[PS4] Official PlayStation 4 Thread

[OnlyOneBeerLeft]

Releasing on my birthday.... fuck yeah maybe now I can con some family members into buying me games lol

 

[Primetime]

That Killzone video was brutal :rofl:

 

[red33]

Got one preordered. Might be able to et one more. You guys think its gonna be a shortage like before.

 

[Swarley]

 

[jms493]

they look like rubber controllers...like I should be able to throw them against the wall and they will bounce around instead of shattering. Not that I would know what happens when u smash a controller. :shifty:

 

[padman59]

I don't think it was mentioned in this thread, but Walmart is also offering the 10% down pre-order deal for PS4s starting the 24th (Saturday).

 

[Swarley]

Yoshida has confirmed that you will be able to commentate your Twitch stream while streaming through the PS4. I was a little worried about this, b/c while the ability to stream is awesome, I find non-commentary streams incredibly boring.

Source: https://twitter.com/yosp/status/370606105795522560

 

[Buzzman]

I need to get a better computer so I can edit my videos and make them uber cool.

 

[JayDizzle]

Yoshida has confirmed that you will be able to commentate your Twitch stream while streaming through the PS4. I was a little worried about this, b/c while the ability to stream is awesome, I find non-commentary streams incredibly boring.

Source: https://twitter.com/yosp/status/370606105795522560

Depends on the game/media they're casting and who's doing it, IMO.

I EXPECT guys like Giant Bomb to talk over stuff because they've done it for years but it isn't so obnoxious that I can't hear the good stuff.

Then again, just mustering up the guts to broadcast live on the internet is enough to shy away most still these days.

On another note, I CAN'T WAIT... :cantwait: ...to see the number of Minecraft cast go UP when people start streaming from PS4. :smh:

 

[Swarley]

Depends on the game/media they're casting and who's doing it, IMO.

I definitely agree with the "depends on who's doing it," but I don't ever stick around for streamers who don't talk with the chat.

 

[KNUBB]

Yoshida has confirmed that you will be able to commentate your Twitch stream while streaming through the PS4. I was a little worried about this, b/c while the ability to stream is awesome, I find non-commentary streams incredibly boring.

Source: https://twitter.com/yosp/status/370606105795522560

I figured this was confirmed during the conference when you see the guy streaming when they were showing the UI

 

[Handleit_44]

Not sure if posted...



PS4 Will Feature Cross-Platform Chat

After several years of complaints, cross-game chat will finally make its debut on the PlayStation 4. The feature will allow you to communicate with your friends at any time, enabling you to chat about the weather even if you’re enjoying completely different games. This functionality, however, will expand to the PlayStation Vita, too.

Responding to fan queries on Twitter, likeable Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida confirmed that the Party Chat feature will work across systems, meaning that you’ll be able to keep in touch with your buddies even if you’re playing on completely different consoles. The next generation is going to be glorious, isn’t it?

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2013...ame_chat_ps4_will_feature_cross_platform_chat

 

[jms493]

Party chat? Pfft no ones uses that feature. Herpaderp

 

[Handleit_44]

GameStop managers get free PS4 and 7 games http://t.co/3OPg8zlxrj

 

[JayDizzle]

GameStop managers get free PS4 and 7 games http://t.co/3OPg8zlxrj

I wouldn't wish being a GS Manager on anybody.

Even if it were a new next-gen system and free gear...

 

Service Industry's scarred me for life, what can I say?

 

[Swarley]

 

[KNUBB]

That was expected. Way to not let me down Shu

 

[Primetime]

Imagine you’re out in the world and you get a hankering to buy a game. It happens. In today’s practically neolithic society, you’re forced to remember what it is you wanted to buy, wait until you get home, turn the console on, wait for it to boot up, then buy the game. And that’s assuming you want a digital copy – we won’t even bring Gamestop into the picture. Well, those days are about to change. Sony SNE +0.1% President of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida revealed a cool new Playstation 4 feature via Twitter today. Apparently, if you buy a game on your smartphone, your PS4 will wake up to download it, then go back to sleep afterwards. By the time you get back, it’s ready to play.

There’s no word on whether or not Xbox One will have a similar feature, but we’re reaching out for comment.

Not only is that a great feature, it’s part of the broader story we’re hearing with both the PS4 and the Xbox One. The companies are trying to turn their consoles into device hubs that sit in your living room, tying together phones and tablets, as well as the Playstation Vita for Sony, and any Windows device for Microsoft MSFT +1.61%. Features like this one make “Playstation” less of a box that sits under your TV and more of a cloud-based entertainment service that crosses between devices. If Sony can play that concept right, it could provide the ancillary benefit of finally moving some of its struggling Vitas.

Features like this harken back to the great used games debate that dominated discussion of next-gen consoles for months before and immediately after their announcement. If these companies want to regain more control over games sales, downloads are an obvious solution. The strategy here is to slowly incentivize downloads with cool features like this, until customers become more comfortable with a purely digital games collection. At the end of the day, we end up with something like Steam for consoles.

One also assumes that the Playstation 4 would have to be “always on, always connected” in order for this sort of thing to work.

P$4

 

[Handleit_44]

Sony working with Atlus, Level-5, Rockstar Games, and other studios on ‘exclusive PlayStation game content’

During a stage presentation at the GameStop Expo in Las Vegas this past weekend, Sean Coleman, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s group manager of retail training and advocacy, shared a list of third-party developers Sony is working with on “exclusive game content.”

“We’ve forged great third-party partnerships with some of the biggest developers to bring exclusive game content to PlayStation gamers which creates the best place to play,” Coleman said.

This list, which we’ve typed up below, spans companies like Activision Blizzard to Atlus to Level-5 to Rockstar Games. We’ve attached known PlayStation-exclusive content to each company. The rest are a mystery, as “game content” can mean anything from an additional 60 minutes of gameplay like Watch Dogs or Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag to a fully exclusive game like Deep Down.

• Activision Blizzard – Diablo III content
• Atlus
• Bethesda Games – The Elder Scrolls Online exclusive PlayStation 4 beta
• Bluepoint Games – “Bringing a Sony classic to current game systems”
• Bungie – Destiny content
• Capcom – Deep Down
• Disney Interactive
• EA
• Insomniac Games
• Konami
• Level-5
• Nordic Games
• Rockstar Games
• Sanzaru Games
• Sega
• Square Enix
• Sumo Digital
• Take-Two
• Ubisoft – Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag content, Watch Dogs content
• Warner Bros. – Batman: Arkham Origins content
• Zindagi Games

 

[SethMode]

Exclusive content is the fucking worst.