Sony: There's Never Been a Better Time to Join the PS4 Community

Except I live in the EU where your prices are sky high and the PSStore is the definition a wasteland.

@get2sammyb remember in ads they say "Except in ROI"? There has never been a better time to join the PS4 community. Except in ROI. We are the ROI in this instance.

Also, PS4 community? What about all your other consoles and ventures and oh wait.

@get2sammyb I jumped on the PS4 ship a week ago, and already I'm loving the numerous little cock ups. Store inconsistencies, errors, Arkham Knight has been a glitch fest to parallel Sonic 06, it's been the next generation as I truly imagined it.

@Volcanox Luckily prices in the EU tend to be very competitive even without an official price drop.

@mookysam Not for a student they aren't.

Arkham Knight has been fun. Had guys fall through the floor in the first missions, numerous raining indoors issues, hell, the game crashed when I first selected Start Story. I had a mission fail to load, some objects have stopped loading, and in a few instances a waypoint has gone in the opposite direction.

I'm waiting for Batman's body to vanish.

I had Arkham Knight freeze up during one of my marathon sessions but that was after about nine straight hours of use. I would hardly say it's a glitch fest. I've got other problems with the game but I won't get into that here. I don't know if I'm just lucky or if maybe there's something that makes the game play better on North American PS4s than EU PS4s?

@Gamer83

I have other problems with the game too. Yes. Yes I do.

If Battlefront gets good reviews, I may jump on that. I played Uncharted trilogy to death and lacking mp means no splitscreen with my bro, the best value that Uncharted 3 offered us.

Sometimes I feel I should wait for the Horizon bundle.

@Volcanox Unfortunately for you that seems to be the exception, not the rule, as that game has been praised pretty universally on both consoles. If you feel like the UI on the ps4 is bad, then don't give the Wii u or X1 a try, they are alot less responsive in my experience, and seem to have alot more glitches as well.

@SonyInfinity I can navigate the Wii U eShop just fine.

I have no idea who the hell signed off on the search function for the PS Store, or decided how to organise things.

@Volcanox
Imo, the most disappointing game so far this gen. But I have a feeling my reasons would be different than yours. I actually enjoy the open world and hand-to-hand combat but the Batmobile was a chore (putting it mildly) and there were story things that bothered me. I'll just leave it at that though because there's a thread for the game in the forums where that can be discussed.

Anyway, I'd agree with Sammy, that Layden is mostly talking U.S. considering this is where he's based and I'd agree him with that now is the best time to get a PS4. But at the same time, 2013 was the launch year and 2014 was the first year and only had one really good exclusive among a lot of disappointing cross-gen games. So to say this year has been better? He's right but it's also a duh statement.

@Volcanox I got mine for £280 with a game which I thought was a good price. It's not cheap but they can't exactly be expected to reduce the price to £100 right away.

@mookysam £339 for the 1TB Model from GAME. Because Ive seen the patches. I'm down 100GB already.

@Volcanox - "I have no idea who the hell signed off on the search function for the PS Store"

I've been working with computers for over 30 years, and that's one of the worst input methods I've ever come across. MS-DOS would be a step up.

I have to agree w/ the truthiness of the sentiment - there has never BEEN a better time, but will personally add, there WILL BE a better time, when Uncharted 4 launches.

And smart call on the day before price drop announcement. PS4 sales fell nearly to zero w/ that 3 weeks heads up in Japan. People who bought 1 the past couple of weeks will be perturbed, but thats the risk you take. Don't buy any electronics device 2 years after launch if it's still at Day 1 MSRP, a price drop will come sooner or later. Well unless Nintendo owns it.

@rjejr

I'm not going to sugar coat what happened when three of my housemates (Two on a Computing degree, one works for an IT firm) saw me using the Store. Searching for Arkham Knight (£55 btw) and using said function lead to all of them, at once saying the same thing: "What the f*** is that?"

Last time I had THAT reaction was after the 4 hour intro to Kingdom Hearts 2.

@rjejr
Well, the Wii U price drop has to be next right? No way Nintendo is going to go into this holiday at the current price now that both PS4 and Xbox One are only $50 more.

@Gamer83 I honestly don't know anymore. I'm still waiting for the 3DS XL to drop, it's been $199 since launch in August 2012, that's over 3 years. I know they just updated it and added a C-stick and better 3D effect, but for the most part it's still the same 3 year old system at the launch price. So Nintneod may think adding Splatoon into the box w/ MK8 functions as a price drop. Which I suppose it does, for people who want Splatoon. But if you want Super Mario Maker and Super Smash Bros U the bundled games at the $300 price isn't really going to help much. Why isn't SMM bundled, it's the only game they've marketed? I think Ninnteod has been in disarray for years due to the Wii U's failure after the Wii's success, having it's President die just exasperated the problem. I'm guessing the new President hasn't established himself in full control yet, and they are all just having meeting after meeting trying to decide what to do about Wii U and NX. They may also think giving away Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival as a free download - if that is indeed the case - counts as incentive, even though you need AC amiibo to play it.

And then there's timing. I think timing a price drop next Friday to tie in w/ Yoshi's Wooly World makes the most sense in the US, those yarn Yoshi are adorable, but Japan and the EU already had that game months ago. I'm not sure anything will motivate sales in the EU, and Mario Tennis on Nov 20th seems way too late for a holiday price drop, and XCX isn't going to appeal to parents buying Christmas gifts.

