Still waiting for a PS4 to become available here… anywhere. Both local electronics superstores got huge piles of Xbones around Christmas, but not a single PS4 in sight.
RickH
1982
Funny, I was at the local Walmart looking for wood glue, and went by the electronics for no real reason like I always do. They had 2 Xbones in stock, zero PS4s, zero Vitas. While I wasted a lot of time looking for the wood glue (they keep it office supplies instead of home improvement), they put a third Xbone into the locked cabinet. Guess someone returned it.
I have a Turtle Beach headset (actually covers one ear) with a mic that I use for BF4. Plugs into the controller and is a pretty slick setup. It’s called the Earforce P4c and I paid 30 bucks for it at Gamestop. Very happy with it. Can’t really recommend any other games except for Resogun. And lastly, get a Vita so you can do remote play. Seriously. I totally underestimated how much fun and how cool it is to play PS4 games on it.
Kadath
1984
Finally played Killzone last night. PRETTY. HATE the voice acting tho and the action in the first few hours wasn’t my bag.
Lego Marvel was fun tho, I think it expects players to have a bit more idea how the lego team mechanics work, could have used a bit more handholding at first, good to go now tho…
I’ve seen this sentiment a lot and I just don’t get it. Why is playing on a smaller screen better than looking up at the huge TV you’re sitting in front of instead? Or are you only talking about scenarios where the big TV is busy?
Hmmm… My new PS4 seems to have caused me to buy a PS3. I just couldn’t see letting all these free PS3 PSN games Sony is throwing at me go by unplayed. Nefarious master plan succeeds…
I’ve never really understood it either myself but people seem to claim it is what you guess, that the TV is busy.
This seems to beg the question of why am i buying a $500 ps4 when i can never use the TV attached to it. I might as well just busy a Vita or a 3ds and forget the ps4.
Chaplin
1988
It’s not for everyone I guess. I have a Vita and a 3DS. They get the most use when I am using my traditional console titles on them though (MHTriU save moved or remote play on Vita). It is not so much the thrill at playing on a small screen (which is held right in front of my face so it is not that different), but more about the flexibility. I didn’t buy Lego Marvel to play on the Vita. I bought it for PS4. That said, I really like the ability to play it on the Vita if I don’t want to sit on the couch in the living room. This is sometimes when the TV is busy (kids or significant other), but it is more often that I am tired and play from bed or I am doing something monotonous on the PC and want to play while it is doing something. What I am trying to get at is that remote play is not the REASON to have a PS4, but that it is a really nice feature that adds freedom and flexibility to games that I would play on it.
I guess I would compare it to pre-tablet gaming days when the attitude I had was essentially, “why would I pay hundreds of dollars to play dinky flash like games on a small screen when I have this awesome PC and a mondo huge monitor.” Well a few years later that same PC and monitor don’t get nearly the use and I game mostly in off moments on the go via my iPad. I think this is partly due to life realities as a working adult with a family, but it is also a fair bit about flexibility and freedom offered by gaming not tethered to a particular chair, room, and wall socket.
Obviously personal realities will influence both of the above. Single dude or gal in your own apartment/ house with 70inch OLED and million dollar surround sound get up? Vita, Smeeta. Work at home with plenty of time post work to spend with the family? Remote play, psssshaw! Work in a techy environment where fiber backed wi-fi abounds, spend hours a day commuting, and wonder how you will have enough free time at home to watch a single show on the DVR after dinner and helping your kid with their homework, but before you crash heavily to do it all over again all while wondering when time became as important of a resource as disposable income? Yeah, remote play is teh sexy.
The PSP is the single worst value I’ve ever gotten out of a tech purchase (bought it at launch, probably played it less than 10 hours altogether), and I’ve never gotten value out of any handheld other than an ipad, so I doubt I’ll get a Vita. But I do think the remote play stuff is pretty cool, and it’s possibly I’ll reconsider if there are any games that make having a Vita particularly worthwhile.
“Available from these sellers,” starting at $510. :(
The PSP is the single worst value I’ve ever gotten out of a tech purchase (bought it at launch, probably played it less than 10 hours altogether), and I’ve never gotten value out of any handheld other than an ipad, so I doubt I’ll get a Vita.
Patapon 1 + 2 and Valkyria Chronicles 2 alone would give you 60 odd hours. But, yeah, the PSP wasn’t the best value in the end.
I swear the piles of Xbones at the local stores were even higher today than last week. Still not a single PS4 for sale. At least nobody can accuse Sony of channel stuffing…
We got UK sales for last year, PS4 up 160k over XB1
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ps4-outsold-xbox-one-by-166-000-consoles-in-uk-last-year/0126321
Was a bit surprised, I thought MS would have been out supplying PS4 in the UK and US since they have launched in far less territories. Perhaps they dumped it all into the US.
Was a bit surprised, I thought MS would have been out supplying PS4 in the UK and US since they have launched in far less territories. Perhaps they dumped it all into the US.
Even if they did, all the buzz over here among people I know personally is for the PS4 (not that any of them have bought one). Microsoft’s messaging and design choices on the Xbox One have been so US-centric that I’m not at all surprised. The Xbox 360 may be disproportionately popular in the UK compared to the rest of Europe, but even so PS3 was outselling it here in the end. And the stories of 50Hz display problems on the One can’t have helped.
What makes you think this is a supply issue? As I said above there are plenty of XBones here but nobody wants them. If demand in the UK is similar then I guess PS4 would outsell Xbox One by a factor of two if they were actually in supply.
Stockinformer is showing both are available here, at least in small numbers.
Xbox One is also widely available here - including online at bestbuy.ca, etc. – but PS4 is very hard to find still. Stores seem to get regular resupply, but they sell out almost instantly. I saw futureshop.ca had 27 PS4s for sale online a couple of days ago, but they were all gone by the time I could place the order. Meanwhile, dust is gathering on the xbox ones.
Kadath
1999
Regarding the price of Digital Downloads on Amazon, it’s really interesting. Killzone is back up in price. But lots of others are off a few dollars here and there.
I LOVE that Amazon is experimenting with price elasticity. Steam leads the way, Bezos has smart folks doing the same!
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=vg_ps4_quicklinks_digital?ie=UTF8&node=7326750011&
Some new bundles in there too, putting games in with PSPlus.
Amazon has PS4s available again for a shipment coming in next week.
