Can't Hear You!

There is a lot of back and forth between the PS4 and Xbox One camps, with new information surfacing about the two consoles almost daily in the rush towards release. And not all of the news is making potential customers happy.

This week, during a preview event in New York, the lack of voice commands for the PS4 came up. While the device will respond to commands (delivered via the PS4 camera, which is sold separately) to start a game or turn off, there really won't be much else that the console will offer those who want to use voice commands. This is in contract to the Xbox One, which will use a wide range of voice and gesture based commands. Sony representatives have stated that they would hope that third-party software and app developers will make use of voice commands in the future.

So it's controller based commands for the PS4, for the most part - something which may bother some users, but won't matter to others.