New Facts About Sony Playstation 4

Due to the fact that Sony's new gaming console in the United States goes on sale on Friday, November 15, news of it has recently been pouring out of a horn of plenty. The first happy owners of the console have already begun to report on their impressions in numerous tweets, as well as in personal blogs. I will try to combine disparate information in the form of a single material.

Mandatory installation of games

As soon as you insert the game disk into your console, it immediately starts caching game data on the internal hard disk. It happens in the background, so you don’t even notice anything. If the game has already been previously installed on the hard drive - caching is not required.

Almost every game requires the complete installation of its data on the hard disk. This was done because of numerous complaints from game developers who did not like long loading levels from optical media. Very rare games will be played completely from Blu-Ray discs.

Wait for the full installation of the game on the internal hard drive is not required. You can start playing much earlier, while the remaining data will be installed in the background. For example, the disk version of the game Knack requires only 10 seconds of installation in order for you to start playing it, and at that time the remaining 37 GB of data will be installed in the background. For comparison, on the Xbox One game console, you need to wait for about 50% of the game data to be installed in order to start playing.

The data installed on the HDD will be stored there until you decide to delete it. Sony engineers looked into automatic cleaning of installed files, but ultimately decided to give players control over the data.

If you purchased a digital version of the game, not a disk version, then you will have to wait a little more before you can start the game. Time to download games, of course, will depend on the speed of your Internet connection. Sony claims that players will not have to wait for hours until the game has partially loaded and started.

Interface

The Playstation 4 user interface is very user friendly and works amazingly fast. Double-clicking on the gamepad button Playstation, you can almost instantly switch between the last two applications running on the console. For example, if you wanted to pause the game and see what your friends are doing, you can easily do it. There is no need to persist. The console will keep everything in its memory until you decide to return to the game. In Playstation 3, the game had to be completely closed in order to switch to another application.

Connecting and configuring the Playstation 4 Camera is very similar to the configuration of the Kinect sensor. Only in this case you will have to hold the DualShock 4 gamepad in different positions so that the camera captures its luminous part, which is called the Lightbar.

If you are logged in on a PS4 console as a guest, you will not have to create a separate profile for this, and all your data will be deleted immediately after you log out. This is very convenient when you come to visit someone and do not want to spend 10 minutes trying to create a separate account for yourself.

Now friends will be divided into two groups: "real friends" and "just acquaintances." The PS4 allows you to see the real names and surnames of your “true friends” on the web. No longer will you have to remember who the Russian TheGuy1985 is. But in order to avoid incidents, you can only see the real name of the user after you send him a special “request by name”. And if he allows you to see his personal data, his real name will appear on your screen next to his PSN nickname. In the future, Sony promises to add a "accept all requests by name" button, but for now you will have to approve or reject requests one by one.

The console's home screen has now become similar to Facebook news feed or another social network and will tell you about the game activity of your friends. For example, one of them is playing in Killzone: Shadow Fall, and the second is watching the broadcast of someone's game. You can almost instantly join any of them, be it a game or just watching a broadcast. If you want, you can turn off the news from specific people so as not to see them in your news feed.

The interface of the built-in store Playstation Store began to work much faster in comparison with the PS3 version. If you live in a country where Sony Video Unlimited is available, or any other service that provides the opportunity to purchase or rent movies, I hurry to please you: you will no longer have to download movies to your console. They can be viewed directly from the store online.

Trophies

From now on game trophies will be divided into special subgroups: ordinary, rare, very rare and ultra rare. You can see the statistics, what percentage of users who played this game, got one or another trophy. And also you will be able to follow in real time exactly which trophies were beaten out by your network friends.

Gameplay broadcast

You can broadcast your gameplay without any time limits with the help of Twitch and Ustream services.

You can also select categories and user groups with whom you would like to share your screenshots and videos. For example, if you play Killzone: Shadow Fall, you can make these materials available exclusively to the owners of this game. And you can make them open to all.

A special Twitch browser for online broadcasts is built into the console, with the help of which you can find the broadcast you are interested in using the keywords or the name of the game and start watching it. If you are interested in a particular game - there is nothing easier. First, take a look at its gameplay, and then decide whether to buy it or not.

Additional features

The PS4 was designed with the expectation that it could work even in standby mode. When you have finished playing and turned off the console (while keeping it connected to the mains), it will continue to operate in power saving mode.

Downloading new updates, fresh firmware, and other files will also occur in the background, transparent to the user.

The Playstation 3 had a significant drawback: it did not allow the gamepad to be recharged when it was in standby mode. Charging gamepads from the off PS4 became possible.

PS4 users will be able to send each other 15-second voice messages, recording them using a mono headset (supplied with each PS4) or using a Playstation 4 Camera. These messages can be attached to the screenshots made during the passage of the games. These messages can also be heard using the Playstation App smartphone app.

Stay with us and you will learn all the latest information about the consoles of the new generation as it arrives!

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