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Grobbelboy

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Maybe it's just me then. It's been a standard feature on the Xbox since the beginning and I missed it immediately when I got the PS4. The problem when you have loads of friends could be solved by giving you the option to choose whom to be notified of.

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Ferine

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The PlayStation website lets you Favourite Friends. I assume log in notifications are waiting for that to be implemented at an OS level; maybe such a feature is currently conflicting with in-game Friend lists or something.

Both the PS3 and Vita tell you when people come online, so there must be a reason why the PS4 currently doesn't.

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Stanley

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I just don't see the point. If you want to play online with someone you can send them a specific game invite, or invite them to a party. You'll then receive a reply to your message or a notification when they join the party.

There's no harm having it but I'd rather have it off as the default.

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Yoshimax

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The PlayStation website lets you Favourite Friends. I assume log in notifications are waiting for that to be implemented at an OS level; maybe such a feature is currently conflicting with in-game Friend lists or something.

Yeah that's exactly why they did that I'm sure and it's exactly how it's implemented on xbox - you assign people as favourites, they then appear at the top of your friends list and you can (optionally) receive notification when they come online or begin a twitch broadcast either on the console whilst playing or on your phone/tablet etc via smartglass when you're away from it. It's very handy.

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Grobbelboy

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I just don't see the point. If you want to play online with someone you can send them a specific game invite, or invite them to a party. You'll then receive a reply to your message or a notification when they join the party.

There's no harm having it but I'd rather have it off as the default.

Often I or someone else creates a party with people only being able to join on invitation. In the current situation someone needs to send the party owner a message if his online presence isn't noticed soon enough. A notification would be a lot more practical.

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Shimmyhill

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I just don't see the point. If you want to play online with someone you can send them a specific game invite, or invite them to a party. You'll then receive a reply to your message or a notification when they join the party.

There's no harm having it but I'd rather have it off as the default.

It is 100% stupid that it doesn't have it and is the only console to not have it, it should have the option to switch off for strange folk like you but to not have it on launch was silly but this far down the line is madness.

It's another file filed under psn is shit and Sony don't have a clue

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TehStu

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It's another file filed under psn is shit and Sony don't have a clue

The PS4 firmware, not PSN.

I see it mentions resume a game specifically for rest mode. I wonder if that implies it won't resume from fully powered off?

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Shimmyhill

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And yet the Vita and PS3 manage it. We're obviously splitting hairs, but this seems like a needless dig about PSN, in this specific instance.

It's an online notification, its a function that runs on the PSN and PSN needs to have digs at it as often as is humanly possible - no doubt its OS/Firmware feature but its part of the online aspect and falls under PSN for my money!

On the flip side if they improve the 3 weeks and 97 button presses it takes to start a party i will say that thats a feature of PSN that they have improved and will hopefully have caught up 10 years after live.

I'm not all negative after all ;)

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Clipper

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And yet the Vita and PS3 manage it. We're obviously splitting hairs, but this seems like a needless dig about PSN, in this specific instance.

No vita doesn't resume from fully powered off... It resumes from equivalent of rest mode, it's just it uses a tiny amount of power and looks fully off even tho it isn't...

If you hold down power button long enough to fully shutdown it will lose the resume. I never fully power off and it looks totally off so some people might think it us fully off

Edit- it's another reason the vita is the best handheld ever .. The "standby" uses so little power you leave it suspended for a couple of weeks and boot straight back into the game

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bradigor

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No vita doesn't resume from fully powered off... It resumes from equivalent of rest mode, it's just it uses a tiny amount of power and looks fully off even tho it isn't...

If you hold down power button long enough to fully shutdown it will lose the resume. I never fully power off and it looks totally off so some people might think it us fully off

Edit- it's another reason the vita is the best handheld ever .. The "standby" uses so little power you leave it suspended for a couple of weeks and boot straight back into the game

NO!!!! You never leave the Vita for more than a couple of hours, let alone a couple of weeks. Hand your membership card back you heathen!

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Sng

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Yeah it's a feature I don't think I needed but will probably use all the time.

PlayStation app has updated on Google Play now. You can use that to delete 0% trophies now if you like. Think you have to do it one by one though which is a bit of a pain.

Still looks like a shitty winamp skin from the 90s but there you go.

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