A lot of light, but also cast a shadow.

As a veteran (ranging from NES) in console gaming I have now through all the Playstation generation.
The PS4 I have, I think, bought at the right time, now that the "teething troubles" are largely eliminated and now the real firecracker games come. I mention only Assassins Creed Unity, Alien insulation, etc. The Evil Within
At present, the hardware revision CuH 1116A is the most recent and located in (my) Destiny Bundle.

Features:
For multimedia, the PS4 is to use limited. Music via USB to be well, submitted with the update 2.0, which will be released on 10/28/2014.
However, I'm not interested. I want the console for games and Blu-Ray movies. Anyone who wants can also stream video. Amazon, max cathedrals, Whatchever and Netflix are on board.
Postive is that downloads can be performed completely in the background now. It is also possible to switch the PS4 in a standby mode. Downloads and the load of the controller is possible here. Of course, everything can be configured.
Anyone familiar with the cross media bar of PS3, can handle fast, even if on the PS4 everything works the other way around. The principle is however the same.

Controller:
The controller is slightly thicker than the old one, the PS3 and is very good in my hands. Optical power a high impression.
Here there is nothing to complain about.

PSN:
And here comes the crux of the whole. For online gaming you need a PSN Plus subscription. Taste in 49th
For this, however, you get free games and many perks. You can even for two online gaming when the mate, the game has not. That's great! If PSN because would work.
After only two days, the Playstation Network was for hours down. Nothing more with online gambling.
That's a No. Not for a service for which you pay and not in times where a lot of games vorraussetzten an online connection. Nevertheless, I prefer from no star here because I console review here that it nothing can.
Sony needs to get its time servers under control.

Conclusion:
The PS4 is what it is: A super gaming console.
Now come so slowly, the games which are worth it zuzulegen a PS4. Destiny looks already really from top. But there is still room for improvement. From a hardware perspective is still a lot is because let rausholen.
I just hope not, that some games are based on the weakest link (Assasins Creed Unity will run on PS4 and Xbox One in 900p, because the XBOX can not, and will go to the publisher Diskusionen out of the way). It can not be that the power is limited here to the PS4. And to bring a console in 2013 on the market, the native can not calculate games in 1080p, is a no-go (XBOX One).

Update 10/29/2014
With firmware 2.0 it is now possible to play music on a USB stick. Furthermore, you can now install a Youtube app and even upload videos directly from the Share feature to Youtube.
The menu can now be customized by themes from the store.
Moreover Share Play is now available. So you can the game of a friend over the Internet play, although it has not the game. However, this feature is limited to 60 minutes per session and you need a DSL line with a minimum 6MBit / s uploading (for VDSL 50 the Telekom you get an upload of 10Mbit / s).