Review on Game console Sony PlayStation 4 Slim 1000 GB HDD, black by Kenta Saito

Name: Game console Sony PlayStation 4 Slim 1000 GB HDD, black
Item: Game console Sony PlayStation 4 Slim 1000 GB HDD, black
Rating: 5

April 14, 2023

Great quality, did not expect at all for the price.

This is my second PS4 review. The first one I did was 2.5 years ago. In general, fundamentally, everything remained the same (surprising, right? :) But Sony still has some improvements:

1. Hardware: Slim now heats up less, makes less noise and consumes less electricity. Actually, because of the noise, I changed the fatku to a slim one. I don't need Glorius 4k gaming, but there is a request for silence. The new Wi-Fi module is also very handy, because. I regularly use remoteplay. On the fatte, it was not very "stable", and pulling the wire from the router through the entire apartment is not an option.

2. Programmatic: Time has shown that indie exclusives move more from competitor to curling iron (Inside, Lifeless Planet, Elite Dangerous, Superhot, The Long Dark, Deadlight, Shadow Complex) than in the opposite direction (only Firewatch comes to mind). The situation with the quantity and quality of AAA exclusives from Sony is again better in this generation than that of a competitor. You can't go far on Forze and Heilo alone, and the rest of the competitor's copies, in my opinion, are not competitive. The genre variability of Sony's exclusives is also better.

Separately, I note the Remote Play service. For me it was a revelation. For PVE and slow games I use it all the time. For competitive PVP, it certainly is not suitable. But again, I have an Apple ecosystem at home and remotplay is friends with it, unlike a competitor, which is only available for a certain version of Windows.

Pros

- Multiplatform looks better and/or more stable than the competitor (on basic versions, it's not about Pro and not about 1X). - Better situation with AAA exclusives and indie games (those already released and those announced at E3 2022) - Convenient and sophisticated joystick v.2 (added a light bar strip on the touchpad and work from USB - no lag) - There is "exclusive" support from 2022 streaming services like OKKO (Amediateka), IVI, etc. - Hassle-free hard drive replacement. I have a 480GB SSD. From which both the system and games are loaded. And try to change the hard drive from a competitor (and no additional tails stick out of the console). :)

Cons

For 2.5 years, something has been improved, but fundamentally they have not changed, namely: - The battery of the joystick is a disaster, a short USB cable. - Unstable operation of PSN. Either they hack, then they fall, then there are problems with credit cards, and the solution from technical support is almost always: "wait 3-5 days - it will be unlocked / rise / etc." By the way, finding their contacts on the site is another challenge. - There are "non-optimized" games - fps drawdown. Yes, Fallout, we're talking about you. This is Fail. And even a proshka will not help here. - Design. This parallelogram causes only disgust, in the curbstone there is a curling iron in the far corner, so as not to infuriate me with its disgusting appearance. I don’t know why, but I like the appearance of the competitor so much that I literally almost changed the platform because of this, I only stopped E3 2022, where it became clear that you won’t be fed up with Forza alone, but you want to play exclusives. - No backward compatibility with PS3. The Playstation Now service is not available in 2022.