So yes, Wii U should get a price drop next Friday, just not sure if it will. And sad part is, it probably won't sell either way, the holiday line-up is lackluster. Maybe $199 could motivate some folk who want the older back catalog, but not $249. Maybe they are having an internal corporate struggle over the amount to drop? I can't figure out Ntinedo. Last thing I knew for certain about Nitneod was 2 years ago when I knew no way no how was Zelda U a 2015 game. But I don't know what system(s) it's releasing on.

@rjejr
As a big sports fan, the best analogy I can make is that right now Nintendo reminds me of that team that's been scuffling throughout the game, the clock is ticking and yet no urgency has been shown. It's definitely a tough company to figure out. If we don't see a price drop sometime before Black Friday, there might not be a point in doing one, so I have to imagine something is incoming. If not, the holiday numbers could be real ugly, at least in North America.

@Gamer83 Running w/ your sports analogy, Nintendo board room discussing a Wii U price drop.

@rjejr

IMO the best thing Nintendo could do is to market Yokai Watch on 3DS to try to make an impact that way. AC AF will be leading the Wii U charge (as much as it disgusts most gamers) along with its evergreen MK8 and Splatoon. Mario Maker is way too new to bundle with other games and the potential to play infinite Mario levels and create your own should be incentive enough to put those extra $60.

@sinalefa - "Mario Maker is way too new to bundle"

You do realize most gaming companies bundle the games when they release, there is no such thing as "too new". See SW:B, Uncharted Collection, Destiny, etc. Yoshi Wooly World and 1 yarn amiibo should have been bundled, SMM actually already has been bundled but only at Walmart, they should just make that the console bundle everywhere, either SMM and amiibo or MK8 and Splatoon, those should be the 2 choices. The Wii U is selling so poorly, why limit the SMM amiibo bundle to Walmart?

I suppose Yoshi isn't famous enough, but the SMM bundles should be everywhere. MK8 is too old if you ask me, that's already been bundled, should have bundled Spaltoon w/ SSBU then people could play "find the amiibo".

@rjejr

And you do realize Nintendo is not like most gaming companies? We both know there is a SMM bundle but my point is they wont put SMM and say Splatoon in the same bundle. Maybe an ancient game like Nintendo Land.

@rjejr
LOL, it really wouldn't surprise me if that pic is somewhat accurate. Still can't believe how the Nationals fell apart this year.

@sinalefa OK, so no SMM AND Splatoon in the same package, that makes sense, have to leave something out for people to buy.

Well, I would argue the best time to jump into Playstation was the PS2 era.

But if we're talking about PS4 only, then sure... I can agree with that. But then again it's perpetually the "best time to jump in" because the library only gets better as time moves forward.

It's never been a better time to be a Vita owner though. Not that that's saying much, but Persona 4: Dancing All Night is dang near worth owning the system for IMO.

There's never been a better time to comment on a Push Square article.

@Volcanox "I jumped on the PS4 ship a week ago, and already I'm loving the numerous little cock ups. Store inconsistencies, errors, Arkham Knight has been a glitch fest to parallel Sonic 06, it's been the next generation as I truly imagined it."

Give it back your within your rights.

On the other hand I paid £11 for Infamous, £10 for Resogun and £36 for a pre paid ps plus and am loving it. When Samsung soap bars sell for £400 each and iPhones £600 let alone cars and holidays I cant think of better value than £279 for a ps4 with mgs v. If you think that's expensive get a job and save not even a full weeks money even in a crap job. I've heard this very same rubbish from another commenter on here before. £279 is not a lot of money, unfortunately whereas I sold my last gen gear last summer to fund my ps4 your too late.

Well done for buying a ps4 with 1 game which is multi format and complaining go buy Assasind creed unity if you want to complain some more.

£279 is about 43 hours on minimum wage.

whoa!! neat! I'm getting one next year though, that's when all of the rpg's start coming stateside. (^_^ )/

Still not for me. I'm not interested in their game library right now

@themcnoisy £339 with Knight at £55, MKX at £35, PS+, Mega man for £11.99, Binding of Isaac, Dust, Axiom Verge.

Then let's factor in the 52 hours a week on university study and therefore the capped 15 hours max zero hour contract of work I can do on Saturdays based on if there is an event I can work that doesn't require me to spend the £27 I get for it on a taxi home at 3am because I'm only paid for the hours I'm on site.

Then we add other expenses like the £1077 rent for student accommodation, software licence fees, living costs, other sudden expenses like repairs and travel.

It's all well and good being able to have a full time job but I'm not in a position since it would mean sacrificing degree time and wasting the £9000 tuition fee I'm spending to get a better job down the line. Take into account the situation and consider we all aren't as fortunate ad you and are working damn hard to get to where you are, before you throw stones. You probably would have been in a similar position once, and I wouldn't call you out without considering your economic factors.

@Volcanox your games selection is pants.

£1077 rent for student accommodation,

My mortgage is £605 you need to shop around bud. Well done for going to uni though and eventually you will be rolling in it. Sorry man we had someone on here who said this type of thing every article.

@themcnoisy My games selection is "pants" and understandably limited. New box and all that.

As far as Accommodation goes. £1077 for 3 months covers everything included. Issue is I only get £2500 to cover everything until Xmas. And with my aforementioned job, I'm wanting to get the best from the system asap otherwise the lackluster purchase feelings can set in really quickly. That's just the situation myself and others are in.

Yeah well done for uni. One hell of a debt to be a game designer huh? It's something like £16000 per academic year. And those 52 hours are just for the pass grade.

It's quite funny. I'm only more vocal about the aforementioned Knight screws up because I know how a game works and functions. It gets the mind racing to work out why these things occur but with WB attached one doesn't need to look far for an appropriate answer It's the downside of being in the business. You get overly critical