I vote for "all of the above"

Polls for consumer bases are often a great thing. They're the company way of saying "we're listening, now help us help you" and try to construct a list that can lead to either fixes or totally new things. This is especially beneficial in a field like gaming, where updates make this happen to things like consoles that are supposed to be with you for years. Usually when a game based poll is released I'm either thinking A) Oh, yes that one thing I want is here! Please let this win! B) Okay this is a tough choice between these few things. C) Uh oh, I hope the haters don't have their way and vote this change in. Something along those lines. There's rarely a poll or product so full of holes that it needs every sinlge one of those things. Unfortunately here we are now, with shockingly the biggest selling console producing one. Its not a huge surprise considering Sony has always been behind on user interfaces, conveniences, and just general support for various things. I already discussed that a good bit long ago within an article piece centered around being critical of one of my favorite publishers. Here's a quick picture of the supposed survey on various features, and why its so telling of Sony's major flaw. Its also an extra kick that this was an "invite only" deal, of which I did not get despite being an early buyer of the system, as well as every other one except for the PSP.

Those aren't just small brand new features, or fan requests of interesting content (well some are). These are features nearly every damn thing in existence either has, the PS3 had, or something this system absolutely needs just because it was built with some dumb oversights. The fact that this system was built in a way where freakin' betas and demos stay inside of your library list permanently alongside full blown video games you own is just outright stupid design. Then they have the nerve to leave it like that for, what two years now, and then put it in a poll so it just might be dealt with in the near future. Oh but meanwhile they found time to slip in an advertisement of Destiny right on your home menu alongside your normal games. Get your act together Sony. There isn't a single thing on that list that should have been a "maybe". If you thought about these things, knew your system lacks it, and then have the time to secretly message out some "invites" to PSN users, then you're already wasting precious time that could have been spent easily making a filter list for the library or a notification that a friend is on. You know these things are wanted, needed, or just are outright missing in off of the PS4, and its embarrassing that you can't be bothered to just fix them like a normal company. Why is something like a "wishlist" so hard to nail down? Oh wait, its not because you've done it, yet it only works in the browser version apparently. Meanwhile your priority for a PS4 version, the one where people actually shop on, is just a potential maybe for consumers to vote on? Really!?

Needs a lot of construction work

You know what, fine I'm just going to go through the whole list and help prove my point. I shouldn't have to, but just in case...

• Notifications when friends come on: Had this on PS3 for as long as its been around. Why on earth is this missing to begin with, and yet you KNOW about its absence? Get on this.
• Classics: Now this one I can almost understand. Its tougher to get and publish a full library of emulated games. That being said, it shouldn't be a question. If its possible, and you know people want it, go at it. At this point its loud and clear people would pay for this as well, so you're practically asking if you do or don't want extra revenue. Oh and if I may make a suggestion, fix your issues back with the PS3/Vita's version of this. This area honestly never got handled very competently.
• Folders: Do I really need to say something on this? It was on PS3... and Wii U... and Vita... and almost any other competent console that is complex enough to need a menu UI.
• Appear offline mode: Majorly requested feature, and just something nice to offer when you're going to force people to run online for much of their content. Its also another thing the PS3 did that the super powerful "next-gen" high tech PS4 couldn't contain for some reason.
• Hide/remove library: This isn't a feature so much as the library is just broke without a fix in sight. This one out of all of these is the most infuriating to see on here just out of the audacity of "maybe it'll be an added feature". This is the kind of poor design that should have been weeded out in the launch window. FIX IT!
• Filtering options for library: Very similar to the above. I want to know what genius decided to make a collective list of every game ever owned and played and then decided it never needed any organization what-so-ever in an age with so many digital clients that allow if not NEED such a function. Its common sense at this point.
• Download avatars on PS4: Okay so first let me take you a bit back in time to the past condition of avatars on PS4. Avatars had absolutely no support outside of their past existence, yet show up as though you could have just grabbed it yesterday as normal avatars. They carry over from the PS3 or vita, but cannot be obtained, changed (that's right, you could not change it), or bought by PS4 methods. I'd hate to wonder how a total newcomer feels about this. I've been told you can change it through Facebook though. Facebook! Let me try and summarize this again: YOU CAN CHANGE A PS4 ITEM THAT IDENTIFIES YOUR VERY PROFILE ON PS4, EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH OUTSIDE CLIENTS LIKE FACEBOOK AND THE PLAYSTATION 3!!! Thankfully this was fixed, but it just goes to show you how behind in these features Sony really can be. Now back to the survey: Should we actually have a complete avatar system now where you are capable of acquiring new avatars as originally intended? Is the sky blue? The answer to both is an ear-blasting "YES!"
• Backgrounds: Actually this isn't such a big deal by itself, but the fact that its been majorly requested by PS owners, and only just now gets brought up as a light question among all sorts of "duh!" options and you've got me still wondering why this wasn't just done instead of asked. If this whole survey was full of questions surrounding light custom options, I'd see it as a nice way to figure out what priority comes first, but on this list... its nearly the only damn thing that is merely a nice fan request.
• Wishlist: Congratulations Sony, you're behind on every single other online retail place out there, including yourselves (browser version apparently has it). Why is "wishlist" a question and not a reality?
• Party size increase: I actually can't speak much for this as I've never bothered with the feature. I will ask in return though what the limit is for, and if it can be lifted (as suggested by this question), then why the heck isn't it?
• Change PSN ID: Another majorly requested feature by nearly everyone, to the point where they had to come out and explain their reasoning behind it around the PS4's cycle. I... don't actually care all that much myself, and was at first actually glad names were fixed in. After a while though, and having looked through steam, I just don't see a reason to care that much on it. If other people want it, then let them have it. ...and to put it on a survey when you know this has been majorly requested, this is just dumb. Not as outrageous as others, but still dumb that something hasn't been done about it by now. If they're not standing by their old logic to the point of putting it up for vote to get in, then they should just give the fans what they want. However they arean't even ready to do that yet, because they released a system so backwards from their own products, or behind the times that they need to work on other parts first.

