I was having this discussion yesterday with a friend. If it takes me 3 months to complete a slightly subpar game then that means I’m missing out on playing one or more better games as a result. There’s only one life and we don’t get bonus time at the end to spend time on all the ones we really wanted to play.
Welcome to gaming in 2018. Unfortunately even many single player games (and components) require internet connection. Its actually not that rare. Is there any reason why you cant just update it?
Where I have my PS4 I'd need to get another connection put in to hook it up to the internet and in truth I've never needed to, I mean even the Spidey game that just came out, I played that with no need to update anything from the PSN.
You don’t have WiFi?
No, I'm still on ethernet.
"We wouldn't have enough," says SIE Worldwide Studios chairman.
A PlayStation Experience will not be held in 2018, Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden said on the latest PlayStation Blogcast.
Here is the snippet:
“For 2018, I know this is going to be a disappointment to some people, but we have decided not to hold PlayStation Experience. We won’t have it in the States this year. The reasons behind that really are, we don’t have—we have a lot of progress that we’re making in our games, and we’re seeing that coming out—now that we have Spider-Man out the door, we’re looking down into 2019 into games like Dreams and Days Gone, but we wouldn’t have enough to bring people all together in some location in North America to have that event. We don’t want to set expectations really high and then not deliver on it, so we have—it was a hard decision—but we have determined that this year we will not hold PlayStation Experience.”
PlayStation Experience is generally a two-day event held in December where Sony and its publishing partners exhibit the latest upcoming PlayStation titles. A press conference-style opening keynote usually contains the latest game announcements and trailers.
User's Choice Award voting now open.
PlayStation Awards 2018 will be held on December 3 at 17:00 JST at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo, Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia announced. It will be live streamed to YouTube.
The awards show, which has been held annually since 1995, honors the top-selling games across the Japan and Asia regions. If you missed it last year, find the list of 2017 winners here.
The following award categories are planned:
Voting for the Users’ Choice Award is open now and will run until October 8 at 23:59 JST. You can submit your votes here.
- Platinum Prize: Software titles (DL) with an accumulated shipment quantity (including download quantity) of over one million copies
- Gold Prize: Software titles (DL) with an accumulated shipment quantity (including download quantity) of over 500,000 copies
- PlayStation Network Award: Top three network sales titles will be awarded (period: From October 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017)
- Users’ Choice Award: Top 10 titles voted by Japan and Asia users. (Released in October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018)
- PlayStation VR Award: 3 titles that contributed to the sales of PlayStation VR (period: From October 13, 2017 to September 30, 2018) * Excluding last year’s winning titles
- Indies & Developer Award: 3 titles that contributed to the expansion of PlayStation (period: From October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018) * Excluding last year’s winning titles
source:GematsuDevelopers fixing bugs and tweaking settings to ensure compatibility.
Multiplayer game developers are preparing for PlayStation Network username changes to come soon, three people at different game studios have told Kotaku.
The developers said that in recent months they have been fixing bugs and tweaking settings to ensure that their games are compatible with Sony’s plans.
A fourth person who works for a game studio shared an image from internal Sony documentation of a PlayStation Network profile containing an “Edit Username” option. The documentation was said to be a guide for changing one’s PlayStation Network username.
A time frame for the feature’s implementation is unknown. The developers suggested that due to PlayStation Network usernames linking your account ID to your username, rather than a universally unique identifier, retroactively fixing old multiplayer games might be time consuming and difficult.
Sony did not respond for comment.
Back at PlayStation Experience 2017 in December, Sony’s Shawn Layden suggested that PlayStation Network username changes would be implemented by December 2018, saying in response to a question about username changes, “hopefully you won’t have to ask me that question next PSX.” Sony announced last week that PlayStation Experience will not be held in 2018.
The PS4 has NOT been discounted. I dont know the context of whatever video you saw but its customary of Sony to "discontinue" Playstation SKUs around this time as they always flood the market with holiday bundles in late November which are typically available till at least Jan.Again thats not an official discontinue but them shuffling manufacturing of the system into a bundled box with a game rather standalone
Early indications reportedly claim future PlayStation is not a major departure.
Sony president and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida has suggested that the company is planning the release of a next-generation PlayStation.
“At this point, what I can say is it’s necessary to have a next-generation hardware,” Yoshida told Financial Times. He declined to formally name the future console “PlayStation 5.”
Yoshida’s comments were in response to debate over how Sony should address the rising global smartphone games market and the shifting habits of consumers as it readies game studios and the global market for a PlayStation 4 successor.
Financial Times relayed rumors within the industry that Sony might also be planning a tablet that would connect to multiple devices “as online streaming of games becomes more widespread and the company seeks to derive ever greater synergies between its games and movie divisions.”
The publication also cited “people in the games publishing industry with knowledge of Sony’s plans for a future console” who said early indications were that the next-generation PlayStation might have a similar fundamental architecture to PlayStation 4 and not represent a major departure from the console.
Back in April, several game development sources indicated that a PlayStation 5 would not release until 2020 at the earliest.
it's not there and the only people that have fully embrased this are in the far east. Mostly due to exspense incertain countries and the fact some certain job's in those area's require alot of travel in that they're almost not at home most of the time. It depends on who your talking too and how they are living life though.
Agreed. When I was a kid I loved my GameBoy Advance and Nintendo DS, but I have no interest now. I like playing on my big TV screen and getting a full experience.
