PS4

Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with PS4, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 16 complaints

Noticeable input delay makes timed button presses and steering hard to get right2023-09-21
Controller lags and needs charging every 5 hours; UI is sluggish2023-06-24
Hard to figure out where menu items are, with long delays switching between menus2023-01-11
Stack of updates to deal with at startup, and they take forever2022-07-13
Controllers drain battery when idle and only charge on the console in sleep mode2021-09-21
Streaming apps are buried in TV & Video section, sometimes needing another sub-screen to find2021-08-24
Streaming apps are buried on later pages and can't be pinned to the main screen2021-08-24
Forces a large update install at game launch instead of overnight2019-12-10
Consolidated streaming home screen adds clicks and loading time2018-04-22
Has to use the controller to power on the PS4 separately, causing frequent setup problems2018-04-22
Getting the right focus and calibration is finicky, especially vertically2018-02-15
Browser became so laggy and slow since firmware 5 it's almost unusable2017-10-17
Search returns unrelated results in other languages, forcing scrolling to find apps2017-08-21
Store pages take minutes to load, hang or time out, forcing app restarts2017-08-19
PS4 controller feels clunky and unintuitive; media remote is hard to pair with receivers and TVs2015-11-10
UI feels sluggish because menus wait on remote content loading over the network2013-11-15