I finally got a hands on with the Playstation 4.

I went to visit some friends for a weekend recently and got a hands on with the Playstation 4.  Something I have been wanting to check out for a while now.  I have an Xbox One, I really enjoy it, been playing Titanfall, but I also have a PS3 that gets a lot use a Blu-ray player but not much else.  First off I am impressed with Playstation 4 install times from putting the disc in, to starting the install, and then playing the time it takes on Playstation 4 compared to Xbox one is a huge difference.  Xbox one takes a lot of time before the game is ready, and the Playstation 4 I would say took less than five minutes to get me know the game was ready to play, so I started story mode in Killzone: Shadow Fall.  Game looked amazing, rain in my opinion looked like people were outside getting rained on very impressed.  I didn't play to much of the game because lets be honest at a friends house hogging their Playstation 4.  Which they also got the game for me from the local library.  I was able to try the Vita controller option didn't do much other than control, and see the menus on my screen on the Vita cool, but not like oh wow I really need this.  I played some Knack which if you own a PS4 and are looking for a great game for you and possibly children this game looks amazing is a lot of fun to play I played it way to long while just trying it.  My friends did not have the new PS4 eye yet, not surprising I have been reading supply is hard to come by.  I wanted to try out this with the controller with games using the Eye, but sometime soon hopefully.  The controller is great, felt great, loved the R and L bumpers triggers on it.  Loved the touch pad and all, not sure about the light on it though didn't get to see how it affects battery life after long use.  The speaker built it was great, and I really enjoyed the extra feedback that it gave.  Some would say well the Wii has had that for a long time, but it sounded decent and only provided feedback occasionally so that was a nice feature on the controller.  I signed in to PlayStation Network account and let them use of my Plus account so they can play the free games that come out.  It was easy, and great.  I also played Madden which I don't normally play sports games, and it was fun.  I don't really have any complaints about the system but since I have an Xbox One.  I have decided I  refuse to own both current generation consoles as I did last generation, to costly, to many games to play on both systems.  So I am setting out to either not own one at all, or wait until it is cheap and I can buy one and get some great games as well for a better price.  As I said previously I really enjoy my Xbox One and will continue to play games on it when I'm not using it as the worlds most expensive Netflix Machine.  Please excuse my poor use of grammar, and this blog post is opinion of course, thank you for reading!

Gaming community in a uprising after receiving little and vague information about the Xbox One.

<p dir=ltr>I love the gaming industry, and community first off, so when new systems are launched and talked about I get excited. After the recent reveal of Xbox One and Playstation 4 earlier this year it is amazing to see how much the communities and side will fight over almost nothing. I was underwhelmed by both the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 press conferences. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Sony showed a lot of developer information and videos of games and developers explaining why the new Playstation 4 experience is great and remarkably powerful. They showed their new controller with some impressive new features. I think I and everybody else was pretty disappointed by not actually seeing the console. I think this was a strange move that upset a lot of gamers, but I don't know if it wasn't finished with design or just likes to leave excited and confused. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Microsoft and Xbox One, they showed the console which is great, supposedly virtually silent and had bluray as well. New Kinect, new hardware of course, and new controller. The console while design whise isn't the future of design or looks like something out of the future, I want something that looks more professional and isn't oh another gaming console in your living room. I think it looks sharp and sophisticated. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Kinect features fine tuned, faster, and can read your heart rate during game play cool and creepy. Smaller, better large and close up camera recognition from what I understand.&#160;&#160; I know everyone is still it is such a gimmick in today's gaming worldwide, I like my current Kinect and think it offers great features so I am excited about Kinect 2.0 possibilities. </p>
<p dir=ltr>The controller while not to much different, smaller battery compartment, new directional pad, and more customisable settings for trigger sensitivity is interesting. Size to me looks fairly similar, but I am excited for a smaller battery hump on the back. </p>
<p dir=ltr>Not a lot of game play or footage, I was still not disappointed, they showed what they wanted and I am sure have saved more things than we can handle for the E3 press conference. </p>
<p dir=ltr>I will most likely have both systems at some point, or at least play them, but I feel Microsoft will have my vote again in this next console generation. I am excited for the future of gaming even with big changes in online, drm for disc's, and the unfortunate loss of backwards compatibility on both systems. </p>
<p dir=ltr>I think hardcore gamers are upset with too much Kinect, focus on tv, and apps on Xbox, but we've been their for a while now and it doesn't show signs of slowing down soon so I think we should embrace it with playing games that we all enjoy the story and universes of gaming that we enjoy and love. </p>
<p dir=ltr>I'm not the biggest fan of the Xbox HDMI in on Xbox one since I've cut away from cable and satellite for online and local broadcast television&#160; only. I hope maybe the input hdmi port could be used for the Xbox 360 for use for old games, and switching using the new Kinect app switching features. </p>
<p dir=ltr>I think we should enjoy these changes, complain less about the future of gaming, and look forward to things to come. After all we know little to nothing about how all that new console features, and designs will work until we are able to try them ourselves later this year. </p>
<p dir=ltr>This is my two cents about how I feel about gaming, Xbox One and Playstation 4. </p>

Merry Christmas

It has been a wild and crazy year, I have loved most of it.  I have had an amazing Christmas, and am looking forward to the New Year and its excitement.

So here is looking at everyone a toast to 2011 and a toast for 2012!

Welcome, Please seat yourself.

This Blog has been started by me, Hartman, to post stories about life, stories about games, and movies I like and don't like.  So its going to be random, and that is the way I am.  I might explain the Blog title someday as well.  So until then welcome, and as stated in the title please seat yourself.