Topic: PlayStation4 - News/Rumor/Speculation - Over 1 Million Sold on Day 1

[Pixelated Pixies]

Dive Club stills needs some work to go.

Sony have on occasion taken risks. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt though. Who knows? Maybe a game based around synchronised diving could actually work.
 
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[Ian Sane]

The Xbox One is an anti-consumer nightmare.  The Wii U is effectively last gen hardware.  Sony is winning on public perception entirely because they are offering a routine product people want - a next gen console that doesn't introduce a bunch of restrictive bullshit.  That's it.  They're not doing a hard sell on something you probably wouldn't like.  They are the only one being conventional.

[broodwars]

A leaked vihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OegYm1dM9gdeo showing off the new UI.

Props to Sony for apparently allowing you to choose which half of a game to download 1st, so if you don't give a **** about multiplayer (like I do), you just have to wait for the half that matters to finish downloading.

As for that UI, I'm not completely sold on it yet. I'd need to see it in motion, since really terrible transition times is part of what makes the new PS Store such a mess.

[ShyGuy]

Dive Club stills needs some work to go. Currently its at 30 fps while Mario Kart/Forza are confirmed 1080/60 fps.
Thefull game is also going to be free on PS+ for the first year of PS4. The only difference is the PS+ version wont have all the tracks and cars.

Is it weird that I thought GT6 looked more graphically impressive on the PS3?

[shingi_70]

I never though evolution studios were a big deal when making Motorstorm. The game is still six months out but its disheartening that Drive Club was the only racing game not to be confrimed for 6pfps upon release.


Plus its the only first party title that has had direct feed footage so far.

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[/size]Knack isn't looking too hot either TBH.[size=78%]

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A picture of the headset coming with the system.

[broodwars]

I really don't get why everyone comes down on Knack. To me, it looks like a cool little 3D platformer/brawler, with a neat emphasis on scale. Yeah, it's definitely a "launch" game (with its emphasis on displaying a ridiculous amount of moving parts), but so was Kameo on the 360 and that was a pretty decent game too.  Maybe it'll suck, maybe not, but I'm at least willing to give it a chance (which is more than I can say for sites like Game Trailers).

Killzone: Shadow Force doesn't look like the most amazing game I've ever seen, either, but I really liked Killzone 3 and this looks like the logical extension of that game.  People on this site seem to hate FPS games for merely existing and being popular, but when done right I rather enjoy them.  And unlike a lot of FPS games, Killzone 3 had quite a bit of color in it, and Killzone: Shadow Force seems to continue that trend. The same goes for Destiny.

The Xbone does have some games I think look potentially cool like Quantum Break, but they don't make me want to buy an Xbone and tolerate its policies.

[shingi_70]

Never played a Killzone but its the second best looking game Sony showed.


Knack looks fun, but there's barley anything going on in the screen and everything just looks so tech demoish, The CGI stuff shows him doing all this cool stuff and fighting mutiple guys. Even the enviorments don;t have this sense of polish that the cutscenes alluded them to having


http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/xco1go/knack-e3-2013--walkthrough-part-1--cam-


I Kameo at least showed off the hardware after the intro and you go onto the field with hundreds of guys fighting each other.


Drive Club i've already harped on. It was the only first party sony game (other than the order) that was shown on IGN's Live stage without gameplay.


Infamous second son is probably my favorite of the games shown thus far. I really just want to see some none smoke powers gameplay.


I think my problem is that Sony showed these game at the PlayStation meeting in Februay, and with the exception of knack and the media Molecule joint, the impression was given that alot of these games were going to be ready for E3. Contrast that to microsoft who had been silent till may ad still didn't show anything, and yet the consensus is that they showed more content and had more workable games.




Sony has alot of teams and partners so


I was expecting Playstation meeting to be the opener
The Games from the playstation meeting to be pretty far along at E3 coupled with more games from the US branches.
Gamescon to be about the euro teams
TGS for more Japan Studio stuff


That can still happen but barley any word on new PS4 games was disheartening. If that was the case why not show more internal software from vita on stage.

[tendoboy1984]

Sony has no faith in the Vita as a standalone handheld. They're just using it to give the PS4 a Wii U-type experience. The lack of games for the Vita is disheartening.

[shingi_70]

Sony has no faith in the Vita as a standalone handheld. They're just using it to give the PS4 a Wii U-type experience. The lack of games for the Vita is disheartening.

Your telling me God of War HD and Destiny of Spirits doesn't excite you?


If its any consolation prize the Vita will probably get every PSN game the PS4 gets going forward.

