Sony's PlayStation 4 Has Nearly Outsold the PlayStation 3 (cnet.com) 50
Sony's PlayStation 3 sales stand at around 80 million -- which means its successor, the current gen PlayStation 4, will soon surpass it. From a report: The Japanese electronics giant sold 9 million PlayStation 4 consoles from October through December, it said on Friday in its latest quarterly earnings report. Sales for the console were at 67.5 million as of Sept. 30 2017, according to Sony's previous quarterly earnings report, bringing the total to 76.5 million. The PlayStation 2 remains Sony's best-selling console, with over 150 million units sold. These figures come days after Nintendo on Wednesday revealed the Switch, released last March, is up to 14.8 million in sales. Sales of Microsoft's Xbox One are estimated by VGChartz to be around 36 million.
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Must have been one manufactured in the first few batches. I bought my GameCube when it was released in Canada and it was made in Japan. I also bought my Wii on launch day in Canada, but they were already being made in China by that point.
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Although at least the Cell CPU was manufactured at IBM's fab in Fishkill NY.
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I heard that IBM actually manufactured a few early demo unit PS3's and devkits there as well.
How odd, 'cuz our PS4 sucks. (Score:1)
We have a PS3 and a PS4 working side-by-side in our HT setup. The PS3 is rock-solid reliable, does normal things when controlled by the remote. Browses our DLNA server properly.
The PS4 locks up and won't connect with PS4 remotes. Has to be manually switched on before our Harmony remote can talk to it (gee, thanks Sony!). Calls every single show on the DLNA server the same title - good luck finding your episode. The wife and kids will barely touch it.
No idea why we have this boat anchor.
Re: How odd, 'cuz our PS4 sucks. (Score:3)
Right, 'cuz I crashed the thing.
And also, I rewrote Sony's crap DLNA player add-on to make it not show the episode names (something the PS3 and other DLNA clients do fine).
And I wrote the Sony spec that says that no 3rd party device can turn on the PS4 from Bluetooth.
Yeah, those must be my fault.
As far as playing games, I haven't seen anything to date that looked or worked better than the PS3. And it doesn't play our library of PS3 games - at least not natively. I've heard that there's a remote PS3 option f
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You forgot to mention that the PS4 has TWO media players.
One is the standard media player, it is the one that does DLNA, Video and FLAC audio. It has a sucky interface.
The other is the USB Music Player, which only shows up when a USB drive is plugged in. It has a nicer interface, great for playing music while gaming...but it can't play FLAC.
Also in some ways the PS4's web browser is worse than the PS3's.
For example the PS3's web browser CAN upload certain files from and download certain files to the PS3.
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No, he's right in that the PS4's DLNA capabilities are inferior to the PS3's.
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Persona 5, Disgaea 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nier, and Dragon Quest (both upcoming RPG and Builders) are why I have a PS4. Been solid for me so far - no issues to speak of.
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Never even heard of any of these. /me goes back to PC to continue gaming.
Nothing wrong with prime rib, but szechuan is delicious as well.
I'm an equal-opportunity gamer. Also, I'm sort of hungry now.
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I have to agree with this list (except I haven't bought Dragon Quest yet, it's on the list). Also, picked up FF XV and FF XII remake for PS4. Uncharted 4 is awesome and I'm looking forward to Last of Us 2. The Lego games are the favs for the kids. I still have not done the whole PS4 online thing, but the console has been pretty solid without it.
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Yeah, I've been playing through the Uncharted pack (1-3), and then will tackle Uncharted 4. Fantastic franchise. Also purchased FF X and X-2, and FF XII. I never ended up playing Last of Us (yes, I know how good it's supposed to be), so I'll need to pick that up before I play Last of Us 2.
Dragon Quest Builders is essentially a direct Minecraft ripoff, but Dragon Quest themed, and with a stronger narrative structure, which is a bit nice if you feel Minecraft to be a bit aimless. I've found it to be a lot
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We have a PS3 and a PS4 working side-by-side in our HT setup. The PS3 is rock-solid reliable,
that must not be the fat model then, which are known to just die, mostly from overheating.
mine did, replaced it with the newer slim model and, indeed, that one is rock solid.
