Just as stupid as Kinect but with fewer options. As far as I can tell you can only activate stuff that’s on your main list. By that I mean games go on big squares that you can cycle through and almost everything else goes into sub menus. So, you can say “Playstation Battlefield” and it’ll go to Battlefield 4. However, you can’t say “Playstation Trophies”, “Playstation Friends List”, “Playstation Netflix”, ect. Which makes it about useless right now.
Its kind of a dickish thing to make such assumptions about the intent of my post. You talked about needing replacements for hardware with mechanical parts. There already is a replacement for hard drive drives being developed. Solid states drives. Now, since you listed hard drives, one could only assume that you did not know of solid states because if you did you would not have mentioned that. Its just not an optimal piece of equipment YET.
Lastly, the question in my last post was an actual question to you. I was actually asking if you had heard of them. I wasnt being a sarcastic asshole about it. You’d be surprised by the amount of people who believe HDD’s to be the end all concept to memory storage and have no idea other things are in the works.
Yeah I had a bunch of programs to install. My Maya install took 2 hours and my mudbox install even longer. First 48 hours was easily the worst, and it would slowly get sorted out through out the week, with a few bumps whenever I updated our installed something.
I think the standard hdd is good enough until real 2tb 2.5 inch drives are available. I think the figures they quote are unpacking and install space, so it should be figuratively half of the “needed install space” after everything is said and done. But after dlc and patches, who knows… but I’d rather wait for a meaningful upgrade than just doubling the space and then doubling the amount of downloads and reinstalled I’ll have to do later.
^ Some tests done on games with an HDD, SSD, and a hybrid drive.
There was a Resogun pic that showed load times were over 50% faster with an SSD VS the standard HDD in the PS4 as well.
Edit: Please keep in mind you can do the same thing with your PS3 to decrease load times as well as stuff like quicker texture streaming and such. It’s the same as PC as well. :tup:
So if you have an SSD, not only will you get faster load times, but stuff like pop-in like GTA games always do(cars/terrain appearing out of nowhere) as well as stuff like texture streaming that you see UE3 games do(where you load up a level/walk into a room and all the textures are blurry looking because they haven’t loaded up yet. If you have an SSD, it will reduce this from happening/possibly eliminate completely in some cases.)
If only SSD’s weren’t expensive as fuck for ones that are 500-1TB+
It’s pretty limited so far, but here’s an overview:
For most users, voice commands are done through the system’s included mono headset. There is a small mute switch a little below the earbud… this switch also contains, very discretely, the microphone. It should rest near the mouth of most users by default, but a clip is included to pin it to your shirt if need be to adjust the angle. Just plug this whole assembly into your controller.
Once the system is configured to use voice commands (this is done in the options/system menu, but may be enabled by default? Unsure), you then say “Playstation.” This turns on its voice recognition for a window of about 10 seconds, during which time the screen shows a series of valid commands. Right now it is super limited, mostly revolving around starting games (but not, apparently, apps such as Netflix. Someone please correct me if this is wrong, but I tried and couldn’t get it to go) or turning the system off. So long as you continue to give it valid commands, it will remain in voice mode. If nothing noteworthy happens within 10 seconds, it stops listening to you and you must once again cast Power Word: Playstation to get it to heed voice commands.
This is very similar to what the kinect on xbox 360 did, just with a different mic location and far, far fewer working commands at this time. It is very obvious the feature was thrown in at the last minute. I do not mind; the menu is easy enough to use with a controller that I’ll live without this feature until they improve it.
Going onto a side topic, others asked about the controller. I really like it, it feels great. My hands are slightly smaller than normal, and to me it’s almost perfect. I suspect there will be a healthy market for a little bit bigger controller, but to me it’s pretty much ideal. If this thing ever gets decent PC drivers, I might start using it as my default pad for anything that doesn’t require a wired x360 pad specifically.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma works out well with the DualShock 4. Found a USB extension cord for the micro usb cord. Stupid shit it doesn’t use mini-usb anymore, but w/e.
Anybody knows how well the DS4 fares out with Sigma 2 and Razor’s Edge?