PS4 Megathread

Xenji

F1ngers wrote: »

It's for anyone that buys it - not just for new subscriptions...

I know, just meant for people who have not got it yet.

FlyingIrishMan

Blue and Red PS4 controllers at launch, Black much looks nicer though.
http://ie.ign.com/articles/2013/08/20/gamescom-magma-red-wave-blue-dualshock-4-colors-announced

Sephiroth_dude

Back in Feb they showed a game that looked kinda like dragons dogma,does anyone remember the name of it?

FlyingIrishMan

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Back in Feb they showed a game that looked kinda like dragons dogma,does anyone remember the name of it?

Deep Down?

Sephiroth_dude

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

Deep Down?

That's it,thank you

Richard Dower

lol....so MS got pwned by Sony, Twitch will be available on both consoles now....and the PS4 will have ustream and gaikai: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/twitch-integrates-with-playstation-4-for-streaming-and-viewing-video-game-content/

tok9

Now that I think back Rime and Everybody's gone to the Rapture looked very interesting.

Rime in particularly looked beautiful, got a real Ico feel off it.

maquiladora

tok9 wrote: »

Now that I think back Rime and Everybody's gone to the Rapture looked very interesting.

Rime in particularly looked beautiful, got a real Ico feel off it.

Yeah very Ico/Wind Waker/The Witness art style. Love that it's open world too.

maquiladora

Xbox One/PS4 2013 Launch Countries (13)

United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
Australia
New Zealand
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Spain
Italy
Ireland
Austria


Additional PS4 2013 Launch Countries (19)

Belgium
Denmark
Finland
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Russia
Sweden
Switzerland
Argentina
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Panama
Peru

FlyingIrishMan

A look at the UI from a much better angle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaPoLJyDZmM&sns=tw

I personally love it, it's quick, easy to navigate and is a cross between the XMB and tile based interface.
And being able to jump into friend's multiplayer games in like three seconds is amazing.

Sarz91

I'm upset now that I didn't pre-order. He who hesitates is lost.

Jelle1880

I'm not, I only recently got a PS3 so I'll try and milk that as much as possible before I switch.

But I must say that they're really convincing me more and more.

Cienciano

So, november 29th? My birthday is on the 26th, so the wife is under serious pressure!

Richard Dower wrote: »

II *expect* NEXT GEN!.....MS are beating Sony right now on OS.

Dont forget, half the xbone menus will be tv stuff that won't work/is completely pointless.

miralize

Richard Dower wrote: »

II *expect* NEXT GEN!.....MS are beating Sony right now on OS.

UI design is how it works, not how shiny it looks. You have yet to try it, or see how fast it does the things that you want it to. To say something like whats bolded is just daft. I just want to play games on my PS4.

BeanbagBallbag

Cienciano wrote: »

So, november 29th? My birthday is on the 26th, so the wife is under serious pressure!



Dont forget, half the xbone menus will be tv stuff that won't work/is completely pointless.

Me too! :pac:

DARK-KNIGHT

Cienciano wrote: »

So, november 29th? My birthday is on the 26th, so the wife is under serious pressure!



Dont forget, half the xbone menus will be tv stuff that won't work/is completely pointless.

Unfair to say ms tv use won't work... You know very little as do us all

Cienciano

BeanbagBallbag wrote: »

Me too! :pac:

That's us and Tina Turner. Woo!

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Unfair to say ms tv use won't work... You know very little as do us all

Notice you don't disagree that it's completely pointless

DARK-KNIGHT

Cienciano wrote: »

That's us and Tina Turner. Woo!


Notice you don't disagree that it's completely pointless

Nor did I say it was pointless... Don't be putting words in people's mouths now.

Jesus men acting like jealous kids over two consoles definitely a case of first world problems.. Pathetic really

gizmo

Cienciano wrote: »

Dont forget, half the xbone menus will be tv stuff that won't work/is completely pointless.

