer said:
The biggest one for me: WHY the fuck do BD movies output at 2.1?? They won't work using Linear PCM (as in, no sound at all) and if you choose Bitstream my surround sound (and from what I've read I'm not alone) outputs at 2.1. This doesn't happen to me with PS3 or when playing games on PS4.

They need to fix that with the next FW update.

You need to set it to bitstream while a movie is playing:

When playing a movie on blu-ray or DVD, the AV receiver may only detect Linear PCM (Stereo) even if the audio on the movie is set to Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1. To correct the issue:

  1. When the disc is playing, press Options
  2. Go to the Settings menu
  3. Under Audio Format, select Bitstream (Direct)

This solution will save the audio format for future reference when playing DVD or blu-ray movies.