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Playstation 4 - The Review

by knocknock on 11/13/13, 2:42 PM with 9 comments

  • by hugofirth on 11/13/13, 3:26 PM

    Quite aside from the content - I thought the review itself was a very nice piece of design (The animations that I thought would annoy me ended up being a nice touch).

    One thing I take issue with is the completely arbitrary nature of the rating at the end. Why bother giving the platform a rating at all at this stage - it exists in a vacuum. Only time will tell how Sony's latest offering, along with its attempts at a platform, will stack up against Steam and Microsoft. Besides that - there seemed no clear criteria for the points system whatsoever.

    It is at times like these that I am reminded of the "IGN: Fair. 10/10" meme.

  • by bbx on 11/13/13, 3:22 PM

    I haven't read the whole review because I'm not planning on purchasing a next-gen console but I was quite impressed by the page design. Usually, animated UI tweaks are frowned upon because they hinder the readability and hurt the usability. But here the execution is well balanced and actually supports the content. Plus, the animated wireframes are simply beautiful.

  • by nobodysfool on 11/13/13, 6:29 PM

    A pretty poor review without specs. What version of bluetooth is supported? Does it include a blu-ray drive? (I know its Sony and probably does, but if they are competing on price, it would make sense to drop it and go with online downloads instead). They show it accepting discs, so I am assuming it does indeed have a blu-ray drive, however is it a mini? does it support BDXL or IH-BD? Will Linux be installable? These omissions from the review makes is seem haphazard at best.

  • by iamshs on 11/13/13, 3:18 PM

    This has been the overall impressions of the system on all the review sites: Good hardware but no software. It is a beefed up PS3, no next-gen leap worthy step, and the games are not there. Seems like an iPad3 to iPad 4 type transition, not like iPad 2 to iPad Air type.

    One of the PS3's selling point was Bluray drive, which is not a selling point anymore. It is an affordable system, and I want to see it improve its UI, XMB is hideously ugly. Let's wait for Naughty Dog magic on games side. Sony has high quality first party studios.

    That webpage is beautiful. Minor nuisance was the jarring transition while scrolling onto next section it kept me taking to top of the page, but it's still fine. Well done by the designer.