Topic: General PlayStation 4 Thread

@TheOtherEden I honestly completely forgot MGSV released on PS3 and 360

Considering the Fox Engine was specifically designed with next gen systems in mind and was being futureproofed around those circumstances I don't even know why they bothered trying to port a game of that scale, especially an open world game with such high graphical fidelity to last gen consoles

@TheOtherEden I seem to remember a few games almost unplayable on last gen systems too. Dragon Age Inquisition and Shadow of Mordor (because of the Nemesis system) were FUBAR on release. They might have been patched later later though.

@Kidfried I have a feeling a lot more people are going to buy Miles Morales on PS4 initially and wait it out on the PS5 version since they're not immediately making the jump to next gen yet

The PS5's true Spider-Man game is undoubtedly going to be the proper direct sequel. It's like how Twilight Princess was released on both Wii and GameCube but then the Wii got its own proper Zelda specific to that system with Skyward Sword

@Kidfried Breath of the Wild on Wii U honestly doesn't look that bad and doesn't sacrifice that much compared to Switch

The only glaring problem imo was the washed out presentation and framerate dips when something intensive like an explosion from a barrel occurs but they aren't that different

Also the last gen versions of Black Flag are sitting at 88 for PS3 and 86 for X360 on Metacritic so the reviews are clearly not that much of an issue either since they're obviously also talking about performance discrepancies when factoring in what positive reviews are weighted on that site

Does anyone know if I get plus if it auto uploads my online data because my PS4 won't start and is stuck in safe mode and the only way to get it out is to factory reset it and i don't have plus so my data is not saved and I wanted to see if I could get plus on the PlayStation website and my data still be uploaded, because I can't load in the my PS4 and do it myself.

@OnlyDribble Sadly, I would have thought the data is all on the console so getting PS+ now isn’t going to help as you’d need the console to connect online to upload your data first.

Accidentally deleted Rocket League today. Meant to put the PS4 into rest mode and in some sort of stupor, I pressed options, scrolled down to ‘delete’ and pressed X. I have absolutely no idea what I was doing until it was too late. My younger brother looked at me like I was an absolute idiot, which to be fair to him, I am.

@nessisonett It’s your conscience trying to tell you something — that Rocket League is an overrated waste of precious hard drive space.

@RogerRoger Wait, where am I? Isn’t this the Unpopular Gaming Opinions thread? (😜 I guess there’s a little troll inside of everyone.)

That’s Ubisoft delayed Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine now. Guess we’re properly feeling the Covid delays now.

@JohnnyShoulder @nessisonett @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I have gone back to Dark Souls Remastered, going for the platinum now, before Elden Ring comes out.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic You could probably finish the game a dozen times before Elden Ring comes out lol.

Glasgow Northwest is now in Train Simulator 2021. Might get it now, could be a right laugh to see the train lines recreated. My local station isn’t there cause I’m on a different line but the one next door to my old house is. Plus you get those fetching blue ScotRail trains. I do like those trains.

Some interesting stuff here. While not selling as many units as the PS2 it certainly seems like the PS4 is Sony's most profitable console.

@BearsEatBeets I wonder if Plus games are taken into consideration? Because I have a huge number of PS4 games from that. I have a lot otherwise too, but that could skew the numbers a bit.

@Jaz007 From these other ones it seems to exclude Plus games.

@Kidfried yeah physical sales charts aren't anything more than a moderate indicator as to what the best selling games are. Not sure when compared to digital sales charts if the purchasing choices are aligned or not. I thought a good while back that someone was going to track the two formats and combine them for the full picture.

Also I missed out this one about hardware sale prices dropping over time.

@Kidfried Too be fair the media outlets can only report on what is given to them by the companies that track the data. I think Chartrack do it in the UK, and they did say this year they would be do a combined digital and physical chart. The problem is though is is upto the publishers and platform holders to release those figures. Nintendo don't release digital figures and nor do some other publishers, so even if the digital sales were reported on, it would never be a paint the whole picture until everyone plays ball.

@BearsEatBeets The mix of third party vs first party sales is different than I thought it would be. I figured first party would account for more than 17%, but when I look at my own purchases and games played, I’m calculating roughly 20-25% as Sony first party, so I guess that’s correct. I’m likely going lean a little higher than the average population toward the first party franchises, but surprisingly not they much.

Guess who's back,
Back again,
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Tell your friends.

@nessisonett @Thrillho I am planning to break my gaming fast with Hollow Knight tomorrow morning. What games have you and @JohnnyShoulder @Kidfried @Th3solution @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy and @LieutenantFatman been playing in my absence?