I'm going to be doing a thread like this for every system, discussing the reasons to buy each console/system and why I would suggest people buy it in 2014. I'll be interested in seeing whether people agree with my reasonings or not and what people would add.
1. Graphical Fidelity
Short of getting a PC, the PS4 is the best system currently avaliable for graphical performance. Games will release with better framerates, resolutions, and more capable textures. In short games will look better on this system than they will anywhere else. Not the most important thing in gaming... but it's nice to know.
2. Market Saturation
With the console selling as well as it is, the PS4 will likely have good market saturation, with plenty of games avaliable, and in the years to come plenty of reasonably priced second hand games. Whether this continues remains to be seen, it's early days yet, but as the PS2 proved when compared with the Gamecube and Xbox, a large market share makes finding games far easier.
3. Playstation Plus
Whilst I personally don't like digital distribution, Playstation Plus is genuinely interesting as it's giving multiple good releases to subscribers for free. It's cleaverly set up to entice you to keep your subscription going for as long as possible, but you simply can't deny the value is high here and only increases the longer you hold a subscription.
4. Indie Gaming
What was once the realm of the PC is now one of the PS4's calling cards. Indie developers are being purposely courted by Sony and this means the experimental games that people have jumped on in the past will likely see light of day here first, if not exclusively here. Some of the indie games of the past include Minecraft, Braid, Journey, Bastion, Super Meat Boy, Cave Story and more, and they've all been across many different platforms. With them concentrated on PS4, we can expect to see; granted a lot of pretentious shit, but a few interesting gems... maybe even something that will change gaming in some way like previous indies have.
5. The Exclusives
This is obviously the biggest reason and it's a damn fine one. InFamous: Secon Son, The Order: 1886, and Shadow Of The Beast all look like interesting games that will make their mark. There's still only a small number of exclusive games, with Knack and Killzone: Shadowfall not exactly wowing people, but there's a variety and when combined with the multiplatform library, the PS4 is developing a decent game library.
So those are my reasons for buying a PS4. I'll be posting the same for other systems in the near future. So what do people think? Do you have another reason that intices you more? Do you disagree with the reasons I gave?
