Jesus, is this what sports games look like now?
Thongsy
1682
And as quickly as they were available they’re already sold out again.
Chaplin
1683
My local Target has 40 available for walk up purchase 8am tomorrow. When I passed by at 12:30 there was not a soul in line.
RickH
1684
How odd, since people did line up overnight to buy the $600 PS3 at release.
For those who have a PS4 coming today, before you plug in your PS4, check Step 6 of the iFixIt teardown. You can make sure the HDMI doesn’t have the issue (or that you can prevently fix it) which some PS4 owners have reported: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/PlayStation+4+Teardown/19493?
Wendelius
Global study finds the PS4 leading the Xbox One in every analyzed market, including the Microsoft-friendly USA and UK. Now let’s see if Sony manages to lose its lead with defective HDMI, unexpectedly missing features, and unavailable PSN for required gigabyte patches…
I recognize you might be snarking, but the patch is only 300mb, reportedly. And the defect rate on the HDMI port is allegedly only 0.4%, and is fixable at home (though you’ll probably fry your cable finding out you have a defective one) if that video someone linked on the last page is to be believed (the upraised flap of metal causing the issue could just be pressed down with needle nose pliers, I imagine, and then you could get a different HDMI cable). Defective hardware sucks, but even iPad can come out of the box as a giant, flat paper-weight.
True but he will have been wrong before Christmas. The PS4 won’t be that hard to find. You might have to call a couple of stores before leaving home, but this won’t be like the Wii was. The beauty of the PS4’s relatively simple design is that there’s no reason for it to have severe component shortages and (for better or for worse) the workers at Foxconn are able to churn these boxes out really quickly.
Microsoft, on the other hand, introduced the real possibility of component shortages impacting console availability by adopting their tiny amount of esram, which in hindsight everyone will see as being a very bad move because they still have far inferior fillrate to the PS4.
Yeah, no. It is going to be a supply vs demand shortage, not a we don’t have the parts to make these things any faster shortage. The reason you couldn’t walk into a store and buy a tickle me elmo, cabbage patch kid, or whatever wasn’t because those things were impossible to produce, they were just outstripped by the demand.
Sure you can get on a waiting list, or check websites every few days to hope you catch one in-stock somewhere, or make friends with the electronics guy at your local target so he sets one aside for you. But some people don’t want to waste their time doing that. They’d rather just pay the extra 100-200 bucks to some shmo on ebay and get the console in hand.
You lost me. What are you saying will limit the supply?
Tickle me Elmo isn’t really applicable, the videogame industry has gotten very good at extrapolating overall demand based on pre-orders, so lacking a component shortage there’s no reason why Sony wouldn’t have ramped up ample production. I’ll give you that finding it from now until right after Black Friday is going to take some legwork, but right after Black Friday this will be a “walk into any walmart or target and walk out with one” affair.
And even in the runup to Black Friday finding one won’t be that hard except you’re going to get bundle-fucked, but if you are forced to pay $550-600 for one you might as well get a retail bundle and get some games rather than just piss the extra money away to some ebay scalper.
So… anyone else try the download and play function? I can certainly download Killzone (and it’s about a quarter of the way through) but I don’t see how to launch it while it does so.
PS4 just showed up from amazon.
By the time I got it configured and flipped over to the playstation store. The 1.5 update was already half done, so I guess background downloading is in place. Only took a minute to finish downloading the 300 MB update.
And of course the patch applied. And now PSN is down. No downloads for me.
mono
1696
I haven’t received ours yet, but my son is watching some Netflix on our PS3. Nice looking Netflix UI update (well at least in the Kids view, I haven’t looked at the standard all genre interface). They must have updated the client to coincide w/ the PS4 release.
Played some COD Ghosts this morning, first time putting the PS4 through its paces. The controller felt right in terms of size but having the two thumb sticks low still doesn’t feel quite as comfortable as how the 360 controller (still the best I’ve used) staggers the sticks. COD Ghosts looked much sharper than the XBox titles I’ve been playing recently, draw distances seem further while retaining detail, and of course there is debris everywhere. I feel like my console now looks like a pretty high end PC, which I guess is not too bad. Hopefully future games learn to tap the system’s potential even more.
Picking it up from the local Best Buy was pretty simple and straightforward. In and out in about 10 minutes. There was a short line to pick them up cold, I think I saw the line after the store handed out tickets for their supply. That went pretty smoothly too.
Gendal
1698
Still waiting on mine on the west coast. Downloaded the 300MB update so I can put it on a USB stick when it shows up. Took all of 2 minutes to download so not sure its worth it anymore but you can download it here:
Make sure its the 300 and not 900MB version, that one is for a new hard drive I believe.
Kadath
1699
Playroom made me giggle, cool short term fun.
Resogun is insane.
Had to reset my router to get the networking working, seems to be a pretty widespread but strange issue…
Waiting for AssCreed and Ghosts to download and install. Ghosts told me it was ready to install so I started that and it’s been beach-balling ever sine…
Chaplin
1700
Impressions after a few hours with it:
UI/ OS:
– Download speed and updates are much improved. I was up and running very quickly.
– It could be that it is new to me, but it feels clunky as I keep trying to find the options I want in its basically parallel tool bar setup
– Seems slow to update or pull data for the “activity” stuff
– Not even in the same universe as Xbox 360 for ad space. Clean, and not obtrusive
– It has a kind of Vita feel with suspended programs and tabbing
– I could not find an install option for Killzone, but can tell from watching streams that mine loads MUCH SLOWER than others which I assume are digital downloads
– It is not as whisper quiet as I thought it was going to be. System fan and optical drives are not turbines, but noticeable in a quite room.
– I have not found a single use for the touch pad on the DS4 yet.
Remote Play
– Sexy
– I was able to play Killzone in seconds on my Vita from anywhere in the house. I could even play it in parts of my yard and street (but the sun made it impossible to see)
– The size of the screen makes it much harder to read text, see hud symbols, effectively use the mini-map, or pick out details (like an enemy at a distance). I would really like a Vita font/UI scaling option
– It is remote play, so what the PS4 can do, you can do on the Vita
– The rear touch screen buttons are hard on my brain to use right (quadrants are L2 and R2). I threw a grenade on myself nearly every spawn when I tried to run.
– While holding up the Vita to watch both screens at once, they were not quite exact, but they are so close that you would need to do such to really notice
– My Vita catalog functionally contains everything I will ever own on the PS4 it seems. Sweet!
Social
– I could not find a way to edit the 15 minute footage to something functional for the share features
– Built in streaming is kinda cool. I might mess with streaming a Qt3 match or something
– More of a focus on Facebook, Twitch, Ustream, and real names. For better or worse.
