The 10 games that made the PS4 – Reader’s Feature

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A reader offers a warts and all examination of the most important games on the PS4 and how the console came to dominate its generation.

For the first time since entering the console market, with the original PlayStation back in 1994, Sony found itself on the back foot during the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 era.

With Microsoft badly misjudging the launch of the Xbox One by bundling in Kinect, thus making the console more expensive than the PlayStation 4, and requiring the console to always be online, Sony were given an opening and they took advantage by focusing on producing top quality exclusives.

So here are just 10 of the many games that made the PlayStation 4 such a critical and financial success.

Death Stranding

There aren’t many people in the industry with a higher profile than Hideo Kojima, and Death Stranding (for better or worse) is undoubtedly his game.

Following a cataclysmic event, known as the Death Stranding, the remnants of the human race are forced to live in underground and their very survival relies upon ‘porters’ who deliver messages and supplies between these colonies. For those that click with it, the challenge of delivering packages to increasingly remote locations can become incredibly addictive, and the excellent acting and soundtrack perfectly compliment the unique, interesting, and often downright bonkers plot.

Bloodborne

FromSoftware had already developed quite a reputation with gamers thanks to the Dark Souls series and Bloodborne only further cemented them as one of the best developers around. Every bit as intricately designed and intriguing as its spiritual successors, Bloodborne takes the FromSoftware template and ups the pace of combat to make for another challenging, but oh so