Mediocrity Awaits?

The Playstation 4 launched last week on the 15th of November 2013 after over 10 months of marketing and game reveals generated tons of hype to the point where the PS4 managed to break industry records and sold over 1 million units in it's 1st day in North America. However, the luanch line up for the console, which includes games like Knack, Killzone: Shadow Fall etc was less than stellar and there have been alot of reports about PS4's being bricked after fiirmware updates, PSN servers being unable to handle the loads and wobbling consoles of all things.

By the time this entry is up, the Xbox ONE will also have launched in North America, Europe and Australia and the reception of it's launch games, although better than the PS4's lineup, hasn't been that great either and I'm sure that once the console is out in the market we'll see plenty of functionality issues plague the console just as much as it's counterpart. The only titles that performed well critically in the Xbox ONE library were Forza Motorsport 5 and Dead Rising 3 and for the PS4 Resogun turned out to be the best title in it's lineup despite having a promising looking Killzone title in the mix.

As bad as it may look, that was all expected. It is after all, a console launch and those are always shaky at best, this console launch continues the tradition of broken functionality, failing consoles and lackluster launch titles that plagued the launches of the preceeding generation of consoles but things will get pick up again very quickly with titles like Infamous: Second Son, Watch Dogs, The Witcher 3, MGS V, Titan Fall and Quantum Break well on their way to populate the shelves at some point next year.

Until then, for those of you who haven't already sunk some cash into these consoles, I'd advise you to wait. It's never really a good idea to buy these machines at launch unless you have cash to spare or derive pleasure from the thrill of making a purchase at launch night. You're better off waiting for the manufactureres to work out all the kinks in their systems and for the game librarys to grow and not to mention price drops, the ideal time to jump into a console generation in my opinion would be after the first price drop which will probably happen after about a year after launch.

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