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PS4 1.71 Firmware Update Implements 16 Player Party Chat

Looks like the PS4 firmware update 1.71 just released by Sony Computer Entertainment included an rather relevant undocumented feature.

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TIER1xWOLFPACKx3615d ago

That was actually there before 1.71

Abriael3615d ago

No it wasn't. It was just 8 yesterday.

TIER1xWOLFPACKx3615d ago (Edited 3615d ago )

It's said 16 on mine since update 1.7 came out over a month ago. I was talking about on party chat to friends about it a week or so ago and we couldnt figure why it said 16 when you could only have 8.

Also if you have a party chat open at the top of the screen it still says you can only have 8 even if you try to invite 16

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GarrusVakarian3615d ago

@ballsack

Both consoles are lacking features 6 months in that their predecessors had, it's not just Sony.

Bennibop3615d ago

@ballsack Microsoft added features ps4 already had.

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Kribwalker3615d ago

Apparently it's nowhere to be found, just like the. PS4 16 player party chat

Sevir3615d ago

@gamertk Last I checked there was 2-3 million more on PS4 than XBO. And you'd be surprised at much party chat is used on PS4.

JMyers3615d ago

@Ballsack...

Because MS has more updating to do with their UI and dashboard. That's obvious. More so now wthout Kinect.

darren_poolies3615d ago

@Ballsack

PS3 didn't have cross game party chat.

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GarrusVakarian3615d ago (Edited 3615d ago )

Lol, damn. 8 player party chat was too much at times on the 360, with everyone having separate conversations with each other. 16 would be mayhem at times, lol.

Would be great for games with large player counts though.

CBaoth3615d ago (Edited 3615d ago )

EDIT: nvm, just saw the article's update and realised my point was null and void

Ace Killa 083615d ago

Planet Side 2, BF4 are just a few games that can benefit from this feature.

And you are right, it will be mayhem no matter what the subject(s) are. lol

CRASHBASHUK3615d ago

oh k so you can do 16 invites but when you go to the party chat and look top of the screen it says 8 players max

Baccra173615d ago

Rather have video codecs honestly.

Deadpoolio3615d ago

Well you'll just have to watch your stolen movies another way....Try the PC, where you download them from

Ares84HU3615d ago

Another useless update. Why don't they give us what we request constantly instead of these stupid things? 16 player party chat, who the hell cares??

Give me MP3 playback, the ability to play video files via usb or external HDD, ability to see when friends sign on and off. Custom themes/wallpapers. Ability to organize that looooooooooooooong bar. The ability to delete things that I will never use, example: amazon instant video, hulu and so on.

And most of all give me backwards compatibility. I know it can be done and whoever believes it can't is an idiot and just fooling themselves.

TIER1xWOLFPACKx3615d ago

You can delete the video apps like Amazon instant video can be deleted

kingPoS3615d ago

Uhh... hardware BC for ps3 games ain't coming anytime soon. It's not even physically possible with the PS4's CPU. I do however miss the gobs of functionality the PS3 has over the PS4.

Gateway MT6706 2008

DaCandyman3615d ago

I thought they said that the ability to see when friends login would come in this update.

Tru_Blu3615d ago

That would be mayhem with up to 2000 friends. I got to 100 on PS3 and it was non stop that people were getting on-off.

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KEMCO ditch the RPGS for a horror Visual Novel - Horrific Xanatorium

Available right now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC is the latest from a prolific KEMCO team - Horrific Xanatorium; a horror Visual Novel

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Days Gone, 5 Years Later

Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?

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mkis0075h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows905h ago(Edited 5h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0073h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19893h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw5h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno5h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy854h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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