Dead Prince
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pitching a tent outside E3. who's going to join me?!
Mark Cerny: "PlayStation 4 won't require to be always connected"
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pitching a tent outside E3. who's going to join me?!
TacticalFox88
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Good fucking god, the cognitive dissonance is appalling. They couldn't be ANYMORE clearer that you can play the PS4 COMPLETELY offline with NO issues and yet you're still clinging to the dumbshit idea that they'll force you to use an internet connection?
Are some of you fucking stupid?
Are some of you fucking stupid?
So why do you think we had this lovely #PS4noDRM thing going on just last week?
It's been stated by more than one person at Sony. You continue to act like this isn't the case. And then try to puff up your chest as if you're impartial unlike anyone else on here. Really incredible.
Bin Laden really did win :'(
IHaveCandy
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That's fine if you are taking the "I'll believe it when I see it." attitude. But a lot of people here are acting as if Sony is intentionally using dodgy vernacular in the same way Microsoft has.
Hot Coldman
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...Sounds pretty definitive to me?
We have an expert folks!
I wouldn't get so excited at that notion, they all want our money at the end of the day. Sony are just going a potentially different route to it.
So let me get you straight. It's like my Xbox One then? I can play that COMPLETELY offline too with NO issues. As long as I don't forget to catch on a connection every 24h or so
It's clear that Sony is putting on a better show. We have to wait for the actual answers at E3.
Evolution_1ne
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!
fallingdove
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Look a little bit harder, you might be able to find what isn't there.
PdotMichael
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Hysteria?
I don't see how anyone could possibly try to argue after it is stated so clearly.
SlowRevolution
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I'm pitching a tent right now just thinking about it.
ChosenPredator
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True good clarifying that up but I am sure sony wants people to be online as much as the microsoft guys...they invested a shit load into those cool features like gaikai and streaming...I am guessing thats why cerny said the experience would be more richer if connected.
GoofsterStud
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Clear as fucking day but still, xbox fans
Ah I get it. The one console to rule them all. (including the consumer)
Stone Ocean
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I think we could use some searchlights and neon signs to make sure people get it.
Precisely, this means nothing for potential DRM, but the console doesn't require an Internet connection. Like Christ . . .
Kneighly said he heard Sony PS4 would use similar DRM policies; everyone freaked out and said "like fucking hell they are." Thus began this campaign.
I think that post needs a dramatic reading.
Slightly veering off course, but I actually do wonder how many are really Xbox fans, and how many just like to be doomsayers. Human civilization has always had those and there probably is some aspect in our brains that can take morbid fascination in things going completely and utterly wrong. And hell, this is a lot more realistic than the world ending at the end of this year or whatever.
H_Prestige
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So let me get you straight. It's like my Xbox One then? I can play that COMPLETELY offline too with NO issues. As long as I don't forget to catch on a connection every 24h or so
No, you will get a message telling you to connect after 24 hours. You can't keep playing even if you cut the cord. What part of this is hard to understand for you?
My dear god how blind and lalalalalala-I'mnotlistening do you have to be. PS4 DOESN'T require an internet connection at all _EVER_ to play games. There are online features that SHOCKINGLY require, yes, an Internet connection, but they've said it as clearly as they possibly can that you can keep your PS4 offline FOREVER and still play games.
And you'd think Sony's stance on Online gaming would be clear by now, what's with FOUR of their FOUR online enabled platforms being FREE to play online (the latest one which was launched only a little over a year ago). I'm sure PS4 will be too, though there will obviously be PS+ exclusive features like cloud savings & stuff like PS3 & Vita have. PS+ has been wildly successful for Sony without the need to gimp their whole platform like MS does, there's nothing indicating it'll be any different on PS4 (though, not saying it can't be, I just don't see it as probable)
Maybe what Cerny says here isn't 100% clear, but they've been clear before, like I said, but you keep ignoring the fact that THEY'VE SAID IT A MILLION TIMES THAT NO INTERNET CONNECTION IS NEEDED TO PLAY PS4 GAMES. They don't have to say "it's the same as on PS3" when they can and HAVE said "PS4 doesn't require internet connection at all."
Of course they want folks to be online and pay money on their content, doesn't mean their forcing them.
FranXico
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They even said "old school style" to make it explicit that they were referring to (singleplayer) games being entirely playable offline.
One can infer that depending on the publisher, some games may require a constant server connection. But that is not built into the system.
Impeccable
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Also Famousmortimer said he heard Sony was wavering on what to do.
ChosenPredator
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I am still crossing my fingers that MS won't force anyone either, I really want both of these guys to do good.
The one thing that absolutely stops me from purchasing a next-gen console is going to be the requirement for an internet connection. It's just far too much of a hassle to deal with, as I'm going to be dragging this thing around to places when it drops.
If PS4 has at most a "One Time" requirement, I'll pony up for the console as soon as possible.
If PS4 has at most a "One Time" requirement, I'll pony up for the console as soon as possible.
So the number of people who say the (in my opinion) vague statements should somehow make me think that they are less vague?
How does that make sense?
FYI, I took a similar stance to MS' statements -- in particular what Don said during the GameTrailers post conference show talking about how "online wouldn't be required but will be needed to get the full experience of the Xbox" when he was seemingly more so referring to things such as blu-ray movie watching.
But hey -- since I don't see things the same way that you do and have a difference of opinion I'm not impartial. Oh well.
TacticalFox88
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Worst part? I'm not even convinced these people are trolling and are being completely serious with their arbitrary skepticism.
I'm sure the only thing they're "wavering" on is how to present it.
It tells you nothing. Why would Sony need to say anything before E3? If they tip their hand now, then the issue loses impact when E3 comes around. If they wait, then at E3, when all the press gaming and mainstream are at their most attentive, they can make their position known and force Microsoft to answer the tough questions during their own pressers/interview sessions in response.
THE:MILKMAN
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It is confusing. What he and other Sony people are saying is it works just like PS3 is how I understand it.
The "sometimes" means:
If you want to play multiplayer
If you want to use Netflix
If you want to use any other features that require the internet
What it doesn't have is a requirement to have a connection at a set period like the 24HR check of Xbox One. We just don't yet know if that then means there isn't any restrictions.
Just have to wait for E3.
Same here.
Kinda sad that people spend more energy on trying to spin words of interviews, instead of investing their energy on the twitter campaign that's focused on both companies.
Phoenician_Viking
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Console wars in full effect in this thread. Fun times ahead 
This reads like Clinton's "It depends on what your definition of 'is' is".
Codeblew
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the RFID patent.