The Touchpad is Very Meh Using the touch pad that takes up so much of the real estate of the PS4 controllers is still a chore for two reasons.

The first is that it's just really not that fun to use. It's a good idea, I grant you, but I've never once opened a menu with it on the first try. Maybe that's not a problem the younger generation has, but it drives Grampy Ham-Hands crazy when I can't get the freakin' thing to go where I want it.

The other annoyance is that it has pushed the basic pause feature off to a corner that is hard to find when you're in the middle of a firefight and suddenly need to go take the cookies out of the oven. Look, no matter what game it is, the big button in the center should stop the game when you touch it. That's what it's there for.

Even the Apps Don't Work as Well These days PS4 in my house gets most of its work hours in as a Netflix machine. However, I've given up trying to do that because the streaming service seems to have constant problems. This is a pretty big deal when you're trying to quiet a five-year-old by getting the next episode of Pinkie Dinkie Doo up and running.

The sad thing is that when that happens I just turn off the PS4 and turn the PS3 back on. It's never the other way around. The PS3 Netflix always works when the PS4 doesn't. Hell, my old Wii still picks up Netflix better than the brand, spanking new PS4.

I understand that all things considered the PS4 is still a very new system, and that a few years from now much of what I'm complaining about will probably be moot. Still, when I first got the console I wondered if the world really needed the upgrade in the first place, and so far I'm still wondering.

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