PlayStation 4 Console Thread

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Bit of a double edged sword. Maybe online cuntery would decrease if people can't hide behind anonymity, but on the other hand I don't really feel like exposing personal data to people I don't know. From my brief time on the forum committee I've become rather intimate with the amount of genuine nutters that are around online, even in a relatively civilised environment like Rllmuk. The less people know about you, the better.

[LiMuBai]

They did say during the presentation that you could use your gamertag/moniker if you'd prefer

[Puck]

Yeah, could be wrong, but I got the impression you'd be able to organise friends into groups so you could choose to have your real moniker etc on display only to your IRL friends.

I think that might be pretty cool.

[Sng]

Yeah it isn't gonna be forced but I dunno why people care about people knowing their real names?

Unless you real name is Billy Billbugalooboopydoo but even then I'd actually quite like showing it off.

It's like people who post a photo of their car and blank out the car reg - Do they cover it up when it's parked?

[JohnC]

Will Nige still get his name banned for being racist?

[Dudley]

How big was the hdd, did it have ps2 BC, and did it have built in memory card readers?

Dys?

It was the 60gb launch model. So 60, yes and "I assume yes but I've never even thought about using them".

[NecroMorrius]

New dashboard shots. Feel free to copy or move to the OP, mods.

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Love it.

One thing I noticed, it appears to show a user streaming picture-in-picture, showing their gameplay AND their face via the new camera at the same time. Don't think they've mentioned that yet

Is it wrong that I'm most excited about hearing the startup sound for the first time?!

It looks quite a lot like big picture mode too.

[Sng]

I can't help but think this streaming thing is either gonna be drastically nerfed or never actually come out.

[scottcr]

But can u do lives?

[NecroMorrius]

I can't help but think this streaming thing is either gonna be drastically nerfed or never actually come out.

You wonder if they'll Sony it, which is to say make a load of promises and then eventually it only half works on two games under specific circumstances.

But, it's a major thing in PC land now. It has been for ages. A lot of people are querying whether it's feasibly possible to do things that people have been doing for a few years on PC quite happily. Streaming video out to the world with a voiceover/picture in picture is not very difficult or complicated, unless you live in a dialup area. I don't think Sony will have much problem integrating it into the system and getting it to work for most people. The bits where you can supposedly take control of other streams or play PS3 games via gaikai are much more reliant on bandwidth and much less likely to go smoothly.

[Puck]

Geez those screens do nothing to make Knack look like a next gen game. That's the biggest concern for me - strip away all the social streaming, play anywhere stuff and will the games look sufficiently better than current gen to get Joe Public interested? Sure, people on a games forum might notice particles, physics and whatnot, but will everybody else?

[Sng]

Yeah, having Knack up there was the strangest decision of all.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Knack looks decidedly rubbish, it's an odd choice for Sony to push as flagship title. Better get some more of the Killzone goodness out there.

[Sng]

Yeah, think of all the things they could have led with and they go with something that quite easily looks like a PS3 game and plays like it's from the PS2 days.

[AK Bell]

The dashboard looks a lot like the PS Store.

[Puck]

Yeah, but what can they show apart from Knack that won't appear to alienate girls and families? Certainly not Killzone or Drive Club. I reckon that's what's informed their decision here. If so bad call, put something up there that's going to entice the traditional early adopters, i.e., young, single males.

[Mr Cochese]

I hope my real friends on PSN don't have big pangranised french faces.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Yeah, but what can they show apart from Knack that won't appear to alienate girls and families?

You're not wrong, at the same time I doubt it will be girls and families that will be in line to buy a launch PS4.

[Sng]

Yeah they also weren't watching that event.

[NecroMorrius]

Knack didn't demo well but it does seem a shoe-in for the Crash Bandicoot/Jak and Daxter/Ratchet and Clank slot of the PS exclusive lineup. Mark Cerny knows his shit, maybe it'll be good.

It doesn't look that bad when removed from the high stakes situation of being the first PS4 game ever in front of an audience of millions on a massive stage. Could be a bit of old fashioned cartoon fun?

[NecroMorrius]

What does pangranised mean? I did a google search and most of the results are from Rllmuk

[Wickedkitten]

Yeah, but what can they show apart from Knack that won't appear to alienate girls and families? Certainly not Killzone or Drive Club. I reckon that's what's informed their decision here. If so bad call, put something up there that's going to entice the traditional early adopters, i.e., young, single males.

I don't think any of the girls that I know that play games would be very interested in playing Knack to be honest.

[Puck]

I don't think anyone I know full stop would want to play Knack.

It kinda seems like the PS4's Kameo.

[NecroMorrius]

I'm going to get Knack. The little fella needs some love.

Look at his little... face?

Oh God the art design is so bad

[Asura]

I can't help but think this streaming thing is either gonna be drastically nerfed or never actually come out.

It'll work - it works almost that well in OnLive. Of all the features they've announced, that's one which should definitely work.

[Stingo]

Mark Cerny knows his shit, maybe it'll be good.

I thought so too, but I distinctly remember him being involved in extensive "gameplay consultancy" for Resistance 2.

That was one completely shit game right there... (but maybe he couldn't get all the wrong things righted, who knows

[NecroMorrius]

I didn't realise how much Sony stuff he's had a hand in.

• Crash Bandicoot (1996, PlayStation) — Executive Producer
  
• Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997, PlayStation) — Producer, Designer
  
• Spyro the Dragon (1998, PlayStation) — Executive Producer, Designer
  
• Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (1998, PlayStation) — Executive Producer, Designer
  
• Spyro the Dragon 2: Ripto's Rage! (1999, PlayStation) — Executive Producer
  
• Crash Bash (2000, PlayStation) — Producer, Designer
  
• Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000, PlayStation) — Design Consultant
  
• Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (2001, PS2) — Programmer
  
• Ratchet and Clank (2002, PS2) - Designer
  
• Jak II (2003, PS2) — Programmer, Designer
  
• Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (2003, PS2) — Designer
  
• Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (2004, PS2) — Design Consultant
  
• Resistance: Fall of Man (2006, PS3) — Design Consultant
  
• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007, PS3) — Design Consultant
  
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (2007, PS3) — Design Consultant
  
• Resistance 2 (2008, PS3) — Designer
  
• God of War III (2010, PS3) — Design Consultant
  
• Killzone 3 (2011, PS3) — Design Consultant
  
• Knack (PS4) - Director, Designer
  

Seems like the perfect guy to design the system. Great choice. His surname sounds like a drunk person saying 'Sony' as well, amazing.

[ukdazs]

Can't wait for Combat Plane 2. Hope it's as good as Dragons and Cavalier!

[Camel]

The dashboard looks a lot like the PS Store.

Yeah. I don't like the PS Store much.

*select something*

*wait 4 seconds*

"JANG!"

[KriessG]

I paid £600 for a newly announced iPad and it was out of date within a few months. Consoles by comparison are the Giza Pyramids of computing.

Sorry but I have to say... 'out of date' compared to consoles is just not a fair example, even the earliest of iPads which are multiple gen old run most apps. If you bought an iPad and the newer version came out just a few months later, yours would run every single app on the store still. Not a fair comparison. Carry on.