…καθώς αποκαλύπτεται το μηχανάκι σε όλους μας σταδιακά. Οι japanistas συνάδερφοι, το είδαν σε όλο του το μεγαλείο σε Sony “big review event”,,,
Σε κεντρικό επίπεδο πάντως και πριν τα διαβάσετε, έχει δοθεί μεγάλη προσοχή στη λεπτομέρεια σε πολλά επίπεδα.
You can have two groups of PSN friends: regular friends and “true” friends.
To be true friends, or BFFs, you both have to agree. Regular friends will just show up on your lists and games by their handles, but the machine will display true friends’ real names, so you don’t have to keep remembering that SexCowboy77 is actually Kirk Hamilton.1234P
Multitasking is super-easy.
If you double-tap the PlayStation button on the DualShock 4, you’ll swap between your last two applications. So if you play a game, then pause to look at your friends list, it’s easy to switch back to where you left off. No saving required. This is the future!56P
There’s a whole hub for broadcasting.
This is a system built for sharing and streaming—Sony’s so into this stuff that they even put a share button on the controller. The PS4 will automatically record up to 15 minutes of your gameplay, and you can edit/trim that footage using a snappy interface that seems to work well. (We didn’t get our hands on it, but we’ll have more definitive thoughts when we do.) You can also broadcast live gameplay on Twitch or Ustream, and you can search for keywords on the system’s broadcast hub to see what people are sharing at any given moment. This could be big.
The homepage shows what your friends are doing.
You’ll see things like “Stephen just started streaming Knack” or “Evan is playing Killzone: Shadow Fall.” You can interact with your friends from that page.891011P
How Mandatory Game Installations Will Work On PS4
Call it installation or call it caching, but the bottom line is that you will have to save large chunks of PlayStation 4 games to the system’s
As you download a game, you can start playing it before it’s finished.
It’ll take a bit—an hour at most, lead architect Mark Cerny says—for the system to install enough data for you to start a game, but you won’t have to wait for the software to download completely—which is good, because these games are big.
Different games will allow you to prioritize based on how you want to play
while they download—Call of Duty: Ghosts, for example, will let you choose whether you want to start playing single- or multi-player, and then you’ll download the bits accordingly.P
Playing as a guest will let you sign in on other peoples’ PS4s.
You can just choose “play as guest” and sign in on your own account. It’ll automatically wipe all of your data when you’re done with the machine.1213P
You can watch Netflix without a PlayStation Plus subscription.
Okay, so this isn’t a fun fact about the UI, and really, we already knew this would be the case, but it’s pretty damn cool that Sony isn’t locking this stuff behind a paywall. On Xbox One, just like on the 360, you’ll need Xbox Live Gold to use Netflix and other media services.1415161718P
The machine is designed to stay in stand-by mode.
And it’ll charge your DualShock 4 while it’s resting.
The PS4 is shaped like a parallelogram.
