The Playstation 4

Starlight · 2013-12-04T11:56:53.000Z

Okay, while x360ce does work with the PS4 controller on PC, there is a better solution.

Grab this;

http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-DS4-To-XInput-Wrapper

Follow this guide if you need to;

If the 360 controller is not recognised, drivers here;

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-gb/d/xbox-360-controller-for-windows

And instead of having to set up every game you just stick the little wrapper into your startup folder. Yay!

stusser · 2013-12-04T12:04:54.000Z

Brad Grenz:

Yeah, they sold out really fast. It was funny to watch the sequence of events on my twitter feed today. I saw a number of sites get their news stories up about PS4’s being in stock again only after Amazon had run out again. The 30 or 40 minutes it took to get the stories composed was too long.

The Xbone is still in stock at Amazon, from last night. That doesn’t necessarily mean the PS4 is selling better, could be any number of distribution and production issues. But still, you can buy one and not the other.

MichaelD · 2013-12-04T21:58:51.000Z

stusser:

The Xbone is still in stock at Amazon, from last night. That doesn’t necessarily mean the PS4 is selling better, could be any number of distribution and production issues. But still, you can buy one and not the other.

Quick, someone start a GDDR5 worldwide shortage rumor!

Dejin · 2013-12-04T22:21:39.000Z

stusser:

The Xbone is still in stock at Amazon, from last night. That doesn’t necessarily mean the PS4 is selling better, could be any number of distribution and production issues. But still, you can buy one and not the other.

They actually were out of stock for a while. I ordered mine after you posted they were available in the XBox One thread. When I went back on 3-4 hours later they were out of stock. They had more again this afternoon. Right now though, Amazon says they are out of stock again.

Zeitgeist · 2013-12-05T00:23:04.000Z

Starlight:

Yea, no need to guess on this stuff for the UK, at least;

http://www.stockinformer.co.uk/

In and out inside an hour atm for both consoles. (Argos has plenty of 2DS’s, though!)

On that website it suggests for tracking:

PS4 — Xbox One — Lucy the Dog — Nintendo 2DS

Find the outlier!

Thongsy · 2013-12-05T00:30:56.000Z

Nintendo 2DS! All others are popular Christmas items!

WarpRattler · 2013-12-05T08:22:14.000Z

That would be a better joke if 2DSes weren’t currently the cheapest way to play a game that sold better in its opening week than the PS4 and Xbone combined have sold since launch.

MattN · 2013-12-07T08:43:47.000Z

So my ps4 is terribly loud, distractingly so, and it’s not just killzone that does it, it got annoying when I played contrast as well, loud enough to where I couldn’t hear the characters unless I turned up the volume to house disturbing levels.
Back to Amazon it goes. Thankfully their return policy is great in have another one due to arrive on Monday.

My fear is that this is just a thing with ps4s. Does everyone have this issue? I read in reviews that it got this way but only navigating the os while playing a game.
This is stupid sony hubris. Make the damn thing a little bigger or at least move the psu to the outside of the box so we don’t have to hear an airplane take off in our living room.

forgeforsaken · 2013-12-07T09:24:56.000Z

My PS4 is very quiet.

Jason_Becker · 2013-12-07T09:32:13.000Z

I can barely hear the fan when at the dashboard. Not at all when playing a game.

Angrycoder · 2013-12-07T09:38:43.000Z

MattN:

This is stupid sony hubris. Make the damn thing a little bigger or at least move the psu to the outside of the box so we don’t have to hear an airplane take off in our living room.

No, you just got a bum system.

glcm1961 · 2013-12-07T10:26:12.000Z

My PS4 is incredibly quiet. Power supply outside the console like the Xbox one? Er… no thank you.

awdougherty · 2013-12-07T10:36:52.000Z

Mine is quiet as well, but it helps that it’s around ten feet away when I play.

Ultrazen · 2013-12-07T10:43:18.000Z

MattN:

So my ps4 is terribly loud, distractingly so, and it’s not just killzone that does it, it got annoying when I played contrast as well, loud enough to where I couldn’t hear the characters unless I turned up the volume to house disturbing levels.
Back to Amazon it goes. Thankfully their return policy is great in have another one due to arrive on Monday.

My fear is that this is just a thing with ps4s. Does everyone have this issue? I read in reviews that it got this way but only navigating the os while playing a game.
This is stupid sony hubris. Make the damn thing a little bigger or at least move the psu to the outside of the box so we don’t have to hear an airplane take off in our living room.

Apparently, the 8 year old that assembled your Play$tation still has a lot to learn about tolerances and machining! Kids these days…

Thongsy · 2013-12-07T13:35:49.000Z

Mine is pretty quiet too. Could barely tell it’s on. It’s kind of a bit scary how quiet compared to any of my old PS3s, my PC and given the size of the Xbone and even that having an external power brick.

Brad_Grenz · 2013-12-07T22:24:43.000Z

Ultrazen:

Apparently, the 8 year old that assembled your Play$tation still has a lot to learn about tolerances and machining! Kids these days…

He probably rigged a baseball card in the fan blades. Whatcha gonna do?

Jazar · 2013-12-08T06:24:51.000Z

I can only hear the PS4 when it spins up a blu-ray disc. Since it installs everything to the HD anyways that only lasts for a few seconds, then its deadly quiet. Same as the 360.

Rock8man · 2013-12-08T06:50:54.000Z

I finally tried some Call of Duty multiplayer now that I’ve activated my PS+ membership. Something about the controls still doesn’t feel right, but I’m getting used to it a lot faster in multiplayer. I hope I am anyway.

I’m glad I didn’t buy Resogun and only got it through PS+. I have the same problems with it as I did with Housemarque’s last title: it takes too long to go through a complete game to get a high score, and the mechanics of the game are good but not as satisfying as they could be. Geometry Wars, this is not, just as Super Stardust wasn’t. Still, like Super Stardust, it is a decent way to spend some time with the machine while looking at some great visuals. There’s something about those voxels that’s almost spell binding. I want to keep looking at the game even though I don’t necessarily feel the desire to keep playing it.

Rock8man · 2013-12-08T07:22:45.000Z

I wanted to share my first kill in Call of Duty so I pressed the share button on the DS4 thinking it was like saying “Xbox record that” on the XB1, where it stores the clip on your hard drive for you to edit and put on your game feed later for your friends to watch. But instead the share button took me out of Call of Duty multiplayer into some screen about Facebook or twitter or something and I was frantically backing out of it so that I could get back to my multiplayer game. What the hell?

I guess I should have set that up earlier if I wanted to share a game clip on my friends feed? Or do you have to be on Facebook or twitter to share your clip? Is that clip still on my hard drive somewhere? How do I find it?

Delta · 2013-12-08T07:28:16.000Z

What it will have done is saved a screenshot, and a video of the fifteen minutes before you pushed the button to your profile. You can see these (and share 'em) by going to your profile, and then selecting the third icon below your picture.

It’s kinda like “Xbox Record That” except it’s better used for pressing the button, heading back to the game, and sharing when you’re done.