PS4 Megathread 2.0

TheDoc

Just a followup on the discussion about gaming prices in Ireland.

Gamestops CEO announced the company will be slowly moving away from games, to focus on hardware sales like tablets, mobile phones and laptops. While maintaining a presence in the gaming market, it will be mostly second hand sales and new titles, removing most back catalogue.

Gamestops profit model is essentially based around second hand sales, so don't see them ditching it anytime soon.

He also mentioned the company are looking into acquiring franchise licenses to be exclusive mobile phone outlets and laptop outlets.

Said the company expect to start phasing out and closing stores as required accross Europe this year.

Can't say I'm in anyway upset or irked. I've moved most of my purchasing to the online sphere, and Gaemstop was just never a store that enticed me through intricute knowledge of staff, or competitive pricing.

A big fallacy is irish stores complaining about how they can't compete with the online market, simply put if you can't compete, get out.

I havn't tried the Candadian website touted here, still use Amazon. The US PSN thing is tempting but for the start of the PS$ lifecycle I'd like to build up a physical collection.

Have to say been a while since I've touched my console, Infamous not really interesting me. Too much going on with the PC gaming at the moment.

Needs a title that is a mindblowing online experience, safe bet is an FPS. I still long for SOMETHING like modern warfare, don't find the futuristic shooters hold my interest, and BF4, well it was out ages on the PC before PS4, can't see myself buying it and levelling up again.

Mattyz69

Thinking of picking up the PS4 in the next while,

not sure if this question has been answered before, but, if i bought games on the PSN on the PS3 can this be re downloaded on to the PS4?
the games i got were the likes of Final Fantasy 7, tomb raider, all the classics from the PS and dont want to have to hang on to a PS3 if i dont have to!!

Cheers

tok9

Unfortunately not.. at least not at this moment. There were some rumours regarding emulation but that's all it is for now and won't be anytime soon I imagine.

_Redzer_

Mattyz69 wrote: »

Thinking of picking up the PS4 in the next while,

not sure if this question has been answered before, but, if i bought games on the PSN on the PS3 can this be re downloaded on to the PS4?
the games i got were the likes of Final Fantasy 7, tomb raider, all the classics from the PS and dont want to have to hang on to a PS3 if i dont have to!!

Cheers

Nope. The PS4 hardware is completely different to the PS3's, so it won't be able to run any of its games.

Mattyz69

ah disaster. i knew that the PS3 games themselves wouldnt work but i thought the likes of the PS one games might work again.

thanks for that, looks like i have to keep the PS3 around so!!

tok9

Mattyz69 wrote: »

ah disaster. i knew that the PS3 games themselves wouldnt work but i thought the likes of the PS one games might work again.

thanks for that, looks like i have to keep the PS3 around so!!

Honestly.. it's very much worth keeping around with the free content on PS +

Wing126

TheDoc wrote: »

Just a followup on the discussion about gaming prices in Ireland.

Gamestops CEO announced the company will be slowly moving away from games, to focus on hardware sales like tablets, mobile phones and laptops. While maintaining a presence in the gaming market, it will be mostly second hand sales and new titles, removing most back catalogue.

Gamestops profit model is essentially based around second hand sales, so don't see them ditching it anytime soon.

He also mentioned the company are looking into acquiring franchise licenses to be exclusive mobile phone outlets and laptop outlets.

Said the company expect to start phasing out and closing stores as required accross Europe this year.

Care to provide a source for this?

Deano7788

Wing126 wrote: »

Care to provide a source for this?

http://games.mxdwn.com/news/gamestop-to-focus-less-on-games-more-on-phones-and-tablets/

jc4517

_Redzer_ wrote: »

Nope. The PS4 hardware is completely different to the PS3's, so it won't be able to run any of its games.

Until Playstation Now that is

TrustedApple

Deano7788 wrote: »

http://games.mxdwn.com/news/gamestop-to-focus-less-on-games-more-on-phones-and-tablets/

Had a look and read of that site there i would not belive a word of it as its not from a games industry site EG a mainstream one or from a business journal or business news site.

I call bull**** on to i see this a proper media outlet

Deano7788

samapple789 wrote: »

Had a look and read of that site there i would not belive a word of it as its not from a games industry site EG a mainstream one or from a business journal or business news site.

I call bull**** on to i see this a proper media outlet

Alrighty, found this afterwards

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2014/04/24/gamestop-closing-120-stores-focusing-on-mobile

CombatCow

Firmware 1.70 is out April 30'th

Sephiroth_dude

That's a nice update,how much would a capture card set you back?

