Sony PlayStation PS4

I never enjoyed playing ps4 when it is constantly louder than my vacuum cleaner.

I don't know and let me spice this up with another story: I have a ps4 and I undusted it a couple of weeks ago, then after a couple of os and game updates that took 2h to finish, they asked me to subscribe to playstation plus to play online and to basically use my internet. What exactly is the point of a console at this point?

Not sure why. looking at the polls it would seem the primary points are 1) Sony ending physical disks 2) potential high price of next gen. 1 is hilarious, even games that come on physical disks are already mostly useless without internet. I had a ps4 and bought "Last of Us" and the game is literally unbeatable without an internet connection. It has a game breaking bug that isn't patched on disk. Many other games are crap or broken without patches. Also jumping to PC where there hasn't been physical media in ages and 99% of games have DRM is just out of the frying pan into the fire. based on the market share for GOG I can assure you only a small fraction of gamers actually care about "owning" their games. 2 is kinda stupid, they mentioned a price point of $1,000, not sure you can build a next-gen-console comparable PC for that price. My current computer's GPU cost more than that by itself and anything but a pittance of RAM will too. I mean go for it, more PC gamers the better (it's my chosen platform) but if you weren't already on board years ago not sure anything has really changed.

Unfortunately ownership on console has been down the drain for a long time. Even if you have the disc you still have mandatory downloads, patches, one-time download codes that tie the content to your account and of course DLC. What is even the point of having the disc anymore? Might as well go full digital and avoid the plastic waste. I do own a PS4 and I have to do research every time I want to play a game. The website https://www.doesitplay.org/ is quite useful. But it's all so tiresome, it really makes me want to just check out of console gaming altogether. With full-on digital at least there won't be any ambiguity. It's not what I wanted, but all it means for me is that they won't be getting any of my money anymore.

Or even updates that introduce new, undesired functionality. When I bought my PS4 (at launch), the section of the UI for video apps was pleasant and straightforward. It had the various video apps I had installed and that was it. Fast forward several years, and Sony updated the UI to prioritize showing apps that they wanted you to use (whether you had installed them or not), and even showed ads for movies and such. I don't think it's asking too much to not make my product worse after I buy it, and I think we need legislation to prevent companies from doing that. I'm not sure what that would look like, and the government is bought and paid for by those same companies, so it's unlikely we will see that. But we do need it.

Oh yeah it's great to play PS4 games while the thing runs with the noise of a vacuum cleaner.

I had one way before the PS4 and never found the store usable. Super slow, apparent OOM crashes resetting scroll state, all kinds of pain, for years prior to the PS4.

I had the same exact problem with my PS4. Having ads in the console is not a problem per se, the problem is that Sony can unilaterally decide to Alter The Deal without me having any recourse. It should not be acceptable business practice to do this.

A few crashes a month is a massive overstatement. It isn’t 1998. And FWIW my PS4 has crashed before. Most likely a software bug but it fully crashed while I was playing a game.

Amazing. This made me want to play BB on my old PS4 that's gathering dust. Then, I remembered it's 30FPS locked, and has pretty bad loading times. I'll wait for the emulator, or a remaster, whatever comes first I guess :))

> VR requires too much setup. I have a PS4, bought a used PSVR set and realized I needed a camera that I did not have. Realized instead of buying a camera, I could upgrade to a ps5 and buy the new headset that did not require a camera, bc I prefer not to have my living room look like a lab. Then there is the social aspect of it. I bought the somewhat dated Quest 2 sometime in the last year, because I could get it for a good price. There's a mobile app I think I used for setup, you can also connect to the PC for Oculus Link, SteamVR, Virtual Desktop or any other number of OpenXR apps or games, but as for the device itself... there was basically nothing aside from logging in and downloading what I want from the store, if I wanted to run things directly on the headset. The controllers and tracking just works, you define the area you want to get warned about getting close to the borders of by just drawing in the room around you. Actually, the only problems I've had have been in a PCVR use case after I got an Intel Arc - Oculus Link and SteamVR both don't support it natively (an allowlist in the case of the former and support only for NVENC I think in the case of the latter), whereas Virtual Desktop worked with AV1 and Intel QSV out of the box, while also allowing me to launch SteamVR through it. There are warts and all (especially software like Immersed removing support for physical monitors, what were they thinking), but in general the hardware and everything around it, even han…

PS4 is my last console. I’ve had many of them since the Sega Megadrive (Genesis). Sony injecting adverts into my home screen was the writing on the wall, as well as transcribing voice chat. I’ve been gaming on Linux for 2 years now and couldn’t be happier.