Why should you buy the PS4?

[MrPopo]

I've been keeping my eye on it because my 2 TB SSD is full. I gotta have my Dosbox games load fast.

[PartridgeSenpai]

PS4 does look a bit brighter for me
Last Guardian is on its way to my house.
Yakuza 0
Yakuza Kiwami
Yakuza 6
Shenmue III

I have an interest in Bloodborne, Until Dawn. I think there's enough out and coming out that it's going to be nice. I don't know if Microsoft is doing enough to entice me with the Scorpio.

Do we know if those Yakuza games are definitely coming out here? (Also I thought Yakuza 0 was a PS3 game, thought I could easily be wrong O.o) I keep forgetting to try out the ones I have XP

All announced during PSX to be coming to PS4. Kiwami is a remake of the first game. Yakuza 5 was the PS3 exclusive that took some lobbying to get to the west, but it came out in 2015 for us on PSN.

Do you like nonsensical, over-the-top violence, set in Japan? It involves tons of machismo tropes that aren't rooted in reality. But they're fun running around, getting into weird situations that often involve organized crime, and some grandiose scheme with lots of plot twists.

Oh, I've already got a couple! I picked up the HD remake/bundle of 1 & 2 on PS3 on Play-Asia a while back because those are hard to find in English (especially 2), and I also snagged Dead Souls because it was cheap and looked like stupid fun Xp

Definitely my next on my console hitlist

[Xeogred]

It feels like Japanese devs are taking back consoles. I like that.

[darsparx]

It feels like Japanese devs are taking back consoles. I like that.

But yet still not giving us a bunch of quirky stuff I'd love to play

[Blu]

Buying the Slim for 100$ less than the Pro makes absolutely zero sense. I have no idea why Sony is even releasing the thing this close to their more powerful console. If they were smart, they would include UHD blu-ray support for the Slim and people looking for a cheap blu-ray player would buy that.

Meh, for me it does. It's not $100 less, it's $150. I don't have and don't intent on jumping onto the 4K television market anytime soon. The upgrade in performance is negligible if I can play the games, and I'd be missing out on the pro's key features, given I don't have the display it's best suited for.

For starters, you wouldn't adopt this attitude around PC gaming. If it runs on a good framerate, and is playable, no need to go out and buy a new video card. If you're running at nearly 60 frames a second on a game on high settings, I don't think I'd justify rushing out and getting the new video card to get those 60 frames on Max settings.

Why buy into the logic they're selling you? You're getting extra draw distance, more condensed textures and maybe some framerate improvements on the games you already have. As developers grow into what the Pro has to offer, then maybe it will be worth it.

[ElkinFencer10]

Yeah, I absolutely see the point in having the Slim and the Pro, and I definitely support it. Sony has sworn that there won't be any "PS4 Pro Exclusive" games. The performance boost is definitely noticeable, but it's not as if the games are rendered virtually unplayable without the Pro (it's not like playing Hyrule Warriors Legends on a regular 3DS). I got the Pro because I'd been wanting to jump into the 4K market, and I wanted the increased performance from Playstation VR games, but it's definitely not a needed upgrade.

[isiolia]

I think the point is more about the pricing between the two models, rather than there being two models. Based on MSRP, there's only a $100 price gap ($299.99 to $399.99), which is arguably too narrow a gap for the difference in hardware. We've seen $50-100 gaps for consoles just for a larger HDD and more accessories, and here you're looking at literally twice the GPU along with other improved specs/subsystems (extra RAM for background tasks, better streaming, etc).

All else being equal, the Pro is the easy pick.

Catch is, right now, all else is not equal. The Slims are basically throwing in $100 of free stuff (~$50 each for Uncharted 4 and a year of PS+), and on top of -that- Amazon is selling them $30 under MSRP. Meanwhile, the Pro comes with jack (I think Amazon did drop $30 off of it at some point though).
Accounting for the bundled stuff, and the Slim is really more like $200-230 less than a Pro, currently, depending on where you buy it. Makes the MSRP gap kind of a moot point, at least right now.

If/when Sony has a barebones Slim SKU out there, or bundles stuff with the Pro as well, then that could change.

[Forlorn Drifter]

That's pretty much the reason I bought a Slim when I did, with the extras I was doing a lot better off. I got a the Uncharted Bundle, a $50 Amazon gift card, and the already reduced Amazon price. Mix that with the fact that the performance differences mean little to me (unless we end up with a Hyrule Warriors 3DS style issue, in which case I'll bitch until I buy a pro), I'm not interested in VR, and I don't have a 4K TV and it was a pretty easy choice for me.

Plus, being that I originally saved for the pro... more money for games! I picked up Bloodborne and The Evil Within to start on once I get to my parents.

[PartridgeSenpai]

I guess I'm in the odd situation where I only really have the option of getting the Slim or an Original (as I'm purchasing mah PS4 with credit card rewards points, so I can't really be choosey :/). That combined with the fact that there aren't any new games that I actually want to play (das what I got a PC for on the off occasion that I do), and I thought getting the slim made sense. (especially as it was prices half as high as the normal PS4 on that Visa Rewards program, when they were essentially exactly the same bundle O.o).

For those bringing up Hyrule Warriors Legends, I will agree that it does run unacceptably on non-NEW 3DS hardware, but it took quite a while after the NEW 3DS came out for that to come out. It's not like the original 3DS was shown to be obsolete on launch. The only NEW-3DS exclusive game that ever came out may have been at launch, but it was just a port of a Wii game. Especially with the Scorpio on the way for the Xbone-side of things, I think it's only a matter of time until (at least some) software gets to the point where it's basically HWL-level of bad (or something similar) on the Original and Slim PS4 hardware.

[Xeogred]

Anyone get a slim here that has experience with the original models? Are the slims a lot quieter? lol