Got mine from amazon day one and it was broke, faulty hdmi port.
Me too. I bought the 3yr warranty from Sony though, since new consoles do tend to have more problems than other tech.
Exactly Nixon. For me, it's silly to buy a PS4 since there are still only a handful of games for it. It's annoying to see sites like kotaku post "the 9 best PS4 games". There aren't even five PS4 games right now, you have Killzone, Knack, and a handful of arcade/PSN titles. Two retail games does not sell a system.
Oh I'm aware. I know many people with one, and at the moment it sits like how the Wii used to. Everyone has one, nobody uses it. People bought it now because of 'rarity' and future games, not to actually use it now.
Um, you're not buying it for 2 games. There are so many more coming. THAT'S why we got one now. Hell I bought a U not too long after launch and only owned 2 or 3 games for most of the summer (now currently at 8). So what? I'll have it ready to go when Bayo 2, Kart 8, Smash, and DK:TF release.
That's how some see it. Others see it as they might as well wait until there's a critical mass of games they want and by then there might be a good bundle or price drops.
I just ordered mine and plan on playing the free games with PS+ until the new games come out. There isn't anything out now for the PS4 that I want to play $35+ for. I was going to wait until the dingers showed up on Amazon.
People just have different approaches to this.
Exactly the point I made. And when you think about it, with game installs at 50GB per game, and an included hard drive with only 400GB total space available out of the box, it sounds like a silly purchase at launch doesn't it? If you buy just a handful of retail games you system is already maxed out.
Might not? 400GB (it isn't a 500GB HD inside after OS install) isn't going to last you a few months since the PS4 requires large mandatory installs, plus patches that can be 5GB+. It's idiotic having such a small hard drive.
More like holiday 2016 at the earliest unless you're joking.I'll wait for the $250-300 PS4 slim bundle on Black Friday next year.
Should be pretty easy looking at my PS3 library of games.
It's not idiotic for Sony to have a 500GB HDD, its a good business decision. That 500GB already costs $40 on most estimates, pushing it up to 1TB would only raise Sony's losses or the system's price. You have to strike a good balance. Also, its not like people can't erase those installs and re-install them whenever. I don't many of them even go over 3 minutes, most of them are hidden by in-game footage or story trailers like in Killzone SF.
A handful of retail games? If every game installs 40GB that would literally take 10 games and I don't think I can fit 10 games into one hand.
Like was said I tend to erase those installs when finished, just keeping the saves. I survived the PS3 with a 120gb. Removed BF3 to make room for BF4 and I have zero movies, music, or pics wasting space.
Nice you like doing those extra steps but most people buy many games and hate having to do what you do. This 400gb is nothing space wise for blu's... You buy 10-20 games it will be full so within a year mad people will be rioting for more space. This gen was not ready for blu mandatory installs just wait it will be a joke. The games these days always needs a patche at launch enjoy the future lol
Well, if what I suspect is true, that is that the PS4 supports BD-XL(Blu-ray's at 200 GB.), there's a reason why the installs are so big. Not to say I'm forgiving it. That being said, I can upgrade the PS4 HDD with off-shelf components so I don't mind shelling out some extra money given that it will cost me comparatively little.
