Sony’s brand new release of their PlayStation 4 on Friday November 15th has had thousands positive and negative reviews in which most of them described this new system with one word; “sleek”. In just two days Sony claims to have already sold 1 million consoles in North America alone and expects that number to greatly increase over the months as they get ready to launch the PlayStation for across Europe and Australia on the 29th of November.
Everyone knows that with the release of a new product there are bound to be problems and complaints. A major issue which some of their customers are facing with this new system is when they turn it on the only thing that is displayed is a flashing blue light indicating a hardware malfunction. Already named the “blue light of death” in reference to Microsoft’s Xbox’s “red light of death”. With this and some other minor faults, Sony has calculated that this affects less than 0.4 percent of all new systems released to date. Compared to the Playstation 3 where Sony lost around $5 billion in it’s first year, this new console is a much bigger success and is more appealing to the public. With all of this said, I think the PlayStation 4 will be the gaming console of the year, or at least until the next model is released. I look forward to reading more reviews on this product and to even try it out myself!
References:
The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/18/ps4-launch-us-sales-europe