Sony PlayStation 4 Console 500 GB Edition Jet Black

The Playstation 4 does not disappoint! First of all I’m not a Playstation fan boy, I'm not even a fan of Sony. The PC has always been my main platform for gaming and although I’ve had the PS, PS2, most of the Nintendo consoles and an XBox 360 I’ve always felt at home on the PC. But I can't fault the Playstation 4, I only really bought it to play 3 games (The Last of Us, Beyond Two Souls and Until Dawn) and also to play Blu-ray content as I was building a small collection of my all time favourite films. As a gaming machine it's great, the controller is comfy and easy to use, but what really surprised me wasn't just the gaming capability but the media centre feel to it. The ability to navigate easily through menu's to play music, watch films, Netflix and browse the Web is excellent. People say the PS3 UI was better more fluid and easier to navigate but never owning one I can't find anything wrong with the PS4's UI. The Playstation 4 is a solid gaming and media machine at a very reasonable price. I'm very happy with mine and can't find fault so far, well if I'm to nitpick I’d say they all should ship with nothing less that 1TB hard drive as 500GB is minuscule in today's gaming with each game taking up to 40-60GB of space. But honestly doesn't bother me the drive is easily upgradeable and I’m planning soon to put a 2TB drive in it.

The matt finish is lovely. No scratches to be seen here. The unit is compact & silent. The new Operating System lets you switch in and out games seamlessly (so checking messages takes seconds). My old PS3 would exit the game to re-enter the PS dashboard every time and then needed to reload the game afresh when you wanted to return to it. Yawn. PS4 has overcome this. The headphones jack on the controller is genius. I have purchased a fairly descent pair of headphones (£20 odd) with a mic, in readiness for Battlefront (Nov 2015) and instantly benefited from surround sound quality audio. I never play without the headphones on now, put it that way. The resolution is 1080p - better than the competition. Games looks great. I love the way that some games use the speaker in the mic to bring the sound from the TV to the controller (when the headphones are unplugged, of course). Netflix/Amazon Instant Video/iPlayer all work really well too. I seem to have bagged a bargain with my PS4 CUH-1216a PS4. The price dropped to £249 (from Amazon) as I was about to purchase it for £299 (from 3rd party seller), so I was happy with that. Watch the prices. They do fluctuate. The truth is that I was happy to pay £299 for it, and I still would now after 2 months of owning the console. Highly recommend this and Amazon's prices are hard to fault. Go for it!

Best Purchase this year by far - was given an xbox 360 a while back, it was okay, just hated the lack of user experience and incompatabilty. Now I have taken the step over to the other side and an loving the user experience, the interface is so easy to use, everything is where it should be. The graphics far out way that of the xbox (in my opinion) and the plug and play aspect is awesome, most items plug in and just play no setup needed. My Tritton headset worked right out of the box, all manor of usb devices just work (unlike on the xbox). There is still the multiplayer subscription fee however it was inevitable sony would go down this road like microsoft. You do however get more for your buck on the sony PSN store than on the xbox live store. The model I bought was the Chasis C type, very nice Jet Black. The only gripe is the very short controller charger cable, sorted with a usb extension cable I found lying around. All round great console, small compact, very powerfull, like buying a high end gaming PC without the price tag.

this is the new revision ps4, The new PS4 is model CUH-1216a, and there are three significant changes to the hardware. The first is an 8% power saving when in use compared to the existing model. The second is a 10% reduction in the weight of the console. And the third, and most noticeable change, is the hard drive cover section of the casing. It now matches the matte finish of the rest of the case . this thing looks tiny, especially when next to the mammoth xbox one . the console is a lot quieter than the old model but you can still hear the disc spinning up when you insert a disk,but this is normal, i was playing outlast and rosegun and the console was near silent, the console does get warm during use especially on the top on the right hand side, i measured the heat with a temperature gun and it was around 110f and that was after 6 hours of non stop gaming playing outlast from the hdd . i have not had chance to test the noise properly during disk based games i have only installed the games so far, so it will be interesting to see what the noise is like and the heat output of the console will be. i will update this review soon with the extra info but so far its very impressive . delivery from this seller was spot on, i chose next day delivery

