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What Console Features are Important to PS4 Early Adopters?

According to a survey of 30,000 IGN users that was conducted on June 25 and 26, nearly 41% said that they intend on purchasing a PlayStation 4 at launch.So it seems as if the next logical question to ask is: Why?

ziggurcat3935d ago (Edited 3935d ago )

games.

edit: there must be an xbox troll clicking disagree on eveyone's comments...

xHeavYx3935d ago

I buy a gaming console for games. I don't care to use my console to aid me control my TV. I'm perfectly capable of using a remote. Besides, who wants to yell at a TV?
The PS4 is also more powerful and cheaper, you can use online apps on the PS4 without having PS+ (you'd have to be crazy enough not to have PS+ though, it's an amazing value)
Sony has always had amazing first party games, they support Indies.
Oh, and most important, Sony never tried to shove unnecessary features up my throat

badboy7763935d ago

"I love Games,Games,Games,Games.Games I do adore!"

In My Jay-Z Voice

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

darthv723935d ago

not sure about xbox troll because even xbox trolls know games are an important part to buying a system. so that is a common ground both sides can agree on.

this looks like the work of someone with a deeper agenda.

O/T i am really looking forward to gaikai. hopefully sony will transition the majority of games available now for dl to the gaikai cloud.

black0o3935d ago

+1
and those xbots need to chill gamers does care that much about live tv :P

sonarus3935d ago

man i joined this site back in its beta days early in the start of the ps3 xbox 360 console generation which was like 7 yrs ago i rarely comment now but its clear the back and forth fan boy nonsense hasnt changed at all with the new console generation.

i choose ps4 primarily because i enjoy ps3 games better. More variety in games too as far as exclusives are concerned anyway.

New xbox is overly priced and i am not interested in the least in kinnect.

jeffgoldwin3934d ago (Edited 3934d ago )

Funny how paranoid and defensive sonybots are of msbots, when an ms fanboy hasn't even sounded off yet. Lol its like the booze in the sony punch is running low, someone needs to refill that.

My 2 cents: hardware specs, your controller preference, and what your friends are playing can have as much meaning for people a having a few more games to the pile of thousands already out there. But no one is gunna deny games are impotant, just not the sole factor or we'd all be playing ps2, xbox, or snes if hardware was meaningless.

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SnakeCQC3935d ago

1080p games and all the other sony goodness

FamilyGuy3935d ago

Frame rate and true HD resolution are great an all but I'm more excited about the higher polycount in the future PS4 game. More detail makes games look more realistic, despite their resolution.

A lot of these launch titles are open world or are practically open world but when we start to see some titles that take advantage of the hardware in closed spaces we'll see the insane levels of detail that have been shown in the working title tech demo Deep Down or in The Sorcerer. I'm hoping more games like these are revealed at GDC.

Jaqen_Hghar3935d ago

A man believes 1886 director said that the game was a "cinematic experience" so a man is anxious to see the detail in its gameplay. Also ND seems to like linear games as does SSM so we should see some amazing graphics from those 2 after seeing what they did with Ascension and LoU on PS3.

xReDeMpTiOnx3935d ago

I don't buy a console for entertainment features or apps, I buy a console to GAME and I want great games. I could care less for tv or w/e stupid app that isn't relevant to games

SnakeCQC3935d ago

so hd movies or blu rays arent your thing?

MysticStrummer3935d ago

Those are bi-products of a larger storage medium, not side features that have no connection to games.

xReDeMpTiOnx3935d ago

First and foremost when I buy a console I look at what games it has and what franchises it has that may indicate what kind of games I will have in the future.

Believe it or not but I'm not a graphics junkie or someone who looks for features, that being said I will use some of the features but those are not the deciding factor whether I buy it or not.

Also believe it or not but I'm still a gamer that would take better gameplay over graphics anyday and I still go back and play my dream cast for shenmue and powerstone. I even break out the old Playstation for games like legend of dragoon, xenogears, parasite eve etc.

iceman063935d ago

The REAL question is would you buy the console WITHOUT HD movies and a Blu ray movie playback? I believe that most would because, as they stated, they buy the console to play games. Anything else is just a bonus.

bloodybutcher3935d ago

i buy them to use as a paperweight.

EXVirtual3935d ago

Features are cool, but the main thing I want to do is play games. The share feature is beast though.

NovusTerminus3935d ago

Games, the features of the system sound really awesome and fun however they are just added bonuses.

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mkis0076h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows906h ago(Edited 6h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0074h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19894h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw6h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno5h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy854h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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