We'll at least we know SNE is listening. Time to wait and see if they actually choose to act.
Did NOT think he would follow up so fast. Great initiative, and makes me feel a little more hopeful.
PS4 can't play MP3, Music Unlimited needed for background music [Up:Yoshida responds]
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Did NOT think he would follow up so fast. Great initiative, and makes me feel a little more hopeful.
This is my big question as well, but the FAQ just says you can't use an externall HDD to increase the PS4's storage - i.e. you can't use it to install games or downloaded-via-PS4 content onto.
Does this mean the PS4 can't read USB sticks? Seems kinda weird that you'd need to included two USB3 ports just for charging and maybe one other peripheral like a steering wheel or headset - I would imagine the price differential between using USB2 and 3 over millions of units would be pretty substantial.
music unlimited is announced unlike drm. people were hoping drm wouldnt be announced and it didnt.
this is set in stone. its not going anywhere.
you should probably stop with the passive agressive crap in your posts. makes you look like a child.
yeah, or the over 70 million users who already have a PS3 (myself included). The thing is a lot of folks traded in their PS3s for a PS4. Folks are upset they'll be losing a well loved feature. Sony understands this...at least now they do due to the backlash about their handling of Music Unlimited for PS4 users.
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We'll at least we know SNE is listening. Time to wait and see if they actually choose to act.
This should be added to the op and the thread title updated.
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Updated to say what that tweet doesn't actually change anything.
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That doesn't really show any progress on the matter.
At least he didn't say "If you really want to play MP3 files, we have a product that does that, it's called PS3."
You acting like you just KNOW it's all set in stone and telling other people they're stupid for thinking otherwise is more childish than anything I've posted. I'm not being passive aggressive, I'm being aggressive. Hell no am I going to just leave it when someone starts telling me "Sony's going to do this and I know because I know because common sense because, because. I'm right you're wrong so nya" like you're doing. Accept that we both believe differently and stop with the annoying badgering.
Public sentiment reaching the top levels of management, who, the next day, brings it up with their developers themselves isn't progress?
one more update from Yoshida:
this man knows what we want.
https://twitter.com/yosp/status/395665269441318912
this man knows what we want.
https://twitter.com/yosp/status/395665269441318912
What does it say? Twitter is blocked here.
I've posted that fivehundred pages ago
We'll at least we know SNE is listening. Time to wait and see if they actually choose to act.
ibun
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i think this isn't really much progress, or nothing worth sharing, rather should kept for themselves. on the other hand, the rage would have been bigger.
ok
title is updated already. dont see how that tweet is important though but ill add it in a second.
Ah, ok. That makes sense. I feel I may have seen someone's quote about it out of context. I can understand not being able to install games on external USB drives for a lot of reasons. I wouldn't understand if I can't watch all of my movies though. Still, if it will play movies why not play bloody mp3s???
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Not giving people a choice is just nonsense. What stops them from giving people the option to stream through MU, but also from local mp3 files?
lol, it was awesome yosp actually responded to the "I need to listen to porn while playing Battlefield" tweet!
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That doesn't mean the issue has actually changed however, The FAQ is the same and he hasn't explicitly stated anything otherwise.
The movies thing would piss me off - not cancel pre-order piss me off, but still be bloody annoying that I'll need to find some shelf space for the old 3 as well.
Also - I, bizarrely, keep a lot of photos on my PS3, so I'd be a little bit miffed if I couldn't do the same on PS4.
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Isn't that encompassed with yosp replies, The issue of PS3 not playing MP3 hasn't changed and titles aren't allowed to particularly long so it seems unneeded.
From such a big company that usually don't turn around that fast, it hasn't even been 24 hours since he acknowledged the issue and then came around with a follow-up. Call me an optimist but I think it bodes well that it'll be patched in at some point after launch and probably not too far down the road I would guess.
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/10/31/win-5-of-the-biggest-ps4-titles-with-music-unlimited/
How appropriate. Seems they're hedging their bets on people signing up for Music Unlimited.
Jesus what a PR disaster that whole blog post is!! I honestly can't believe someone in management looked at the wording of that and thought it would play well with people. FU Sony!!!!
^ This, and specificly discussed this issue. (about how fans loved PS3's mp4 and streaming features)
Yeah, it's a terrible move in light of the backlash, but to be fair the backlash just started less than a day ago.
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The FAQ says you can't play MP3s on the PS4, do you want it to magically play them without a future Firmware patch? What are you expecting?
PS3 plays them just fine.
Just another boilerplate response.
We'll at least we know SNE is listening. Time to wait and see if they actually choose to act.
maybe im reaching a bit but it was pretty smart to announce it at this time
cant play mp3, no dlna, no uploads to youtube at launch, no external hdd support, cant change psn names. people wont cancel pre orders 3 weeks before the system launches.
to be fair they are being honest with all this. better than sweeping it under the rug.
It's still early.The ball just got rolling. Given Sony's track record through the years, this shows they're planning on adding back those features.
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Blog not loading for me, swiftly taken down perhaps?
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That it will be patched in at a later date durr. Otherwise people will assume it may NEVER come.
Otherwise we're in the same situation as before not knowing what the MP3 scenario for the PS4 is well we do but it's terrible.
Yep, wonder why
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Now we're getting somewhere
Yeah, like they added mkv-support to PS3 (or MS to x360).
Things are moving VERY fast. No surprise. This is just how Sony roll.
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It's something.
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Do people really use their consoles as music players? Weird.
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Seems the blog post is gone.
I hope they removed it because of how vocal we have been.
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Hah, I knew it:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=88154045&postcount=2868
Yosp doesn't just Tweet for the sake of it, he carefully thinks about it before posting something. Many people could learn a thing or two from him...
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This. If he met with the PS4 dev team and it wasnt a good meeting he would have said nothing.
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Wow, that was fast.
It's a stupid thing, but I'll give a small clap towards the swift and immediate reaction to the whole thing. Companies can tend to be sluggish and stupid when it comes to these 'official' things.
It's a stupid thing, but I'll give a small clap towards the swift and immediate reaction to the whole thing. Companies can tend to be sluggish and stupid when it comes to these 'official' things.
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I use my own playlists as background music while I show off family photos to guests.
I also play custom soundtracks while I play Sonic 4, for example.
Those are just examples.
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