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June 29, 2025, 09:44:07 AM

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On a serious note has anyone here bought either the xbox or ps4? I think I saw Quinton say he had a ps4 but that's about it.

I'm on a wait list for ps4 but I'm not too excited about it, plus I'd be surprised if I get it before Christmas.

Yup, I pre-ordered a PS4 for launch because I loved some of the exclusive titles on PS2 and PS3. Have never owned an Xbox of any variety. I'm enjoying Resogun a bunch, but that's the main use I'm getting out of the device at the moment -- I mostly bought it because I anticipate there will be some exclusives similar to the ones I loved on PS2 and PS3, not because the launch title list really grabbed me. It seems decent enough, but I do wonder how well this console generation is going to fare vs steambox / livingroom gaming PCs -- right now the PS4 is sitting next to a shuttle cube with a quadcore ivy bridge cpu, gtx760 gpu, 8gb ram, ssd, that handles anything in my steam library on 1080p just fine.

These consoles are going to sell well this month and into December, but I suspect in January / February sales are going to look pretty bad. There is almost nothing interesting coming out for either system until March, and the launch lineups are far from impressive.

I think Japan has the right of it.

PS4 NA Launch: Beta Testing for Japan

Quote from: Margalis on November 23, 2013, 05:35:24 PM

Am I the only one that thought you could apply this statement to every console release ever?

Well some have had more epic launch titles which may have made up for the wait for more titles or driven more sales. Super Mario 64 on the N64 was a game changer, I think.

I'd be interesting to look at the list of exclusive titles at launch at say lauch+3months for the last few generations of consoles....

Quote from: Lakov_Sanite on November 24, 2013, 08:04:15 AM

Quote from: Margalis on November 23, 2013, 05:35:24 PM

Am I the only one that thought you could apply this statement to every console release ever?

There are a lot of systems that had really weak overall lineups, but had at least one great game that made it feel worthwhile buying the system. With the NES, SNES, and N64 you had SMB, SMW, and Mario 64. Dreamcast at least had SoulCalibur. Xbox had Halo. The Wii of course had Wii Sports.

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The Wii of course had Wii Sports.

i lolled

I bought an Xbox One, I'm not completely sure why. But I did, so anyway.

The voice commands are really cool, when they work. I have my cable box using the xbox as a passthrough, and the Xbox guide is really nice. My main problem is that my cable remote doesnt work with the xbox guide (or OneGuide as they call it). The voice commands work well for navigating between apps, but to often fail, or give undesirable results. You also have to be very specific. I sat for about 1 minute saying "Xbox off, Xbox shutdown. XBOX OFF. XBOX SHUTDOWN" when in fact the command was "Xbox turn off". It also has real problems with scrolling commands "Scroll down" (the xbox scrolls up).

I can really see potential here, but it will probably be a good few years until its really ready for Joe Public.

To quote my wife at one point as we where trying to navigate the TV.

"Xbox, do better".

Does the creepy eye follow you around the room?

File this under "this didn't take long"

http://www.dailydot.com/gaming/twitch-ps4-striptease-sony/

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It’s often said that adult entertainment thrives on—or even drives—the cutting edge of technology. So we’re not all that shocked that someone had the bright idea to use their Twitch-enabled PlayStation 4 to broadcast an alarming, apparently non-consensual strip show.

With partnerships struck this year between gaming broadcast service Twitch.tv and console competitors Microsoft and Sony, Twitch is poised to capture a far wider audience via the Xbox One and Playstation 4. Both devices can be used to view gameplay streams or share one’s own. Of particular novelty is the “augmented reality” game Playroom, which scans your living room (or whatever space your PS4 sits in) and renders it a virtual sandbox. A clip of a man frolicking with small robots went viral early on, though he maintains he recorded and shared it by accident.

The next idea to capture the gaming community’s attention was The Spartan Show, a bit of live call-in programming from a husband-and-wife team in Washington, D.C., that drew 200,000 viewers. Even Adam Boyes, PlayStation U.S. publisher and developer relations specialist, got in touch to commend the “pretty rad” concept. “We always just thought people would do streams,” he said. “We never thought people would do them with Playroom.”

