Dirtyshubb
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Ordered it from Amazon this weekend after recommendations in this thread.
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Ordered it from Amazon this weekend after recommendations in this thread.
Custom wallpapers
Dynamic themes
Full youtube support
3D Blu Rays
Better friends list
Folders
Touch pad integration with the web browser
MP3
DLNA
MKV
Pausing Downloads (yes it can't do that)
Suspend / Resume
PS4 launched in late 2013/early 2014 so I expected it to have a lot more features than it does.It's actually pretty impressive how short this list is, compared to how the PS3 wound up, to say nothing of how it launched. Sony did a pretty great job of getting the gaming features that people kept screaming at them about on PS3 in place PDQ.
It sure would be nice if Sony would do better at communicating with us about their schedule for upcoming improvements. I suppose they don't want to tip their hand to the competition, but I don't think Microsoft would have gotten too worried over knowing that Share Factory was coming, say.
The list is short because theres stuff he left out. We still are missing a lot of apps like HBO Go, and basically all the other ones the xbone has. Not to mention just fixing current features that dont really work right.It's actually pretty impressive how short this list is, compared to how the PS3 wound up, to say nothing of how it launched. Sony did a pretty great job of getting the gaming features that people kept screaming at them about on PS3 in place PDQ.
It sure would be nice if Sony would do better at communicating with us about their schedule for upcoming improvements. I suppose they don't want to tip their hand to the competition, but I don't think Microsoft would have gotten too worried over knowing that Share Factory was coming, say.
The list is short because theres stuff he left out. We still are missing a lot of apps like HBO Go, and basically all the other ones the xbone has. Not to mention just fixing current features that dont really work right.
Also better voice functions than just starting the app. External hdd support, etc., etc. the list is very long. Its the xbone's list that is truly short because they do updates every month. PS4's list of missing features is fucking HUGE.
Pretty sure he's being sarcastic. It is pretty hard to believe that they feel that a random ass friend joining a party is more important than simply knowing when a friend comes online.
No not always. They can appear any day, any time.don't these updates usually drop on Tuesday with new game releases?
No Soony.Is 1.75 out?
It's actually pretty impressive how short this list is, compared to how the PS3 wound up, to say nothing of how it launched. Sony did a pretty great job of getting the gaming features that people kept screaming at them about on PS3 in place PDQ.
It sure would be nice if Sony would do better at communicating with us about their schedule for upcoming improvements. I suppose they don't want to tip their hand to the competition, but I don't think Microsoft would have gotten too worried over knowing that Share Factory was coming, say.
Maybe if it was 2006 it would be impressive. Maybe if there were no other electronic devices to compare it to it would be impressive. People expect more capabilities from new iterations of products, not less.
Yup. I dont get how being games focused means you cant have he features. PS3 has more features and is in my opinion more games focused than PS4.
To get MS back they are trying to beat them to 3D bluray support. That'll show them!Its gutting there's no suspend resume yet, esp. as it was mentioned day one whereas MS didn't mention it yet they already have it.
I love that feature on my Vita.
yes but it's about getting the hardware out the door first - if they didn't have XBO to think about I'm sure we'd have had the PS4 6/12mths later with pretty much all features there from the off
Yup. I dont get how being games focused means you cant have he features. PS3 has more features and is in my opinion more games focused than PS4.
Yup. I dont get how being games focused means you cant have he features. PS3 has more features and is in my opinion more games focused than PS4.
Just add digital content/library sorting and management. Folders are not needed if they fix the content management issues. The PS4 UI is already a nightmare for digital only people, and it will be getting significantly worse with all of the upcoming releases.So the final list should look something like this:-
Custom wallpapers
Dynamic themes
Full youtube support
3D Blu Rays
Better friends list
Folders
Touch pad integration with the web browser
MP3
DLNA
MKV
Pausing Downloads (yes it can't do that)
Suspend / Resume
External HDD support
USB Media Playback
Taking over a friend's game
If they get all of the above features in that would be great.
Themes yet? Thats really all I want. I really dislike the bright blue...
Surprised more people aren't annoyed of this.
Is everyone forgetting how barebones the PS3 was at launch?
It played Blu-Ray discs, and it played games. The web browser worked, only just, and the COOLEST thing it came with was folding@home.
No apps, barely a game to speak of, and it was still amazing.
We are asking for end result PS3 features on a product that is less than a year old.
I totally want everything now, I just realize it's going to take time.
Why is there no app for HBO? Why are they taking so long? It's really bothering me. Cant believe HBO is taking this long to release it. Why aren't they saying anything?
Themes yet? Thats really all I want. I really dislike the bright blue...
Surprised more people aren't annoyed of this.
The user interface is my top pet peeve.Just add digital content/library sorting and management. Folders are not needed if they fix the content management issues. The PS4 UI is already a nightmare for digital only people, and it will be getting significantly worse with all of the upcoming releases.
But the PS3 and the PS4 use very different architecture.You dont just wipe the slate clean and start from zero again each time you release a console. If you do then your processes have some serious problems. PS3 was the first Sony console capable of even having "features". Its not like the PS2 could have apps. They had to figure that stuff out from scratch. They dont have that excuse this time.
