PS4: It’s Here, It’s There, I Don’t Really Care

Hopping on the early adoption train is rather bleak right now.

The next generation, went from being “tea, earl grey, hot” to “meh, i’d rather not” in record pace for me

The day I got my PS4 was an odd moment in time, it was the first time I ever got a console at launch. Now, as I opened the box the words of a friend ran through my head. These words being “pioneers are the ones who end up with an arrow in their back.”

At the time I brushed it off, fervently tore through the budget cardboard packaging, plugged in the power cable, hdmi cable and searched frantically for a power button; only to realize it was a glossy strip of touch sensitive plastic. Welp, my journey into the next gen was about to begin as the blue start up light flashed, and flashed, and flashed…

The hardware issues aside, the true pain of being an early adopter this generation is that most of the games that aren’t  assorted guns and ammo, generic sports or last-gen remakes have been delayed and now it feels like the PS4 section of every game store is just a premonition of the ninety-nine cent bin in two years.

I originally picked up a PS4 to play WatchDogs, War Thunder and try Driveclub. I think Nintendo should sue, because I have never seen such a blatant rip off of the “Your princess is in another castle” bit from Super Mario Bros.

I can’t complain too much. The PS4 has some really good indie/ftp but it’s Triple A titles are weaker than Chef Boyardee’s Beefaroni sauce (assuming you’re not into assorted guns and murder death); which is the hallmark of the first quarter of the next-gen era. It seems like the best PS4 games are slated for the Japanese launch and we were just a spiffy beta test. Despite on the internet buzz, my expectations came up short so far since PS4 still has yet to create a genuine “wow” factor with the current lineup.

Resogun is fun, but at best a happy accident. If it wasn’t free I wouldn’t have paid fifteen dollars for it and I probably wouldn’t have liked it as much as I did. But I won’t lie; throwing sour patch kids into glowing orifices was immeasurably fun. It seems that as the buzz, and hype is wearing off, the next gne is for me at least failing to deliver. The potential is there, but I mean it seems like Sony is teasing us with this mystical 5^th game that is going change everything.

Fortunately, I have a PS3 and PS+ to hold me over until the real exciting content rolls in.

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