PlayStation 2 (Score:1)
And if Sony would continue to manufacture PS2 I would still buy one, if only to replace my broken one and play the substantial number of PS2 and PS1 games I have in the attic. It was a good system with a great game library.
Shovelware on PS2 vs. PC (Score:3)
Queue the [PlayStation 2 game development] companies shitting out endless drivel that were somehow classed as "games"
Is the PC any different in this respect, other than that PC users can install community-maintained mods to make some of those games actually decent?
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So what's inferior about the PS2?
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The one thing worse about the PlayStation 2 is the latency of the main program storage. A DVD-ROM at 5 MB/s with seek times in the hundreds of milliseconds can't keep up with an SSD at double digit MB/s with seek times in single-digit microseconds.
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or the second version of PS3, not that top loading third version.
Do you mean the slim? You don't want that one either, it has zero backwards compatibility with the PS2.
The one you want is the CECHA version, that's the Deluxe launch model with both of the PS2's Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer as well as WiFi, a card reader for MemoryStick, SD and CompactFlashcards and 4 USB ports.
The CECHB launch version has the same compatibility but has only 2 USB ports, no card reader for Compact flash, memory stick and SD cards and NO WiFi! Which means you cannot use Ad-hoc
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[The PS2] was a good system with a great game library.
The PS2 was an awesome console with the best game library. My kids do just about everything with the PS3, but recently talked me into reconnecting my old PS2 because the PS3 kept crashing (both of my PS3's have been unstable crashing monsters from the beginning when they were brand new); but I discovered that the DVD drive died. Fortunately, a local used game store had one, so I bought it for about $50.
After my kids were done it, I played some of my old games. It was at that point that I realized the bes
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Give the PS4 a try if you haven't yet. Over the holiday shopping season they were down to $200 and included a $50 gift card.
While the PS3 had some fun games, the interface was laggy and felt tacked on. The PS4's feels smooth, and has fun features like the game DVR and remote play.
The library isn't quite up to the PS2's yet being that's it's been only four years so far. But I've talked with multiple people who feel like the PS4 is the true successor to the PS2.
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Mostly just a single retail game, and several digital-only per month. They say 2 PS4 games a month, but many PS3 or Vita indies are cross-buy so you also get the PS4 version.
That said I'm not really interested in most of the game, but it's a good way to try out indies I'd otherwise pass up. Rocket League, in particular, was a PS+ game at its launch and got the game into a lot of people hands and helped it gain popularity.
Microsoft's newer game pass is a better deal. It's $10/month and lets you play the game
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because the PS3 kept crashing (both of my PS3's have been unstable crashing monsters from the beginning when they were brand new
Call up Sony, probably bad solder on the thing. Causes the graphics chip to go all wacky. Sony will fix them for a fee I had to send mine in a couple of years back
One note, back up ALL your save data, including any PS2 or PSone save data. While you can back up PS3 SAVEDATA to PS+ or USB storage, you have to use USB storage for PS2 and PSone saves.
but I discovered that the DVD drive died.
Call up Sony and see if they still fix PS2's with DRE's. Also 50001 series PS2's are the most reliable. Damn things were built like tanks...and about as heavy wi
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PS4 users comparison? (Score:2)
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Every PS4 game does fully copy itself to the console. However, unlike the XBOne, Sony has a patented partial install that puts just the startup files on the HDD, and streams the rest over as you play.
The way I heard the streaming works is that when loading and a file isn't on the HDD, it will read the file off the disk, and copy the file onto the HDD at the same time. It will also continue the copy when the system is in it's standby mode.
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Do you have to install 50 GB of data to play PS4 games?
Depends on the game. I think the biggest I've seen is about 60GB, with MMO's being real space hogs. Even though the PS4 now supports playing games from external storage, don't buy a PS4 with less than 2TB of storage.
If you buy games on Disc, it installs the game to the HDD just like a PC would. (And essentially the PS4 is a FreeBSD PC with games other than Nethack to play) You still need the disc to start it up though, that's to prevent one guy from sharing his disc with all his friends.
PS4 games support
Well yeah (Score:2, Informative)
PS3 had no games, PS4 had games. It also helped that Microsoft shot themselves in the face with the Xbone launch.