*** The Official Playstation 4 (PS4) Thread ***

Some info from us PSN Blog about game sharing and friends lists
http://us.playstation.com/ps4/features/ps4-faq/

Sharing games you purchase from PlayStation®Store
Games you download can be played by users who share your PS4™ system, such as your family and friends. You do not have to log in to the system for other users to play these games.

Sharing benefits from PlayStation®Plus
If you join PlayStation®Plus, benefits such as online multiplayer features that come with that membership can be enjoyed by users who share your PS4™ system. You do not have to log in to the system for other users to enjoy these benefits.

Playing games you purchase from PlayStation®Store
Games you purchase can be downloaded and played on any PS4™ system if you sign in to PSN℠. There is no limit on the number of systems you can use. * Only you can start games that you download.

Enjoying benefits from PlayStation®Plus
If you join PlayStation®Plus, you can sign in to PSN℠ from any PS4™ system and enjoy your membership benefits.

Playing on other PS4™ systems when you are not at home

* You can use up to 2 systems concurrently: the system activated as your "primary" PS4™ system, and one other system



Coinciding with the release of the PS4™ system, you will be able to become Friends with up to 2,000 people on PSN℠. You can view your Friends on any device you have signed in to with your PSN℠ account. The number of players displayed varies for each device.

PS4™ systemPS4™ system
All of your Friends can be displayed.
PS3™ systemPS3™ system
A maximum of 100 players can be displayed.
PS Vita systemPS Vita system
All of your Friends can be displayed in Friends(Friends). Support for the ability to display all of your Friends in most applications and games is planned. (However, some titles will be limited to the current 100 Friends.) *1
Smartphone or other device with PlayStation®App installed.Smartphone or other device with PlayStation®App installed.
All of your Friends can be displayed.

*1 For details on which 100 players are displayed, see below.
Which 100 players are displayed?

1. If you have sent or received Friend requests that haven't been approved yet, up to 10 of the most recent recipients and 10 of the most recent senders are displayed.

2. Your Friends are displayed.

If the sum of players from point (1) and your currently online Friends is more than 100, your currently online Friends are displayed by online ID in alphabetical order until the limit of 100 players is reached.
If the sum of players from point (1) and your currently online Friends is less than 100, your currently offline Friends are also displayed by online ID in alphabetical order until the limit of 100 players is reached.

3. If the sum of players from point (1) and all of your Friends from point (2) is less than 100, any remaining recipients of your Friend requests are displayed, followed by any remaining players who sent Friend requests to you, until the limit of 100 players is reached.

You must sign out of PSN℠ and then sign in again to update the players who are displayed. When doing this, also sign out of all other devices that you are signed in to PSN℠ on.
 
Just to rub it in new Drive club video from latest build, its only a few seconds long but shows more cars on track and some nice lighting.
Looks nice :(
 
The console needs to be connected to the internet once upon first power up to receive an update to enable additional features that were not in the build before manufacturing started..

In this day and age, its to be expected. however the console will not need to 'dial home' as it were every 24 hours as was to be expected with the first revision of the xbone 1.

A 300MB patch to the O/S FW is IMO fine. I receive patches and updates every day for my PC if only for Steam, Windows 7 or some other bit of software or driver on my machine..

I would think a large percentage of users buying a PS4 will have some form or internet, even if they need to hotspot or tether to a 3G connection..
 
iv-tecman said:
The console needs to be connected to the internet once upon first power up to receive an update to enable additional features that were not in the build before manufacturing started..

In this day and age, its to be expected. however the console will not need to 'dial home' as it were every 24 hours as was to be expected with the first revision of the xbone 1.

A 300MB patch to the O/S FW is IMO fine. I receive patches and updates every day for my PC if only for Steam, Windows 7 or some other bit of software or driver on my machine..

I would think a large percentage of users buying a PS4 will have some form or internet, even if they need to hotspot or tether to a 3G connection..
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Agreed, just hoping that the servers don't have 'Day 1' issues.

Hopefully the Americans will beta test that for us ;)
 
Robert1986 said:
PS4 pad works on the ps3 but doesn't work so well with Fifa. :(

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/2128551/ps4_controller_works_with_ps3.html

I was going to buy one to use for Fifa for now.
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Surprised it works on Ps3 at all TBH, even heard the pad could work on PC and MAC, however if the pad some how manages to get xinput support which I'd be amazed then I could end up ditching my 360 pad over on the PC.

From all accounts the DS4 pad is a huge improvement over the DS3 and a very good pad in general.
 
PS4 pad does work on the PC but isn't supported. You have to spend a lot of time getting it to work. Too much hassle when you could just use the xbox pad.

Is this PS4 pad being released early? You can buy it in stores now in America.
 
Robert1986 said:
PS4 pad does work on the PC but isn't supported. You have to spend a lot of time getting it to work. Too much hassle when you could just use the xbox pad.

Is this PS4 pad being released early? You can buy it in stores now in America.
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Sony Announced it would be officially supported on PC already.
 
I don't like the idea of that at all. I'd rather just be able to install the entire disc whilst I make a cuppa and leave it there until I choose to delete it. It seems as time is going on now that the Xbone is doing things right with the system itself but not so good with the games and PS4 vice versa.
 
I don't see how?

If you choose to do a full install (optional) then you will put the entire 50GB take a few GB onto the hdd (so 39GB now for KZ:SF?), otherwise while reading from the disc it'd cache data onto the HDD for faster reading later on? And clear up when it doesn't need it? That's how I am understanding it.
 
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