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Congrats! Did you add previous PS+ games to your account? You'll have a blast.

Why didn't you re-use your PS3 PSN account?

Not yet. And because it had the Anderson label. I'm trying to shift to Andy instead. Andy spatula.
 
I'm going to send out requests to everyone in the thread, as long as your tag is listed below your avatar.
 
Got me a PS4! Woo! :banana: :B->: Been waiting to say that for a while. I traded in my crusty 5-month old PS3 in for $150 credit on a shiny new PS4. Got 'er all plugged in and connected.

My ID is Andy_spatula Don't ask why spatula, I don't know. I just needed another word to attach, and "Andy spatula" made me laugh.

Please add me. I have no friends. I'll try to send invites out to the 4 or 5 people who were on my PS3 list, assuming your tags are listed on the forum. I'm not the most active multiplayer gamer, but I hope to be online now and then.

I immediately loved the feel of the DS4. After playing with the loosey-goosey DS3 sticks for so long, the DS4 sticks felt really tight and responsive. I like the way the controller feels in my hands.

I don't have any games for it yet. I've been wanting to play AC4: BF and Child of Light, so I'll probably start there.

It's about time.

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Got me a PS4! Woo! :banana: :B->: Been waiting to say that for a while. I traded in my crusty 5-month old PS3 in for $150 credit on a shiny new PS4. Got 'er all plugged in and connected.

My ID is Andy_spatula Don't ask why spatula, I don't know. I just needed another word to attach, and "Andy spatula" made me laugh.

Please add me. I have no friends. I'll try to send invites out to the 4 or 5 people who were on my PS3 list, assuming your tags are listed on the forum. I'm not the most active multiplayer gamer, but I hope to be online now and then.

I immediately loved the feel of the DS4. After playing with the loosey-goosey DS3 sticks for so long, the DS4 sticks felt really tight and responsive. I like the way the controller feels in my hands.

I don't have any games for it yet. I've been wanting to play AC4: BF and Child of Light, so I'll probably start there.

I had a feeling that was you on my friends list. I just figured it was your last name. :grin:
 
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feel free to add me as well, right now i am waiting for the last of us remake and destiny to play but i have the dead nation ps plus game that is coop.

also if you have a android or iphone there is a playstation app that you can download and be able to access the psn store away from home which you can set to download games and apps and as long as your ps4 is in standby mode it will download automatically for you, i did that with war thunder while i was at work and it was ready to play when i got home.

PSN deathcries27
 
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What's up with this?

"The Online ID must contain alphanumeric characters, can include underscores or hyphens and must be between 3 and 16 characters in length. The first character must be a letter of the alphabet."
 
What's up with this?

"The Online ID must contain alphanumeric characters, can include underscores or hyphens and must be between 3 and 16 characters in length. The first character must be a letter of the alphabet."

Seems pretty straightforward..
Minimum 3 characthers for your PSN ID.
Use a letter in the alphbet first - then the last two characthers can be either must be in the alphabet or number, or hyphens, or underscore.
Up to a total of aximum 16 characthers..

Your online ID is the stuff other people see, i.e. KongRudi for me..

It's there to avoid people to use a blank ID, or 3 spaces for username.. :-/ Would be hard if you were to contact support and file a griefreport about ' '..
 
Seems pretty straightforward..
Minimum 3 characthers for your PSN ID.
Use a letter in the alphbet first - then the last two characthers can be either must be in the alphabet or number, or hyphens, or underscore.
Up to a total of aximum 16 characthers..

Your online ID is the stuff other people see, i.e. KongRudi for me..

It's there to avoid people to use a blank ID, or 3 spaces for username.. :-/ Would be hard if you were to contact support and file a griefreport about ' '..

That's not it, the name I tried to make was all letters. Total of 8.

So I didn't do anything wrong but what I found out is that Sony blocks certain words.
 
That's not it, the name I tried to make was all letters. Total of 8.

So I didn't do anything wrong but what I found out is that Sony blocks certain words.

What word was that?
 
Eric020890 is my tag, just in case anyone missed me (or cares)
 
lol...you impatient little child you.

How is it ?
Quick impressions. Killzone is the most boring shooter I think I've ever played. Looks pretty but I'm struggling to be interested in playing it. Infamous is great. Loving that game despite the grunge style main character who annoys the crap out of me. In the system itself, the physical unit is the sex0r. Seriously. It's design is way better than the x1. Small, light, no power brick and real quite. Its not as quite as the x1 though. The UI is much faster than the x1. And I mean MUCH faster. You never see a spinning hour glass while something is loading. Everything is nearly instantly loaded. It's very slick. Also it loads games and updates ridiculously fast. It took me 4 hours to get my x1 setup and running. 15 minutes for the ps4. It's a great console. Very happy with it so far.
 
