“It’s the waiting around that messes with your head” Fans Battle Buffers During PS4 Live Stream

Millions tuned into the Sony live stream as they announced the Playstation 4 on February 20th, 2013. Average concurrent connections to the stream hovered around half a million viewers most of the night, leading to some frustrating (but hardly surprising) technical issues getting between fans and their highly anticipated information. 

Of course, that may just made the post updates from better-connected fans fly faster.

Trying to watch the #PS4 launch but all I’m getting is buffer, buffer, buffer #grrrrr

— Cath Bryant (@Rugbychick83) February 20, 2013

#PS4 buffer buffer buffer

— Ryan S. (@Shizje) February 20, 2013

It’d be so lovely if I could watch the Sony event without it having to buffer every 5 seconds. #PS4

— James McKenzie (@JimmzM) February 20, 2013

Le stream de Gametrailers est toujours en train de buffer, celui de Sony est inaccessible et le stream en vf est imblairable. HALP. #ps4

— guillaume robert (@ghallium) February 20, 2013

Yep. PS4. I know because I got to stare at the logo for thirty seconds, thanks to the new Sony Buffer. #PlayStation2013

— Logan Hollinger (@LoganHollinger) February 20, 2013

We hope no one at Sony gets their feathers to ruffled by the buffer issues. After all, far better to have a huge audience madly clamoring for updates they can’t quite get than to  have smooth access to a smaller crowd.