PlayStation 4 Console Thread

[Haribokart]

It's not its name, it's basically the equivalent of "Micro$oft" in most of the cases in which it's used, which yeah, just makes it very difficult to take seriously.

Bone Bone Bone Bone Bone Bone Bone Bone Bone Bone Bone Bone Bone Bone.

Bone.

[Cthulhu Steev]

Contrast, Resogun, Flower, Need for Speed Rivals and Lego Marvel sitting and waiting in my download queue for my PS4 to arrive. I was tempted to shove all the F2P games in there as well, just because ...

It's going to be a long two weeks.

[Wiper]

It's not its name, it's basically the equivalent of "Micro$oft" in most of the cases in which it's used, which yeah, just makes it very difficult to take seriously.

Except Micro$oft is no shorter (and in fact harder) to type than Microsoft, so exists solely as a pejorative, whereas Bone is a contraction of Xbox One which also carries a hint of mockery. As the choice of contractions available to the Xbox One are The One or Bone, and the former hurts my soul, I'm going to be using Bone until another contraction rises into regular use. So, PS4 and Bone until someone comes up with a better option.

[ravon]

i quiet like the idea they are using for assassins creed and the lack of shoulder buttons on the vita, they are splitting the rear touch pad and having it act as L2 and R2

[Cthulhu Steev]

i quiet like the idea they are using for assassins creed and the lack of shoulder buttons on the vita, they are splitting the rear touch pad and having it act as L2 and R2

I'd rather have the option to put four buttons (or at least two of them) in the corners of the screen though, I find the back touch really awkward to use.

[SMD]

Call it the XO then.

[womblingfree]

It's not its name, it's basically the equivalent of "Micro$oft" in most of the cases in which it's used, which yeah, just makes it very difficult to take seriously.

XBone which debuted with a 3D model of a spinning dead-eyed dog.

It really is it's name, as given by Microsoft themselves.

[bradigor]

That's a great point about the remote play actually. I tend to usually avoid side missions on a lot of games, but using the Vita when I don't have access to the main TV, I can have that time to try out the stuff I would usually ignore on big games.

If on Fallout 4 for example, I play a few hours of the game doing the main story, then over the next couple of evenings when there is stuff Lo wants on the TV, I use that time to do the side-quests I may have missed.

14 days!!!! So excited!

[davejm]

So, PS4 and Bone until someone comes up with a better option.

XBone, surely.

[NecroMorrius]

I just noticed... on the all access event video, if you go to about 1hr 10mins there's an interview with the first guy in line for a PS4. And right behind him is a guy who clearly works in the Microsoft store, he's got a Surface hoodie on

[Graham S]

XBone, surely.

I think Xbone.

MS don't seem to capitalise the B in Xbox any more. Did they ever? Have I been getting it wrong for more than a decade?

[womblingfree]

It's like calling your son XSausage and then complaining that people are shortening it to Sausage.

[NecroMorrius]

The giantbomb stream is showing that PSN is:

1. Barely hobbling along

2. Coping better than I thought it would

Everything seems to be working, albeit a little slowly.

[womblingfree]

The Giant Bomb stream is like watching five dudes with not much to say sitting on a sofa.

Someone give them a couple of bottles of Jack Daniels.

[Alex W.]

It amazes me that MS managed to get the name market researched and focus grouped and they never checked what happens when you replace "Xbox" with "XB" as happened with every other Xbox they released.

I think the process happened organically within about half an hour of the name being revealed and probably just as quick, simultaneously, in every other social group that needed a quicker handle than "Xbox One".

[Dandy_Sephy]

As much as they should have prepared all this in advance, that UI switch is seamless.

[PK]

Giant Bomb just corrupted their PS4's database by trying to play basketball, quite a good effort

[davejm]

I think Xbone.

MS don't seem to capitalise the B in Xbox any more. Did they ever? Have I been getting it wrong for more than a decade?

Yeah, Xbone. I was actually supposed to say that, but typing on my phone screwed it.

[Haribokart]

http://www.p4rgaming.com/exclusive-interview-first-playstation-4-owner-joey-says-life-still-unfulfilled/

LOL

[jonamok]

What's derogatory about Bones anyway? If they'd had any social media PR savvy, you know, like Sony has, they would have embraced the shit out of it once they realised it had escaped them, and laughed it up along with the rest of us - easily the best way to draw the sting.

But, no. Instead the MS response is to ignore it, or at best have mouthpiece Hryb get all pompous and say he didn't care for it, and it devalued the work everyone had put in. So now we all call it the bone and chuckle, and it's become (rightly or wrongly) a badge of the poor view of the console that large portions of the gaming community still have (temporarily of course).

But, seriously, there can't be many people on any gaming forum in the world who couldn't do a better job advising MS how to play to the social media gallery than the people they currently have in charge.

[JohnC]

It's not its name, it's basically the equivalent of "Micro$oft" in most of the cases in which it's used, which yeah, just makes it very difficult to take seriously.

You're right. We should call it Microsoft^® Xbox One^® every time.

[mr_woo]

The Giant Bomb stream is like watching five dudes with not much to say sitting on a sofa.

Someone give them a couple of bottles of Jack Daniels.

At least it's better than watching them snarky fuckers at Polygon during their 12 hour stream. Anyone else catch it ? Fuck me it was awful (from the very little I seen of it) with them all talking utter pish. It really does show how good the Giantbomb guys are at doing what they do.

[toythatkills]

You're right. We should call it Microsoft^® Xbox One^® every time.

It's a fair point, but I'm sure you all see where I'm coming from. How can anyone complain about people being Microsoft fanboys while in the same sentence referring to Xbox One in a derogatory way as "the Bone?" It just makes them sound exactly like what they're complaining about.

[Dandy_Sephy]

NBA2K14 shall forever be known as the game with "press O to fall over"

[RubberJohnny]

The Giantbomb stream seems like they don't have a lot to talk about. Don't know why they limited what they have by doing Quick Looks of half of it.

What's derogatory about Bones anyway?

He's a fascist.

[footle]

How can anyone complain about people being Microsoft fanboys while in the same sentence referring to Xbox One in a derogatory way as "the Bone?" It just makes them sound exactly like what they're complaining about.

Dunno. I'm marked up on the forum as a Microsoft fanboy, despite not intending to buy an XBone for six months or so - and I think of it, and refer to it, as the XBone.

[Graham S]

On Idle Thumbs I heard (not sure if a joke) that on one of the basketball games the Kinect listens to you, and awards your opponent a technical foul if you swear. I really hope this is true.

[SMD]

On Idle Thumbs I heard (not sure if a joke) that on one of the basketball games the Kinect listens to you, and awards your opponent a technical foul if you swear. I really hope this is true.

It is, they did it on FIFA too.

[RubberJohnny]

Wow this non-match NBA stuff looks like shit. Like a budget 360 game.

[womblingfree]

How can anyone complain about people being Microsoft fanboys while in the same sentence referring to Xbox One in a derogatory way as "the Bone?" It just makes them sound exactly like what they're complaining about.

Because that's what Microsoft called it. No point saying that people calling an XBone a Bone are somehow making shit up to be mean.

I imagine if Sony had named their new console the Playstation Hit there would be similar problems.