Considering we're past the two year mark on the new consoles and Microsoft have upped their game considerably with the Xbox One, it's about time Sony started making some headway in proving why they deserve such a substantial lead in sales. You need only look to 2016 for a pretty shocking release schedule too, as apart from Horizon: Zero Dawn and Uncharted 4 there's... The Last Guardian and...erm... Final Fantasy VII's remake? Honestly, it's such a bare slate of titles, that when you look to Microsoft's solid rollout of Gears of War 4, Crackdown 3, Quantum Break and Scalebound, really makes you question just where Sony's money is going. Thing is, the PS4 is an objectively fantastic piece of kit - both consoles are in 2015, in all seriousness - but simply because Sony and Microsoft have released machines with such similar specs under the hood, it only makes any issues and/or missing features stand out more than ever.
9. The Lying Loading Bars
The whole 'Play while you install' selling point of both consoles has been a little... undercooked, to say the least. On PS4 it took Sony a good year and a half to actually implement the function they advertised at the reveal event, and on Xbox One, not all the games actually support the function in the first place. Back on the Sony side though, slipping a disc in the drive will always result in a small white loading bar appearing over the game's tile. However, many newer games have started fast-tracking this initial load with a bar that fills up immediately, giving the impression that the game is ready to play - which just isn't the case. Both Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Star Wars Battlefront (to name but two) both do the 'quick install' thing and prompt you that they're ready to play, only for you to dive in and realise half the modes are restricted, because the game is still installing. Whether this is on the developer end and they've figured out a way to 'trick' Sony's OS into thinking the game is ready, or the PS4 itself doesn't recognise when certain assets are still being loaded in - the point is that it's always immediately off-putting, booting into a game that's incomplete when start trying to play.