You dont just wipe the slate clean and start from zero again each time you release a console. If you do then your processes have some serious problems. PS3 was the first Sony console capable of even having "features". Its not like the PS2 could have apps. They had to figure that stuff out from scratch. They dont have that excuse this time.
The user interface is my top pet peeve.
It's not bad, I like the layout in a lot of ways. But come on, I have at least 15 games on my roll, it gets annoying looking through all that by side scrolling.
The voice controls are only helpful when you know what you want, not for browsing you games/apps.
If they revamp the UI, I will be extremely happy.
what they need to do is use the themes that games have already. but instead of clicking down to see the wallpaper/music it should just happen when we highlight our games, left to right.
Forgot the biggest one. Suspend and resume. Also where's the one about taking over my friends game and helping them with a section or trophy?
I hunk that's supposed to be apart of PS Now.
You might be onto something.I wish Sony would just fire their JP firmware team and let Cerny assemble an American firmware team. The west for whatever reason is just much better at that stuff. Its the same with OSes amd UI - look at all the major players, Apple, Google and MS. That incompetent JP firmware team is a disgrace to the wonderful hardware Cerny put together. They are completely useless.
But they showed it with PS4 games in the beginning.
You might be onto something.
Japan has been moving towards mobile for the past 5 or so years, and being less and less involved with computer games, as well as consoles.
The money truly is in mobile, so it only makes sense. The problem is that the Japanese gaming world has stagnated, with only JRPGs, Visual Novels, and the occasional fighter.
The genre pool is pretty much empty, and the last fresh game to come out of japan would to most be a JRPG, or a Fighter.
I have fond memories of almost all my PS games being from japan. Now, it's maybe 15%.
Also where's the one about taking over my friends game and helping them with a section or trophy?
I wish Sony would just fire their JP firmware team and let Cerny assemble an American firmware team. The west for whatever reason is just much better at that stuff. Its the same with OSes and UI - look at all the major players, Apple, Google and MS. That incompetent JP firmware team is a disgrace to the wonderful hardware Cerny put together. They are completely useless.
If you look at the mobile and tablet space, the Japanese are the worst when it comes to software supporting hardware. The US and Korean manufacturers are just light years ahead. Sony has been long criticized that one of the major reasons all their phones and tablets sell like shit is because they always support it so poorly with users often having to wait 6 months or even a year before they get caught up on the latest Android version. I see the parallel in gaming where Sony and Nintendo are both horrible in that respect, and MS just dominating. They just dont seem to care to correct it.
Yeah but even with them moving to mobile, their mobile firmware support is horrible. UI on the Japanese phones are horrible which is why more and more people in Japan are going to iPhone. I remember my friends in JET would always complain how poor the phones were. Great network, shitty ass user experience on the phones. If you look on the sony mobile blog its hilarious that almost every comment is filled with angry people asking when they will get the latest version of android when every competitor has it already.
i would like to be able to set "favorite" friends...and just be notified when they sign on..
I wish Sony would just fire their JP firmware team and let Cerny assemble an American firmware team. The west for whatever reason is just much better at that stuff. Its the same with OSes amd UI - look at all the major players, Apple, Google and MS. That incompetent JP firmware team is a disgrace to the wonderful hardware Cerny put together. They are completely useless.
Sony has been long criticized that one of the major reasons all their phones and tablets sell like shit is because they always support it so poorly with users often having to wait 6 months or even a year before they get caught up on the latest Android version.
Yeah but even with them moving to mobile, their mobile firmware support is horrible. UI on the Japanese phones are horrible which is why more and more people in Japan are going to iPhone. I remember my friends in JET would always complain how poor the phones were. Great network, shitty ass user experience on the phones. If you look on the sony mobile blog its hilarious that almost every comment is filled with angry people asking when they will get the latest version of android when every competitor has it already.
Yup this was the reason I sold my Xperia (and lost 80% of its value when resold), a delayed firmware that broke playing music and browsing at the same time. No way was I going to wait around even longer till they got their shit together and fixed it. Their JP team needs to go.
Yup the tragic thing is their hardware is awesome. I wanted the Xperia Z and Z2 so badly, but knowing that after the first one or two firmware updates, it would begin lagging between competitors like the Galaxy for new versions of Android by 6 months or more, I just couldnt do it.
I think incompetent is going way too far. They made really smart technical decisions on the PS4's operating system, and the PS4 was certainly competitive in terms of features at launch.
They just don't communicate worth beans about their upcoming plans, or even about the contents of all of these stability updates. In the latter case, that's probably because stability update really means security update and they don't want to admit or explain that.
It is true, though, that Microsoft has like three operating systems on the One, and they're able to re-use a lot of what they do in Windows elsewhere, which wasn't such a huge advantage last time given the memory constraints on the 360.
Firmware is live.
Look either it's incompetence or they literally have one Japanese guy sitting in a cubicle in the corner by himself with a "PS4 Firmware Team" sign hanging askew on the outside. Either way, it's unacceptable.
Done a lot of operating system development, have you?