PlayStation 4 Chat II

[gamerforever]

Ended up buying replacement sticks for my ds4 and fitted them in 10 minutes. Worth the effort and only cost me 99p.

[KK]

Groupon doing DS4 for £22.99 https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/gg-phot ... 5cfd7e5ecb

Just received an email from these clowns saying they cocked up and can't honour the offer.

Only just today? strawberry floating hell.

“Sony PlayStation DualShock 4 Jet Black Controller for £22.99 With Free Delivery”
We're very sorry to tell you that your Groupon we will not be able to supply the advertised product. This is due to an error on our part, and we’d like to apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. We have incorrectly advertised this deal to sell PlayStation DualShock 4 controller, while it was intended for a completely different product.

We have refunded you the value of the Groupon purchase price, which will be transferred via your original method of payment. Please keep an eye out for it reaching your bank account within 5 working days (if you paid in full or in part using Groupon credit, this amount will instead be returned to your Groupon account).

If you bought this Groupon as a gift, don’t forget you’ll need to inform the recipient about this news. If you wish, you can purchase an alternative option by visiting www.groupon.co.uk.

Please note that we're currently running a deal with another of our partners. The offer is very similar and you might find it interesting. To find out more or to purchase, simply visit:

Sony PlayStation DualShock 4 Jet Black Controller for £42.49 With Free Delivery (35% Off)

That’s all from us for now.

[Saint of Killers]

Yes, that is a very similar deal.



Has anyone used them before and did they come through with the goods? Dunno if I should bother linking their deals in future.

[Tafdolphin]

So, there used to be a button on my YouTube Android app that would stream anything playing on my phone to my PS4. This has now disappeared in the latest version and I can't see any replacement. Has the feature been removed?

[CuriousOyster]

Won a nice bet of £265 so instantly went and bought a white PS4 with Uncharted Collection

Looking forward to getting some stuff ive missed like Bloodbourne and Last of Us (havent even played original). Any other PS4 exclusives folk recommend?

[Glowy69]

Yes, that is a very similar deal.



Has anyone used them before and did they come through with the goods? Dunno if I should bother linking their deals in future.

Yeah, I've used them plenty of times. Never had any issues.

[Saint of Killers]

Ta glowy. Will keep that in mind if I see other offers from them.

Sony Might Have Unlocked the PS4’s 7th CPU Core For Developers

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/11/27/ ... evelopers/

According to a verified (i.e. someone whose proven to mods they have insider knowledge) user on GAF (Zoetis):

Full core for gaming, sdk update 2 months ago, 1st party exclusive for now.

Uncharted 4 may be using it...

twitter.com/RobertCogburn/status/671360021813334018

Robert Cogburn
@RobertCogburn

I'm a Lead Game Designer at @Naughty_Dog Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3. Helped out on The Last of Us.

Link leads to a forum talking about the core news.

(Sony did something similar at ND's request when Uncharted 2 was being developed, apparently.)

[NickSCFC]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/11/p ... cpu-power/

In terms of raw power, console hardware doesn't really change over time; the PS4 you buy today will essentially have the same pixel-pushing components as one you buy in 2020. But through software updates, the current generation of game consoles is managing to give developers access to more of that raw hardware power as time goes on.

Sony's PlayStation 4 is the latest beneficiary of this trend. The system's eight-core CPU used to devote two entire cores to managing the underlying operating system, leaving just six available for developers to use for games. So it was a bit surprising when the release notes for a recent version of FMOD Studio's middleware platform noted that the API had "added FMOD_THREAD_CORE6 to allow access to the newly unlocked 7th core."

Digital Foundry confirmed with its development sources that Sony has indeed unlocked a seventh CPU core for direct access by developers. Those same sources suggest that the core may still be partly used for system-related tasks at points, so it's not exactly a one-sixth improvement in available CPU time. Still, every little bit helps when trying to process complex scenes or bits of game logic.

Existing games probably won't see any performance improvements from this change, unless developers go back and release a patch specifically designed to take advantage. Going forward, though, developers will be able to reserve a bit more CPU time that used to be hogged by the OS.

Sony's move mirrors similar Microsoft efforts to unlock most of a seventh core on the Xbox One CPU for use by game developers late last year. That move was somewhat limited by the Xbox One's continued support for Kinect-based, system-level voice commands, which could take up to half of that core's CPU time when in active use. That makes it hard for developers to know just how much of that additional CPU power will be available at any given moment.

[Saint of Killers]

GAF verified user quoted that when he made his/her post. Which I am taking to mean the whole core will be available, not a fraction of it, when it's being used by a game. Or something.

[Saint of Killers]

12 Deals of Christmas starts today. First up is MGS V. (No idea what its sale price is. Sorry. )

[Rex Kramer]

12 Deals of Christmas starts today. First up is MGS V. (No idea what its sale price is. Sorry. )

£29.99 on PS4 and £19.99 on PS3, live now.

[Saint of Killers]

Ta Rex.

Eh, at PS4 price. It's cheap but still not at impulse purchase level. Had it been £20-25 I'd have honestly considered buying it and I've already finished it.

[Saint of Killers]

Someone stitched together the Sony Santa Monica teasers...



Some think it's a teaser for another game they're helping out with, as opposed to being one of their own projects.

[jawafour]

Sony Might Have Unlocked the PS4’s 7th CPU Core For Developers

Blast Processing has arrived .

[Saint of Killers]

If you like RPGs, you should definitely play the demo of Indivisible. You can download it now from the PlayStation Store for PS4. Check out the blog post below for more information.

https://store.playstation.com/#!/pt-pt/ ... SIBLEPROTO

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/11/ ... ps4-today/

Funding successfully reached this morning!

I think people can still contribute: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/indi ... ullgirls#/

[Super Dragon 64]

Yep, you can keep backing until Saturday morning. It's easily one of the best crowdfunding projects that I've seen so I'm glad that it reached its goal.

[Pedz]

Cool, I should try the demo. But the video I saw looked ace. I backed it straight away

[Saint of Killers]

I was worried it wouldn't but was super pleased to see this morning there'd been a surge.

The demo was really well made. That last boss, though.

[ITSMILNER]

Has anyone put decals on there PS4? Was tempted to get the 20th anniversary designed ones along with 20th anniversary dualshock 4

[Saint of Killers]

I would think about it, if it stated it was easy to peel off. Otherwise, I would be too worried about lowering its sell on value once PSFour was announced.