Yeah, I miss the Start button too. My biggest problems with the Options button are that it's not raised enough from the controller fascia (thus hard to find by feel alone) and it's too far north for me to comfortably reach without contorting my hand. Fortunately it's not used too much.
Otherwise, though, the DS4 is such an enormous improvement over the DS3 (which I could not stand) that I'm very happy.
How's the weight of the DS4? I have two Sixaxis controllers on my PS3 and never upgraded to the DS3, primarily because I love that they're light as a feather (approximately 2/3 the weight of the DS3, per Wikipedia).
Same here, I kept my SIXAXIS forever and never even picked up a DS3. The DS4 is certainly significantly heaver than the SIXAXIS given that the latter had no force feedback motors in it. DS4 feels about the same weight as a standard 360 controller, although according to Wikipedia it is lighter (210g vs. the 360 controller's 265g when equipped with batteries). The weight doesn't bother me.
one unexpected thing with the live streaming; 24 hours a day you can find people streaming every game for sale. Not sure about a game just watch a stream and ask a question in chat. how is it? It makes a purchase that much more comfortable.
I picked up motherload on that basis, not from the game description or even reviews, just from watching someone play it. great game btw yeah it's an ipad type casual / roguelike game but the controller is much better than touch.
I have been keeping up with launch of the PS4, reading several articles, and forums. The PS4 has had quite a few issues, mainly Amazon purchasers, and many claim Amazon put absolutely no packaging in some of the shipments. Also, one user is right, Foxconn, has apparently hired interns, and they could not graduate unless they worked for Foxconn, they were over-worked, and underpaid, bad shifts. How much care would you put into the consoles under those conditions? Add the fact that millions of consoles are being produced, and the nature of how people work under stress and load, there are going to be defective consoles on launch.
A user on a forum posted his conversation with Sony in regards to his defective console, and they asked for the consoles serial number, and once the user told Sony the number, they already determined it needed to be replaced, without troubleshooting. Sounds like they linked a bad batch or something. We just need to wait for Sony to receive the bad consoles, analyze what is wrong with them, and why, where they came from, and strengthen QA testing. I personally am getting a PS4 eventually, but I am waiting for things to smoothen out internally, and by then more games, and more stable firmware, and network services.
I have not known anyone locally with an issue with their PS4, and some streams people did on launch lasted over 12 hours. The PS4 is a solid console, just issues on production I believe.
Also, I am concerned about the wobble, all they need to do is include a sticky rubber foot/pad that we can put on the one corner on the underside.
one unexpected thing with the live streaming; 24 hours a day you can find people streaming every game for sale. Not sure about a game just watch a stream and ask a question in chat. how is it? It makes a purchase that much more comfortable.
I picked up motherload on that basis, not from the game description or even reviews, just from watching someone play it. great game btw yeah it's an ipad type casual / roguelike game but the controller is much better than touch.
Oh wow, that's really cool. I could see myself using that.
one unexpected thing with the live streaming; 24 hours a day you can find people streaming every game for sale. Not sure about a game just watch a stream and ask a question in chat. how is it? It makes a purchase that much more comfortable.
I picked up motherload on that basis, not from the game description or even reviews, just from watching someone play it. great game btw yeah it's an ipad type casual / roguelike game but the controller is much better than touch.
That's great. Did you happen to notice what the bandwidth usage is for streaming?
I didn't check, but if you go ok twitch.tv you can find some ps4 streamers and investigate what the highest rate is. as a viewer it adjusts up or down automatically. It isn't streaming out or viewing in at 1080p but it's good enough for casual watching. I would be curious to know myself whether it hits the best quality twitch.tv offers. Ustream is getting about 10% of the traffic perhaps because they are listed second?
It's my understanding that the video player doesn't show codec or bitrate information like the PS3 did. That was a nice feature when working with transcoding vs. remuxing in DLNA servers.
