Well, it IS the same internet where people downvote videos because they think they're accomplishing something, lol

Relax fools, the DS4 battery life sucks and the cable is too short, get over it. It's a common PS4 owner complaint and also a fact, but no one said I'm not going to do anything about it... Ya know, for those of you with enough reading comprehension to realize I've also spent money on "solutions" to both of the other two consoles as well.

Sadly, I don't feel like going through the entire rigmarole of explaining the plans and whatnot: this forum is one of the higher toxicity ones where someone always has a problem with anything someone says. This is the internet, right? :D

Oh well, supposedly we're eventually getting the mildly updated models and there's a white variation :P

I tried to explain this on another forum, and people just don't get that the PS4 initially has no immediate solution like the other two consoles! I'm glad someone gets it without me having to explain, lol

Did you pre-order it? Why haven't you gotten it yet? D:

I got myself the Batman Limited Edition PS4, and I know I paid $50 for a dark silver paint job, but I DO like Batman, so other than swapping out the faceplate with a friend to complete its Batman-ization, it's a nice touch. It doesn't match the rest of my systems, and I actually WANTED white, but it was too early to get one at the time since it was a Destiny bundle, and I already had Destiny on the Xbox One.

While my review of Arkham Knight doesn't post until next week, I will say that it's been a great game! It's a great game to have bundled with the system, to be honest, and I feel like Microsoft missed out on nabbing marketing rights to an Arkham Knight Xbox One bundle! But moving on about the system...

Battery life on the DS4 controller is BAD. I'm getting 7 hours approximately per full charge. My Wii U Gamepad, though it has an extended battery pack inside, gets 10.5 hours (not to mention the Pro controller gets a whopping 75 hours for me!). My Xbox One controller gets 25 hours off the official battery pack, and that includes headset use (20 hours on AAs)! While someone might say, "but 7 hours is enough for a gaming session!", the issue is that if you DON'T charge it from the last time you played, it may just end up dying on you this time, and instead of being able to charge it with a nice long cable, the cable is too short unless you sit close to a smaller TV! Ugh, I didn't expect the controller battery life to be THIS bad! "Buy a second controller!" is NOT a proper solution here to battery life! I even turned off the speaker and dimmed the tracker light (which still has NO way to be turned off, ugh...).

In terms of performance, it's definitely the quietest at idle, but the loudest of the three at full throttle. The Xbox One and Wii U run their fans at 100% at all times, and while the PS4 enjoys near-perfect silence at idle loads, it's definitely noticeable at medium game volumes even with my mini home theatre setup. I've got several exclusives I bought on clearance supposedly arriving at my door tomorrow, so we'll have to see what kind of overall game experiences I get and how well the controller performs over lots of various uses (FPS, racing, adventure, etc.). Since I've only used it for Arkham Knight, my synopsis of the controller has not reached a final consensus. It's the LEAST comfortable of the 3 controllers (hence why I got the Xbox One first), and has the LEAST battery life, but I will say that it is MILES above the DS3! As a PS2 and PS3 past owner, the DS2 and DS3 were both awful, and no matter how many hundreds of hours of play and getting comfortable with them, the DS3 was such a disappointment being essentially an updated DS2. Now I understand why Sony fans think the DS4 is the best controller in the world: if you came from a DS3, it is some sort of ergonomic MIRACLE! Hahaha xD

TL;DR - Got a shiny limited Batman Edition, DS4 battery life is awful no matter what your solution is, and it's the quietest and noisiest console of the three!

OH YEA! You can add me on PSN if you want: ZyroXZ2

No need for the link, I know Wipeout well ;) In some ways, it looked exactly like Wipeout HD on the PS3, except *ahem* blurrier since Wipeout HD is 1080p >.>

For the first 3 sentences, I was seriously like, "not sure if troll >.>", lmao

I definitely think the game will have a tough time being "appealing" in today's market, but it also offers a niche title for those who get a little bored, and not be the full cost of a whole new game. I agree with a demo, but also, I'm worried a demo won't offer enough time to get used to the controls, and just turn people off because it's not "pick up and play" as much as Shin'en makes it sound (and it seems you noticed the same thing I did about watching the footage and seeing some frustration, hence my question to him!).

I had a chance to pick Manfred's brain on FAST Racing Neo!

Here you go, copy-and-pasted!

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Jason (ZyroXZ2): FAST Racing Neo, of course by its name, is all about speed. You also emphasize that the Subsonic League is the slowest speed during the Treehouse gameplay. Yet, I saw a lot of running into walls and other situations where speed and response time were coming into play. Will the Hypersonic League speed render some vehicles virtually inadvisable, lacking the handling characteristics necessary to navigate more complex courses, or have all vehicles been relatively well-balanced for all modes of play?

Manfred (Shin'en): We made sure FAST Racing Neo is very accessible right from the start. After playing just a few rounds you really get a feeling for your vehicle. We think it's pretty easy to pick up and get much fun of it.

