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## Video: PlayStation 4: Hardware Review

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_Published 2013-11-20. Watch here to to see Matt Peckham and Matt Vella Review the PlayStation 4 console._


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] What, what do you think of, of the controller? You know, sort of main, main points of hardware. Very interesting. Similar to the DualShock, to the prior system DualShocks, but longer sort of handlebars for the grips. The thumbsticks are just a little further apart so, when you hold the controller, your thumbs sit on it a little more naturally, a little more ergonomically The, you know, the light, there is a light on the front of the controller which will change. At one point you were a police officer chasing me in a car driving game, and my light was red because I was the bad guy and your light was blue Yeah.

That kinda stuff is small, it's a little gimmicky but it's interesting, you know, and it seems, it gives them something to build on, really, going forward. Softwarewise, what, what did you think? Things seem to be a little more simple on the, at the entry point. Just having a system that's as refined and smooth, it's fast. It's gonna interface with your social networks. [ NOISE ] And importantly, it's going to sort of bring up the power of the console to sort of make it relevant to the sort of gamer that would be playing the high- end PC games. It's gonna bring it back into the living room. It's been seven years.

Today I was reminded that several times of that sort of early iPhone per, you know, moments when they had all of these technologies built in and, you know, when you got your first iPhone it was, like, well, what can I do with this? Not much, right, and it took awhile for developers to actually use those features. And it, it feels like we're there, like, there's speaker and the controller. To do what, is like the question, you know, like but, there's a lot of potential. Everything you saw today worked together really well and really smoothly which is really impressive.

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