Caught up with what gaming features? The day the PS4 launched as a pure gaming box it was equal to the PS3. I just think that before your new tech product hits the market it should be able to match all the features the old one had. Is that unreasonable to expect?
The whole game industry is plagued with this we'll launch it prematurely and fix it later mentality. Its so bad that now gamers defend it. We aren't talking about adding new features we're talking about getting this thing back up to the same full feature set the box that cost $199 has when this one is $399.
It's funny because on the other side of the coin, I see a bunch of complaining and "concern" from cats online whenever a game is delayed or what not. With the PS4, it's better to have the main functionality work out the box and add features and things later instead of holding it back and releasing it when everything is good to go.
PS3 didn't launch with all the features people praise it for back in 06. If anything, expecting things to work like how cell phones work in the sense of existing features seems ignorant.
Consoles and cell phones aren't remotely comparable. A cell phone usually has a base design and a continually updated OS that's backwards compatible most of the time. It isn't like the PS4 launched with the XMB, it's a totally different interface and architecture so it's not a matter of copy and paste.
Adding to that, the new features and improvements the PS4 has in addition to the snappiness of the UI trump any features it's lacking presently. I'd take a faster OS, multitasking(Being able to switch between netflix and a game with the tap of a button), zippy installs, the soon to come shareplay, streaming to twitch/ustream and video/picture features over DLNA and MP3 playback.
Priorities are obviously set in place now. Had the PS4 been late to the game with what it has now and instead prioritized having last gen features day 1, it would've been a bunch of threads where people would call the PS4 PS3.5. Basically, this whole "wahh I can't stream movies to my PS4" fiasco or whatnot is going to be moot sooner or later. With how antiquated PC's are today especially in the living room, I can't see how your media needs can't be satisfied already.
I have a PC hooked up to my TV, I literally don't even need the PS4 for none of that unless I'm already on it and even then it's nothing but a switch of the input to hop back on the superior PC anyway.







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