The PS4 thread

[Spee]

It sounds a bit brainless. At this stage I'd say the majority of people are still more comfortable with having a physical copy of a game rather than a digital download and that's not likely to change if the prices remain higher in the PS Store than every website, supermarket and shop.

It makes business sense for Sony not to offer their full price digital games at the same level as physical copies for a few reasons; one is because they (and whoever publishes/develops the games on the store) will get a larger share of the sale value as there are fewer channels to go through digitally. On the flip side of that, because the prices are higher, they don't piss off internet and bricks and mortar stores by undercutting them, so there is a good balance at the moment. Once titles have been out a while, they can then drop the prices on most titles in line with their physical counterparts (or even more so if there isn't much mileage in them). A good example would be the current offer on the UK store for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes.

[probablyoliver]

Hey! Walker! If you're done with Mordor can you send it to me? I want to play it so bad but there's too many viddy games to buy first.

[Avenged Probably]

Man PS4 with Dragon Age for £330 on Shopto seems like a good deal. Is this actually good? As far as I can see it costs pretty much that just to get the console itself from most places?

[Dan]

I don't think it's that great. PS4 and Xbox One are meant to be the same RRP and you can pick up an X1 with 4 games (Halo MCC, CoD: AQ, Forza 5 then a choice of another game) for £359.

[Maxx]

Yeah, get Dan his commission.

Xbox is going to be a better deal this holiday season because they are aggressively trying to close the gap.

[Dan]

I'm getting a £10,000 gaming chair of Microsoft. Not even making it up

[Maxx]

Neither was I

Can you tell them to make menu navigation less clunky? PS4 is smooth as hell.

[Dan]

That'll be the superior hardware taking effect.

[apsham]

The UI on the XB1 is a large part of the reason I lurvs it so.

[Maxx]

You are a confusing man. I have complete confidence that Microsoft will eventually make an awesome dashboard, but they aren't anywhere close right now, IMO. It's clunky and cluttered.

[King Ellis]

And they make you plug a power brick into the wall, what's all that about? :/

[Maxx]

I was amused when my roommate got one and pulled out the brick.

[apsham]

The PS4 interface gets filled up and boring to me with close to no customization, that's what gets me.

[probablyoliver]

You are a confusing man. I have complete confidence that Microsoft will eventually make an awesome dashboard, but they aren't anywhere close right now, IMO. It's clunky and cluttered.

I feel totally the opposite way. Granted I've only had fleeting looks at the X1 dash but it looks a hell of a lot prettier than the PS4's. I like having lots of stuff on show, the PS4 just seems minimalist and dull.

[Maxx]

A lot of stuff is nice until you have to navigate through every single piece of it to get to what you want. They haven't made it friendly to those without a kinect yet.

[apsham]

I just pin Settings to the left side menu and that solves any issues for me. From the main screen there's a button to get to all your games and apps, go all the way to the right and that's the store and to the left is your settings and anything else you want to pin. Pretty easy peasy.

[zero]

Yeah, you definitely have to pin to make it work, but I have to admit, I had no idea what I was doing when I first tried the One.

[Baddar]

Fuck this time of year.

So many games, so little money to pay for them. Far Cry, GTA, The Crew, Walking Dead S2, FM (PC), and I'm sure I'm missing others. Not fair!

Although saying that, FC4 will cost me around £15 as the rest is covered by store credit, and Walking Dead is only £20 on the Store. Might finally trade my PS3 console in to fund one of the others closer to Xmas.

[Dan]

You pre-ordered an Ubisoft game?

[Baddar]

Where did I say that?

I have £25 in GAME credit available, so I'd put the remainder towards FC4. Doubt it'll be release week, but we'll see.