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5.0 out of 5 starsSystem is Great, but Battlefront is not...
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2015
I feel I should state I'm not a PS fanboy - I own / have owned: Atari, 64, Gameboy, Wii, PS2, Nintendo, Xbox and enjoy games from all platforms. I got this as an early Christmas gift and am quite pleased with the PS4 system. It actually went on sale for $299 so was quite a deal.
The interface was hard to get use to, I previously had an Xbox 360 that I sold after I found out I could play most of the games on Steam using an Xbox controller; the two are quite different. I personally prefer the app style home screen of the Xbox 360 , but it didn't take long to get around on the PS4.
A drawback was the setup - I didn't understand a lot of the questions I was answering in regards to "rest mode" and ended up having more questions - for instance how long does it take to charge the controller so I can have rest mode set to x amount of hours? Do games download while in rest mode? What do the colors mean on the remote? All things I had to Google. For those interested; 2 hours to charge (so I changed rest mode to 2 hours vs. 3.) Yes you can download games in rest mode. Remote colors change for fun (from what I can tell) which makes sense because my Alienware laptop does the same thing when playing dying light.
The system came sufficiently packaged and with everything included as expected; controller, usb charging cable, Battlefront DL code etc. I was surprised to find an HDMI cable was included with the system and that the power plug is only 2 prong.
I was thrilled to find out it also plays blu-ray discs - I primarily wanted this to play the games I couldn't get on Steam and had previously looked into a blu-ray player, but this took care of that which made the price even more of a steal.
Something I didn't appreciate was not getting my free 14 day PS Plus trial. In the booklet and all over the Playstore it said if I signed up through the Playstore I could get the two weeks on top of my purchase, which wasn't the case. With my Xbox 360 it was simple to sign up for my free 30 day trial of Xbox Live. The PS4 may be over complicated in some areas, but I'm still happy with it.
The Battlefront game is quite horrible - unless you have PS Plus you're stuck with playing a handful of Missions in solo mode and even with PS Plus the online play gets boring fairly quickly. If I had to do it again I'd get the Uncharted bundle. I have cable internet at around 50mbps so to download the Battlefront game it took around 1-2 hours. If you want your kids to be able to open this and play right away I'd suggest buying an addition game on disc.
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