PS4 and Lock-ups - Do I Get This Right?

So I'm currently playing BF4 on PS3, a notoriously unstable franchise on consoles. On average, I'd say my PS3 freezes once every two hours playing Battlefield 4. How I deal with it? Other than mumbling curses in my beard? I hold my thumb on the PS3's power thingy until I does that triple beeping bootdown thing, and then restart the console.

I've read on numerous posts that there is no reasonable procedure to power down a locked-up PS4 without pulling the power cord - is that true? Or do these people just not know how to do it properly? Because jesus, I intend to play a lot of BF4 on my PS4, and with its track record in terms of stability... I don't ever want to pull the power cord on any of my electronics during active operation ever!

Did any of you have to deal with lock-ups? If yes, how did you handle it? And if the whole *janking the power cord for reset* is currently true, make some flippin' noise! That needs to be fixed before the 29th. Top priority. Thank you. Jeez - this has me worried. Now back to BF4. Jesus DICE!

@seppli: I need an answer to this as well!!

The good thing is they have kept the safe mode function in PS4 as that saved my PS3 so many times after firmware updates. I expect sony to release another firmware update to correct some of the issues with PS4 when the EU launch happens.

Well my PS4 is busted so I don't know if this is how it will act during lockups or not but when once I turn my system on and it fails to boot up the power button area does not respond at all and I have to pull the plug.

I haven't had my system lock up so I'm not sure exactly what I would do in that situation. Have you tried holding a combination of the Eject and Power buttons?