I bought the LAST PS4

I remember pre ordering my Og PS4 and picking it up at GameStop and driving home with my grandfather plugging it in and realized I needed a HD port he let me use his flat screen to play when he wasn't watching it be thankful for the things people do for you

I’m so early, it’s just me and the bots

I've found that upgrading to an SSD helps a lot when it comes to texture pop in. Also, regarding the Series S, you can always get an external SSD and shuttle your games back and forth to the main drive. Older games can be run straight from it as well.

I remember when I bought my ps4 with my brother last year: "Do you want 500Gb or 1Tb?" "Uhhhhhhh, just buy a 500Gb one, I wont play that many games on it anyways" And now here I am having space problems. Edit: about 7 months after this comment was written I switched out my 500 gb hard drive with a 1tb one with the help of my brother.

The PS4 slim is still a very capable gaming and entertainment console, it has a massive library of games as well good support for entertainment with regular Netflix/Netflix updates. The slim even uses much less power than the OG model so it doesn’t sound like a jet engine on use. Great video anyway- Now is time to get the LAST PS4 PRO and compare that with PS4 & PS5

I put an SSD in my PS4 around 2018 and when I upgraded to my PS5 in 2021 I took the SSD out and used as an external drive for playing PS4 games and storing PS5 ones. I put the old hard drive back in played a few games and the SSD makes a HUGE difference. Probably the best upgrade ever especially with load times, loading in textures and with more consistent FPS in demanding games. Also very easy to do even on the original PS4

Still going strong with my ps4 in 2023, I love this console

The PS4 Slim is a great console that is very popular in the secondary market.

Played my old day one ps4 slim again recently because I’ve been living away from my home. It gives you a real feeling of the differences and how far we’ve come.

I remember buying my 1TB PS4 slim in 2017 brand new for $200 +tax and it was a solid console for the 5 years I’ve had it. I have since moved to the PS5 last August, but there are some things I miss going from PS4 to 5 like the UI and the background themes. If you can find a Slim for cheap, I’d say go for it even if its used (I didn’t fully agree with Austin to just buy a new one for over $300). As for the Series S comparison, get an external hard drive or SSD for games not optimized for next gen or to store next gen games that you’re not going to play until later. I don’t know why Austin didn’t bring that up in his Series S bit in the video.

Thank you for this video Austin. I know you weren’t just super eager too just give the Series S it’s flowers over the beloved PS4 especially taking into consideration how great the PS4 has been the past 10yrs but you did it & I commend you on that my friend great content I always enjoy you’re coverage.

The idea of getting a new console should transition more into moving the old console to another room or spare room instead of forgetting it

Someone needs to teach Austin how to round up

The big reason was scalpers and the high demand for the latest transistors, people couldnt get their hands on it. I believe they even mentioned it when they talked about increasing ps4 production during the chip shortage, the older tansistors were easier and cheaper to get.

Ps4 is the goat of consoles hands down

I love videos like this. Such a good idea to take a look at an old console, cause its still very good.

I like how good the base ps4 runs new games make the prospects of steam deck really good considering it’s roughly the same raw power while targeting a lower resolution with 9 year newer architecture that makes it really exciting to see how long steam deck can run new games

I have one of these in our truck. The only console other than the switch we can run off the stock electrical system. Pulls about 80w on average. Works perfect on a generator with a battery

I have a ps5 in the living room, but I still use my ps4 slim sometimes and it feels really good still, especially since I upgraded it to a 1TB SSD as well. The UI loads an insane amount faster

It's worth using the PS4 for themes since my PS5 does not have them... I really hope that changes. When I boot the PS4 I get to see/hear my cool backgrounds!