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The Sony Playstation 4 PS4 Launch Thread

Knack was first game I pre-ordered. I think it looks cool and full of character / fun. Kind of Artemis Fowl meets Kameo.
 
October 21st Release date??
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2013/08/13/rumour-october-21st-is-the-playstation-4-release-date/

Perhaps not, but it would be so awesome to be so close to the launch date. The excitement is building!

Just for fun, I think we should all share our favourite console launch/purchase/gift recipient stories like they have been doing on IGN recently.

Mine has to be the Christmas of 2001, I was 11 and I went to woolies in November to pick up a PS2 and Burnout 2 through the fear that there would be supply shortages if my parents waited until December to get it.

I found out where my parents were hiding the PS2 but somehow resisted the urge to crack it open prematurely.

I really wish I could get as excited about stuff as I used to, suppose it is one of the brilliant things about being a kid.
 
boy-better-know said:
Just for fun, I think we should all share our favourite console launch/purchase/gift recipient stories like they have been doing on IGN recently.
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Ha, good idea!
Christmas 2001/2ish. Rummaging through my parents attic trying to find a GBA sized box 😀. Didn't get one, but did get enough from cards to pick one up a few days later!

Preordered a Vita the moment I got out of a meeting where my Vita game got the green light. It was the basic Rayman package Amazon UK had. Completed it within that day! (love that game)
 
1997, Christmas.

Up to that point my parents had been staunchly anti-videogames at home, so my only outlet was my best friend's house where I played his NES, and then later PlayStation. Other friends had a SNES, so I was actually fairly well covered despite owning none of the units myself. Of course, I'd been pestering my parents for literally years about this situation to no avail.

So, I sat down in front of the tree on Christmas Day, ripping through my presents (okay, slowly, we always opened one-by-one, in turn). I picked up a box, the size of a CD case but double thickness. I pull one corner off, and see a flash of white. My dad tells me to leave that present for later...but already I know what is coming. See, what else is in a double thickness CD case, with a white cover in the bottom left?

So, eventually I'm down to two presents. One big box, and one aforementioned case. Off comes the paper on the big box, and lo, a PlayStation of my very own. We're talking the original EU model, with the parallel port, and prime for import gaming. But what was that game? Well boys and girls, it was none other than Final Fantasy VII. I was then given the old family TV - a Sony CRT, 17", with a terribly twee wooden case. It was ancient, but unlike many TVs of the time, worked quite happily with NTSC and PAL input signals - most friends' TVs I tried would be green or black and white.

Thanks parents, you just got me utterly hooked. Over the following years I bought plenty of accessories for my PlayStation from pocket money (yes, I even have a MultiTap), but most of all I imported Final Fantasy games from the US, such as Tactics that only recently saw its EU release on the Vita.
 
I was in college when the PS2 came out. Lived in a small college town that had exactly one Best Buy, one Circuit City, one Target, one Walmart, and one Game Stop. Damn thing was sold out EVERYWHERE!

A couple of weeks after launch, a friend of mine calls me frantically from Best Buy on his cell phone: "Dude, they got like five PS2's in just now, I am holding one of them in my hands!" They sold within seconds, so I told him to hold on to it for dear life, ran to my car, drove out there and bought the PS2, an extra controller, and a copy each of SSX and Tekken Tag Tournament. That thing was running pretty much constantly in our dorm room, and I think our grades may have dropped a little in that semester! 😀
 
i preordered my ps4 thru best buy. i haven't pre-ordered any games yet, but i'll probably just get 2-3 to start off with:

madden
nba 2k
driveclub

and i guess gran turismo 6 on ps3
 
SO excited for the 29th of November now, shall be booking it off work tomorrow morning.

But there is still a part of me that expects Sony to push the European release date back. We have seen it before. 9 months waiting for the PSP after everyone else had it nearly drove me insane.
 
Is it me or do these colors makes the controller look like something you'd by at the Home Depot (Special Edition DeWALT Yellow version coming soon... 😱 - Photoshop anyone...)?

Just saying - for fun and discussion... 😀

Gamescom: Magma Red, Wave Blue DualShock 4 Colors Announced

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/20/gamescom-magma-red-wave-blue-dualshock-4-colors-announced

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gmanist1000 said:
Thanks for the link.

Nov 15 isn't a bad date. I wonder if Microsoft will try and undercut it?
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They could I guess, but I don't think it will matter that much. Not too many people are buying their Christmas gifts by the 15th anyway. I would imagine that many people are getting what their friends are getting so they can game together. Plus with the XBox One being $100 more, people will be more apt to wait if they had their mindset on a PS4.

The launches will likely be different dates anyway to help each company advertise along with making it easier on retailers.

boy-better-know said:
But there is still a part of me that expects Sony to push the European release date back. We have seen it before. 9 months waiting for the PSP after everyone else had it nearly drove me insane.
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I think you can get a US one and it'll work in Europe. Of course, probably just easier to wait.

gkarris said:
Is it me or do these colors makes the controller look like something you'd by at the Home Depot (Special Edition DeWALT Yellow version coming soon... 😱 - Photoshop anyone...)?
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Nothing wrong with options. If I planned on getting more than one controller I'd likely get various colors to make the different players more readily distinguishable. The colors might also match well with the front LED.
 
SilentPanda said:
Nothing wrong with options. If I planned on getting more than one controller I'd likely get various colors to make the different players more readily distinguishable. The colors might also match well with the front LED.
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I didn't say anything was wrong - just these specific colors look like ones for hardware tools... 😱

😉
 
I have to admit, I didn't notice any exciting announcements at this show.

I had to laugh at the news that Naughty Dog, Media Molecule, und Santa Monica are actually working on games. In other breaking news, pilots fly airplanes, and water is wet. 🙄
 
Not much space in my room for a large TV for console gaming. Can anyone recommend a good small-sized HDTV perfect just for PS4 gaming?

The screen does not have to be very big at all.... tho I do prefer it to be HD quality for movies (DVD or Blue-Ray) as well as console gaming.
 
Ok so my launch games are

Assasins Creed IV
Knack
Lego Marvel Heroes
Killzone
Watchdogs

And though I'm trying to resist : Skylanders Swap Force



What I can't decide is whether to buy Assassins Creed & Watchdogs on PS3 and then pay the €10 upgrade for PS4 digital version, or just hold out for the digital version. I'm concerned about how big the downloads may be.
 
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