The 10th Anniversary of the PS4

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Reflecting on the impact of the PS4 and personal experiences with gaming consoles.

The PS4 turned ten yesterday, and I’m ashamed I missed its big day. When it launched, Sony had been making consoles for nearly 20 years, and it had even cut its teeth on two handhelds. The company had been releasing new consoles pretty consistently for a long time, though there was growing competition from Microsoft’s Xbox brand and the traction that PC gaming was pulling. When the PS4 was announced, I wasn’t even that compelled to pick one up.

I wasn’t the kind of gamer who was interested in lifelike graphics, nor bleeding-edge hardware. My PS3 was going to do just fine. I only ended up begging my parents to get one for my birthday after finding out that kids from school were going to be playing online together. As a little one, my fantasies were grinding for a team of Level 100 Fire types in Pokémon, exploring paintings in Super Mario 64, and building my own game console out of Lego and broken electronics. Youth was a much simpler time where the social poison of growing up didn’t really bother or affect me. Then, secondary school bega

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