PS4 in 2013

[cougnix]

I just saw a new version of the PS3 at Best Buy yesterday. Smaller than the white one they have on there.

[sixpackdan101]

Just realized there is nothing worth a damn coming out until Infamous in March.

Very true. Planetside 2 might come out before that. It's free to play so I'll try it out. Otherwise there is nothing. I might go pick up NFS and assassins creed.

[texasfan4444]

Who shuts down the PS4 vs. using the standby feature?

I usually shut my down, however, the last 2 days I have left it in standby mode.

In standby mode, it will download game patches and firmware updates automatically.
I believe you can also send downloads to it while away from home. I have not played around with this feature yet.
Go to the PSN Store website and can somehow tell it to download so by the time you get home, it is downloaded.
It goes back into standby mode once the download is complete.

Standby will also continue charging your controller.

The only downfall is that is uses 10 watts of electricity in standby mode, compared to nothing when shut off.
But think about it this way, 10 watts would take 6 hours to equal 1 60 watt light bulb being on for an hour.

I do standby most of the time. I have been selecting games to download via the app so when i get home its already completed. If I was going out of town however I would shut it down. I just know ill be back on it tonight and want to avoid having to download patches and all that madness.

[texasfan4444]

I just saw a new version of the PS3 at Best Buy yesterday. Smaller than the white one they have on there.

I have that one in black. it weighed a fraction of the fatboy and about half of the original ps3.

[cougnix]

Really bummed that Watchdogs got bumped. That game looks pretty cool.

[trendon]

They do but you have to select the friend from friends list and look individually.

A 90% cheat to find out.

The PlayStation Plus icon next to their name. If they don't have one, they don't have PS4 online. Of course, they could have PS3 and PS+, but you'd probably know that off the top of your head already.

[cougnix]

Last couple days I've played I've gotten hard freezes. Playing Resogun tonight it just stopped. Couldn't access XMB, couldn't shut it off. Nothing. Apparently the shut off is to hold your finger over the power button until it shuts down. It went into safe mode again, checks storage space and then it asked me if I wanted to share the shutdown with Sony. Hopefully it isn't that the machine is about to croak. I would not be happy...

[Cnasty]

I might jump on this standby train as I hated jumping on to play and noticing there is a huge patch for Ghosts that squashed that idea instantly

[trendon]

Well, just notched some outrageously stupid score in Resogun. I'm like, 980th in the world. All those years playing Defender, Sidewinder, and then Ikaruga have hardened me.

[The_Niddler]

I might jump on this standby train as I hated jumping on to play and noticing there is a huge patch for Ghosts that squashed that idea instantly

Standby is nice.

The PSN app, if you have a smart phone, great idea by Sony.
I can buy games through there and push them to my PS4. So when I get home, they are already there.

You have to take the 2 minutes at home to initially connect it to your PS4, but then it works great.

And I like that you can message friends through your phone. So it is just like sending a text message.
So I can send messages, while in a game and it is nice to have a keyboard on the phone to type out the message.
Much quicker for me.

[Cnasty]

I never trust these devices being in standby mode instead of being turned completely off even if it isnt officially on.

OCD I guess

[ajalves]

I never trust these devices being in standby mode instead of being turned completely off even if it isnt officially on.

OCD I guess

in the same boat.

[Cnasty]

How often do they release PS+ games?

I thought there was this whole library to play but there is only 2 right now?

[OracleHCR]

They release a couple a month. There won't be a lot for the ps4 because it just came out, but if you log onto the ps3 there are a lot of few games.

[Cnasty]

if you log onto the ps3 there are a lot of few games.

Thats just crazy talk!

[dakshdar]

How often do they release PS+ games?

I thought there was this whole library to play but there is only 2 right now?

There are currently 12 PS3 and 6 Vita games available in addition to the 2 PS4 games. Each week on Tuesdays they rotate in one or two games for PS3 or Vita and rotate out some of the older ones. Once you download a game, you can always go back and download it again later if you delete it, even if it isn't in the free collection anymore. If you don't download a game while it is in the collection, you can't get it free after it leaves the collection. So, download everything, even if you delete it, and you can always come back to try it later.

I expect you'll only be getting about 1 PS4 game a month for a few months, but they probably won't be taking any off for that system. All the November releases were already announced as the games are announced a few days before the start of the month. December releases will probably be leaked just after Thanksgiving.

[The_Niddler]

I never trust these devices being in standby mode instead of being turned completely off even if it isnt officially on.

OCD I guess

in the same boat.

What is there not to trust?
Are you worried about them using power?

It is turned off, no fan running, until it needs to download something.

[Cnasty]

How often do they release PS+ games?

I thought there was this whole library to play but there is only 2 right now?

There are currently 12 PS3 and 6 Vita games available in addition to the 2 PS4 games. Each week on Tuesdays they rotate in one or two games for PS3 or Vita and rotate out some of the older ones. Once you download a game, you can always go back and download it again later if you delete it, even if it isn't in the free collection anymore. If you don't download a game while it is in the collection, you can't get it free after it leaves the collection. So, download everything, even if you delete it, and you can always come back to try it later.

I expect you'll only be getting about 1 PS4 game a month for a few months, but they probably won't be taking any off for that system. All the November releases were already announced as the games are announced a few days before the start of the month. December releases will probably be leaked just after Thanksgiving.

Good info, thanks.

I will just download everything.

I noticed that even if you have the disc for a game, it still downloads the game to the hard drive? I saw this when Ghosts had taken up 49GB or whatever on the HD when I had the disc.

[shel311]

noticed that even if you have the disc for a game, it still downloads the game to the hard drive? I saw this when Ghosts had taken up 49GB or whatever on the HD when I had the disc

I like it, in theory. You should have the choice of downloading it or not.

49GB, that's crazy. Gonna be deleting a lot of games in your future lol.

[Cnasty]

But you cant play it if the disc isnt in the PS4 so I am not sure whats going on there.