Re: Who is upgrading consoles to Next Gen this Christmas?
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:50 pm
Wow, I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I really don't get how so many people are willing to change their stance on buying consoles because a game comes out, and more importantly how many people will buy launch consoles.
Protip: never buy launch hardware unless you are okay with potentially being a beta tester, every hardware ever has and always will have some problem at launch and you're just gambling on wether or not you get that problem until a better batch of consoles is manufactured and there's not much point getting a launch console anyway since it's expensive and there aren't that many consoles which had great libraries on day one.
Buying a console for one game is always a bad idea. I understand "oh there's this game and those games will come out later", but why not wait until those games come out later too?
And before someone says this isn't a thing with the PS4: it seems to be better than some past launches which I will praise Sony for but it does have a few issues, most notably glitches with the hard drive requiring the removal of it(and I heard with some people those can come back).
Of course, ehh take it with a shaker of salt since I bought the 3DS and Wii U a launch due to being a Nintendo nut and we all know the former black screened on some people (though not me) and the latter crashed on a lot of people (me) I'm just saying it's something to think about. Unless you really (and I mean REALLY) want the new technology in your room or love the launch lineup, there isn't that much reason to buy day one consoles, or even buy a new console until it gets more attention, exclusives etc.
If you haven't had a launch-day console with some issue yet, consider yourself lucky.
And don't take this as PS4-bashing... I want to see that console succeed, but it's not perfect guys! The road to success is made out of failure, I'm just saying all consoles do this, and using the PS4 as an example because I've seen a lot of people hyping it to no end and not remembering that these could be problems on their console.
Protip: never buy launch hardware unless you are okay with potentially being a beta tester, every hardware ever has and always will have some problem at launch and you're just gambling on wether or not you get that problem until a better batch of consoles is manufactured and there's not much point getting a launch console anyway since it's expensive and there aren't that many consoles which had great libraries on day one.
Buying a console for one game is always a bad idea. I understand "oh there's this game and those games will come out later", but why not wait until those games come out later too?
And before someone says this isn't a thing with the PS4: it seems to be better than some past launches which I will praise Sony for but it does have a few issues, most notably glitches with the hard drive requiring the removal of it(and I heard with some people those can come back).
Of course, ehh take it with a shaker of salt since I bought the 3DS and Wii U a launch due to being a Nintendo nut and we all know the former black screened on some people (though not me) and the latter crashed on a lot of people (me) I'm just saying it's something to think about. Unless you really (and I mean REALLY) want the new technology in your room or love the launch lineup, there isn't that much reason to buy day one consoles, or even buy a new console until it gets more attention, exclusives etc.
If you haven't had a launch-day console with some issue yet, consider yourself lucky.
And don't take this as PS4-bashing... I want to see that console succeed, but it's not perfect guys! The road to success is made out of failure, I'm just saying all consoles do this, and using the PS4 as an example because I've seen a lot of people hyping it to no end and not remembering that these could be problems on their console.