PS4 Is Reeling in First-Person Shooter Fans, Says Sony

Kinda strange, to be honest. Especially since Microsoft already said that the Xbox One is the "Best Place to Play shooters" this week.

hmmm.. if Sony had the FPS crowd then Microsoft would have no one... Since the Xbox One is still selling decently i would say they still have the FPS crowd

Only PS4 FPS I can think of I've enjoyed so far is Wolfenstein. Everything else has been lacking, but I am a bit picky with FPS games, so maybe not the best person to ask. Looking forward to Doom next year. And bring back Timesplitters & Unreal Tournament to PS4!

Let's just hope PSN doesn't get bogged down with DDOS this Xmas as it may hurt Sony alot more than last Xmas.

@LieutenantFatman Unreal Tournament has been brought back on PC and its as good as ever. Stil in beta though. Not sure if it will come to console though.

@SoulsBourne128 Sony also say something similar, but I take whatever ever Sony and Microsoft say with a pinch of salt.

I hear a lot of COD fans like the PS4's controller better than XBONE's. I myself liked the PS3 controller a lot.

@get2sammyb I guess it sounds reasonable. Thanks!

Its not surprising that 'Sony' is reeling in the FPS fans as it has all the 'big' franchises affiliated to it. The biggest being CoD - regardless of what people think its still the biggest selling FPS game each year. Add on Star Wars: Battlefront and of course Destiny - the biggest selling New IP - its only going to increase too.

Xbox may have 'Halo' but as a long term Halo fan, Halo 5 is a long way from what I like and want from a Halo game. I don't know the ins and outs surrounding the CoD change, but I do feel that MS and 343 are trying to emulate CoD's formula and eSport market. Its campaign has significantly shrunk as well!

I am sure that a lot of the CoD players - both professional and big fans will be joining he PS too - if they haven't already!

Im seriously a little worried that PS4 will end up being the Xbox 360 shooter community of this gen. (Obnoxious people that end up being recorded on Youtube for screaming and swearing as well as disturbing messages that people send that appear on social media.)

I would say Sony made a really smart move updating their controller. They allowed Bungie to give advice and input on the Dualshock4 and they helped design it, with shooters (specifically destiny) in mind. It is such a great controller IMO, the best of any I have ever owned personally, it just fits right and the triggers are so responsive. That was the biggest gripe about shooters on the ps3. Also think that most xbox players prefer the 360 controller over the One controller, a step backwards for many. Add these up along with Sony gobbling up all the major fps marketing deals, and the shooter tide has turned my friends. Oh yea, Super hyped for fallout! Especially after hearing a lead designer for the shooting mechanics for destiny came to Bethesda to help make fallout shooting mechanics that much better! Another good use for the DS4!

@SoulsBourne128
I can't really argue that they're wrong. Sony has the marketing deals but Star Wars and CoD are still on Xbox One along with the big exclusive in Halo 5. The real difference maker, though, is Xbox Live. Online multiplayer is the big deal in these games and XBL is still the better, more stable network.

@TheHeroOfLegend
This is exactly what I'm worried about and even start to notice more often lately. If you go online now you see a different kind of PS community than you saw 5 years back. At first I thought it was due to the fact they once again got a taste of "victory" and wanted to be "the best" so bad, that lots of PS owners just went a little overboard and I expected it to stop once the novelty wore off.

But it hasn't stopped and I would even say it's getting worse every MS announcement. I now honestly think that the 360 kids of yore, have jumped ship and now do exactly the same as what they did when they owned a 360, or maybe even worse to justify their change of consoles. We see people online heavily defending Sony where it isn't necessary at all and even worse: trying to spoil other people's fun by constantly telling them their console sucks.

