Caayn
Member
Several gaffers claim that they get double the battery life when they manually disabled the LED in the DS4. I believe those over Shu who's defending his policy of not allowing us to turn if off.
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PS4 firmware 1.60 released. Pulse headset support, mute camera, stability
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Yeah, that's a bummer.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Nice one, was waiting for the headset support. Camera mute was also needed. I'm glad they were not slower sorting this out.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Hopefully some hidden extras too. Otherwise not in any hurry to update.
FunkyPajamas
Member
I see we've already found the PS4's "fix the clock Sony".
BruiserBear
Banned
It's a little disappointing that 3 months after launch this is all we're getting.
How about "favorites" in your friends list? A really obvious thing that needs to be implemented.
How about "favorites" in your friends list? A really obvious thing that needs to be implemented.
Azure Dream
Member
Maybe this update has the HDCP removal. Probably wouldn't be something they made a big deal about, although it could be in the full change log.
Not expecting that any time soon tbh.
Bundy pls. I'm not talking about some flashlight annoyance but battery life.
Fushichou187
Member
I'm curious if there'll be another FW update later this month when they launch in Japan... I was honestly expecting this 1.60 update to come out then but now that it's here they could be rolling out some more significant feature updates for their launch.
paperheart
Banned
I completely forgot about that feature. And... now I want it badly.
this will clearly double the battery life of the DS4.. awesome..
Revolutionary
Member
Fuck yeah, Pulse support just in time for Outlast!
As if the battery life would last much longer without the small LEDs
Sure! The small sticker has an internal battery.
Agreed. The battery life is pants.
Edit. The ability to remove the play room from the xmb would be nice too considering I dont have a camera.
My guess? Once they've sold enough cameras, magically we will be able to disable the light bar and remove playroom.
As if the battery life would last much longer without the small LEDs
Didn't a member on here conduct a test and found the controller with the light off lasted much longer?
As if the battery life would last much longer without the small LEDs
Sure! The small sticker has an internal battery.
you should really try to educate yourself with some reading.. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=723148
0coolclimate0
Member
I want a way to tune the camera to my voice. It listens to all..
Tomb Raider pauses its self damnit!
Oppo
Member
weren't you just complaining about Pulse support like 2 days ago? no love for that?
Anyways, as well-intentioned as the tests that GAFfer made were, I would not call that a definitive answer. Hell at the top of the thread it's already spun out into "several gaffers confirmed".
What we know is that the DS4 has pretty bright LEDs. That's about it. LEDs are usually an infinitesimal draw so these would be somewhere above that.
As if the battery life would last much longer without the small LEDs
Even if Sony build in some fancy christmas tree LEDs, the epileptic use of it in Tomb Raiders torch must kill any battery.
Fjolle
Member
I think that he didn't do anything with the controllers while he tested them. Doesn't really apply to real life usage.. Unless you use your PS4 as a netflix player.
fallen_dawn
Member
I suppose Sony wouldn't release another semi-interesting firmware update within the month to coincide with the Japan launch carrying some other features (i.e. suspend/resume)?
opticalmace
Member
The controller was just sitting stationary though, drawing less power than it would in normal operation. Therefore the relative importance of the LED on the battery life would be increased, meaning we don't know if it's important or not in normal operation. It could be that it is only accounts for 10% of the power draw typically. Won't know without another test.
Unless there was an update to that thread I missed.
InfiniteUnrest
Member
I thought someone posted in the past few weeks that they were not doing anything to change the light bar (not adding the ability to turn it off).
InfiniteUnrest
Member
So, Pulse and new headset are in, but what about Bluetooth headsets that people already have that are not Pulse headsets? Would love for my Turtle Beach Tangos to work fully wirelessly again.
ohhh I know.. I love the fact that my headset is finnaly supported.. I wasn´t complaining.
Oppo
Member
Actually Shu said on Twitter that he thought a dimming feature would be welcome. I don't think they can disable it altogether because of functionality promises they've made to devs.
DC1
Member
Read his post again friend... and then "add" an additional comments to your post questioning how you could miss such a thing (with out editing your original post).Sony said multiple times that all entertainment apps won't require PlayStation Plus, so you're safe
7DollarHagane
Banned
Has anyone ever used these pulse elite headsets on PC? It would be nice to have something for voice chat on battlefield 4 on PC..
Glorious Ownage
Member
Does this mean Bluetooth headsets will work as well?
Thats what I read too, but it doesnt need to be disabled. Just an option to dim or disable but I guess it will come eventually.
InfiniteUnrest
Member
OK, I missed that one. That would be just fine to me. It only bothers me when playing games I want to play in the dark, which at the moment is only KZ:SF and not necessarily all of the time.
It would be an issue with games like Dead Space though, if anything like that comes to PS4, which I'm sure is just a matter of time.