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Quick impressions. Killzone is the most boring shooter I think I've ever played. Looks pretty but I'm struggling to be interested in playing it. Infamous is great. Loving that game despite the grunge style main character who annoys the crap out of me. In the system itself, the physical unit is the sex0r. Seriously. It's design is way better than the x1. Small, light, no power brick and real quite. Its not as quite as the x1 though. The UI is much faster than the x1. And I mean MUCH faster. You never see a spinning hour glass while something is loading. Everything is nearly instantly loaded. It's very slick. Also it loads games and updates ridiculously fast. It took me 4 hours to get my x1 setup and running. 15 minutes for the ps4. It's a great console. Very happy with it so far.

Yeah, that's one thing I noticed going from PS4 to X1: the loading times are longer on the X1. You appreciate how responsive the PS4 is after experiencing both. The game installs in like 15-30 seconds and the rest it downloads as you play.
 
I've had dl's last 3 hrs, though.

p.s. Talking about full games, here, btw. Yesterday it took that long to DL Blacklight Retribution, for instance.
 
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My PS4 UI is much slower than the Xbox One. Especially coming out of one app into another (it really chugs). I think that's where the extra OS's help the X1.
 
Quick impressions. Killzone is the most boring shooter I think I've ever played. Looks pretty but I'm struggling to be interested in playing it. Infamous is great. Loving that game despite the grunge style main character who annoys the crap out of me.

Your Killzone impressions do not surprise. I played KZ 2&3 on PS3 and found them extremely meh.
Infamous is the one game I want right now as far as PS4 goes. So is nice to some more positive reactions to it.

In the system itself, the physical unit is the sex0r. Seriously. It's design is way better than the x1. Small, light, no power brick and real quite. Its not as quite as the x1 though. The UI is much faster than the x1. And I mean MUCH faster. You never see a spinning hour glass while something is loading. Everything is nearly instantly loaded. It's very slick.

Makes sense given the RAM differences. Nice that it is fast, but how does the set up compare in regards of ease of use/navigation ( with controller). I found the PS3 UI somewhat unintuitive.

Also it loads games and updates ridiculously fast. It took me 4 hours to get my x1 setup and running. 15 minutes for the ps4. It's a great console. Very happy with it so far.

4 hours, really? How come it took that long. I thought the X1 updates were rather small in size.
 
Your Killzone impressions do not surprise. I played KZ 2&3 on PS3 and found them extremely meh.
Infamous is the one game I want right now as far as PS4 goes. So is nice to some more positive reactions to it.



Makes sense given the RAM differences. Nice that it is fast, but how does the set up compare in regards of ease of use/navigation ( with controller). I found the PS3 UI somewhat unintuitive.



4 hours, really? How come it took that long. I thought the X1 updates were rather small in size.

It's not just the ram. The ps4 UI is very basic but that's a great thing. It's all loaded when the console starts up. X1 loads everything as apps . I like that approach to but it gives a noticeable impact on loading the different apps, like friends, messages, etc. You never have to wait for anything on the ps4. Ps+ is great as well. You get so much free stuff.
The difference in setup speeds between the x1 and ps4 is in the system design. The x1 had a 1 gig OS update, and all the games had massive day 1,0 patches with them. It's quite slow when you compare it to the ps4. I don't know how Sony did it but it installs, updates and plays all at the same time about 20 seconds after the disk goes in, the game is ready. I had 8 different things downloading in the background I hardly even noticed. It's very well implemented
 
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My PS4 UI is much slower than the Xbox One. Especially coming out of one app into another (it really chugs). I think that's where the extra OS's help the X1.

Yeah. The x1 swaps apps much faster than the ps4 but so far I think its the only part of the UI that I've noticed is slower
 
Yeah, that's one thing I noticed going from PS4 to X1: the loading times are longer on the X1. You appreciate how responsive the PS4 is after experiencing both. The game installs in like 15-30 seconds and the rest it downloads as you play.

Yeah. I'm really impressed with that particular feature.
 
So I just received my free PS4, haven't hooked it up yet as I have no games and no money to purchase games atm :( Does come with a 14day trial of PSN+, can u still grab the free games?

Convince me to keep the PS4 and not sell it, money is tight atm but hopefully that will change soon.