PS4 Reveal: 3 Guidelines Sony Must Follow To Avoid A Catastrophe

1. Please Keep The System Operation Requirements Reasonable!

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Pictured above is the XBOX One Kinect, a motion sensor that allows for "social" games that require physical motion to play. In addition, it also serves to hear voice commands, detect physical movement, etc. etc...

Oh, and according to Microsoft, if you don't own one, you can't play your XBOX One. However, Microsoft has amended that statement, among several other aspects of their reveal that have been "misconstrued" (Read: Microsoft went nuts on the "features" of their systems and alienated actual gamers.

Now, the XBOX one has been marketed as a home entertainment system that will satisfy various aspects of a living room (or in my case a bedroom, because I can't shout FPS-related expletives and butt jokes in the living room), from interaction with your TV, to being able to affect the speaker sound to adjust to your position in the living room! Neat, huh?

In addition, the above Kinect also will welcome Skype functionality, allow for P2P communication over XBOX Live, and even "welcome" unfamiliar faces to the XBOX One system via facial recognition! Now, while all of this is truly groundbreaking and all... did Microsoft somewhere develop amnesia and realize they were competing against two other consoles? One of which, the Wii, jumped in sales after the reveal, and the other, the PS4, who's predecessor the PS3 already has several of the Kinect's "new" features such as Remote Play (with a PS Vita OR the "obsolete" PSP), social networking (chat features in the menus and the criminally overlooked PS Home) and the PlayStation Move?

But hey, don't take it from me, I'm just hoping Sony doesn't make a confusing disaster out of the PS4 reveal next month. That being said, this is what I hope you DO accomplish:

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