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The new Sony console will be on sale in our country on November 29th. This material will shed light on some important points that should be paid special attention to those who decided to purchase a new generation Japanese console.
1. What comes with the console?
The Playstation 4 comes bundled with one Dualshock 4 game controller, HDMI cable, wired headset, power cable, and a micro USB cable for charging the game controller. Please note that there is no PS4 Camera included. It is sold separately, and will cost 2599 rubles. Also included with each console is a 500 GB hard drive. Such a kit in Russia will cost 18,999 rubles.
2. Regional restrictions
A lot of people are concerned about the question: will the Playstation 4 of the PAL region be able to reproduce games purchased, for example, in the USA or Japan? Yes, there will be. PS4 is completely devoid of the mechanism of regional protection, that is, without any problems, it will reproduce the game of any region purchased in any country of the world. Nevertheless, the president of Sony Worldwide Studio Shuhei Yoshida drew the attention of the public at that time that some game developers will be able to intentionally limit the availability of their games in certain regions of the world, for example, to avoid problems with local legislation. Therefore, be sure to read what is written on the box with the game, so as not to step on this rake. 99% of PS4 games will run on any console without any problems. The same applies to the support of various network voltages. PS4 is able to work from American outlets (120 volts) and from European (230-250 volts). If you purchase a console in the US, you just need to buy an adapter for the outlet in any electronics store or simply replace the power cable with a suitable one. The only remaining limitation of the console is the ability to play Blu-Ray movies exclusively in its native region. In other words, if you bought the console in Russia, then launching an American Blu-Ray disc on it will not work, as the regions are different.
3. To play online games, you need a Playstation Plus subscription.
Someone might be upset by this news, but the days of the free online games Playstation 3 are far behind. To play with friends over the web using a Playstation 4, you will definitely need a paid subscription to the Playstation Plus service. It costs about 200 rubles per month, which is not so expensive. Let me remind you that in addition to accessing the Web with this subscription, you get free games every month that you can play as long as you like while your subscription is paid. Playstation Plus members also receive various bonuses like avatar gaming, automatic downloading of patches and updates to games, early access to beta versions of new games, cloud storage for their recordings in games, and you will be able to buy many games with huge discounts. . You can play free-to-play projects and some MMO games without a subscription to PS Plus. We will learn more about this moment only after the console is on sale.
4. Hard disk space will end very quickly.
Almost every game for PS4 will be fully installed on the hard disk of the console. The game disk should be in the console drive only to verify its authenticity. Given that games on Blu-Ray-discs will weigh an average of 40 GB, you should mentally prepare for the fact that the free space on the HDD with a capacity of 500 GB will end very quickly. If the site ends, you can delete already completed games in order to download or install new ones. Games can be restored from disk at any time or reloaded from PSN if you purchased a digital version. I also recall that you can independently replace the complete SATA II 5400 RPM hard drive with any other hard drive, for example, with a volume of 1 TB. It should be remembered that any HDD format 2.5 inches, no thicker than 9.5 millimeters and a volume larger than 160 GB is suitable. These recommendations are written on the official Sony website. It seems that lovers of high speeds can even use SSDs. Unfortunately, PS4 does not yet support external storage devices for storing games, but it may still change in the future.
5. After purchasing a Playstation 4, you will need to download a mandatory software update.
This patch weighs only 300 megabytes and will contain very important additional features, such as streaming your games to a Playstation Vita handheld console or the ability to play Blu-Ray movies. Downloading the patch in the first days of sales of consoles is a perfectly normal practice for many manufacturers. For example, those who bought the Nintendo Wii U game console should have downloaded a patch of as much as 5 GB. These patches contain very important changes to the console software, which are developed after the console began to be assembled on factory conveyors and no changes can be made to it. So do not forget to download this small patch immediately after purchase. Thus, you will add to your PS4 many very useful features. American users who do not have access to the Internet will be able to order an official update disc for free just by calling the official office of Sony USA. It is likely that this opportunity will be with Russian users. Although I very much doubt that someone today may not have access to the Internet at home.
6. Playstation 4 does not support DLNA servers, Audio-CD and MP3
At the very least, initially the PS4 will definitely not support these features. PS3 was able to find a common language with your personal computer and stream music, movies and even online radio stations from it. PS4 does not know how. However, like playing MP3 music or music CDs. Sony management has faced disapproval from its users and is currently in a hurry to consider adding these features along with future console firmware updates. Wait and see.
7. Social functions
PS4 will offer you many opportunities so that you can share your impressions of video games with friends. The game controller Dualshock 4 even has a special button Share (Share), with which you can instantly upload videos with your passage of the game on social networks or on YouTube. At the start, however, only publishing on Facebook will be available, and the rest of the social networks will be pulled up a little later. Video, by the way, will be recorded in the background constantly. By clicking on the Share button, you can select a fragment of interest from the last 15 minutes of the game process and publish it in just a few seconds. You can also take screenshots and even broadcast your gameplay on the Ustream or Twitch network, where anyone can watch and comment on it. In the future, it is planned to add the “virtual assistant” function, when you will be able to transfer control of the game to your friend who is at home. This will be useful if you, for example, do not know how to pass one or another moment in the game. A friend will take control of himself and pass this place for you, after which he will return control to you again.
8. When PS4 is available for sale, 23 games will be available for it.
Among these games will be exclusives like Knack and Killzone: Shadow Fall, as well as third-party publisher games - Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag, Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Need for Speed: Rivals, and so on. Most of the games will be available in digital form, so you will not need to search and purchase them on a physical medium. Also during the first month, all Playstation Plus members will receive free Contrast and Resogun games. In addition to large games, at the start of the console, indie projects will also be available, to which one should also pay close attention. Now, many independent developers are doing such wonderful projects that large publishers should learn from them.
9. PS4 Camera can do much more than you think.
Included with the PS4 will not ship the camera. And it must be purchased separately, as I wrote a little higher. But in the bundle with each console you get a completely free pre-installed game The Playroom, which can show you the new features of this camera itself, as well as the new DualShock4 gamepad with its glowing Lightbar face. The new PS4 camera is able to recognize voice commands, as well as some of your gestures. It is equipped with two lenses for a more accurate perception of the depth of space, as well as four microphones to accurately distinguish the voices of players from the ambient noise. The camera will be able to recognize users by their faces, as well as automatically understand which of them has a gamepad, in order to arrange them in the game in the correct order. Now you do not have to change places on the couch to match the location of their characters on the screen - the console will do it for you.
10. Playstation Vita now supports full remote play.
For the first time this function was demonstrated to us even on the Playstation 3, but there it worked very poorly, and only a couple of games supported Remote Play. Now, with the arrival of the PS4 market, support will be incorporated initially in almost every project. If you have a big family and so-called TV battles often occur, this feature will seem especially attractive to you. Let your wife watch your favorite television shows, and you just throw the game with the Playstation 4 on the screen of your Vita and go to play in another room or continue to play while lying in the bathroom. The main thing in this case is not to drop the handheld into the water, so beware!
I hope that my notes on the Playstation 4 will help you navigate and be sufficiently savvy at the time of the acquisition of this gaming console. If you have any questions - you can ask them directly in the comments. If possible, I will try to answer all.
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