Cienciano wrote: »

Notice you don't disagree that it's completely pointless

In fairness, one tab on the menu will be home to the TV & Movie stuff and while most of the Live content won't work in Europe for awhile (as far as we're aware at least) it'll still be the home of the variety of apps already on the service.

aindriu80

I like the new PS4 interface, maybe they will change the the Vita's bubbles to something more PS4 like.

heebusjeebus

aindriu80 wrote: »

I like the new PS4 interface, maybe they will change the the Vita's bubbles to something more PS4 like.

The bubbles are there for making the touch-screen easier to use.

mozattack

The PS4 is so great in all but yet no footage of BF4 on it... thinking it will look like the PS3 version so they are afraid to show it off.

Cienciano

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Nor did I say it was pointless... Don't be putting words in people's mouths now.

Jesus men acting like jealous kids over two consoles definitely a case of first world problems.. Pathetic really

I was joking, you may be taking my posts a bit to seriously. Take some deep breaths and put on some music with whale sounds in it, and relax!
As you said yourself, it's 2 different consoles. Any slagging that I do, (or most people for that matter i've noticed), is light hearted taking the píss about the rival one. We all know they'll be more or less the same.
But the TV aspect might be important to some people, but personally I couldn't care less about it.

FlyingIrishMan

Take from this what you will:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=657221

Xenji

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

Take from this what you will:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=657221

If that is true and Neogaf love stuff like this, it would mean that you would not see much of a difference in games now, but in 2-3 years the quality of PS4 games could look significantly better than XB1 games and all cross platform games would look better on the PS4.

jaffusmax

Xenji wrote: »

If that is true and Neogaf love stuff like this, it would mean that you would not see much of a difference in games now, but in 2-3 years the quality of PS4 games could look significantly better than XB1 games and all cross platform games would look better on the PS4.

But but but what about the

Xenji

Speaking of Neogaf, the infamous CBOAT this week stated that

PS4 games are ready to master while Xbox is stuck in development hell with the latest SDK dropping the performance by 20%

Xenji

If anyone wants to read up on HUMA and what it is and does http://mygaming.co.za/news/hardware/53750-amds-plan-for-the-future-huma-fully-detailed.html

Going back to CBOAT he did mention some big news would come out this week and could he of meant this

Although both upcoming game consoles Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are based on AMD hardware, only PlayStation 4 incorporates hUMA [Heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access] for supporting a shared memory space. This was explained by AMD's Senior Product Marketing Manager Marc Diana to c't [big German IT magazine] at gamescom. This should put the 3D-performance of PlayStation 4 much farther ahead of Xbox One than many have expected so far. AMD sees hUMA as a key element for drastic performance improvements in combined processors. AMD's upcoming Kaveri desktop processors support hUMA as well.

Behind the scenes, c't could hear from developers that the 3D-performance of PlayStation 4 is very far ahead of Xbox One.

Back in April, AMD manager Phil Rogers explained to c't that hUMA improves 3D-performance in particular. "Game developers have been eager to use very large textures for years. Until now they had to resort to tricks in order to package parts of larger textures into smaller textures. That is because today a texture has to be located in a special place of physical memory before the GPU can process it. With hUMA, applications can work with textures much more efficiently". AMD will give more details on hUMA at its upcoming developer conference in November.

More nerd stuff :

PS4 will have hUMA wich means that you no longer need a distinction between CPU partition and GPU partition. Both processors can use the same pieces of data at the same time. You don't need to copy stuff and this allows for completely new algorithms that utilize CPU and GPU at the same time. This is interesting since a GPU is very strong, but extremely dumb. A CPU is extremely smart, but very weak. Since you can utilize both processors at the same time for a single task you have a system that is extremely smart and extremely strong at the same time.

It will allow for an extreme boost for many, many algorithms and parts of algorithms. On top of that it will allow for completely new classes of algorithms and will show why GDDR5 Ram was such a big deal for Sony

stevenmu

That does sound like a genuinely big advantage for the PS4. It seems very odd though that it wouldn't be available for the Xbox too given how similar their APUs are.

aindriu80

heebusjeebus wrote: »

The bubbles are there for making the touch-screen easier to use.

That may well be but it looks kindergarten IMO. Only the Vita uses the bubbles. The PSP used the XMB and the D-Pad and I'm sure they could tweak the PlayStation Dynamic Menu for the Vita and make it more PlayStation.