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First Image of PS4 Retail Demo Station At Home Depot

Here is the first image of PS4 retail demo station at Home Depot.

Home Depot has a full Playstation 4 demo Kiosks set up ready and is allowing players to get try their hands on PS4 early.

jujubee883848d ago

Right next to the epoxy. Noice!

KwietStorm_BLM3848d ago

Yea, I can't...I don't know.

sinjonezp3848d ago

My thoughts exactly. Can we line up for pre orders at home depot? Will they have some kind of paint simulation game on display? Lol . guys, please make me understand what Sony's plan is with this marketing tactic.

Kingthrash3603848d ago

i woulda let them demo it at my house, makes more sense than homedepot.

HugoDrax3848d ago

My reaction was

"looks like I'll be making a trip to Home Depot tomorrow" muhahahaha (evil villain laugh)

Fairchild Channel F3848d ago

Let's see, what do I need here.....

Sheet metal screws......can of Rustoleum deck restore.....Ryobi scroll saw.....ceiling tiles.....Playststion 4........garden trowel.....solar powered walkway lights....

Hey! There's a hotdog stand!

FamilyGuy3848d ago (Edited 3848d ago )

A PS4 in your house would DEFINITELY quality as a "home improvement" so it makes some sense. LOL

Yeah but really, I was confused too as a first thought, my second thought matched AuricGoldfinger's. Third thought... Can we pre-order PS4s at Home Depot!?

When are these gonna pop up in the places we expect? You know, Best Buy, Toys R Us, Walmart, Kmart, Target, GameStop. How the hell did Home Depot get it first?

Crazay3848d ago

I can see the conversion now..."Honey... Since I just bought you some new flooring and a crap load of paint... Thereby making my next 2 weekends ruined... I think I'm treating myself to a ps4"

sync903848d ago

The more shops selling ps4 the better. no?

Army_of_Darkness3848d ago (Edited 3848d ago )

Contractors and construction workers do make pretty good money ;-)
after a hards day cutting, lifting, building and shoveling dirt and gravel at work, why not chill and relax with a PS4 when you get home.

JoGam3848d ago (Edited 3848d ago )

And will they be selling the PS4 too on Nov 15th? Very odd. Guess I'll be at Home Depot for the midnight launch...lol

Let me get a PS4, Drive Club and some floor tiles. Lol

SilentNegotiator3848d ago

Are you saying I can get one of the best hotdogs I've ever had, a drain snake, AND a PS4 at Home Depot?

Sheesh, HD, you're just a home improvement shop...no need to be that awesome.

Sono4213847d ago

home depot worker- "I know what i'm doing on my break" ;)

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GribbleGrunger3848d ago

Jesus, I hope that casing has decent ventilation.

LordDhampire3848d ago

To suck up all that saw dust and fail?!?!? Why would you wish that

joeorc3848d ago (Edited 3848d ago )

@sinjonezp"

"My thoughts exactly. Can we line up for pre orders at home depot? Will they have some kind of paint simulation game on display? Lol . guys, please make me understand what Sony's plan is with this marketing tactic."

Oh' you do not know why?

wow i thought people know this, Sony did this very thing back in early 2007.

Many times like on shows on PBS home improvement they have "how to install a home home theatre system"

well can you guess which game console they are mainly using in the demonstration?

example: with belemont in a standard home theatre system of Sony's

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

but here is example from Home depot

http://reviews.homedepot.co...

PoSTedUP3848d ago

ahem, well, tell my wife i took a run to home depo, ill be back in a few weeks.

jujubee883848d ago

They usually have a snack stand out in front of the local one here. And the bathrooms have a water fountain by the side. They also have a nice little garden patio section with comfy seetings.

Damn, it would be a scene if people flash mobbed Home Depots around the area. The new "hang out spot". HAha.

I'd pay just to see the culture clash of our generation. Home Depot regulars vs Extreme Gaming Enthusiasts. :D

orakle443848d ago

I dunno about this, this does not make sense at all. Home Depot? and if you read the article they say that its going to be set up in lawn and garden??? I dunno about the stores where you guys are from but my local stores lawn and garden are outside.......im just not believing any of this.

Blaze9293848d ago (Edited 3848d ago )

"He said they will be setting them up in Lawn & Garden in the coming week"

lolwut? Home Depot? They won't even be selling PS4s. Sony marketing at work smh. I mean really lol, can someone explain how this might make marketing sense?