But who wouldn’t want their own TV channel? Cue sleazy porn music.

Across message boards, gamers who had picked up on the trend predicted the appearance of inappropriate or disturbing content, freely available to countless underage console owners. They didn’t have long to wait. Sexually suggestive material began cropping up, with a full-blown scandal unfolding this weekend: A user with the handle Darckobra captured a marathon drinking session with his wife, who eventually fell asleep on the couch, only to have Darckobra lift up her shirt and expose one breast to the world. The channel then went dark for 15 minutes or so, with Darckobra’s unconscious wife completely naked when the stream continued.

Darckobra’s account was more or less instantly zapped, as Twitch maintains fairly stringent control of its hosted content. In fact, some of the site’s admins have been accused of banning anyone who makes a joke at their expense and making further efforts to sweep all such internal drama under the rug. Aside from such “libelous” comments, Twitch officially prohibits anything “defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent or otherwise objectionable,” which gives them a pretty wide net as far as deletions go.

Nevertheless, Kotaku wondered if Sony and Twitch—whose spokesman noted that their users were unusually vigilant about reporting service violations—might revisit certain features or disable video sharing for Playroom to nip the problem in the bud. But just a casual perusing of the people broadcasting their Playroom escapades at the moment reveals the problem goes deeper than objectionable imagery. Here, for example, is what was being said in a chatroom by people watching an African-American family’s innocuous broadcast:

Strange: It’s almost as though you can’t draw a line in the sand without someone on the Internet scrambling to cross it.

People on a chatroom on twitch I was on this morning were saying that Playroom has gone insane. No further details were reported, thankfully.

I love, hate and fear the Internet.

And now, so will casual gamers.

I'm just desensitized I guess, because I don't see how this is news. People use their PS4's webcam to strip and/or act like assholes. Who gives a fuck?

Quote from: Rendakor on November 25, 2013, 04:30:34 PM

I'm just desensitized I guess, because I don't see how this is news. People use their PS4's webcam to strip and/or act like assholes. Who gives a fuck?

How long before underaged porn laws get broken?

Normal person + ~~Anonymity~~ + Audience = Total Fuckwad.

And by "Total Fuckwad" I mean sex offender.

I'm not trying to start a debate over the pros and cons of people doing dumb shit on webcam. I'm just pointing out that all of this shit has been happening for at least a decade, and screaming about it now is pretty stupid.

Chatroulette says "Hi"

Though doing said nonsense to your wife/ GF is a new level of low to my knowledge. Guess it'd have to be your wife, since random_drunk_chick can press charges while the wife will be more limited.

I think we all expect this of the internet, but while the internet is largely the frontier that we know it is, the consoles are specifically owned by one company. I would think they face harsher liability for allowing/not-policing underage nudity, given that their customers are in many cases underage.

It certainly provides a challenge for their "heart of the family room" ambitions...

It just illustrates why we can't have nice things. why so serious?

My console war has been decided -- I'm getting a 3DS for Christmas. I

I think it's worth the buy. I play it more than my PS3, at least.

Why... why does it make that noise?

DVD drive failure. Most sound like it's just jammed but the last one is the disk spinning so fast it might just explode the disk. Yes, that's a thing.

Ed: Also this was apparently a common flaw of the 360s as well. YouTube of how to fix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcZtfNv524w

There's a gear in the Blu-ray drive that's out of alignment causing the grinding noise (gear teeth slipping against something). You can whack the Xbox One a few times to knock it back into alignment, though awesome, for real

Seriously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDoDqTaIwIc

Not surprising given the rush to produce machines for the launches. Lots of PS4s are DOA as well.

Less than 10,000 in an initial shipment of several million is lots now? That's a less than 1% failure rate for probably both consoles.One dude uploading a video of a failing unit doesn't equal lots of broken units.

Oh loom the red ring defense can get recycled. I was worried it would go away.

I'm not defending anything here. RROD affected 1/3rd of all consoles shipped. If the reported issues begin to approach 2 - 5 % even then yes people should be concerned and yes this might be an issue. As it stands now though the issues only seem to affect less than 10k of PS4/Xbox One units and a .5 to 1% failure rate is par for the course for pretty much any consumer electronic device.