# PS4- kind of disappointed **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 2, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps4-kind-of-disappointed/694645 "2014-08-02T14:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps4-kind-of-disappointed/694645/21 "2014-08-05T20:07:41Z")
> [@Macca26](#): > > ETA: My consensus is don’t buy consoles on launch.\*\* In fact, don’t buy first run consoles at all.\*\* You should’ve bought a cheapo PS3, honestly. Tons more games at a fraction of the price. And you don’t even get backwards compatibility with the PS4. This is actually a super good point these days, where every console is all but guaranteed to come out with a ‘slim’ version at some point. I mean, you can argue a little bit that that the “original” PS3s with backwards compatibility were the superior models, but frankly, I still don’t think backwards compatibility holds a lot of value as a selling point. It’s nice from a “historic archives” standpoint, but at this stage, you can run your PS2 games on your PC pretty much of time. ---
**Author:** ![orangeapples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@orangeapples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orangeapples)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps4-kind-of-disappointed/694645/22 "2014-08-06T02:09:46Z")
> [@Airk](#): > > I think that sounds like rose-colored glasses, **orangeapples** ; My longstanding policy (which dates back to, I believe, the PS1 era) is “For the love of Bob, don’t buy the thing anywhere near launch.” Release lineups are pretty much always ONE or at most TWO in-house titles that are pretty good (though which will generally be considered “okay” or “forgettable” by the time the system retires) and a modest selection of stuff that is basically junk from third party publishers who rushed to make it into the launch window. > > Say what you like, but it ALWAYS takes a few years for the really GOOD games to start coming out for a system. No one looks back on the PS1 and says “Damn, I really miss playing Battle Arena Toshinden!” I mean the “best” game in the PS2 launch lineup is probably freakin’ Ridge Racer. z.z > > [Here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_launch_games). Read 'em and weep. > > This generation of consoles actually has MORE games than any previous one. That said, not all of those games “new” anymore either and that’s leaving out things that can be argued to be “not real games”; I mean, Angry Birds: Star Wars for the PS4 and Xbox One? Really? > > But no, there’s nothing new about this at all. Yeah, I figured I was idealizing. I do, upon reflection, have at least some rationale to offer. The PS2 was my first DVD player, and the PS3 is still my only Blu-Ray, plus there’s the Netflix. That probably helped fill in the gaps a bit. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps4-kind-of-disappointed/694645/23 "2014-08-07T13:41:18Z")
> [@orangeapples](#): > > Yeah, I figured I was idealizing. I do, upon reflection, have at least some rationale to offer. The PS2 was my first DVD player, and the PS3 is still my only Blu-Ray, plus there’s the Netflix. That probably helped fill in the gaps a bit. 🆒 If you got them at launch, you also had backwards compatibility, which can help. You’re still using your new console even if you’re playing old games. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ps4-kind-of-disappointed/694645.md?page=1)