Home Depots and Taco Bells lol. What's next, Payless shoe store?

rainslacker3847d ago (Edited 3847d ago )

Home Depot gets over one million customers a day across the US, and twice that much on the weekends. The majority of people that shop there have money to pay for stuff like improving their homes. Floor advertising space is valuable there.

I do question the Lawn & Garden section part. When i worked at Lowe's, that section was pretty dead in the winter. Unless it's on the interior part, which is typically right next to the entrance...the most valuable real estate in the entire store.

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miDnIghtEr20C_SfF3848d ago

So they finally show one in public. Finally without a PC inside.

neoMAXMLC3847d ago

Excuse me, sir. That line is reserved for the Sony fanboys, sir.

Eddie201013847d ago

This is a joke(as in not real meant to be a joke), this looks like some schools shop class.

A dumb joke has gotten this many hits, amazing.

trancefreak3847d ago

Of course the ps4 an exclusive item @depot right next to all the sh1t you need to build your man cave.

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cl19833848d ago

Its great that you can go into Home Depot and test it out. However I'm confused on why its at a hardware store and not a game store.

-Ghost3848d ago

I thought the same thing. Also, why would they set it up in the "Lawn & Garden" section? Lol

rainslacker3847d ago (Edited 3847d ago )

Lawn & Garden is right at the entrance. The plants and stone stuff is kept outside at every one I've seen, but everything else is there right when you walk in. It's the most expensive part of the store for vendors to buy to set up displays. I think registers are the 2nd most expensive.

Why home depot? Because they have over 1 million customers a day, and twice that much on weekends. Contractors, laborers, dad's being dragged there by their wives for that weekend home improvement task, typically with their kids in tow.

I don't think it's genius or anything, but I can't see that the exposure will hurt. Probably costs a lot less than the Toy's R' Us top 15 list.

Who knows, maybe Home Depot wants to branch out into electronics. They already sell appliances.

PositiveEmotions3848d ago

Maybe bc ps4 is a gaming hardware console? Lol idk

cl19833848d ago

Bad Bad Positive no more puns for you.

Bathyj3848d ago

I cant think of any other Hardware Id rather buy

Campy da Camper3848d ago

Agreed. I'm actually thinking they might be promoting a build it yourself home entertainment center and if you buy it you get a ps4 forfree. That would actually be a good idea.

HighResHero3848d ago

That's Sony's marketing team for you

RyuCloudStrife3848d ago

Genius and Flawless as always.

Long. Live. Play.

LordDhampire3848d ago

Trying to get dem casuals and parents son

Only douchebags go to game stores and they probably have already decided what they want so a kiosk is redundant

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Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered players are ticked off by the game’s most recent patch, which censors in-game pin-up posters of Lara Croft.

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rlow112h ago

This is why gaming is screwed. When people change things to fit someone’s agenda, it’s a slippery slope downhill.

Christopher12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

Even if that agenda is of the developer? Way to remove developer rights.

***One player called it a “huge problem with modern games,” saying they can now be “ruined AFTER people buy them”.***

The level of drama. Yes, I recall sitting there for more hours than I did anything else in the game. These two pinups are the core of the game, after all!

coolbeans10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

rlow1's cringe catastrophizing aside, I do think developers *ought* to strive to maintain an original work to the best of their ability. The language of a "remaster" tacitly implies that - for good or ill - what's being resold is what fans remember but better.

Profchaos10h ago

Games can be ruined after purchasing them yeah we know this not from this but from GTA IV which had half it's radio content patched out due to licensing expirations and to me that was a huge deal.

This pin up poster is a bit of nonsense but the whole argument of modern games can be ruined post launch is Absol true.

DedicatedDark9h ago(Edited 9h ago)

It's not their work to censor. They are incharge of restoration & remastering the work, not overwriting it.

Barlos8h ago

It's not the agenda of the developer though, they're pandering and trying to increase their ESG score.

Way to support censorship...

victorMaje8h ago

It’s not the end of the world for sure, but I understand the hate towards this kind of change. I believe it’s also a matter of principle.

Imagine a Picasso painting being restored & the restorer deciding there aren’t enough strokes, or some lines aren’t straight enough or curved enough…not sure it would/should sit well with people.

