PlayStation 4 Console Thread

[gospvg]

Anyway I can find out on my SEN account my PS4 serial number?

[Sng]

Only if you have registered it I think.

[BossSaru]

Order of brokenness: AC: Unity (can play, but with issues) < MCC (can't play online sometimes) < Driveclub (can't play online for a month) < Warlords of Draenor (can't play at all) < Sonic Boom (no one wants to play anyway)

Stuff like Halo:MCC and Driveclub really drive home the value of Nintendo's "You'll get it when we say you can" attitude to game development.

[gospvg]

Only if you have registered it I think.

Yes It's activated on my SEN account but when I click on it does not give me any serial number info.

Annoyingly Playstation telephone support have a 50 min wait time !!

So I went for the self service online option but it wants the serial number of console also & I noted the controller serial number only this morning. Controller Pad definitely has an issue on the left control stick when trying to click & run in Destiny.

Will leave it til I get home this evening.

[Shimmyhill]

Why are you calling Sony, you only deal with the shop you bought it from..

[gospvg]

Why are you calling Sony, you only deal with the shop you bought it from..

Asda are useless & said to contact Sony.

Sony dealt with the issues on the rubber coming off the sticks back in July so I'm going to ask them to look into the left stick on the controller.

[b00dles]

Stuff like Halo:MCC and Driveclub really drive home the value of Nintendo's "You'll get it when we say you can" attitude to game development.

Yeah, for all the grief Mr. Iwata gets, I'd much rather have a 'please understand' message from the top chap than a game that I've spent £40 on, which I've quite understandably expected to work and clearly doesn't.

[partious]

Could someone tell me the names of the games that are in the pipeline for PS4 that aren't based around realistic graphics and shooting/stabbing people to death. Excluding sports games and driving games obviously.

I have a PS4 and a Wii u. The PS4 has been gathering dust and I realize it's because I'm just more into cartoony/lighthearted or otherwise non-realistic/kiddy games.

I'm not really talking about 8/16 bit style 2d indie games. I know there are plenty of those.

Right now I can think of:

Rime, various Lego games, The Tomorrow People, LBP(although I didn't really like the ps3 ones), No Man's Sky, the port of Journey.

Are there others?

[SMD]

GRIM FANDANGO

[Super Craig]

Look what the fuckers have done to us. Where we consider £40 not to be a full price release. Fight the power!! I generally don't buy if it's more than £40. Either by buying physical when on offer or digitally from the U.S. Store.

First year tax. Happened last gen as well.

[instasis]

Could someone tell me the names of the games that are in the pipeline for PS4 that aren't based around realistic graphics and shooting/stabbing people to death. Excluding sports games and driving games obviously.

I have a PS4 and a Wii u. The PS4 has been gathering dust and I realize it's because I'm just more into cartoony/lighthearted or otherwise non-realistic/kiddy games.

I'm not really talking about 8/16 bit style 2d indie games. I know there are plenty of those.

Right now I can think of:

Rime, various Lego games, The Tomorrow People, LBP(although I didn't really like the ps3 ones), No Man's Sky, the port of Journey.

Are there others?

But those are the two major genres that don't involve realistic graphics and shooting/stabbing people to death. Are you ok with shooting and stabbing if it's not realistic?

[Paulando]

Buy a Wii U m8.

[Lovelyman]

Yeah, all those abstract looking sports and driving games are starting to get old.

[instasis]

Yeah, all those abstract looking sports and driving games are starting to get old.

Yeah, but is it:

Realistic graphics AND (stabbing AND/OR shooting) = DO NOT WANT

or

Realistic graphics OR stabbing OR shooting = DO NOT WANT

???

Where does carmageddon sit in this?

[Lovelyman]

Sounds like he wants a Dreamcast or a WiiU!

[instasis]

He's got a Wii U!

[bradigor]

But those are the two major genres that don't involve realistic graphics and shooting/stabbing people to death. Are you ok with shooting and stabbing if it's not realistic?

Nidhogg.

That covers most bases.

[partious]

But those are the two major genres that don't involve realistic graphics and shooting/stabbing people to death. Are you ok with shooting and stabbing if it's not realistic?

I guess I mentioned sports and driving genres as it goes without saying that a game of soccer or racing around a track in a car aren't violent. I was asking about other games like the ones I mentioned in my post and was hoping to avoid "how about FIFA, lol" type responses. Although if there are racers of the Outrun 2/Sonic transformed/Mario kart variety coming out I'd be interested to hear about those too.

