What Sony fans need from the next PlayStation
We asked fans and two of our favorite PlayStation-focused sites about what they want, nay need, from Sony's next console.
Fans. They may parade around the internet, making a mess of YouTube comment pages with half-truths and insecure attacks on other platforms. But, they are an important part of a console's lifeblood. Without a dedicated army of fans, systems can launch... and simply disappear. Over the past three generations, Sony has amassed quite an army of gamers loyal to the PlayStation brand. For many of these gamers, PS4 (or Orbis, or whatever they end up calling it) will be an automatic day-one purchase. Others, however, are still on the fence. We asked fans and two of our favorite PlayStation-focused sites about what they want, nay need, from Sony's next.
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We asked fans and two of our favorite PlayStation-focused sites about what they want, nay need, from Sony's next console.-
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Insomniac was able to do this on Resistance 2 I believe. But as far as I know it was a special circumstance/work-around. Sony definitely should make local multiplayer more viable to multiple accounts/users.
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PS3 has no local multiplayer except CoD and like.. Rock Band or whatever, which every console offers. I'm talking.. actual incentive to buy the console over 360, which has the only local FPS worth playing, Halo.
Btw, I got my 360 in 2010, started with Halo 3, so I'm not some fanboy, I literally bought the 360 over the PS3 because it sucked for multiplayer.
But worst of all.. the controller is the biggest piece of shit in the world. Convex analogue sticks. Really small and tacky and unergonomic. Your fingers are in constant pain trying not to slip off the damned triggers if there's any extended gameplay and they like to map gun triggers to the bumpers for some reason (probably because their triggers are shit). Like.. you have to switch between trigger fingers all the damned time if you have an extended FPS playthrough because it's so uncomfortable on your fingers.
I owned every Sega console, every Nintendo console and the 360 and I have never used a controller anywhere near as horrendous as the Playstation one, yet they stick to it like it's some golden formula. It's not a golden formula, it's shit.
Also, not a great fan of trophies over GS.-
I like trophies over some number, but I HATE the way they work.
If I unlock a trophy and I don't know what it was for, I will want to check it out, but the damn "Synchronizing" BS is terrible.
Thankfully, I don't care about Achievements or Trophies at all so it's not a huge deal in the end.
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360 has limited BC and paid internet and almost no big exclusives or JRPGS
Wii has a shit controller and (with the exception of that Xeno game), no real big JRPGs
So why are you expecting such huge things out of the PS4 that you don't seem to mind with your other consoles?-
Wii has a /great/ controller, much better than shitty dual analogue for FPS, and anyone who doesn't realise that has just never played an FPS on Wii for long enough to realise it's true. It's literally point and click, like with a mouse. Dual analogue is grindingly slow, even on high sensitivities. The only problem with wii is turning.
But I buy the Nintendo consoles because of the great exclusives. SSB, Mario, Zelda etc. . Don't care about third parties for that.
Reason for the 360: It's actually got good local multiplayer (even if it is just Halo). PS3 has nothing. Zip. You can't sit and play four player unless it's shitty CoD. I don't mind paying for multiplayer on one console, only reason I would care about it on PS4 is I don't want to pay for 2 subscriptions.
360 has ToV, RoF, Eternal Sonata at least, but yes.. PS wins on JRPGs. But, again, no local multiplayer and the controller is fucking shit.-
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I say this as a PC gamer, and a 360 owner. If you haven't noticed how good Wiimotes are for FPS, it's because you never gave them a chance. For things that are on the screen, apart from the latency I would say it is more responsive than a mouse. Again, the only problem is turning, but you can set the deadzone of the screen at which you turn, and the turning speed, so in that respect it's equal in turning to dual analogue. It's just infinitely better than using sticks.
Imagine playing Time Crysis with analogue sticks. That is what every FPS is like compared to a wiimote.
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i don't understand your local multiplayer?
there are a couple of games i play witth my friends locally on my ps3 all the time
little big planet and things like that for the girls, and uncharted/earth defense force/racing games/psn games
i even have a vita so whatever game supports cross play, i can play on my vita while my friends use the tv.... or even just use the ps3 in the living room if i want the whole screen to myself-
I played LBP and it just isn't a console seller to me. For racing, I would just break out various Mario Kart games or F Zero or Burnout or NFS. EDF is 2 player, Uncharted 3 is 2 player. I'm not talking about having one friend over and playing something coop splitscreen, I'm talking >=4 player multiplayer for a group of friends. PS3 has pretty much zilch. 360 is bad for it as well, but it has the Halo franchise, which is really solid for local multiplayer.
If I want to game on my own I'll game on PC, so I can have a sensible control scheme.
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The Dualshock controller rocks all socks, especially if you're playing anything OTHER than FPSs, though I also never had a problem with it playing FPS games, maybe because my hands aren't stupid. Maybe you wouldn't have so much trouble if all you played wasn't testosterone fueled shoot-em-ups and little-girl-waifu simulators.
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What else would I play on a console? I have a PC for proper gaming.
For me, a console is something to hook it to the TV and play with friends, and play exclusives you can't get on PC. So.. the only stuff that interests me that you can't get on PC are JRPGs and Nintendo's catalogue of excellent first parties. The only stuff I would play with my friends are FPS + SSB/Mario Kart + GH/RB (which 360 and PS3 both have).
I prefer playing indie games on the PC though I have bought the occasional one on a console. I got Meat Boy on 360 for instance, and 106%ed it with all bandages etc. . I used the shoulder buttons for run, and they were almost constantly held down. I imagine that would've been impossible on a PS3 (though I don't even know what PS3's indie scene is like; I was under the impression it wasn't great).
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Sounds like that ship has sailed if Sony is announcing tomorrow......
