Plugged in the PS4 tonight and got 3 rapid beeps, and no boot. After the initial freak out and checking online, I reseated the power cable and it (finally) booted. Odd, but I removed/replugged the power in, and it booted fine a second time. Crisis averted! I'm guessing it just wasn't quite in there enough. After reading about how the K folks jammed the fuck out of an HDMI cable, I tried to be very careful/gentle plugging it in, so I'm guessing it was my fault.
Didn't get much time with the network being up, but finally got Resogun and Contrast downloaded installed. Reso really has to be seen in person to be appreciated. Youtube, even at 1080, doesn't do it justice, by a long shot...the sheer amount of stuff thrown around the screen is insane.
The network (store, web browser, etc) seem much faster to load in. I hope this is due to actual improvement, and not just because there aren't a lot of ps4s connected to it yet (relatively speaking, compared to the huge number of ps3s).
Controller feels very nice. The sticks don't seem that much further apart, yet it seems a lot harder to bump your thumbs into each other. Also LOVE the headphone jack option, where you can plug in any 3.5MM headset and hear everything without waking the rest of the house. Minor quibble: the Options button almost seems a little too recessed into the controller, to the point that, at least initially, I'm having a hard time knowing if my thumb is on it w/o looking down at the controller.
Haven't tried the sharing feature myself, but from the console you can check out other peoples streams. I initially didn't really care about the sharing option, but after seeing it in action, it's actually quite nice to kick back and watch someone else play, and decide if it's a game you might like. You can also (either on the PC with your keyboard, or, I hear, your phone/tablet if you have it synced as a second screen) ask questions/post comments as the person plays, which they can see if they don't have their game window maximized. (So you could ask a question about the game, and they could potentially answer, if they have a mic or camera setup).
Only thing that concerns/annoys me about streaming is I hear sony can block anything it chooses. For example (from comments I read), there was no streaming of KZ Wed night, as it was blocked. While this doesn't seem like a huge deal, it potentially means that if someone gets ahold of a game before release date, they can't stream their play for anyone to watch.
Anyway...overall, positive first impression, but it is early. Hope to dig in more tomorrow.
edit: Oh, and I could have sworn I'd heard the wireless adapter was going to support N in the ps4, but that's apparently not the case.
This comment was edited on Nov 16, 2013, 00:33.