For me this sort of behavior is new. I'm a PS fan since day one and we're mostly people who were fed up with Nintendo not listening to us and treating us like infants. PlayStation was build on user feedback and that is why I wholeheartedly supported their "this is for the players" slogan. But these days it seems you can't discuss PS's flaws openly and God forbid if you compliment the competition on what they're doing. I even noticed it in stores, where the sales difference between PS4 and the One and Wii U is most visible. With the release of FIFA I went to a gameshop and PS4 owners came in in droves to pick up their game, dressed like your typical dudebros, looking tough and walked away as fast as they could after paying. But in the visibly smaller One corner there were Xbox owners who were complete strangers chatting with one another and exchanging usernames. For me this was really telling, because for me this was how Nintendo and PlayStation gamers behaved, being polite and discussing games with complete strangers simply based on the love for our hobby.

I know this is one example and PushSquare is the living proof it doesn't have to be that way. But with every ship that sails into the PS bay some rats will come along and lots of the toxic players that used to spoil games like CoD on the Xbox, are now proud PS4 owners; but they feel they have to show their pride different than we are used to do.

@Boerewors
The Sony Defense Force has been out of control since last-gen. I actually think it's a little toned down the last few years compared to the early PS3 days. At least on youtube anyway which is the website I frequent most after this one and Pure Xbox. Last gen the PS3 fanboys on youtube were out of control bordering on crazy. This gen, it's the complete opposite. On this website? It's PS-specific so you're going to get the people who think Sony is perfect. I still would rather discuss games with this community than the one over on Nintendo Life.

Sorry but no Sony, you may own every title as PS4 is doing great, but FPS (thankfully) still stronger on Xone and PC.

Why do people think the PS network is unstable or lacking? I can't even remember the last time I had a problem with it, and even at and around launch it was very few and far between. My buddy primarily uses xbox live and both of us agree that the two are identical in terms of quality, outages, and service. I think people just assume it's like it was 5 years ago and haven't even tried it to see the difference. I logged on Destiny everyday for months and may have had two or 3 times where I had to wait a max of 20 minites, seriously. Both services are great and both offer good value IMO, enough with the one is better than the other, it's simply not true anymore.

Oh, and more people play shooters on ps4 bc it has sold twice as many units and shooters are the #1 genre for all intents and purposes. Of course there will be more fps fans on ps4, along with rpg fans, racing fans, fighting fans, etc...

I think both PS4 and One have awesome controllers and awesome FPS games - for example I would not want to miss out on Halo and Titanfall, and I also love Killzone, games like CoD and Battlefront are imo not better on any of those two they look and play exactly the same on both consoles.

FPS games are let down on console by a lack of mouse support. Which is sad considering the PS4 has mouse support built in. At least the Elite controller looks like it goes some way to making up for that shortcoming.

@LieutenantFatman @WARDIE

If UT does come back to console there's some hope for me yet! (UT on the PS3 was, I think, the only FPS that had mouse support).

Footnote: I know it's possible to buy converters/mice that mimic dualshock stick movement but they don't really cut it compared with native in-game support.

Judging by Amazon best seller lists it seems COD and Fallout are both selling better on PS4 than X1, though I realise the install base is larger for Sony.

@Pipr Thats a per-game issue. Unreal Tournament 3, Counter-Strike: GO, Dust 514 (to name a few high profile FPS games) on the PS3 supported Keyboard and Mouse, and there are already a few on the PS4 that support it (and some non-FPS games like FFXIV). So its not a matter of the consoles not supporting it, its a matter of the devs not including it because its not wanted enough by console gamers for them to bother.

@thedevilsjester

Your right that it's a per game issue but I think Sony miss out on a chunk of the PC gamer market by not pushing devs to include it. I know friends who haven't switched to consoles for this specific reason. They like the idea of not having to upgrade every 18 months but lack of mouse support on fps games is a deal breaker.

Thanks for the info on the other ps3 games with mouse support. I wasn't aware of those.

Also which ps4 games support mouse? (last time I Google this I drew a blank). Thanks

@Pipr I don't really understand it. The games already have keyboard and mouse support on the PC, and the additional code to map that to the PS3/PS4 keyboard and mouse should be almost effortless.

@SonyInfinity Proof 360 controller felt better than One for a lot of people? I found it the opposite