RangeR

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

That's a nice update,how much would a capture card set you back?

I wouldn't go less than £60.

TheDoc

samapple789 wrote: »

Had a look and read of that site there i would not belive a word of it as its not from a games industry site EG a mainstream one or from a business journal or business news site.

I call bull**** on to i see this a proper media outlet

Reported by pretty every meida outlet, I read it from a business website initially.

Xenji

The PS4 1.70 update goes live on April 30th, that is the Japanese date, so it could come a day before or after that date.

macpac26

Makes me laugh about complaints over games for PS4. I remember waiting in line to get a PS3 in 2007 and brought it home to play Formula 1 Championship edition and Motorstorm. No PS+ or a decent store selection to choose from either. No FIFA/Call of Duty/Battlefield/Assassins Creed/Killzone games there. I would have killed for a few PS2 remasters back then. Maybe im just getting old.

steve3194

Does anyone know if the wireless sony stereo headset 2.0 is available here yet?
GameStop have it on there site but only for pre-order. Smyth's have available to buy online but its out of stock in all stores so I don't know if that's a mistake or not. Heard nothing about a release date

Captain Chaos

You can get it online from VGP. From what I have heard of the headset itself, it's not ment to be great.

F1ngers

Captain Chaos wrote: »

You can get it online from VGP. From what I have heard of the headset itself, it's not ment to be great.

Out of stock too, have been for a while.

steve3194

F1ngers wrote: »

Out of stock too, have been for a while.

Never used VGP before. What are their shipping costs like?

jaffusmax

I got these headphones from argos for my ps4, dirt cheap but great sound and fit for purpose

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/1701645/Trail/searchtext%3ETRITTON.htm

Xenji

steve3194 wrote: »

Never used VGP before. What are their shipping costs like?

About 7 euro for a game, but they go by weight so hardware will cost more.

Captain Chaos

It still works out cheaper than buying here even with shipping.

Wing126

steve3194 wrote: »

Does anyone know if the wireless sony stereo headset 2.0 is available here yet?
GameStop have it on there site but only for pre-order. Smyth's have available to buy online but its out of stock in all stores so I don't know if that's a mistake or not. Heard nothing about a release date

It's definitely out. Gamestop seem to be really slow at getting them in though. My mate has had one since march and he got it in Smyths.

naughto

steve3194 wrote: »

Does anyone know if the wireless sony stereo headset 2.0 is available here yet?
GameStop have it on there site but only for pre-order. Smyth's have available to buy online but its out of stock in all stores so I don't know if that's a mistake or not. Heard nothing about a release date

ive being trying to get it rang my local smyths they said they never had it IN stock in the 1st place but will be getting them in at some stage

steve3194

naughto wrote: »

ive being trying to get it rang my local smyths they said they never had it IN stock in the 1st place but will be getting them in at some stage

Weird that they don't have them by now. It does give the option to order them from the website which is strange. I would only it might be a case where don't receive it for months

TrustedApple

Got my sony headset about 5 or 6 weeks in smyths just went in and they had them by luck as i was told they would have them on thursday of that week went in and got them.

This was the waterford store

tok9

You know, watching a friend playing Octodad reminded me of something. The feature to control another players game has been completely forgotten about.

Has there been any word?

Captain Chaos

tok9 wrote: »

You know, watching a friend playing Octodad reminded me of something. The feature to control another players game has been completely forgotten about.

Has there been any word?

Yeah, the multiplayer in Watch Dogs with the PS app. The other person on a phone or tablet can interact with the other player making their like more difficult.

tok9

No there was a feature where you could literally take control of your friends controller... it was like a helping them out tool.

Captain Chaos

tok9 wrote: »

No there was a feature where you could literally take control of your friends controller... it was like a helping them out tool.

Oh yeah, they showed something like that before the PS4 launched. Someone could watch you play a game and then you could ask them to take over remotely and play a section for them. Could't really see it working until they get PS Now sorted with the delay lag of remote controlling a game.

ShadowHearth

I had a party last night, so I needed some music. I pushed the trigger on music unlimited, they did had a good deal too.
First of all, Its a decent service, but I would prefer having Spotify instead. The issue I had - the music unlimited app on PS4 is dreadful. PS3 one is just so much better and works faster.

WeHaveToGoBack

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I had a party last night, so I needed some music. I pushed the trigger on music unlimited, they did had a good deal too.
First of all, Its a decent service, but I would prefer having Spotify instead. The issue I had - the music unlimited app on PS4 is dreadful. PS3 one is just so much better and works faster.

