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## Video: Behind the Scenes: The Launch of Playstation 4

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_Published 2013-11-18. For an entire week, PlayStation took over the entire Standard Hotel in New York City. For the console's midnight release, the line went on for blocks._


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## Transcript

Hi. I'm Matt Zella. I'm with Time Magazine. And I'm here with... Matt Pecam with Time as well. And we're going to check out Sony's Playstation 4 launch event in New York City, so let's check go. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ]. First lined up a sting, warning. Nine AM. We were in the line for 13 hours. Been here since three, oh that's pretty vicious. That's about nine, ten hours. You know? [ MUSIC ]. I'm getting pretty excited. Excited to see the new style of it. The PS4 is happening like once every seven years. I mean, how could I not be excited, you know what I'm saying? Sony's doing it big, Man. As if there's nothing like a launch party over in New York City.

Everybody's been looking forward to the PS4. The place is for example, is gonna be special because of the section media be in production. 24 / 7 we'll deal with people with the Play Station Network app. Having pretty good relationship with Indie Games, so. You know you can get a lot of those smaller titles with you and, you know, it's crossplay with Vita so I can take it on the go when I want. [ MUSIC ] Allright. Indescribable. So we finished up here at sound, and what did you think? Very impressive. Quite elaborate. Lots of technology and display a lot of developers that just having a system that is just refined, it's smooth, it's fast, it's gonna interface with your social networks, and importantly, it's going to sort of bring up the power of the console to sort of make it relevant to the sorta gamer that would be playing behind PC games.

It's gonna bring that back into the living room. Yeah. It's been seven years. There's a lot of potential. And everything we saw today worked together really well and really smoothly.

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