It's not about some moral opposition to videogame violence and I also play violent games.

I just generally find games that aren't based around realistic graphics and killing people more fun/interesting. It's a simple preference.

[Boozy The Clown]

"Its important that Sony present an infallible face over the next few months as it receives the usual surge of new members over the holidays. For the past few years, Ive been baffled by its approach to the holiday season why is there always an enormous gap in the first-party release schedule, with huge properties like God of War and Uncharted taking a backseat to ModNation and PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale?

According to Ephraim, this is quite deliberate: gamers are already well-served over the holidays, so Sony can concentrate on capturing new markets.

There are heavy-hitters, he said. Grand Theft Auto 4. Call of Duty just came out. Assassins Creeds coming out. Far Cry 4 looks brilliant. So I think there are a lot of heavy hitters for gamers.

But our focus this year is bringing in the mass market as well.

With LittleBigPlanet 3 basically a new game where youve got three other characters, a storyline, a villain that game appeals to gamers, but it also appeals to younger audience and the mass market. Im very excited about SingStar, because I know what that brand means in this country. It started social gaming in this country. Weve sold 1 million mic sets for SingStar in Australia alone. Weve sold 2.3 million discs here, and our brand trackers shows that theres an 88% brand recall on SingStar. Any time we present SingStar there are smiles and cheers because the brand is known."

Sony Australia's top man.

http://www.vg247.com/2014/11/14/beating-the-pants-off-xbox-sony-australia-on-the-early-console-war-victories/

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-13-singstar-ultimate-party-review

Eurogamer's 2/10 Singstar Party review.

[instasis]

Well, from this list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_video_gaming) I'd probably look to:

http://youtu.be/Bt4w4TSWC9E

plus a few others I can't remember the names of right now.

[Bojangle]

Shame the new version of Singstar is a rather broken mess, then.

Sony!

Also, LBP 3 "Basically a new game"? What a load of marketing shite.

[b00dles]

All this talk of non-realistic shooting / driving games just reminded me, why hasn't anyone made Supercars III goddammit!?

[Robo_1]

Of all the PS4 reviews out there, I found myself agreeing with Gamespot's the most. Seems a really fair assessment of the good and bad. I'll post the conclusion below, but I'd heartily recommend reading the full article:

VERDICT: Is It Time to Buy a PS4?

The PS4's first year has not featured a single must-have exclusive game, but it is one where Sony has created the best foundations possible for a future filled with them. Its hardware and operating system has already accomplished so much, its commercial reception has been so outstanding, and its love affair with developers has been so intimate that one cannot doubt how important the console will be in the years ahead.

But that's for the future, and it's the key point, because buying a PS4 will likely be a wiser decision to make next year, and the year after that, and the year after that.

The PS4 is an accomplished, superior games console, but not yet an essential purchase.

Make no mistake, you won't feel short-changed for buying a PS4 right now. It's one of the most impressively assembled games consoles in history, but if you hold off until the right game arrives, you shouldn't feel like you're missing out too much either. More time is needed to (hopefully) solve the controller battery problems, to fix PlayStation Now and the quality of live feeds, to take a second look at PlayStation Plus and EA Access, to revise the media capabilities, to fix the problems with PSN, and most importantly, to build a desirable library of games.

Sony has made incredible strides in the past several years, but it cannot stop now. The PS4 is an accomplished, superior games console, but not yet an essential purchase.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4-the-year-one-review/1100-6422875/

I think all that's fair. If you bought PS4 as your only / primary game device, I think you've been well served. There's been a lack of releases from SCE, but when you combine the wave of great indie games, along with the multi platform releases and remasters, I think PS4 has had a solid first year.

Conversely, I can totally appreciate PCMR and others saying it's served largely as a glorified Netflix player, as if you've got a capable PC, then it's been slim pickings of original content this past 12 months.

They need a good 2015, and by all accounts they should have a decent number of exclusive releases ready for the year. Off the top of my head there's:

• The Order
• Bloodborne
• Uncharted 4
• Ratchet & Clank
• Rime
• Let It Die
• The Tomorrow Children
• Until Dawn
• Persona
• No Man's Sky

I'd hope there's more to come. We'll see what's annunced at this Playstation Experience event in December.

