The Playstation 4

ARogan · 2015-10-07T16:04:37.000Z

I have this one:

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Works pretty well with windows. I haven’t tried it with the ps4 though.
It’s cheap though and feels pretty cheap but the layout isn’t half bad.

Brad_Grenz · 2015-10-08T00:18:05.000Z

They just made the price cut in the US official: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/10/08/ps4-big-holiday-lineup-lower-cost/

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Presumably you’ll see existing bundles discounted as well, like we already saw this week at Target, Best Buy and Amazon for the Taken King bundle.

TimJames · 2016-01-31T06:04:59.000Z

Should I be excited about Nier: Automata? I love PlatinumGames and it would be the second Playstation exclusive to justify the console purchase!

Brad_Grenz · 2016-01-31T17:08:08.000Z

Yes. Yes you should.

Bandersnatch · 2016-01-31T23:15:23.000Z

The first is one of my favorites of all time, though it had weak combat. Bringing Platinum in to fix that on the sequel to a game that flopped is a dream team miracle.

It’s in good hands…

Chappers · 2016-04-05T14:25:35.000Z

So apparently the update that comes out tomorrow will allow you to stream your PS4 to a windows PC or Mac and plug in your controller directly to your PC, only at 720p though. This is similar to what the Xbox One allows with Windows 10 PCs. I never have to leave my gaming rig now :)

TimJames · 2016-04-06T16:24:17.000Z

Requires Windows 8.1 or 10.

jpinard · 2016-04-06T16:43:27.000Z

Is Sony network down for the rest of you? I swear Sony has the worst network ever.

forgeforsaken · 2016-04-06T16:48:44.000Z

jpinard:

Is Sony network down for the rest of you? I swear Sony has the worst network ever.

It’s up for me but communities are sort of messed up. Did you update the OS?

Teiman · 2016-04-07T05:52:44.000Z

I started playing Disgaea 5, I had never played a similar game before, and I normally hate all the 8bits-jrpg-ism of this type of games. But in Disagaea 5 is kind of the real thing. It made sense for it.

Disgaea seems to be a chill game that is busy giving the player more tools to grind in different interesting ways, numbers go big in a way that would made a incremental games fan happy.

Knowing that I can play remotelly the PS4 from my laptop is interesting. I can’t care less about the event and agenda features they added. Is weird. Is a games console, not a salesman PDA, why they are adding features from a salesman PDA in a videogames console? I am safe ignoring them, for now, but I hope they don’t make them too annoying.

Brad_Grenz · 2016-04-07T07:03:17.000Z

You never have to look at the event features if you don’t want.

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TimJames · 2016-04-22T20:42:33.000Z

Dust off your PS4. On April 26th there’s an alpha demo for Ni-Oh, a samurai brawler-Souls hybrid by the guys that did the Ninja Gaiden remake. The gameplay footage looks a bit stiff but I’ll check it out anyway.

Brad_Grenz · 2016-04-22T21:29:02.000Z

Yeah, I’m excited to try it. Looks a bit like the pacing of Dark Souls with the combat of Ninja Gaiden.

Rock8man · 2016-04-24T07:11:48.000Z

I tried PS4 remote play on Windows 10, and played some Don’t Starve remotely. Observations:

Unfortunately it’s restricted to 720p, so on my 1080p monitor everything looks a bit fuzzy.
Unlike the remote Xbox, it doesn’t work with my wired 360 controller. I had to go downstairs and get my PS4 controller and connect it to the PC.
Works really well. I played for a while, no noticeable input lag, it works well.
Overall I like it. I hope they add a very high option like the Xbox connection app, so that I can connect to it at 1080p in the future.
Holy shit, I just found out the “secret” of the lumberjack character in Don’t Starve.

TimJames · 2016-04-25T12:56:10.000Z

Apparently Nioh includes an option to select either game mode (attempt to hold 60 fps) or movie mode (improve graphics). Have console games ever done anything like this?

Gendal · 2016-04-25T13:30:33.000Z

Tim James:

Apparently Nioh includes an option to select either game mode (attempt to hold 60 fps) or movie mode (improve graphics). Have console games ever done anything like this?

Not that I have seen, but I am not the biggest console gamer these days. I am surprised Sony lets them do this, I don’t think any of the console manufactures would have allowed such a setting in the past.

TimJames · 2016-04-25T14:01:36.000Z

Gendal:

Not that I have seen, but I am not the biggest console gamer these days. I am surprised Sony lets them do this, I don’t think any of the console manufactures would have allowed such a setting in the past.

FWIW, it’s an alpha. Maybe they’re gathering feedback. But it made me think about the PS4.5.

Brad_Grenz · 2016-04-25T17:02:53.000Z

Tim James:

Apparently Nioh includes an option to select either game mode (attempt to hold 60 fps) or movie mode (improve graphics). Have console games ever done anything like this?

The Last of Us remaster for PS4 had such an option.

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TimJames · 2016-04-26T05:24:42.000Z

Apparently the Playstation Store updates at midnight in most major territories for demos and stuff. But it doesn’t update until the next afternoon for the US.

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

LockerK · 2016-04-26T06:09:47.000Z

The general “afternoon” timeframe is sadly still an improvement from the old days of “if we get around to it”. Network is still the one area that Sony is way behind on. I would love to one day see a write-up of all the difficulties, poor architecture decisions, and clever workarounds that must be in place to even make it work as well as it does.