Playstation 4 Inbound!

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I feel the real complaint is that fans and consumers don't want to be drip fed, rather we're interested in telling us what we are going to get from the start instead of speculating about launch titles and price points. For once, I would love a console maker to reveal their console 6 months before its actual release and just flat out tell us what to expect day one and not what to look forward to for the next ten years. When did video game consoles become presidential elections?

I see your point; definitely they could have arranged the order of their telling differently. The way they did it, they led with the technical details, like the chip being used, all of the hardware stuff that I don't really quite get my head around. What they should have done for a first, initial announcement is to lead with the software, games etc.

It's the software, games, etc. that will more interest gamers, not the hardware statistics and whatnot. I'm not exactly an expert on mechanics and stuff, so for your average gamer leading with hardware and developerships is warranting a "Well, okay, that's fine, but what about the games?"

I'm not disappointed, I'm still excited for it, but I'll need more first to commit.

Yeah, that controller looks ugly and like it will be hard to use properly with the touchpad. My first thought is that it will be pretty gimmicky since it'd be hard to make that seem natural to gameplay.

The touch pad in the centre of the controller reminds me slightly of the Wii U's controller. It doesn't seem that hard to use, at least in my opinion. And also; everyone say's that the controller looks ugly, but is the aesthetics of the controller really that important in the grand scheme of things? As long as it works and is used well in games, it could be brightly coloured yellow for all I care.