So, let's look on Sony official PS4 video about target users. What we see?

  • Guy lives in a dilapidated, decaying garage
  • No furniture except for ancient snack fridge
  • Only valuable thing is a big LCD TV and PS4 (on a wooden pallet table?)
  • Has gigabit internet connection (seriously, downloading 25 GB game in a minute?)
  • Can spend 60-80$ on a whim because other guy mentioned game in passing
  • Has to watch Youtube cheat movies in background to win games
  • Dumb, unwieldy QWERTY screen keyboard, year after Valve shown them how it is done in Big Picture
  • Friends can invigilate you 24/7, including big screen messages. Tiny Steam popups, anyone?
  • Guy is immature kid that can only communicate with others with text chat. Seriously, the girl is holding a phone, why not ask her in person? Or is that feature simply impossible and you need XBOne with Skype for that? :>

And people say Microsoft is divorced from reality...

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Both are divorced from reality if you ask me :)

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Maybe. Wouldn't be surprised :P

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Ok,you cannot judge a product or the vision of the producers from only 1 clip.Let's not forget Sony always had a certain trolling habbit in videos,especialy now when Xbox 1 is so hated everywhere in the world according to statistics.It's just a TV spot (internet spot,call it how you want it) and it shouldn't be so much analized,just consider it a troll from Sony's part.

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It's a launch Ad. It's supposed to make us want to buy the product. It needs audience capable of identifying what is shown on screen. If Sony thinks the only people capable of identifying with their big event video are kids spending 95% of money on consoles to play yet another CoD clone, well...

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If you come to think of it,the average age of consumers is between 10 and 18 years old.

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Video game consumers*. And its 35-37 actually.

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Yeah,excuse my english.35-37? Well,each website has his own statistics...

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Who trusts these statistics? Alot of parents buy games for their kids, not for themselves.

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I buy other stuff on my consoles.

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I hated the Big Picture keyboard. Much prefer the one used in the PSP browser.

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Both are filled with social shit, but Sony isn't taking the dictator DRM route.

I don't really care, I have muh PeeCee.

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Meh, they only said DRM is left to publishers, who can do what they want. And, yeah, PC for life.

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PS3 and 360 had DRM decided by publishers as well. Heck, even Steam allows that, which is why you have some titles using additional DRM.

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Steam is also its own form of DRM.

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well yea but its 75% cheaper.. You can't get amazingly good games for PS3/Xbox for the price you can get for PC. I know since my PC games list is 50x larger and I'm pretty sure I spent the same amount of money. To me that's the biggest plus, and that's why Steam will lead the market even more from now on

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Like anything else, you just need to shop around. I didn't get hundreds of PS2, PSP and 360 games at high prices, thats for sure.

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Well, according to this guy: http://www.neowin.net/news/anonymous-xbox-engineer-explains-drm-and-microsofts-xbox-one-intentions Microsoft seems like it might be planning massive sales like steam does.

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yea but they require internet at all times.. I'm out.. Still I doubt they'll reach the prices you can get them for steam. Humble bundles are the most shocking examples

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I agree. I'd never buy it simply because I'm a PC guy. BUT, if I was going to buy a console, it wouldn't be one that required internet access at all. For several reasons, one of which being I like to mod my consoles for certain bonus aspects, like using M+K, getting access to mods for a game (I think morrowind had some you could install on a modded XBox), and things like that. This always online seems like a huge hassle to crack, even if someone already has all the actual coding done and you just need to install it. Also, I really don't want to pay a ton of extra money for a shitty camera I will literally never use.

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I'm aware. Hence Additional.

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Nice damage control. Keep fighting the good fight.

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Meh, if it's up to me, all consoles can die, wouldn't mind some of their exclusives migrating to PC then.

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You offer a subjective over-interpretation of generalist manipulative marketing material and Sony are the one's who are divorced from reality...

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What this wise man said.

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+1

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+42

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I don't normally +1, but when I do I prefer it over writing something.

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+9000

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And even one of he's points is wrong. One of the features from PS4 is that you can start playing games before they finish downloading, so he wouldn't need a gigabit internet connection

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You sound like another Butthurt microsoft fan trying to score points.

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i think you are taking too serious those ads! maybe you need to take some time outside the internet?

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The interface looks simple, the rest of the tv commercial just looks unrealistic... Maybe someone should do a slob pizza eater tv commercial spin off for them.

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Except for the video sharing, I could do most of those playing my xbox with my laptop next to me.

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That video was hilarious lol.

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You forgot

  • Has attractive female friend that also likes to play video games
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I'm sorry you can't find anyone. There are some "dating websites", I believe they are called, if you search Google. Maybe those will help.

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The video shows "how it has to be like" according to Sony obviously, not how is Xd.

