PS4 News: New Poll Reveals top Apps, Features for Console

The PlayStation 4 has been wowing users with amazing graphics, a solid library of games, and many different features for fans to play around with. Now, IGN has polled their readers who own the next gen consoles what features they take advantage of the most, and the answers may surprise people.

One of the big features that Sony has pushed for the PlayStation 4 is the ability to share content and videos with other users, either through the game DVR and share button on the console or through apps such as Twitch TV and UStream. However, only 24 percent of users have used the various streaming features to share content and 65 percent of users have watched gaming content streamed to their console. This may be due to the relatively low amount of users with the consoles compared to established consoles or the fact that users are unwilling or uninterested in having their gaming experiences (and all the potential problems this could entail) broadcast to hundreds or even thousands of users.

As for entertainment apps, it was revealed that much more users consider Netflix as their primary method of streaming content. Sixty-one percent of users claimed that the television and movie streaming app. Hulu Plus fared much more poorly, with only three percent of those polled claimed that Hulu Plus was their primary means of watching streaming entertainment content.

With PlayStation Plus a requirement to play online multiplayer on the console, it comes as no surprise that early adopters of the PlayStation 4 are, for the most part, subscribers to the premium service. According to the poll, 77 percent of PlayStation 4 owners are PlayStation Plus members, indicating that users are willing to pay for the perks of the service along with the ability to play games online with friends.

Users are not as keen to pick up a PlayStation Eye camera as they are to join PlayStation Plus. Twenty-two percent of users bought the motion sensor camera, which must be bought separately. PlayStation 4 owners were much more likely to buy an extra Dualshock 4 controller, as 80 percent of users having more than one controller.

Finally, the ability to use the PlayStation Vita for remote play has fallen flat. The majority of PlayStation 4 owners (57 percent) do not even have a Vita, and 28 percent of those polled use the ability to stream games to the handheld console.