Purchased this product back in July of this year (2017).



This was a 2nd PS4 I had picked up, one for my partner & one for myself. I used credits on this purchase. When I purchased this Sony Playstation 4, It was during a promotion that came with console, uncharted a theifs end 4, and 1 controller, and 2 promotional keys. One key was for The Last of Us: Left Behind Stand Alone, and another was for comiXology, a site with dozens of comic books. Of the codes I gave the extra game to my partner, and with the comic book site I gave that to a friend of mine as I dont really read comic books anymore as I have other hobbies that keep me busy.



So I am not new to Sony Playstation, I am that type of gamer who once was a hardcore gamer who up to this point has played on almost every video game console to a PC. I chose to purchase a PS4 mainly because I missed playing some old school games I use to play on my PS1(original grey unit) and PS2(black unit), I never played games on a PS3, and will be honest I must not have done enough research on the PS4 slim when purchasing it, I found some info online, and after pruchasing I contact Sony Support for the console just to pick the customer service reps brain a bit on the console and got to say, I thought customer service experience was going to be bad, because I am use to talking on a phone not through chat. Either way I had a good experience on chat support.



So the purchase was not 100% bad, I can not play twisted metal or some the older games on it, unless you purchase another subscription for that, which allows you to stream games on console and play that way if I am not mistaken. So right now I decided not to get any suscriptions I merely just play actual games from the bluray discs on the system itself in my free times when not gaming on a PC or Xbox.



Typically people will post there pro's and cons with the system or product. In my situation and many may be looking for this as well, my main issue I have with PS4 slim is the compatibility, I wish at some time if not now, maybe the future, Sony decided to make the jump like its competitors and make games backward compatible, dont carge a subscription fee, just make it backward compatible. that is what stops some from moving foward and getting the system, I typically would not have gotten it, but because I had credits is the only reason why I did.



Now do not get me wrong, I dont hate nor dislike sony as I use to be part of their research panel before it was disbanned long time ago, but I just dislike that the most that I can not play old school games without having to pay extra fee for subscription.



Sony Playstation has some great ideas out there, but in opinion and not here to offend anyone on how I think as this is my reivew, but problem is with all these subscriptions and costs, it seems as if rather than putting their customer's first they are putting their pockets first. Yes companies got to make money, but they need to look at their competitor and see how they can improve and put themself on top, be different from their compeitors.



Overall Happy with my PS4!