Got my 1200 today. I've owned all the PlayStations, and this is the first one I haven't been that excited for in terms of the hardware design. I'm not a fan of the parallelogram look, but the materials also seemed unimpressive. I've been concerned about the plastic and unfortunately it's just as bad as I feared. Cheap cheap cheap. Thin, rough-feeling, uneven coloration. The new physical buttons are loose (they rattle when touched) and don't give a feeling of precision design. Next to my launch model PS3 the PS4 looks like a product designed by a completely different company. In terms of the paucity of quality materials, it reminds me of the TurboGrafx-16. Packaging is also very underwhelming. Apple showed that packaging can be minimal but still elegant; Sony needs to learn this. PlayStation may be winning the generation, but this is one disappointing piece of hardware. It doesn't give me the feeling that the design team was proud of this system, or that anyone put their heart and soul into it. I do wish at least they were selling the glacier white in NA the matte colors do seem to hide the flaws of the plastic better.
It does feel pretty hot on the top already, and all it's doing right now is downloading Ground Zeroes in rest mode. I wonder how much of the heat transfer is because the plastic they used is so thin. The fan has been quiet so far, but I've just been browsing through the (on a positive note) responsive UI.