[broodwars]

Sony has no faith in the Vita as a standalone handheld. They're just using it to give the PS4 a Wii U-type experience. The lack of games for the Vita is disheartening.

It's disheartening that Sony seems to be relegating Vita to being the cross-buy system where you just play games you bought for your PS3, but the system's had a pretty decent lineup of games in its first year. I have more than enough Vita-exclusive games on the thing already to last me for a while, particularly when it comes to PSN titles.

Maybe we'll get lucky and Sony will decide to unveil new Vita games at Tokyo Game Show.

[ymeegod]

"relegating Vita "

Yeah, was expected to see a few "surprises" that never happened.  Was expecting somesort of spinoff of GTA since the PSP had a couple that sold somewhat decent.

Was also expecting to hear about a price cut but Sony seems like it forgotten the NA market exists because other than a few collection series (Sly Cooper, Jak series) there wasn't that much announced that I cared for. 

Was also expecting to hear more about remote play with PS4, was expecting to hear about the ability to play co-op (one guy on the Vita and the other on TV) using one ps4 software title. 

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I still love my vita though,  I picked it up used cheap and gotten plenty of titles free from PS+. 

[Shorty McNostril]

Penny Arcade loooooooooooooooves the DS4.

http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-playstation-4-conroller-is-just-slightly-better-than-the-best-thing-eve

[TJ Spyke]

Considering the DualShock design has easily been the worst controller design of the last 15 years, I very much doubt the DualShock 4 will even be a good controller, yet alone one of the best. The Xbox 360 controller was so much better than the DualShock 3 that it wasn't even close (it would be like LeBron James playing basketball against a 4 year old).

[Shorty McNostril]

I have never owned a Playstation of any persuasion.  Therefore I have never spent any decent amount of time with a dual shock. 

I'm with most people in that I don't see the sense of the positioning of the control stick and D-Pad.  I really wish that they would make both controllers.  Is there any reason why they can't make a DS with the D-Pad and control stick swapped?  They could cater to both ideals.

[TJ Spyke]

My guess is the Sony fanboys would bitch and whine non-stop, like when they introduce the PlayStation 3 controller. You had Sony fanboys complaining to Sony over and over that they wanted the DualShock back. The d-pad/analog stick placement is a big problem with the controller (I also think using symbols instead of letters is very Playskool-esque and goes against the tradition of almost every controller of the last 25 years).

[BranDonk Kong]

You're insane. The original XBox controller is the worst controller of the past 15 years, second worst is the Dreamcast controller. I'd say next is the original Wii Classic Controller (mainly because it has to be tethered to a WiiMote).

[broodwars]

My guess is the Sony fanboys would bitch and whine non-stop, like when they introduce the PlayStation 3 controller. You had Sony fanboys complaining to Sony over and over that they wanted the DualShock back. The d-pad/analog stick placement is a big problem with the controller (I also think using symbols instead of letters is very Playskool-esque and goes against the tradition of almost every controller of the last 25 years).

Well, obviously the dpad/analog stick placement isn't a big problem beyond folks like you, or they would have changed it by now. I'm quite content with the layout of the DS3 controller, and if they've fixed the L2/R2 triggers for the Dualshock 4 (the triggers are loose and extremely easy to hit by accident just by setting the controller down), I'll be happy. From all accounts, they have done just that, so barring some issue with the DS4's new rounded shape, I think I'll like the Dualshock 4 as well.

[TJ Spyke]

You're insane. The original XBox controller is the worst controller of the past 15 years, second worst is the Dreamcast controller. I'd say next is the original Wii Classic Controller (mainly because it has to be tethered to a WiiMote).

The Xbox Duke and Dreamcast controllers weren't the best, but they were still better than the DualShock. And the Classic Controller was also better (though that is not hard to do).

I have seen plenty of people complain about the analog stick placement and how it makes no sense on the DualShock.

[BranDonk Kong]

Makes more sense than the Wii U Pro Controller.

[TJ Spyke]

More? No. Maybe the same. Plus, the Pro Controller is optional (so it's not required).

[Ceric]

Main Stick should be in the Main Stick Spot.

[Shorty McNostril]

Is there any reason they can't make both controllers?

[nickmitch]

I like the Dreamcast controller.

[BranDonk Kong]

It's the Wii U's right side that I have a problem with. Analog stick above the face buttons is retarded.

[Spak-Spang]

I have always hated Sony's D-Pad.  It is seriously flawed.  And Sony's Analog sticks are not much better.  The best controllers have always come from Nintendo.  You may question the functionality, but quality and durability Nintendo controllers are always tops.