The PS4 controller is nice.... but yeah I do not like the Share and Options button locations.. The touchpad is pretty wide so I guess they really couldnt do much about those buttons? Anyway its not a big deal for me.. The battery life in the PS4 controller isnt anything to brag about either.. The DS3 batter lasted significantly longer before needing a charge. The PS4 controller might last you a day or two.
yes i agree the controller battery life is worse than the older controller, perhaps because of the light and speaker and extra touch pad, or perhaps the bluetooth audio. Don't know. It probably lasts I don't know, 6 to 8 hours not sure yet.
But the win is that you can plug it in when you are done, and it charges while the console is on standby. Always a hassle on PS3 unless you had powered usb ports close by.
yes i agree the controller battery life is worse than the older controller, perhaps because of the light and speaker and extra touch pad, or perhaps the bluetooth audio. Don't know. It probably lasts I don't know, 6 to 8 hours not sure yet.
But the win is that you can plug it in when you are done, and it charges while the console is on standby. Always a hassle on PS3 unless you had powered usb ports close by.
Can you plug it in anywhere? Like in an outlet using an iPhone or iPad charger? My DS3 controllers are old and don't last very long, so I guess when I get the PS4 this will be something I'm used to.
I would just get a second controller and charge one while using the other. When the battery gets low, swap controllers. You always have one that's charged. (like I do now)
Can you plug it in anywhere? Like in an outlet using an iPhone or iPad charger? My DS3 controllers are old and don't last very long, so I guess when I get the PS4 this will be something I'm used to.
I would just get a second controller and charge one while using the other. When the battery gets low, swap controllers. You always have one that's charged. (like I do now)
If you don't mind spending, there's an officially-licensed $25 charging station that will charge two controllers on AC.
For the PS3, my wife bought me a charging pad that had a small clip-on adapter with metal contacts for each controller. Worked nicely while the console was off.
So far my Xbox One is working great with one possible issue with Telus. First impression is holy crap this thing does a lot and I find I'm using the voice commands more then I would have initially imagined, but there are also gestures so there is actually some stuff to learn in order to take full advantage of its abilities.
I got the Forza 5 bundle and setup went smoothly and it was great how it pulled my information etc from my live account (including my avatar etc). It downloaded an update and was off to the races. We tried out Skype with the grand kids as that was an important feature to us and it didn't disappoint. Played Forza 5 and its official I suck at games as my daughter pummeled me badly. Its cool how my Drivatar is likely helping people feel good about themselves as they beat my Drivatar, but its a cool idea. The game is fun and the graphics are incredible.
The Kinect user recognition is very impressive and makes logging in a non issue. I had my gamer nephew and his friend show up to try the Xbox One out so he quickly setup his account and his friend played as a 'guest'. I'm sure Ryse: Son of Rome is going to eat at him and the ability to put up clips of games is going to be way to attractive to him to pass on for long (gamers love to share their glory moments and bragging highlights, so this is a brilliantly done feature).
Netflix etc worked great, but being able to use my Windows Phone, Surface etc (Xbox One SmartGlass) is very cool and helpful. I have a number of apps installed and they work rather well at making everything seem like it should belong on the Xbox One (and share with my other devices). The Skydrive was nice for showing pics and videos and the wife loved watching movies of the grand kids on the big screen.
The only issue I've hit so far is making Telus Optik work within the Xbox framework and with One Guide, and I've posted a question on the forum asking if anyone has that working correctly.
Otherwise I'm a pretty happy camper with my Xbox One and no doubt I'll be picking up some other games etc for it soon.
Sounds great, the Xbox One, but couldn't MS built one without that giant power brick. Sony managed to build a sleek design with more, theoretically, more power. Not a great fan of consoles, just an observation. Here's a classic for sale
battlefield 4 conquest with 64 players is epic I had 5 straight hours on it last night.
people don't stick with their squads, missing out on points, and everyone wants the best vehicles, and loses them, but that's only to the advantage if you sort of know what you are doing.
I don't have great reflexes but had a couple of very good half hour rounds among the few other half hour wipes - even though every map was new to me.
Got my xbox one with cod ghosts yesterday I'm a PC Gamer and it took me forever to get used to the controller but everything else about the XB1 is perfect and the switching between video modes with voice is just awesome.
