Here’s our list of the 10 best games that came out on the PlayStation 4 this year.

If you don’t have a gaming PC, it was also the only way to play the brilliant and idiosyncratic Nier: Automata, one of the best games of the last several years. The PS4 had a fantastic roster of games in 2017, from such exclusives as Persona 5 and a new Uncharted adventure, to thoughtful smaller budget games like Night in the Woods and What Remains of Edith Finch. It just means there’s greater parity in the console sphere than we’ve seen in many years. Still, the PlayStation 4 wasn’t left in the dust, or anything. It’s not a massive jump on the competition, but if you’re looking for the most powerful gaming system on the market, and don’t want to deal with the fuss of building your own gaming PC, the Xbox One X has a step up on the PlayStation 4 Pro. (It’ll be very interesting to see how sales break down per console once more third party games launch for the Switch at the same time as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.) And then late in the year Microsoft released the Xbox One X, which is custom-tailored for 4K TVs (like the PlayStation 4 Pro) but with greater processing power, which lets games run at higher frame rates with greater consistency than the PS4 Pro.

It almost immediately became my preferred destination for any game that might be available for it. Nintendo launched the Switch in March, and with its fantastic Nintendo software and true handheld functionality, it was an instant smash. It’s all just a matter of preference-I’m not saying the PS4 is inherently better than the Xbox One, or anything-but when it came to third party games on multiple systems the PlayStation 4 version was basically what everybody I knew would gravitate towards. For the first year since it came out four years ago, the PlayStation 4 had some real competition in 2017.įor me and many other game critics I know who don’t play on a PC, the PS4 has sort of been the default console this generation.

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