{"id":1880,"date":"2013-11-01T06:46:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T11:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2013-11-02T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:56:00","slug":"playstation-4-in-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2013\/11\/01\/playstation-4-in-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 4 in Two Weeks!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s officially November now, only 15 or so (whichever way you count days) to go until PS4 is released!<\/p>\n

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PS4 Package<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We have three PS3’s and won’t be getting rid of them. They have a high use place in our house. We’ll have one new PS4 at first, and maybe we’ll move a PS3 to another spot to make room in the living room, since our TV only has two HDMI slots.<\/p>\n

The games available on launch aren’t the ones I most looking forward to play on PS4. inFamous Second Son, The Order: 1886 are the ones I most look forward to, oh, and WatchDogs.<\/p>\n

I am looking forward also to playing LEGO Marvel Superheroes on PS4. I don’t have the game for PS3 nor PS Vita yet either.<\/p>\n

Gaming isn’t the cheapest<\/span> hobby. It is fulfilling, like buying and listening to music, or movies. These are entertainment things, but that is exactly what’s important for us to do, play, have fun. Enriched lives.<\/p>\n

PlayStation Plus<\/strong><\/h1>\n

PlayStation has a great program for $49.99 a year. PS+ (PlayStation Plus)<\/strong> gives you many games free to play every year on PS3 and also PS Vita, and the PS4 will also be included. The IGC (Instant Game Collection) is the current offerenings. Buy the subscription and you have access to all those games free. You must stay subscribed to keep using the games, but once you have PS+ maybe you’ll be like me, keep it going.<\/p>\n

PS+ subscriptions can be stacked, so if you are currently subscribed and want to add-on to that time period, just buy another subscription with the same PSN ID and it automatically is added-on.<\/p>\n

If you do let PS+ lapse, you have an ability to re-subscribe and access those games again.<\/p>\n

Every month new games are added, some are taken out to make room. If you have the games in your Download List you can keep downloading and using them on up to 2 PS3’s and 2 PS Vita’s (but on PS Vita you have to have your devices all associated with the buying account, the PS+ enabled PSN ID, in other words. The same goes for PS3, but on the PS3 the console shares content with anyone else on that machine. PS Vita is one PSN ID specific user only.)<\/p>\n

If you’ve been a PS+ member for awhile, your Download List maybe quite long. Mine is. I mostly “buy” whatever is offered, not absolutely, but for the most part. Even if I’m not interested in it, I or someone else in my family might be one day. So it’s there in my Download List just in case.<\/p>\n

PS4 will get two new games a month in IGC. Pretty good since it’s a totally new platform, all new games! It’s not clear how many PS4’s we can use in one house with our content. There is something about making one PS4 your Active device, and then logging in anywhere on anyone’s PS4 and being able to download and play your games from your Download List. This doesn’t speak to whether or not we can actually have the 2-device download thing, like on PS3. I keep two PS3’s with my digital content. It might get a bit squirrely for a family if they have more than one PS4 … I do know that PS+ will only cover 1 PS4 statically, the one set as Primary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Online Play<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Online Multiplayer for PS4 will require a PS4 with a PS Plus Primary user on it. Anyone on the console can play online then.<\/p>\n

Some Free-To-Play games will have free multiplayer online play. Most games are not even online play, so it’s only going to affect users who aren’t PS+ but want to play a purchased multiplayer online game.<\/p>\n

In the past we had Online Passes associated with one’s PSN ID. This limited so much. Thankfully Sony recently ditched Online Passes for new games.<\/p>\n

Examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n

For PS Vita, we have Resistance Burning Skies on PS Vita Game Card. My son played it first, he got it for his birthday. He put in the Online Pass.\r\n\r\nI can play that game, but I can't play Online since I don't have an Online Pass for that game. I could buy one for $9.99, but it's not that I want to play online, just would HAVE to to get all the trophies and platinum it. So I don't play it.<\/span><\/pre>\n
Killzone Mercenary for PS Vita came out in September 2013. No Online Pass. Yippeee! So if my daughter wants to use my copy of the game, she can. We have 2 copies.<\/pre>\n
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