What features were oddly missing from consoles/hardware?

[Martin Berisford]

When you think back to consoles, maybe some came with some odd features that should've been standard or some startling omissions that can't really be explained. What are a few of your odd choices/missing features/blunders that you can think about?

For me, it was a constant source of fustration that back in the good old days, Microsoft seemed to limit increasingly common apps like Netflix, Youtube and so on behind a paywall of having to be a Gold member. Like why should I have to pay for Gold membership when all I want to do is kick back and watch some videos on my own dang console/TV? It just seems like a really odd thing to implement considering how standard it is now for these apps to be essentially free access to all.

What are your thoughts?

 

[Ash]

Backwards compatibility on the PS4 was quite an annoying thing especially since the Xbox One got it. It would have been amazing to play GTA 4 on the PS4 but here we are. I'm really hoping that the PS5 has backwards compatibility with the PS3 so that I can finally play GTA 4 again

 

[Demon_skeith]

Sometimes it was the lack of apps, or for the later versions of PS3 and PS4, lack of backwards compatibility .