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The PS4 Deserves Alternative Download Options in its Next Update. Period.

TTZ: The PS4 3.0 Update lacks some of the most basic requisites that can take it to the next level for its users.

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Maltaze3123d ago

Not a bad concept. But given their recent issues with PSN re-emerging already, I don't think they are interested in opening up another potential security disaster in the making as a front to their customers.

Christopher3123d ago

What issues with PSN are security issues? Downtime is a security risk? Last I checked, that was the ultimate firewall.

freshslicepizza3123d ago

all they need to do is allow games to preload before release (which i think it already does), have the ability to download in sleep mode (which it probably does) and also have the ability to support external hard drives. yes downloading with the pc could be nice like some do for system updates but it's not a huge feature i need. just allow you smart phone to be able to turn your ps4 on through an app and click download x game through your phone so that it's ready later.

Christopher3123d ago

Probably not going to happen since it increases the chances of someone finding a way to unlock and pirate games.

mark3214uk3123d ago

they have known how to rip the games from the disc for a while, it is the making them play on the ps4 they cant do

Spotie3123d ago

Hence the "unlock" part.

SolidDuck3123d ago

There are a few dozen or so features I would like to see before this tho.

phatak3123d ago

like finally switching off the lightbar to save battery

Christopher3123d ago

This also will never happen. Developers utilize it for various reasons and Sony wants to make it a common tool that's always available.

Also, it really doesn't drain much energy. What is the true battery drain is the always-on touch panel.

Takwin3123d ago

Funny thing is, despite Sony saying it was physically impossible to turn off, I can use multiple programs on my PC to change or turn it off completely when playing Steam games.

It needs a battery 2x as big AND the auto-ability that turns off the touch panel for games it's not used in.

ziggurcat3123d ago

@phatak

it's an LED light, and LEDs don't consume very much power at all, so it's not really the light that's actually draining the battery.

ratchet4263123d ago

You can replace the 1000mAH stock battery with a 2000mAH for $8 (plus a USB charging cable)

http://www.amazon.com/Plays...

nitus103123d ago (Edited 3123d ago )

Even if you switched off the light bar that would have little if any impact on the battery life. This has been discussed many times before. Don't believe me try Google or just do a basic electronics course.

There are a few ways to extend the play time of your DS4 controller they are:

1. Get a second controller. It only takes a few seconds to switch.

2. Get a long (ie. 5m at least) USB to micro USB cable - approx $5.00.

3. Replace your DS4 battery with a longer life battery. They are not that expensive.

4. Use a battery power pack although a longer cable is still the cheaper option.

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ZaWarudo3123d ago

It needs an appear offline option first.

deadpoolio3163123d ago (Edited 3123d ago )

OR you could grow a set be a big boy and tell people you don't want to play that game OR that you don't feel like playing in a party, or even lie and say your headset battery is dead....Its not difficult.....Hell IF the probably 50% of you that are still trying to game share, actually made your PS4 YOUR primary console you could play offline...

KwietStorm_BLM3123d ago

Yea let me tell the 20 people messaging and sending invites to me that I don't want to be bothered. Let me just ignore how simple it would be if the feature was there in the first place. Let's insult my fellow gamer first. Always protect the brand. And what the hell does game sharing have to do with it lol

TKCMuzzer3123d ago (Edited 3123d ago )

er, just sign out of the PSN, it's far easier, or unplug the ethernet cable

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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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TopSpin 2K25 Review - Serving Up a Nice Reboot | MP1st

TopSpin 2K25 Review - After a very long hiatus, TopSpin is back! Can Hangar 13 bring the venerable tennis series back to relevance?

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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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mkis0074h ago

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

Crows904h ago(Edited 4h 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

-Foxtrot2h ago(Edited 2h 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.

mkis0072h 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.

Michiel19892h 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.

-Foxtrot2h ago(Edited 2h 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?

Leeroyw4h 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.

Inverno4h 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.

phatak3h ago(Edited 3h 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.

andy853h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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