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I guess, but the only one that has interesting ladyfolk is FarmersOnly. And nobody on that site likes video games.

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"....I believe they are called..."

You're not fooling anyone, Jade

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:'(

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I generally use a keyboard for my Ps3 if I need to send a message to someone. The new features look pretty cool though!

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Are you being serious?

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ARE WE WILLING TO FORGET THATS NOT A REAL VIDEO, IT WAS "LEAKED", AND HASNT BEEN CONFIRMED

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  • I see a "man cave" or somewhere private to play games because either your parents or siblings don't let me play in peace.
  • Hey man my dad has had that fridge in his family for ages and it still works... Don't hate on it.
  • T_T I blew my budget on a bitchen TV and a PS4 + Games... I couldn't afford a table, I have bills to pay ya know.
  • Man I love how I can download this game to a playable state (while playing Knack), then once thats far enough along I can start playing while the rest downloads in the background. Reminds me of when I got Starcraft 2, I could do the same thing!
  • Oh shit, my friend bought an awesome game that I have an interest in playing and could enjoy more because said friend and potentially other friends are playing it... better buy that shit on a total not at all planned whim.
  • Welp, I'm having issues with beating this boss, guess I'll look up how to fight him with a guide on gamefaqs or something. Oh? My friend posted a video of how she did it? Cool, I'll try that now.
  • Man this on-screen keyboard is an on-screen keyboard, its pretty awkward to use... then again, so is every other on-screen keyboard.
  • Huh? Got a message from someone? Better check it by pressing the playstation button on my controler. Oh its from her, I'll reply because I like talking to people. I suppose I could turn notifications off, but I like knowing when I get messages.
  • Sorry what was that last one? I couldn't hear you over the sound of my friend talking to me via my blu-tooth headset. And I don't think she heard you over the sound of her clearly being somewhere else doing her own thing because shes out getting a meal and I ate here.

Okay so I decided to have fun with this one and over analyzed your over-analysis.

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+3

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Loved it. 10/10 Would read again

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Social network in PSN (or whatever is it now) with a gamepad instead of steam /w a keybord. Seems worthy.

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PS4 support keyboard and mouse.

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so what? when I had a console (PS1, that was long ago), I was launching it just to play the games and not chatting with my friends with a gamepad or having 2 more input devices lying around. Smartphones and PCs are for social functions, not a console. Anyway, most people I know, who have consoles don't ever use them even if they know they exist at all.

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Btw, I can't find more relevant thread, so here you go IVX8P-PKEYD-34ABQ, 6N47Z-CN78C-45JDC those are keys for RIP Trilogy and Post Mortem. One of them is possibly already activated, that's why I've put two keys, so there'll be at least one successful ninja. Good luck.

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Yeah, Sony is totally forcing you to use the social functions....

oh wait.

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Yeah, you don't NEED to use the message function or mic, it's just an option of convenience for some people.

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Exactly. I, for example, love the fact that Dualshock 4 has built-in mic and a audio/headset jack. Will certainly use that a lot, and the share function. Being able to keep a video of the things that happpened in the last 15 minutes(or how many time you want if you set it before playing) is quite awesome. Its always nice to share some funny occurrences/glitches that happen in the game. That and the Ustream app is pretty neat(as I am already a fan of some streamer on PC)

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It's not about forcing, but in the vid social aspect took ~50% of the time. That's not surprising, what can interest people if this piece of junk is made from second-hand former PC details with s custom OS which can only run games and surf internet in a terrible browser? Why would gamers need to buy one? Oh, because ps4 has social functions, that's why!

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Erm, gamers already saw why they would want to buy one. That advertisement is targeted to the mainstream market.

You do not understand a whole lot about marketing, do you?

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Both PS3 and PS4 support keyboard and mouse, so if you are really into text chat just use that.

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PS2 supported keyboards too (USB though, sadly you couldn't plug a PS/2 keyboard into a PS2...)

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Maybe not, but said keyboard could be easily plugged into the original PS/2 (man, I remember using those back in the days)

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erm WTF!?

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xbox fanboys are so mad! (sad)

Edit: sorry for the generalization (you are mad)

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This is just a trailer of a guy using the PS4? No one said anything about this representing what every gamer supposedly is like

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+9000

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I really hope Sony does look at its customers this way. If true, it would mean they're indeed divorced from reality, and therefore likely to go under in the not too distant future.

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You discovered how every fucking ad works, with reidiculous situations that are not a reflect of the real life, good for fucking you.

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GPTrixie this is advertising, advertising this is GPTrixie.

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I dont know about you guys but for some reason reminds me steam except the part of capture game videos xD

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Closed 11 years ago by GPTrixie.