When you say loud, how loud and with respect to what.
When my wife is using our large screen HDTV I connect my PS4 to my PC's monitor which takes less then a minute to make the change over. When I do this my PS4 is within one meter from my ears and except for initial start-up and authentication of a game (does not happen if I have a digital download) I can't hear my PS4 and since I play RPG's I can play for hours without noticing any fan noise from the PS4.
Yes kind of amazing.
Most people play games and boot the sound though their HiFi system so you would really need a very quiet game to actually hear any noise from any console.
I actually play my PS4 via my PC monitor and when my wife is not using the large screen HDTV I move my PS4 to the living room. Both set-ups look very neat since the power cable for the PS4 is cheap and an industry standard. Also the total time to make the change is less then a minute. ...
Sorry that is not a user error it is a design flaw.
As most of the others have commented just about all devices that use a DVD or even CD for that matter don't scratch the media that is placed in them.
There is a YouTube video on when the XBox360 slim was first introduced with the commentator moving the console which resulted in grinding noise and a nice ring around the DVD, hence one damaged game.
A quick search will actually show lots o...
I have enjoyed all the FF games since 4 but personally I liked FFXII best because of it's non-linearity and it's battles taking place in the location where you encounter the enemy (unique for FF games).
@Man_Marmalade
Granted FFXIII was linear but then again so were most of the FF games. Take a look at FFX and tell me if that is not basically on rails. Granted that towards the end you can take the airship most anywhere but you could do that with FFXI...
Not really.
While Intel don't mind AMD being the underdog they definitely don't want them to go out of business since that would make Intel a monopoly which would and has previously resulted in very expensive litigation against them.
@XanderZane
Most PS2 games are on one DVD (a few on CD) and therefore an image will be less than 4.7GB.
It is disappointing that the PS2 player for the PS4 and does not allow you to play from your PS2 disks however I never purchased a PS4 to play PS2 games. I have a backwards compatible PS3 and a powerful PC for that.
As for paying for PS2 games. If I don't have a particular PS2 game then I would fully expect to pay for it.
That is fine if you have XBox360 games but if like me you don't have any then how is backwards compatibility a selling point? Answer it isn't.
I have over sixty PS2 games and there is no way I would pay to play them on my PS4. I do have a backwards compatible PS3 and if I want I can also play them on my PC, however I have plenty of PS3 and now PS4 games that I do enjoy playing as well.
As for singing the phrases of Microsoft well I do suggest you look...
@Pongwater
Have you ever played the original "Uncharted - Drake's Fortune"? It does have trophies and also unlock-able content.
@DarkHeroZX
You are quite right about "Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction" that game did not and still does not have trophies. "R&C Crack in Time" does have trophies though.
I even fired up my BC PS3 to confirm it.
Personally trophies are a ...
Yes all they need to do is stick an "i" at the beginning of the word they wish to trademark.
Give companies a chance and they will try to trademark pretty much anything such as "Windows", "Mod", "Glass", "Air" and even the colour "purple". Stupid yes but worrying all the same.
@DoctorFraud
If you don't like the price then don't buy, after-all no one is forcing you.
I have over sixty PS2 games in excellent condition and while I am disappointed that I can't play them via the PS2 emulator for the PS4 I do have a backwards compatible PS3 and also a very powerful PC which can also play them.
Most of the time I prefer playing PS3 and now PS4 games and have the odd nostalgia itch maybe two weeks out of the ye...
The backwards compatible PS3 supports HDMI 1.3 which has been standard since the it's release.
Baring that use a PS2 emulator which you can get for the PC (runs under a Microsoft or even a Linux OS). Unfortunately you do need a PC with a bit of grunt and that means an i5 or better cpu.
You can pretty much improve loading performance of your PS4 now if you install a solid state disk. No cartridge is going to be beat a conservative 540MB/sec SSD compared to a high end and expensive flash drive with it's 120MB/sec performance.
Of course SSD's are not exactly cheap however they are coming down in price.
Anyone who has ever deigned and built a PC will advice you to get a 60GB or more SSD for the system disk since your overall performance...
Even the cheapest OEM cartridge is still going to be more expensive than the OEM price of a 25GB or 50GB Bluray disk and 100GB plus Bluray disks are available now but are still relatively expensive.
There is another media which had enormous potential (6TB and more) and that was Holographic Versatile Disks but not much has been heard about them since 2007.
Basically consoles as well as PC's now play games off the storage media they are installed on, be it ...
You can do this now and have been able to do this for years with digital downloads if you have a decent internet connection although once you have installed the game onto your storage device then the the delivery mechanism becomes mute and you then are limited by the performance of your storage device(s).
Put a game on a modern Solid State Disk (aprox 540MB/sec) if you can afford one and you will get much better performance than a cartridge based system (124Mb/sec and that is...
There is nothing wrong with using old technology if it is appropriate. Using cartridges for games is an excellent example of a non-appropriate and potentially expensive technology that will have little if any performance gains.
I have given more detailed reasoning in my previous comments so I won't repeat them here.
I take it that means you don't mind paying extra for a device like that for little if any performance gain.
"Nintendo could stick to carts while letting third parties stick to disks."
I don't even know how to reply to a laughable statement like that.
"Best of both worlds, and we'd finally get decent load times and stuff again."
Say as an example you put a solid state disk with its fairly conse...
Do you even know how much a 3TB drive costs in comparison to a 500GB or even a 1TB drive? Even if Sony or Microsoft for that matter sold a console that had that disk size they would charge accordingly for it.
You can if you have the money put a 1TB Solid State Drive in the PS4 and the performance would be really impressive, but only for loading the game. Of course if you really need the storage you can get a "storage vault" for the PS4 that can allow you to store 6T...
I know what you are getting at but that would be a total disaster for Nintendo since most third party game producers would just stop supporting them.
It is so much cheaper an more efficient to have an inbuilt (preferably upgradeable) storage device and load the game data by digital download and from passive media such as Bluray.
Note: Once a game is loaded onto disk the Bluray (BD) reader is only used for authentication if required. If you have digitally down...
Personally I like RPG's over pretty much all other genres and it is really rare for them to have an on-line component since they are mainly story driven.
Most RPG's rarely suit multi-player (MMO's are the exception) and Dragon Age - Inquisition IMHO is no exception since it does feel tacked on.
The only RPG series that had an on-line component that was optional and at the same time compelling is the Souls series and Bloodborne. What I liked was th...