I think Xbox has delivered a more robust lineup of AAA games during this first year - and fair play to them - but I don't think that should take away from what PS4 has delivered, and I'm sure both will continue to have a healthy future.

As I've said elsewhere, I think the biggest take away from this first year of the new consoles, is how healthy sales have been for both. Many suggested that Wii U's launch struggles were a portent for the health of the entire industry, yet far from it, these consoles are breaking sales records and are set to have a hugely successful Christmas period.

This should mean less cross-gen games, and a confidence amongst publishers to invest that bit more in their releases. I think we're going to have a fantastic console generation.

[b00dles]

Not directed at you but 2014 will forever be remembered as 'robust' year for me.

Fucking EVERYTHING has been robust, from robust solutions to terrorism, robust plans to fix the economy, robust investigations into paedos, robust, robust, robust.

And not a sign of one of these guys anywhere;

[Spleen]

Why is everyone forgetting about a new Everybody's Golf!

That'll be the best one.

[Capwn]

I'm convinced that Uncharted4 will be a 2016 release since it was announced, sticking to that theory.

[MattyP]

I do wonder sometimes if this gen will be the last in terms of hardware from different manufacturers. I mean exclusives are slowly dwindling and actually not having a huge impact on sales (PS4 has relatively few exclusives at the moment and it's flying off the shelves). It looks like gamers just want a box to play games with their mates on. and that the emphasis is now on online services and games and even more so next time. Also mobile tech is getting ever more powerful. Certainly be interesting the next gen. LOL. Also wonder if the mythical steam box will see a release over the next 3-5 years too.

I'm convinced that Uncharted4 will be a 2016 release since it was announced, sticking to that theory.

Hoping for winter 2015. But just know it will get pushed back to March 2016. Possibly even winter 2016 if the schedule is looking slim that year.

[Cyhwuhx]

The main reason for me to go with PS4 is the same reason I became very excited about the PS3 in the end: PlayStation Plus.

If I look at the amount of games I have on my PS4 after just one year, it's absolutely insane. The entire outlook about whether or not the PS4 is worth it, is completely sidestepping the actual value of the machine. It's based on the same whining as the PS+ detractors howl out every bloody month on the PlayStation Blog: "where are my AAA games?" To which I say: screw you guys.

In one year, I've played an incredibly diverse line-up of games, loved established devs, loved indies, uncovered some genuine gems, got reacquainted with classics and generally became much, much more upbeat about the future of video games. Hell, I've even uncovered a F2P game I genuinely like (hello, Warframe). All of that without the need to bloody worry about framerates or P's.

I've always preferred the more experimental flavour during the PS1/Net Yaroze era and the PS4 is bringing that feeling back full force. Personally, I couldn't care less about Driveclub failing. I don't have any time to. There's too much to play.

[gospvg]

With my limited game time I'm happy with my first year of the PS4. It may have not gotten used much by me (kids used it more to play Fifa mainly) because I was playing catch-up on the Mass Effect Trilogy & Deus Ex on the 360.

But I did enjoy AC Black Flag & I love Destiny. I'm not in a rush for new releases in 2015 because I've got enough to enjoy for the next six to nine months with MGS V, Infamous, Watch_Dogs, Wolfenstein & the many PS+ games whilst I also tackle my 360/PS3 backlog.

There are only a few games I will be buying day one in 2015 No Man's Sky, Batman Arkham Knight (I'm glad it got delayed, I'm tired of rushed to market games like DriveClub & AC Unity. Just wished more developers/publishers would take the Nintendo/Rockstar approach to releasing it when it's ready.) & Fallout 4 (I'm still hoping).

My only disappointments have been PSN (This needs to improve & be more reliable) & the quality of the controllers (poor rubber on sticks & poor battery life).

I was very close to buying a XB1 last month with the DriveClub vs Forza Horizon 2 challenge but I've managed to come through that, I don't have the time for more than one console (The Wii U only gets used to play Mario Kart) & if I had purchased an XB1 I most likely would have sold the PS4 but Destiny has kept me happy addicted for now & I can't wait for No Man's Sky.

I'm convinced that Uncharted4 will be a 2016 release since it was announced, sticking to that theory.

Yep I agree, don't think this will be ready for 2015.

[TehStu]

I can't wait for No Man's Sky.

Somehow, I'd completely forgotten about this!