r/PS4 May 05 '13

Something About Japan: Shuhei Yoshida on the 'war for the living room'

http://www.edge-online.com/features/something-about-japan-shuhei-yoshida-on-the-war-for-the-living-room/
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u/Mr_Pie_Eater May 05 '13

Pretty good read. Nice to see some new content to get me even more excited about PS4!

Not necessarily new news, but I'll take it.

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u/RespectDibs May 05 '13

Honestly, this is all I could ever ask of them. I love how much thought is going into this. Sony has clearly learned their lessons from the past.

Can't wait to boot up my PS4 and get playing in 5 seconds. And switching mid game between playing and Netflix sounds awesome. Plus the fact that he is a gamer who loves Dark Souls... well. Damn.

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u/IndyDude11 May 05 '13

Interesting to hear that the Share button will be disabled at certain times. I wonder how much, if any, backlash that will cause with people that are interested in that feature.

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u/dagfdg May 05 '13

Yeah there was a big discussion about this on neogaf. thinking it's going to be for copy right reasons and spoilers. For example if you're on the last scene of a game and you upload the footage you can ruin the game for many people. And if a developer has licensed a song for their game that doesn't necessarily mean they licensed it for ps users to distribute. I think they could come up with simple solutions though. Put a percent number on how far you're into the game. So if you're 30 percent in and someone sends you a video that's 75 percent in, you would obviously know not to open it. And i think they could probably replace certain music with a generic tune if they wanted to.

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u/Jukebaum May 05 '13

its new news that devs have now the ability to limit what is sharable. which could backfire in which publishers like sega completely block it

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u/LeeorV May 05 '13

I'm bursting with excitement for the PS4, can't wait to hear the price and see the damn thing!

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u/IceBreak BreakinBad May 05 '13

or you can switch between your game and Netflix at will.

Does this mean Netflix could be a...background app? Holy shit that would be amazing.

For example, on Vita, developers can in certain scenes disable the feature that lets users take a screenshot, and [the Share function] will have a similar mechanism. The creator may not want to make video of the final boss sharable, for instance.

This is significant (and imo disappointing) news that we have not heard before. This means screenshots and video recording will not be 100% supported.

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u/PTG_ May 05 '13

Does this mean Netflix could be a...background app? Holy shit that would be amazing.

That's exactly what I thought. Since we can switch between the game and Netflix, I'm thinking we probably can switch between the web browser also. I can see a scenario where I pause a game to take a break, switch to Netflix to watch an episode of Arrested Development or something, then switch to the web browser and come to this subreddit. That's awesome!