For example cnet ran a study a while back and determine that for a 42" screen most people would have to sit within 6 ft.
Here's another write-up on how much the resolution may or may not matter depending on your tv setup:
http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter/
I don't think most people (ie the avg. consumer) will be persuaded by a higher resolution on one console or the other because they won't even know about it when they pick their game. I think things like console price and exclusive are much more likely to pull someone to one console or the other.
It is a nice bullet point to have though.
I've heard lots of complaints from new players of the new pokemon games that there really is no direction on how to play. It's pretty sad to see something like that in a nintendo game when their games in general are usually pretty intuitive. Considering it seems that they've simplified/optimized a lot of the game play to attract new players, you'd think they'd include a thick manual or an optional tutorial in-game.
The ps4 faq is a little disappointing and surprising. I do appreciate their candor though in putting all this out now and not leaving it for people to discover later.
Being able to switch internal hard drives is great, but being able to just plug in an external would be even better. Just require external drives to have usb 3.0. If it can't run a game over 3.0, then just have it function as limited extra storage and include an easy to use function to move games in-between the internal and external drives.
Not having mp3 playback is just... I mean, really? Is there anything digital now-a-days that doesn't support mp3s? And to add to this it can't even play back cds. Not that I expect many would use this, but I'm sure that means you can't rip your cds to your system either. You know, since you can't copy your mp3s rips over...
Speaking of mp3s:
Will I be able to play MP3s on PS4?
No*.
*We appreciate your feedback and are exploring possibilities.
I wonder when that changed?
I think it's interesting that the ps4 only supports hdmi out. Time to upgrade your tv or get some adapters if you don't have a tv with it. I'm sure this won't affect most consumers, but I still find it an interesting requirement to make for the system.
I've only seen the first episode of Shield and wasn't too impressed. Hopefully it gets better whenever I decide to catch up. I'm guessing there are two reasons we don't see any callbacks to known marvel properties, first: they want to stand on their own feet and second: marvel probably put a lot of restrictions on who they could use and what they could mention. DC properties outside the comics always seem to be more open to using their expanded universes compared to most marvel productions which seem more limited when it comes to referencing other series, having cameos and so on.