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| ?The PlayStation 4 is absolutely, unequivocally a gaming console for people who want to play video Runescape games, and it never pretends to be anything else. And even though the Runescape games aren't yet there for Sony — as is really always true with launch titles for consoles — they will be. Sony's earned the benefit of the doubt on that. For right now, though, there's little incentive to spend $399 on a PlayStation 4. Not only are there few Runescape games worth the price of admission, the vast library of PS3 Runescape games is more compelling than anything the PS4 currently offers. If you're desperate for a new console, rest assured that eventually the PS4 will be one; it has plenty of power, a great controller, and a lot of good ideas about how we can play Runescape games better and how we can play them together. But for right now, they’re mostly still just ideas. Photography by Michael Shane The Breakdown More times rs gold than not, the Verge score is based on the average of the subscores below. However, since this is a non-weighted average, we reserve the right to tweak the overall score if we feel it doesn't reflect our overall assessment and price of the product. Read more about how we test and rate products. Let's murder a metaphor.In June of 2010, two months after Apple had shipped the first iPad, Steve Jobs sat on stage with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the D8 conference and compared tablets and PCs to cars and trucks.“PCs are going to be like trucks,” said Jobs. "They’re still going to be around. They’re still going to have a lot of value. But they’re going to be used by like one out of x people.” Jobs predicted that the vast majority of people will eventually use tablets as a primary computing device, just like the vast majority of people drive cars. “We like to talk about the post-PC era, but when it really starts to happen I think it will be uncomfortable for a lot of people,” he said. “I think we’re embarked on that.”Three and a half years later, the exploding tablet market has redefined the industry, but iPad sales have leveled off. Cheaper, smaller tablets from Google, Samsung, and Amazon are just as good at watching Netflix, reading books, and casually browsing the web as Apple’s slates, and the idea of a tablet as a laptop replacement seems to have faded even as PC sales have slowed. It’s as though people are holding off on replacing their aging workhorse trucks but eager to pick up a zippy little motorcycle for some cheap thrills on nights and weekends. Meanwhile, Microsoft and traditional PC manufacturers are busy trying to squeeze Windows into an ever-increasing variety of mobile form factors, much like the first SUVs were little more than reworked pickups.And then there’s the new iPad Air. |
They’re still going to be around