That concludes the list. At least what's been offered in the vote. Honestly the sad thing is there's actually more to it than that. You still need to be online to view trophies for some dumb and backwards reason. You also can't hide them on the PS4, and have to do it through vita or PS3 (a feature they finally added late in its cycle, only to then totally forget about in the PS4). Then just the other day, I was forced to go offline only to then have my controller fail, a glitch I've had happen numerous times alongside some other folks (though they didn't come to the same conclusion that its an offline issue. However it exclusively happens when I'm on such a bad connection that I need to cut the network in the options). I had to reset and ruin one of my best runs on Ziggurat yet. This hasn't been addressed after many "stability" patches. On top of that, I recently ran into some interesting space storage issues. Why on earth does trimming a video need extra space? That defeats part of the point in trimming, cutting down on a video and trying to get extra space. If you're worried I'll trim a piece and make a video that is too big, stop me there, not at the use of the entire feature. Its just bad design if you have to make more space while using that. Why do I also need extra space to even start up some games? ...and who knows what else is left in a mess in terms of online community like potential party system issues. I don't even use that stuff, so I don't know what's devolved, missing, or buggy in that area. Oh and then there's E3 promises. We had to wait for over a year for the promises rest mode that lets us save our game progress. Then there was the "try anything before you buy it!" that isn't even close to visible (even cloud gaming doesn't offer it, with its overpriced rental system). There aren't even as many demos as there used to be last-gen. ...and while I don't know everything about it, that ad showing you how you could download the part of the game you want first, doesn't seem to apply to anything I've seen. This was all stuff advertised when you they were revealing the console, and not with an "update pending" in sight for a warning.

The PS4 isn't a bad system. I don't want to come off in the wrong light, and keep you from thinking fondly of it. I'm mad about this stuff because it is something I invest my time in. Its a fun gaming system, with a strong library, and a lot of fun features. On top of that I'd be here equally as long explaining amazing improvements over past hardware, or great ideas like the accessibility piece giving us remappable keys that work across whatever games we could want (which aught to embarrass lazy developers, even Sony did what you've been too stupid to do in recent years, and they aren't even the ones making the games. Now if only they could force server browsers in multiplayer titles...). Meanwhile it would also be unfair to suggest that some updates haven't been beneficial. I remember being warned that themes wouldn't be a thing, yet here I am with about 8 or so free ones and a premium one I love available, and I love just how interesting they can be this time around. Meanwhile they've also expanded the share features of recording, and they're taking good feedback into consideration by making future consoles with a better physical interface and smaller power consumption. In the end, I just want this great system to be even greater. Its held back not by just small nitpicks, but by incompetent designs around the system. If or when those are fixed, it'll be a lot better to stand by the PS4 and proclaim it as the best system. As it is right now though, its the games themselves that hold it up, as well as the small new things like the share feature and multi-tasking capabilities. That's by far enough to say its an awesome console, but when its got so many flaws still left behind, and the company is showing signs of becoming increasingly arrogant and weird about their practices, this "invite only" survey just unleashes some pent up frustration by the gamer community. Stop wasting money on 3rd party crap Sony, and fix your own self first.

Put your money where your mouth is, and do this "for the players"