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Let's talk about a huge PS4 flaw: no startup sound - it's unacceptable

its the reason I'm not in a hurry to get one, how can I be sure this is actually a Sony machine with no startup sound? Who is the PS4 to eff tradition up?
 
It's because they want to offer you the PS1,PS2 and PS3 start up sounds to customize your PS4 as you like it.
For a small price.:p
 
The PS4 definitely has a startup jingle sound, it just happens to be nowhere near as good as the one heard on the PS1 or Dreamcast. In fact, there's a downward trajectory in that particular respect when going through the Playstations in chronological order. Up your jingle game Sony!
 
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is this what we've become?
 
NO

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Sony is trying to achieve the gold standard of gaming, X-Men 2 on the Sega Genesis.

You turn on the console -> you are playing.

No menus, logos, startup sounds, no nonsense

Just game.
 
Just goes to show that the PS4 is the weaker contender this gen. It's sad that Xbox is using new tech such as the patchable/hidden 2nd GPU and new cloud tech like downloadable RAM to support dedicated startup tech for the consumer.

OT: The "beep" PS4 start-up noise is only outmatched by the Gamecube start-up jingle.
 
I'm not sure if some of you are fooling around, but I definitely think there's a flaw here.

My PS4 is always in standby, when I turn it on it does that little jingle (blee da bah).
I can only find this version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFuXYdHMTio. Is it this one? I don't get that one. I'm pretty sure it's a fan 'concept' for a start-up sound.

All I get is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggwgEAXeLhg. Just the PlayStation logo - no start-up sound, which is, as mentioned, unacceptable.
 
Wait a fuck, there's a few start-up sounds. Getting to the user screen. Logging in.

OP, what the hell?

That's definitely not a start-up sound. A start-up sound should be like this:

- Enable console
- Hear hardware beep sound
- PlayStation logo pops-up + *INSERT START-UP SOUND HERE*
- PlayStation logo still visible
- PlayStation menu shows up

It's definitely missing that start-up sound.
 
To be perfectly honest as I got older startup sounds started to get annoying.


Yup. I don't miss it at all. Plus, as others have said there's the cheap-sounding beep and the way the plastic creaks and the drive spins up if there's a disc in. Plenty of startup sounds, really.
 
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