The Official Playstation 4 Thread - News and Info

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The result is a system that often feels half-baked. While it's easy to see where Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be, it's not quite there yet.

Xbox One wants to be more than just your gaming system of choice: it wants to be the hub of your living room. That's a lofty goal, and it presents unique challenges. While setting up the PlayStation 4 was a fairly simply affair, installing the Xbox One requires a substantial time investment.

First, there's the mandatory system update. Then you'll have to set up Kinect, running a series of tests so it works optimally. Up next: you'll have to decide on your power option settings – “instant-on,” which just puts the Xbox One in sleep mode when you shut down, or “energy-saving,” which turns it off entirely.

Want to hook your cable or satellite service into the system? That's going to take a few more minutes. And if you're going to use the system's Skype functionality, you'll have to download that app and log in to your account.

In an optimal environment, this will all take, at minimum, 30 minutes; but be prepared to spend an hour or more getting the system ready to go before you're able to dive in with a game.

But whereas games load quickly on the PS4, there are notable delays in getting them up and running on the Xbox One. Dead Rising 3, for example, took nearly a full minute from the time we selected it to the time we were in game. That's not the speed Microsoft promised from its next generation.

Get ready, also, for in-game purchase options to become part of your console gaming experience. While that's nothing new for free-to-play titles, it was a bit confounding to see in the $20 downloadable version of Crimson Dragons - and downright infuriating in the $60 Forza Motorsport 5.

Voice commands, for instance, are hit-and-miss affairs. You'll often have to repeat yourself, and the system’s grasp of language often seems tenuous. When we told the system "Xbox... Play Dead Rising 3," it called up the Xbox Music app. When we repeated the command, it asked us what we'd like to rate the music app.

That's when we resorted to navigating to the launch tab using the controller.
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wonder why he left the background music playing on the ps4, that would affect sound quality...anyway, think this is more of that bullshyt one upsmanship to try to make the system you like look better, but that doesn't matter when picking a system...from all the shyt I've seen/read and being hands on with both systems, to me it boils down to this:

if you care more about non gaming shyt and/or multiplayer games, pick an xbox1
if you call more about just gaming and/or single player games, pick a ps4

....it's that simple...
 
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lutha said:
wonder why he left the background music playing on the ps4, that would affect sound quality...anyway, think this is more of that bullshyt one upsmanship to try to make the system you like look better, but that doesn't matter when picking a system...from all the shyt I've seen/read and being hands on with both systems, to me it boils down to this:

if you care more about non gaming shyt and/or multiplayer games, pick an xbox1
if you call more about just gaming and/or single player games, pick a ps4

it's that simple...even their marketing plays like that: one wants to dominate the living room (xbox1); and one is cool with just being in the living room & willing to play nice with your other devices (ps4)...that's why i'll have one in the living room and the other in the gaming room....
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Xbox cancels out extra sound :manny:

What single player games on PS4? All I see is ryse as far as story mode type shyt...what If I want a fighting game like Killer instinct?....its not as simple as you say, just because PS4 has better hardware does not mean it is more for/about gaming.... gamers play games, and xbox has the best variety of them as of now. Its funny how sony says we are about games and nikkas just run with it, so far they havent showed much, but ima get out of this thread, let y'all enjoy y'all shyt :ninja1:
 
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Raiders said:
Xbox cancels out extra sound :manny:

What single player games on PS4? All I see is ryse as far as story mode type shyt...what If I want a fighting game like Killer instinct?....its not as simple as you say, just because PS4 has better hardware does not mean it is more for/about gaming.... gamers play games, and xbox has the best variety of them as of now. Its funny how sony says we are about games and nikkas just run with it, so far they havent showed much, but ima get out of this thread, let y'all enjoy y'all shyt :ninja1:
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from the gizmodo review
When it comes to listening, Kinect has one hell of a keen ear, but it's dumb as a rock at dealing with background noise. In the best of conditions (in my smallish-but-not-tiny apartment, alone) Kinect voice commands work with 90-95 percent accuracy, and at absurd distances, quiet volumes, even with pretty poor annunciation. I was able to lay in bed, some 30 feet away, around a corner, and still use "Xbox go home" successfully without really raising my voice. I was able to tell Xbox to pause music from in the bathroom with the door open. But not while I was peeing, because that noise was enough to mess it up.
It's not that Microsoft didn't take background noise into account. During setup, the Kinect listens for it (but says, "No. Be quieter!" if there is too much), and also listens to sound from your TV, ostensibly so it can cancel it out later. The result is that booming explosions from a game don't mess up Kinect—you'll shout in-game Kinect commands even though you don't need to—but so much as a podcast playing (quietly!) through phone speakers in the same room, our photographer walking around on my hardwood floor with his shoes on, or my girlfriend coughing in the other room because she has a cold, was enough to throw Kinect for a total loop. It generally won't mis-register commands; it's more like it just stops listening when it's confused.
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Raiders said:
Xbox cancels out extra sound :manny:

What single player games on PS4? All I see is ryse as far as story mode type shyt...what If I want a fighting game like Killer instinct?....its not as simple as you say, just because PS4 has better hardware does not mean it is more for/about gaming.... gamers play games, and xbox has the best variety of them as of now. Its funny how sony says we are about games and nikkas just run with it, so far they havent showed much, but ima get out of this thread, let y'all enjoy y'all shyt :ninja1:
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The 360 had better games than the PS3 at first too, but we saw how badly that ended. We bought this system for the long haul my friend...not for launch titles/launch window games.
 
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eeh not bad. my shyt probably downloading right now :eat:
 
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