Have all original devs signed off on this change? Even if it’s the case, are we saying older gamers are better mentally equipped to process what was there than current gamers, hence the change?

Enough time ago the case was made that games are an art form. We’re supposed to have won that case.
So which is it? Are games art or not?

Aphrodia23m ago

And what of the rights of the buyer? The ones that purchased this game with hard earned money? They bought a product that is now being changed into a different product. Surely you would stand up for them since you are about "rights"?

Christopher17m ago

***It's not their work to censor. ***

They own the IP. It's theirs too do with as they wish.

***It's not the agenda of the developer though, they're pandering and trying to increase their ESG score. ***

You got proof of this? And even if this were true, isn't it the developer right to want whatever an ESG score is?

***from GTA IV which had half it's radio content patched out due to licensing expirations and to me that was a huge deal. ***

Licensed music is always going to get changed unless they can afford to keep paying those fees sadly.

***Imagine a Picasso painting being restored & the restorer deciding there aren’t enough strokes, or some lines aren’t straight enough or curved enough…not sure it would/should sit well with people. ***

You do know in the original that the artwork is extremely pixelated so you can't even tell what it is, right? Shouldn't we then be arguing that they increased the detail of this artwork at all then? Why the remaster? Picasso got it right already with the original.

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Eidolon8h ago

Hasn't this been happened for over a decade since remasters? I can't see that it's any worse now. Maybe if Sweet Baby starts getting their hands on remasters we will definitely have a problem.

Rebel_Scum11h ago

tbh I dont see something like this as censorship. Does anyone else not find it strange for someone to stick pin ups of themsleves in a locker room?

Now of it was a pin up of some half naked firefighters it might make sense as Lara might like that, and if they removed that I would cry censorship. But removing pin ups of the main character, yeah I get it.

Barlos8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

It's a game, and they were placed there for the audience. It's not real life. If it was, she wouldn't have fought a T-Rex now would she?

Yes, it's censorship but it's a bit less in your face. If they were in the original game, then they should have been in the remasters. It's bad enough that they have that ridiculous unnecessary warning at the start, but then they start removing things post launch. I don't care how small the change, they shouldn't be doing it. It's nothing but ESG pandering but in a subtle way.

Rebel_Scum7h ago

Look bro, if you have pictures of yourself naked on a bear skin rug up in your house let me tell you, its not normal.

jambola5h ago

I wasn't aware censorship was based on what made sense to you

Rebel_Scum5h ago

Likewise, what a stupid comment.

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Aphrodia30m ago

And Lara Croft is also a mass murderer everywhere she goes. Why didn't they patch that out as well? See, anyone can spew pedantic BS.

CrimsonWing6910m ago

How is it not censorship? They are removing suggestive content due to not wanting to offend SJWs and woke people. They literally removed something already in the game that nobody even thought twice about just like a movie on cable television is edited for content… y’know, like literally removing scenes because of not wanting to offend a public audience? How is this different?

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SimpleDad7h ago

By the year 2030, this remaster collection will totally be changed and censored. Probably will remove Lara as a playable character. It's ridiculous. Glad that my family didn't buy this.
I still have Tomb Raider 2 PS1 as a memory.

jambola5h ago

Those shorts are a little revealing
Should probably make them snow pants

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Christopher16m ago

Have fun falling off that cliff at the end of the slippery slope.

CobraKai7h ago

It’s mentioned in the article, and it’s a point i 100% agree with, it’s the fact that they can censor a game after you buy it. That’s total bullshit.

Christopher15m ago

Just FYI, every game has that right.

Killer2020UK7h ago

Whilst it's an overreaction to say this has "ruined" the game, it's still problematic that this has happened post launch and for many, post-purchase.

I don't want someone to change a product for the worse after I've bought it. The same goes for implementing micro transactions after reviews.

I wonder why they did this? Nobody was kicking up a fuss as far as I'm aware.

maykhausonninh7h ago

Nobody was kicking up a fuss as far as I'm aware.

Christopher15m ago

My thinking is that the original artworks might be community created.

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It’s funny I’m seeing these articles about pixel remaster, and I just platinumed 1-4 within 8 days lol. I’ve been on FF5 for about a week now. Let’s just say 5 was the start of FF having content like crazy. I should have the plat within 2-3 days.

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The game being an accurate represantation of the original was not a slap in the face to the fans. The 3D remasters looked like ass (visually) tbh.