tensuke
Member
This is like when Sony said you could use your real name in your profile and people said it was the death of usernames and privacy was dead. Read between the lines...The feature, like the PS4 app itself, is optional.
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Buying a PS4 game on smartphone activates console, downloads game and shuts it down.
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This is like when Sony said you could use your real name in your profile and people said it was the death of usernames and privacy was dead. Read between the lines...The feature, like the PS4 app itself, is optional.
Being a benefit to PS+ doesn't mean it would be behind a pay wall. The app is just a good way to use the service.
dragonbane
Member
Cool!
So this is beneficial? I'm shocked
Yeah, they're launching a Smartglass like app for iOS/Android. The webstore should also be able to handle remote downloads.
Obviously an optional thing. But yea, probably would need to be always online in some small capacity.
That's the point though - it's a purely optional thing. It has nothing to do with the outcry of "always online" that had people so riled up against the competition, and what was obviously what those posters were getting at.
Jeez
Junior Mint
Member
Damn sounds like a cool feature.
CosmicGroinPull
Member
^ I should get my slightly-sideways-and-laughing portrait ready for PS4.....
So I guess PS3 was also always online? It too could be turned on via the internet using remote play on the psp.
Wake-On-LAN is something completely different. They can't use something like that, because otherwise a device on your LAN would have to wake up the PS4.
PS4 is effectively just in low power mode and at least a TCP/IP stack has to be running. Sort of like Wii24. Wii24 had the problem of overheating though.
I imagine it doesn't actually send any data through HDMI in this case so it shouldn't.
Smiles and Cries
Member
people are making excuses when always online is exactly how a feature like this becomes possible
Makes me want an iPad mini.
aygomyownroad
Member
Can imagine sitting at work and buying a game.
PS4 powers up. A second later a phone call from the girlfriend crying "I think your PS4 is haunted, its turning itself on"
PS4 powers up. A second later a phone call from the girlfriend crying "I think your PS4 is haunted, its turning itself on"
Smiles and Cries
Member
also Iwata promised this feature like a year ago. Where is it Nintendo?
ehh you can do this with vita already. I'm always working when the EU store updates, so I just visit the pc store at work, buy a game for my vita, put it in my download que, come home pick up my vita and play the game.. works fine.
only two downsides to this, if the memorycard is full it obviously can't download the game. and not all the stuff on the vita store can be found on the pc store.
only two downsides to this, if the memorycard is full it obviously can't download the game. and not all the stuff on the vita store can be found on the pc store.
But this feature is not required for the console to function. I don't understand the level of cognitive dissonance it takes to equate mandatory online checkins with an optional method to download games.
admartian
Member
If a PS4 goes offline, you'll still be able to play your games and use offline features. Calling a console "always online" because it has online-centric features is disingenuous.
Yep, there's a HUGE difference between "hey connect your console to the Internet to be able to have awesome features like game buying and downloading from your smartphone, or not, your console will still function either way" and "Xbox has detected that your Internet connection has been down for 24 hours, would you like to watch some live TV until your Internet returns since you will no longer be allowed to play games?"
ZombiePlatypus
Member
Very cool. Probably one of the best contributions cell-phones/tablets could bring to gaming as far as I'm concerned.
NullPointer
Member
If only the Xbox One could gather a charge from that spinning turbine of dissonance it wouldn't need that huge power brick.
Always-online folks are turning this into a cringe thread.
Flatline
Banned
Guys help me out here. Is anyone else very annoyed by this intellectually dishonest bullshit or do I have some kind of problem? These individuals know that's not why we hated always online or what we actually meant by that (the required part of course and DRM crap) and they still choose to be purposely obtuse just to troll.
This better work with my Win8 phone! *shakes fist*
You know the answer to this. On the plus side, it makes my job easier
Yeah, I thought the term for this was Always On, not Always Online. You can use the console on or offline, but it never truly powers itself off as long as it's connected to a power outlet. When you shut it off it just goes into a low power state that is able to handle downloads if it's connected to the internet.
Always Online means you're required to always be connected to the internet for the system to function. In other words you can be Always On without being Always Online and vice versa.
mugoldeneagle03
Member
I don't get the always online comments?
You buy the game on your cell, it adds it to your download history. System turns on much like automatic updates with PS+, downloads whats new to your list, shuts off afterwards.
If that's always online then isn't the PS3 as well?
Anyways, this is pretty awesome and the kind of small "next gen" features I want to see.
You buy the game on your cell, it adds it to your download history. System turns on much like automatic updates with PS+, downloads whats new to your list, shuts off afterwards.
If that's always online then isn't the PS3 as well?
Anyways, this is pretty awesome and the kind of small "next gen" features I want to see.
Version 3.0
Member
sometimes i don't understand the people here..
how the hell you want such a feature WITHOUT BEING GOD DAMN ONLINE. yeah sure, a carrier pigeon will be sent from Sony Japan, to start your playstation. Bloody...
If you don't want this, then you switch the feature in the preferences off. Easy it is. Jesus, stupid "Always online" arguement.
how the hell you want such a feature WITHOUT BEING GOD DAMN ONLINE. yeah sure, a carrier pigeon will be sent from Sony Japan, to start your playstation. Bloody...
If you don't want this, then you switch the feature in the preferences off. Easy it is. Jesus, stupid "Always online" arguement.
Triggerhappytel
Member
A connection is always there if there's an ethernet plugged in. The same as the PS3 right now.
Version 3.0
Member
Good God. Can we have a sticky thread called "Always Online for Dummies" that explains the difference between "online" and "stops working if not constantly told to keep working"?
I believe there is a browser option as well as the mobile app.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
It's gonna be really difficult showing restraint when you're basically gonna be carrying the PSN store with you everywhere you go.
Meus Renaissance
Member
With the inevitable inflated prices, I doubt I'll ever be taking advantage of this
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
Ahh, okay then. It seems I won't be plugging it into my TV surge protector then.
KennyLinder
Member
I am curious to know what this will mean for my package with Virgin. I get really good speeds with my PSN downloads (full-speed, in fact), but I know lots of people say they don't. I'd love better upload which will certainly help with online. Currently on 30mb line, will upgrade to 60mb as I will be going all digital.
Anyway, back on thread... This is a great feature and I look forward to getting home from work and being able to get straight into a newly downloaded game. It even looks like you can launch the game ready for you, which again is cool.