When you finished the Subsonic league and entering the Supersonic league you will need to adjust but this is where another layer of fun comes in. You will need to learn new tricks to master the courses.

Also you will get access to new vehicles with different stats. It's up to the player to develop his own driving style and which vehicle to use. Each cars has it's very own behavior and even the developers at Shin'en have each their favorite.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Speaking of speed, the game runs at 60 fps to ensure that a fluid sense of rapid movement is maintained. However, the game also supports local 4-player splitscreen. What compromises have been made to ensure that 4-player splitscreen maintains that sense of speed? For example, are there no CPU racers in 4-player splitscreen matches?

Manfred (Shin'en): We are still working on local multiplayer. We currently try multiple techniques and find the perfect balance for performance and sense of speed.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Since I'm talking frames-per-second, let's go ahead and talk graphics for a moment. The Wii U is established as being the weakest console of the 3 current generation systems. Regardless, I've always maintained that maxing out the hardware would result in a good-looking game. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of examples. Fortunately, you've come to the rescue! Was coding the graphics engine and optimizing it difficult? Can you confidently say you've maxed out the hardware, and that every available drop of power is being used in FAST Racing Neo?

Manfred (Shin'en): When starting with the game we had a vision. We wanted to develop the most exciting futuristic racing game on the market. We decided from the beginning it will be 60fps, anything else was not an option for a game that fast. So we knew all GPU and CPU stuff must fit into 16 milliseconds, which isn't a lot, especially when most games you get compared with are running on consoles with higher specs and with 30fps. We knew from the beginning we can't develop this vision with techniques everyone else does use. We would need to find different ways to achieve our vision. This was a big motivation because we like working on limits and pushing boundaries.

We started experimenting for a year. After a short time we had a working prototype but it ran only at around 15 fps when we enabled all the cool stuff and effects you now see in the game. We had 8k Softshadows, a complete HDR pipeline, physical based rendering, SSAO, more than 10,000 drawcalls, High Quality Motionblur, High Quality Godrays, Cinematic Color Grading, Volumetric lighting and so on. It looked really pretty but was near unplayable.

We then needed the rest of the year to find fast enough solutions to handle all these effects or to find new solutions that give the same results. Often we used tricks from the past that are pretty complicated to implement but that deliver the same effect with a fraction of the costs. To make long story short: In the end we were pretty happy seeing finally the game reaching 60fps. When finally playing at 60fps with all bells and whistles for the first time we knew we did the best work in our career. I don't say anyone else can't go even further on Wii U, but personally we reached our limits.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Online multiplayer is practically the lifeblood of a majority of today's games. FAST Racing Neo supports online multiplayer, but not much details on it have surfaced. Will there be CPU racers to fill in the slots if not enough players can be found? Will it support two-player splitscreen online multiplayer like Mario Kart 8?

Manfred (Shin'en): We still implement online multiplayer. We haven't fully finalized the design yet.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Finally, it's undoubtedly true that there are many of us, me included, that want to play this game. It's got a 2015 release year, but the Treehouse footage was clearly labeled "alpha version". We are midway into the year, and I am a little concerned that FAST Racing Neo isn't in the beta stage, let alone that bug-squashing stage just before release. How confidently can you tell me we'll see FAST Racing Neo before the close of 2015?

Manfred (Shin'en): It's a very ambitious goal, thats right. Anyway our Treehouse session and especially THE MIX session at E3 showed that the game is already working like a charm. There was no crash or other bugs for the complete day. We are very hard at work to finish all things up with perfect polish.

Jason (ZyroXZ2): Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, Manfred! May FAST Racing Neo be your best-selling game yet and I look forward to reviewing it myself! :)

Manfred: (Shin'en): Thanks a lot.

Funny you mention, later that night I actually got matches properly matched up with B and B+ ranks... And then it got messy again and we had two A+ along with two B- ranks... Maybe it has to do with the skill ranking as well or something! *shrug* I'm A- now, but I haven't played since then, lol

The Ranked Battles are a whole different ballgame when you start moving up in rank... The problem is the nightmare it becomes when you start getting higher and higher and there aren't enough players, so they start mixing ranks.

Usually, that means a higher ranked player will get lower ranked/lower skill matched players, and I already found this to be a problem at B+, finding many of my teammates were not quite up to par with their aggressive tactics and loadouts, and that led to some frustrating matches, lol

Without Zelda, it would be nearly impossible for Nintendo to compete with the likes of Microsoft hitting hard this year with Rise of the Tomb Raider, Halo 5, and Forza Motorsport 6. All big games, all huge budgets, all known franchises.

What I DO hope is that Starfox U turns out to have gotten a budget increase and ends up being a bigger, more epic game than we all think it is, though I'm somewhat doubtful on that. I'm also concerned that all of Nintendo's "big" announcements will be 3DS games, and I'm not knocking the 3DS by saying this, but if the Wii U doesn't see the love at E3, there's no way it's going to win this year :P