PS4 System Software Preview USB Music Player, New Home Screen Colors, More
- Thread starter Loudninja
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In coming months they say.
Joyous. I own a Ps4. I like my Ps4. But compared to MS they suck at communication. I see the October Xbone update. I see a healthy feature set. I see a preview programme completed. I see Major Nelson reaching out.
I come here. I see 'soon'. I see features missing that the competion has. I see no fire in Sonys PR manner. Theyre selling sure, but complacancy is creeping here and I do not like it.
LowlySmokeGuy
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So the games will still be in a long ass horizontal line? That was my biggest complaint. Sad that they didn't do anything. Now it'll probably in an update a year from now.
Goodacre0081
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on 360 it seems like a system level thing that was there from the get go.
if this is true them maybe it's something the developer can control. try out some other games if you ever get the chance.
quickwhips
Member
WTF Xbox 360 is more next gen than this?
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Not bad. Left on the list:
- USB Video Support
- DLNA
- Photo Support
- Suspend/Resume
- Custom Menu Music (imo)
boredandlazy
Member
I'm guessing it depends on how Devs implement it. As someone said before it automatically mutes the music in DriveClub.
Soccer4life
Banned
Can you point exactly on what features showed in Feb that's are missing.
Remote Play: Available (Impressive)
Gaikai (PSNOW) : Available (Impressive)
Share play: Coming with PSN 2.0
Suspend/Resume: TBA
They never promised something achievable aka (cloud rendering), also notice that all these features are only on Playstation, so why not we start demanding MS to have these features since they are the "OS Kings" according to some!
Fix The Scientist
Member
Yeah, pretty disappointing. Maybe we have to wait another year before we can pause downloads and watch videos
I'm wondering if they ran into issues streaming game data plus music from the HDD and that's why it's required to play from a USB stick.
Looks like an ok update, but I'm hoping for more. Glad to finally have YouTube support. Appear offline, seeing when friends hop online, and better performance with parties and messages is what I'm hoping for next.
Looks like an ok update, but I'm hoping for more. Glad to finally have YouTube support. Appear offline, seeing when friends hop online, and better performance with parties and messages is what I'm hoping for next.
Syphon Filter
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Content Area and Library: PS4’s Content Area, which shows the latest games and apps a PS4 owner has used, has been redesigned to help make it easier to quickly find and access content. It now shows 15 of a player’s most used apps or games, and additional items will be added to a player’s Library. The Library on PS4 has improved filter and sort functions to help organize contented by type (game / app / TV & video), name (a – z or z – a), recently used, or install date.
hallelujah, it took so long for this.
hallelujah, it took so long for this.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
I reckon there's more to it then that, I doubt Sony is ever gonna let us store anything media wise on the internal HDD.
this is just to keep us happy.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
USB music is silly, but if we get USB video support I'm there.
Zombie James
Banned
Heh.
Goodacre0081
Member
I also wouldn't mind an update to the default list of Avatars the the PS4 uses. I shouldn't have to boot up my PS3 to change avatars that I bought on the store.
Abdul Hafeez
Member
Most of these improvements sound decent. YouTube upload functionality doesn't make a whole lot of sense in my head - isn't everything just going to get Content ID'd? Also, the USB Music Player thing...seems amazingly amateurish. Is Sony's OS team just outfitted with a bunch of first-year interns or something?
Dont know why some people continue to do this. :/
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
I can see how one would disappointed in that case then, yeah.
I'm sorry that you have trouble understanding the simple fact that Microsoft is better than their competitors in software development. Just the fact that they're iterating on a monthly basis is enough to see a difference between companies.
Soccer4life
Banned
You didn't answer my question, but its ok.
also are you saying that MS is better because they update OS more frequently?! based on this, Sony (PS3 era) must have been the best in the world because they used to roll updates bi-weekly.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
These are all really good features! Sucks that the only way to play music is via a USB stick - I would much prefer DLNA, or even storing MP3s on my PS4 HDD - but it's certainly better than nothing (or Music Unlimited, which might as well be nothing). Some better content organization is welcome too, although folders would have been better than this.
Hawaii Jeff
Member
They shouldn't be coy and not give a release date.
I WANT A RELEASE DATE!
I WANT A RELEASE DATE!
I actually do have such a list:
The difference though is that the things Sony has that Microsoft is missing, are generally features that are "nice to have" rather than "shit that really should just be there". Not being able to pause downloads is ridiculous. Not being told that my friend is now online is ridiculous. Not being able to resume a game, despite it being a prominently advertised feature months before launch, is ridiculous.
Not being able to remote play on Xbox One doesn't fall into the same category at all. Being unable to take screenshots however does... and so it's brought up in every update thread without fail.
binarymelon
Member
At least DLNA is basically confirmed now. They'd been dancing around the question with answers like, "We're considering possibilities" for too long. Plex web will have to tide me over until then. The web interface is actually fantastic now, but the resume feature hasn't been working that well on the PS4.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014...-new-home-screen-colors-more/#comment-1029129
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+ FrozoneUSMC on October 16th, 2014 at 12:33 pm said:
This is something that we all have been waiting for. Thank you Sony for listening!
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+ Scott McCarthy on October 16th, 2014 at 1:01 pm said:
Thanks Frozone keep in mind this is revealing a bit more about the update but it is not the full list yet more to come!
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+ djxtc25 on October 16th, 2014 at 12:33 pm said:
What? No video file support or DNLA?
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+ Scott McCarthy on October 16th, 2014 at 1:03 pm said:
This is a personal must have for me as well. I will say that DLNA will be great when it arrives.
From the U.S. blog
Abdul Hafeez
Member
I doubt it. Sony makes movies and TV shows, so it would be weird if they let people play pirated copies of Sony-produced video content (most pirated content is in MKV format). Since Microsoft doesn't really make any video content, they couldn't care less what people play on their machine--it's not their material.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I'm totally going blood red with my background. Or maybe grey. Or yellow. Actually, can we just get automatically rotating colors again? That was nice on the PS3.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
DLNA, what? We're not getting that now, are we?
EDIT: Ok, you mean for the next update or whatever.
Sony supports MKV on other devices though
How about install times on the PS4 versus XB1? That seems core to the OS and something that Sony had beat from the beginning. It's a huge feature that anyone espouses XB1 over PS4 always seems to ignore.
remote play and upcoming share play are truly next gen features that competitor isnt even close to having... they are huge differentiator.
they are about playing games and not watching movies.... just playing games.
play go is also another feature built in and designed to let you play games faster...
to me it just seems that they are a lot more focused on gaming part, but we all know that.
Danlord
Member
My brother's Sony TV plays .mkv files. Its the 50" KDL...whatever range but yeah that supports mkv so Sony need to step it up for PlayStation 4 support.
DaBargainHunta
Member
Sony's various branches may as well be different companies entirely. Very little communication. It's a disorganized mess.
wind_steaker
Member
As someone who used to use the music player on ps3 all the time I'm pretty bummed out that it still isn't as good as that...
kriskrosbbk
Member
Can't believe still no folders.No folders?
Edit: It seems there will be a way to rearrange gamesapps
Iacobellis
Junior Member
I feel like the PSP and PS3 firmwares were designed by a different group of people. Or Sony's mantra had just changed. The software on those machines were way ahead of their time.