Bought this new model since my old model stopped working. New model lasted less than 24 hours before suddenly making a loud popping sound and smoke then coming out of the back. After that the console was just dead. The worst thing is, I was playing Metal Gear at the time the console blew which resulted in the game disc being lost and me not being able to remove it because the manual eject screw has been removed from this particular model. On the phone to Amazon they were helpful and happily replaced the console free of charge. But they refused to replace the game disc because I bought that from a seperate retailer, therefore resulting in me losing my copy of Metal Gear Solid and having to fork out for another copy. Yes, I could have bought the game digitally so I could download it again later on my account, but I like the physical copies. Must be because I like that new game smell. Anyway I received the second new model the following day which has been perfect so far. It's been roughly a week with no issues and the console is as good as the previous edition. It's quieter, lighter and more energy efficient. Also the new model now has mechanical power and eject buttons instead of the old touch sensitive ones which do feel cheap and tacky but are better because you don't accidentally eject a game or power off the PS4 anymore. The rear of the console has been rearranged with some of the ports moved around, usb ports, hdmi and etc. The chipset has been revised to be more efficient and it also now uses a simpler blu ray reader. The hard drive bay has been altered. And finally the biggest noticeable change is the hard drive cover which is now a full matte black finish instead of the old shiny finish which gives the system a nicer look, personal preference speaking there though. The software is still the same as previously so no change there. The 3.0 update coming soon should make it better, but the PS4 is still missing many fan requested features and key functionalities that even the PS3 had years ago. Hopefully Sony can change some things eventually. Overall, a great console but still lacking in games and in time that will change. It's worth buying but yes beware because there are some faulty models about. Should be ok though because I more than likely just received a dodgy one and Amazon will replace it anyway. For those reasons it gets 4 stars from me. Thanks for reading and have a good one.

Bought this after Windows 10 ate my high spec Alienware gaming PC and I bought an iMac. So I have given up PC type gaming and have gone back to console. Didn't want an Xbox as I refuse to give Microsoft any more of my money. Even cancelled the kids Xbox 360 Live account!!! As a gaming machine it is faultless. Have also used it to stream Amazon Prime so it's a great all rounder. Just had the new firmware update and it's pretty awesome. Love the controller too. I charge my controller via a usb socket in the kitchen as it's faster than via the PS4 but you can use a phone charger too. Comes with the charging lead as well, so no more rechargeable batteries required. I would get the slim over this as it is a bit bulky, but it sits next to my almost defunct 3d blue ray dvd player and as such size doesn't matter. If you are sat on the fence over this or an Xbox One I'd say get this. It really is 'for the players'.

I'm already a huge PlayStation fan and decided to finally upgrade when the price dropped. It was time to upgrade from the PS3 to PS4. The console design on the latest chassis is really nice, I wasn't expecting the unit to be this small. I prefer the all matt finish, the device is quiet, even with the Blu ray drive running it not too noisy.Can't seem to see any network/HD indicator status lights, I'm not sure if these have been removed. The unit comes supplied with 1 x controller, mono headphone/mic and all the necessary cables required to connect. I have played a few games and also downloaded games from the PlayStation store, graphically games and sound is great, but as always it depends on the game developer. The console is a powerful beast. Sony finally managed to put on the media features that so many PS3 owners took for granted. You can stream, and playback media from usb devices. For the social media fanatic there is so much stuff integrated, the controller is brilliant, has a headphone jack, built in speaker, touch-pad and light bar and vibration. Light bar can be dimmed but not switched off,and one of the drawbacks is that the battery life of the controller is not as good as the old PS3 dual shock controller. All in all, a great gaming console with enough media features, go buy one!

The ps4 was broken!! The HDMI cable that came with it was broken! The usb cable for controller charging that came with it was broken! Controller was fine, the only thing that actually was ok. Disc drive was not operational. No game would work, tried multiple. System was very slow. Once a game has been loaded then it ran ok but ONCE it ran! Btw games can only be downloaded, disc games wont work. Switching to Netflix was miserable, or any other thing like YouTube. Even when there is no game running in background. I had to sell it because it was useless. Do not waste your time and money!

Metto due stelle per il fatto che la spedizione è arrivata perfetta e anche in anticipo, ma il mio ordine si chiamava "Play Station 4 500gb.....+ FIFA 16 (nuovo)". Fifa 16 non è arrivato.

Sehr gut

La PlayStation è arrivata senza Fifa 2016. Una grande delusione per i miei nipotini... ma il titolo dell'articolo diceva il contrario!

La PlayStation è ottima spedizione super veloce, unica pecca ho ordinato insieme al gioco come da titolo +Fifa 16, ma non è assolutamente arrivato il gioco, sono rimasto deluso .