I found it really slow on PS4 too; nice to be able to play it over games, but wouldn't pay for it. It's good on the Vita, but cant play music over games which is poor.

ShadowHearth

WeHaveToGoBack wrote: »

I found it really slow on PS4 too; nice to be able to play it over games, but wouldn't pay for it. It's good on the Vita, but cant play music over games which is poor.

I am not going to stick around with it for long, but it is handy right now.
It is a very laggy and search function is dreadful. Unless I just got used to youtube understanding my drunk "typing" .

Grayditch

Gave up on it after a month, it's a disaster. I should have asked for a refund out of principle.

Benzino

Never used it on the playstation, but found it good on the mobile phone, handy that you could download songs for offline use.

Grayditch

I used it on mobile a lot, and while the app was slow, it was reliable enough. I just find Spotify better for mobile and use that since it was released in Ireland. If love it it was on PS4.

Captain Chaos

When you have the likes of Spotify, Music Unlimited just fails to compare at a basic level. Even if Music Unlimited was free I'd still use Spotifiy over it.

WeHaveToGoBack

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I am not going to stick around with it for long, but it is handy right now.
It is a very laggy and search function is dreadful. Unless I just got used to youtube understanding my drunk "typing" .

Yeah, I just used the free month and left it after that. Even the website is annoying in that you can't save your login details; and I can't get it on my phone.

.ak

Would love to have Spotify on the PS4/3, with in game support for premium users.

Grayditch

That'll never happen while Sony try push MU, though will it?

Maybe if MS do it, Sony will follow.

ShadowHearth

Grayditch wrote: »

That'll never happen while Sony try push MU, though will it?

Maybe if MS do it, Sony will follow.

No way Sony will let Spotify even near ps3/ps4.

I will keep it for now. I think they did that 3 month 3eu deal there. I moved my TV to living room from my mancave. so ps4 and ps3 went with it. We spend a lot of time in the back garden during summer so I need music to be there too. It will do for now.

Klair88

ShadowHearth wrote: »

No way Sony will let Spotify even near ps3/ps4.

I will keep it for now. I think they did that 3 month 3eu deal there. I moved my TV to living room from my mancave. so ps4 and ps3 went with it. We spend a lot of time in the back garden during summer so I need music to be there too. It will do for now.

Remember to turn off the Auto renewal for Music Unlimited. Bastords got €9.99 out of me & i hated the service and used it once.

ShadowHearth

Klair88 wrote: »

Remember to turn off the Auto renewal for Music Unlimited. Bastords got €9.99 out of me & i hated the service and used it once.

I though it is like 5eu per month, is it really 10eu per month?

RangeR

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I though it is like 5eu per month, is it really 10eu per month?

Most, if not all, music streaming sites are a tenner a month. Cartel anyone?

TheDoc

Klair88 wrote: »

Remember to turn off the Auto renewal for Music Unlimited. Bastords got €9.99 out of me & i hated the service and used it once.

Got me aswell

I got the free pass to use for a few hours while cabling up the gaming room, setting up a few laptops etc.

Got stung for a tenner on the renewal

Convaluted process to unsub aswell, stinks of Xbox live

ShadowHearth

TheDoc wrote: »

Got me aswell

I got the free pass to use for a few hours while cabling up the gaming room, setting up a few laptops etc.

Got stung for a tenner on the renewal

Convaluted process to unsub aswell, stinks of Xbox live

Just turned off automatic removal. Was piss easy. Just go to options and press button.

I know about xbox live renewal though. Fecking piss take. You can sub easily on xbox, but you need to call them to cancel it...

So yeah, I sow 10eu per month thing and I was like: NOPE. I though it was 5.99eu for some reason. That deal 3 months for 3eu is still good. Maybe there will be another deal by the time 3 month expire. :P
Considering how cheap PS+ is and how much of a value it is, music unlimited is a robbery at 10eu. they should bundle in Music unlimited or something.

Muirshin Durkin

Just got the trial there after reading here, very poor interface, can you search genres and create your own playlists, i can only see pre made ones? Doesn't seem to be much on it, my taste anyway.

edit: I'm on ps4 by the way

Grayditch

Muirshin Durkin wrote: »

Just got the trial there after reading here, very poor interface, can you search genres and create your own playlists, i can only see pre made ones? Doesn't seem to be much on it, my taste anyway.

edit: I'm on ps4 by the way

I found creating the playlists on PC/Mac was the best way. Its all very slow paced on the console. Even doing it on a phone was handier.