PlayStation 4 (Official Thread)

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Originally Posted by sheath

There are few things worse than paying a lot of money for something that doesn't work and having to pay time and money to repair it. I tried to help a client earlier this year build an AMD FX series micro ATX PC earlier this year, and for whatever reason, even after RMAing damned near everything, we simply could not get it to POST. I have also tried to save money on PC parts, or repair parts for various electronics by buying them used, only to get the part in and have it not work, or work for a month and then break. Most recently a well priced Crucial SSD died on me after a month, but I have had plenty of other similar issues. It sucks, it wastes time, and while my blood pressure doesn't seem to change my head frequently feels like it will decompress.

Everything should work like my Yamaha Dolby Prologic Tuner from 1993, no troubleshooting, no repairs, lasts forever.

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I saved a ton of cash by buying 3 different damaged Asus boards from Fry's. Overall, I'd paid about $50 for the boards, tried repairing the bent pins on the 1155 sockets, and eventually got an Asus P8Z68-V board to work fine. About a month ago, I decided I needed to get a better case (went from a mid-tower to a full tower) so that I could get better air-flow. I put everything into the new case, dressed the cables and then booted it up. I got nothing on the screen, so I pulled the video cards and used the onboard video port. Still nothing, so I took it out of the case and tested it that way. The system booted up fine, so I put everything back into the case and the same results, no video.

I decided I'd buy an OEM board from Amazon, and since the price was so good, I went from an Asus P8Z68-V, to the pro model, since it had 2 additional Sata 6GB ports. After countless boot drive failures, I finally got the thing working by moving my boot drive to the Marvel controlled Sata 6GB ports. I thought the board was kind of fishy, since it had the TPU switch removed, and things got a bit worse, once I had discovered that I couldn't do a manual overclock. Even the bios was sort of wacky, with it having an EFI, instead of a UEFI interface. I decided to pull the bios chip and use the one I had in my Z68-V board and even then I didn't see the right options for a manual overclock. Luckily, I was able to pull my saved OC profiles and could make adjustments from there. It was one jacked up board they were selling, but I got it to work the way I wanted it to with a lot of trial and error.

So sheath and gamevet, you guys feel PC gaming is the same as PS4 and X1 with great graphics ? Like no real difference anymore ? Buying boards is cheaper than buying these systems, you can get same 3rd party games on PC, it's cheaper etc ? The only thing I noticed in sheath picture http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...e-Fight!/page6 is the picture to right had a more realistic sky (more of a blue, better clouds), but that's about it. So they make Asus graphic boards for Asus computers that are up to par or beyond PS4 or X1 ? I'm kind of confused about the posts.

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Originally Posted by Lan Di

Killzone is by far the premier next gen game on the PS4.

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And that, my friends, is why i generally apart from the odd exception could not give a fuck about next gen gaming

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Originally Posted by WuTang

And that, my friends, is why i generally apart from the odd exception could not give a fuck about next gen gaming

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Resogun is outstanding. Completely old school gameplay revamped, but with high definition graphics. Like Defender, Robotron 2084, Choplifter, and Super Stardust all smacked into one.

Do you give exactly one f@#% now? Don't make me bring out 60's Spider-Man.

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Originally Posted by Lan Di

So I got on the phone with Sony Tech Support and I was on hold for over TWO MOTHERFUCKIN' HOURS

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They didn't even have the common courtesy to offer you phone sex while you were waiting?

PS4 midnight release attracts armed robbers. Opportunistic savages strike again. Unbelievable.

Link--->http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/l...?tab=video&c=y

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Originally Posted by Thierry Henry

They didn't even have the common courtesy to offer you phone sex while you were waiting?

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Ha, that reminds me of this commercial here in the U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfjV7u012ls

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BTW,
speaking of defective PS4 units,

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Originally Posted by Thierry Henry

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BTW,
speaking of defective PS4 units,

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I have to agree with Sheath. What a total waste. $400 could have gone to do plenty of good in the world, but instead this moron spends $400 to pull a futile stunt like this. Theses spoiled brat millennials do this with Iphones, ipads, game consoles, and other electronics all the time. The one guy who grabbed that hard drive was smart. He can either sell it or use it for something else. I bet that guy who stomped on that PS4 probably still lives with his mom.

Yeah this crap doesn't even have humor value. If it happened nearby I would have minded my own business and not paid much attention to it. However if his PS4 had to have hit hit my car like some other dudes in that clip, best believe I would have open hand smacked him.

Another way to look at it: With the decline of Japanese gaming development we got to see games based on PC engines released on consoles as flagship titles (e.g. Gears of War). Aside from PlatinumGames and Nintendo you'd be hard-pressed to find titles that have that old distinct console feel. With a few exceptions of course, mainly PS exclusives that don't make it to Windows machines. A strong telltale about this decline is that The Last Guardian has been in development limbo for almost a decade.. Japan is all about the handhelds and niche titles now, and most key PS3 titles were developed outside Japan as well.

If your game is developed using tools and mindsets very similar to those that make PC games then why is anyone still in denial about the whole matter? Heck in a few select cases you end up with products a bit better than their Windows counterparts (Diablo 3)

Lol at thread title. Seems sony's marketing has worked well on you.

Ps4 launch has become a disaster like never before. Terrible first party games. Not finished and sometimes glitchy 3rd party games. A faulty OS and to make matters worse even some hardware problems with Dead consoles and controllers wearing soon.

I hope sony stops playing some kind of entertainment show and fixes this soon because this shit is unacceptable when they themselves have hyped and set the bar so high

http://i41.tinypic.com/5upjbq.jpg


https://twitter.com/yosp/status/402014678244524032

The marketing to push day one orders has worked out no doubt but the issues are very worrisome and could damage the satisfaction of the consumers. Let's hope it is a minority because keep seeing anecdotes showing up in the smallest communities. Dont know what to take from that but if this could ruin everything man lets hope not

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Originally Posted by gamevet

I saved a ton of cash by buying 3 different damaged Asus boards from Fry's. Overall, I'd paid about $50 for the boards, tried repairing the bent pins on the 1155 sockets, and eventually got an Asus P8Z68-V board to work fine. About a month ago, I decided I needed to get a better case (went from a mid-tower to a full tower) so that I could get better air-flow. I put everything into the new case, dressed the cables and then booted it up. I got nothing on the screen, so I pulled the video cards and used the onboard video port. Still nothing, so I took it out of the case and tested it that way. The system booted up fine, so I put everything back into the case and the same results, no video.

I decided I'd buy an OEM board from Amazon, and since the price was so good, I went from an Asus P8Z68-V, to the pro model, since it had 2 additional Sata 6GB ports. After countless boot drive failures, I finally got the thing working by moving my boot drive to the Marvel controlled Sata 6GB ports. I thought the board was kind of fishy, since it had the TPU switch removed, and things got a bit worse, once I had discovered that I couldn't do a manual overclock. Even the bios was sort of wacky, with it having an EFI, instead of a UEFI interface. I decided to pull the bios chip and use the one I had in my Z68-V board and even then I didn't see the right options for a manual overclock. Luckily, I was able to pull my saved OC profiles and could make adjustments from there. It was one jacked up board they were selling, but I got it to work the way I wanted it to with a lot of trial and error.

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Every time I have put a micro-ATX board in a mid tower case it has failed to post and seems like it shorts out. That was actually what my client was trying to do with OEM parts, I cannot think of any reason why micro-ATX would not work with any size ATX case. But there it is. I haven't seen a full tower case since the 90s, I'm not even sure what I would do with all of that space, let alone where I would put the beast. Twelve-thirteen inches tall is about as high as any of my shelves go.