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Buying a PS4 game on smartphone activates console, downloads game and shuts it down.
- Thread starter Courage
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It doesn't turn off by default. Unlike the PS4 has a low power mode it goes into where it turns off most of its functions and goes to 'sleep'. In this mode, it consumes a negligible amount of power, but it is not completely off.
SpecDotSign
Unconfirmed Member
The PS3 doesn't do it for the automatic updates. I doubt the PS4 will. I'm speaking from personal experience as I have a Bravia hooked up with my PS3 (with Bravia Sync) and the automatic updates never turn on the tv.
flyinpiranha
Member
Well, you can turn it off, it is just an option.
This is like Wii's WiiConnect24 but more useful. PCs have also had this sort of tech for a while now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
The FUD about 'always online' is silly
Yep. Ignorance set to max.
The FUD about 'always online' is silly
Yep. Ignorance set to max.
Caesar III
Member
Why does it need to wake up? Didn't they state that the system is in some kind of always on low power state? To download a game this would be sufficent, no? Even the WiiU can do this.
Perhaps he explained this without some details for it to be perfectly clear though.
Perhaps he explained this without some details for it to be perfectly clear though.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
This only matters if it being online actually prevents you from playing a game, which was the case every time it has been proposed/implemented (X1 24hr checks, Sim City 4...)
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Oh so in the low powered mode it can still do it. Saving power for stuff like this.
NullPointer
Member
I expect everything to do this, honestly, and I'll appreciate everyone who does.
I already did this with Mark of the Ninja DLC on the Steam app the other day. Felt like I was living in the future.
Good stuff.
Its OK. We can help.
I already did this with Mark of the Ninja DLC on the Steam app the other day. Felt like I was living in the future.
Good stuff.
Which part of the Xbone/Adam Orth Always-Online fiasco confused you? Because you seem to be confused.
Its OK. We can help.
He said it wakes up to START the download and then goes back to sleep again, so its probably just for few seconds?
MastaKilla
Member
this just means it can be always online if you want it to be. my ps3 can be always online if i want it to be. some of you guys are so cute with your overreactions. this is an awesome feature though, will be much more willing to buy digitally if i can buy the game at work and have it downloaded and ready to go by the time i get home 
While in the literal sense, yes this is true, it misses what the majority of Gaf means when they get upset about "always-on" consoles. It's not that the consoles are always connected. Few have issues with that. It's when that becomes a requirement to use it or play games does that become an issue. At this point, this is just a feature. You can turn it off. You can't with stuff like the original plan for Xbox One.
This feature sounds awesome. It's something I've wanted on 360 ever since the online marketplace and queue was released. The idea that I can be reading a review for an indie game I never knew about when I'm away from my console, hit a button, and it'll be there when I get back ready to play is great.
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Yah, but like you say, it's just a queue from the SEN website. A lot of time would be saved it pushed the download. Remote play is active on both of my PS3's. If the coding is there for that, it would have been nice for a wake on lan trigger for purchased games.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Nightengale
Member
I expect all consoles's 'smartphone app' to eventually be able to :
- party/voice chat
- browse/purchase from digital store
- integrate with respective streaming services to watch your friend's game stream
- remotely control your console ( eg. start a game remotely while walking home so that the game is all loaded and ready to play by the time you're on the couch )
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
Jesus H Christ@ the people in here bringing up always online. Did that whole issue really go that far over your heads? Apparently it did.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
NullPointer
Member
I can only imagine the madness (and possibilities) if MS allowed for remote access to Kinect.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Cool.
Brad Grenz
Member
This has been know since the February reveal.
I don't think it'd be good for Sony to put a feature directly related to buying games behind a paywall.
That's equivocation and you know it, dudes.
Access to extra features if your system is online ≠ Losing basic functionality if you're not online
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
Im assuming that if your not synced to the internet, your download will be queued until it is?
I kind of want to know this because my TV controls the power source of my systems.
I kind of want to know this because my TV controls the power source of my systems.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
What I want to know about is pre-loading. After the GTA5 fiasco, they may be gun shy.
Dark Octave
Banned
And now it does on the XB1 as well.
Brad Grenz
Member
Presumably, but if you're physically cutting the power on your PS4 when you're not using it you will be losing out on a ton of features and conveniences. No fast wake from sleep, no instant resume of your last game, no automatic updates of patches and firmware, no immediate downloads of games bought remotely, etc, etc.
Not really.
Off-Kilter
Banned
This is actually a really cool feature.
Laughing hard at the "always online" posts ITT. Good grief
Laughing hard at the "always online" posts ITT. Good grief
Byakuya769
Member
Sounds like "Always On Time."