Sony Repartee v2

[vivisectvi]

1 million units sold in North America over the first 24 hours..

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Holy SHIT!

Didn't Dreamcast set some kind of record back in 99 too?

 

[Smues]

Mine shipped on Thursday and I think will be here tomorrow. I'm mildly excited. Today I got an e-mail from Amazon saying since I pre-ordered it for $399.99 and they dropped the price to $399.96 I get a 3 cent refund. OH EM GEE.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

What are you going to do with all that extra money, Smues?

 

[bps21]

Marvin can get you a barrel full of slightly digested apple cores for that

 

[Smues]

I was worried that the expiration date on the barrel was 2009 but he opened my eyes to those lies.

 

[Smues]

Also, if I invest those three cents they'll probably be up to the $60 needed to buy Stick of Truth by the time it finally releases.

 

[MarvinisaLunatic]

I could buy a pound of rice with that 3 cents..

 

[vivisectvi]

What are you gonna do with 3lbs of rice? This ain't China, son!!

 

[Edwin]

Use it for bedding.

 

[bps21]

Did anyone pick up NBA 2K14 for PS4? If so could you throw down some thoughts on the game

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Sony doesn't want your PS4 if it's already infested with Spiders!

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Spiders aren't insects, so loophole.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I forgot to mention I sucked in science class.

 

[2GOLD]

I just love it has happened so often they needed to add a picture.

 

[KingPK]

IIRC electronics are popular places for bugs and spiders to nest due to the warmth.

 

[vivisectvi]

UK is getting a PS4/Vita bundle this December: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/11/22/sony-to-officially-bundle-playstation-4-and-vita-together

 

[Exslade ZX]

So before every new game I've put in today, my PS3 has asked me something like 'This game uploads saved data to online storage, do you want to do that? Yes/No' Never had it ask that before.

Is this PS+ related? Or was this a some recent update that I missed?

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I think its PS+ related. My system does the same thing.

 

[tekcop]

Yeah, it's one of the features of PS+. Your game saves are backed up online.

 

[vivisectvi]

PS4 also does this automatically, with no prompt. So you have to go into the system settings to turn it off/on. Thankfully you can toggle which games upload automatically, and which don't. I turned mine off for now as it seems like every save on PS4 so far is about 11MB in size. I have a pretty respectable data cap but still would rather manually upload these to ensure I'm not uploading a new save every time a game saves (though I'm not sure what the upload cycle is for this).

 

[Damaramu]

This data cap concept is foreign to me. I'm pretty sure my provider (att uverse) has no such thing.

 

[tekcop]

I think U-Verse is 250GB per month.

Edit: http://gigaom.com/2011/03/13/sxsw-bummer-att-implements-broadband-caps/ & http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB409045&cv=812&_requestid=349683#fbid=SrrA0-oOV5p

 

[vivisectvi]

Mine is currently 150GB. I went over by 65GB (about $70) last month due to PS4 launch - though I was fully aware and okay with paying the overage since I am on a promotion where I get 70% off my internet costs for 2 years.. but that ends next week and I'm switching to another provider that offers 300GB and Unlimited packages, thankfully.

 

[Master Thrasher]

As a PS3 Plus member, I believe there is a gig limit on cloud saves. You can, however, delete saves from the cloud to free up room.

 

[Damaramu]

I think U-Verse is 250GB per month.

Edit: http://gigaom.com/2011/03/13/sxsw-bummer-att-implements-broadband-caps/ & http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB409045&cv=812&_requestid=349683#fbid=SrrA0-oOV5p

I don't get charged if I go over and my internet doesn't shut down. Maybe it slows down? I don't know.

*EDIT* Guess I get charged $10 for every 50gb over. I guess I just don't come close to using that.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

Mine is currently 150GB. I went over by 65GB (about $70) last month due to PS4 launch - though I was fully aware and okay with paying the overage since I am on a promotion where I get 70% off my internet costs for 2 years.. but that ends next week and I'm switching to another provider that offers 300GB and Unlimited packages, thankfully.

I did a comparison between TekSavvy and Start cable packages a little while ago. I think TekSavvy's 300GB/month plans may have gone up a few bucks in price since then. This was using my postal code in London; could be different where you are. I'll copypaste what I wrote before:

http://start.ca/services/highspeed
http://www.teksavvy.com/en/residential/internet/cable

Seems like if you want unlimited traffic, Start is better--it's only a $10/month bump to unlimited, whereas with TekSavvy, the bump increases quite a bit at higher speeds. (It's $45/month extra at 45Mbps.)

If you're a heavy uploader, Start offers upgrades to 10Mbps upload speed for $10/month, and upload traffic doesn't count against their caps.

If you're a heavy downloader--but not unlimited heavy--TekSavvy offers higher traffic caps (300GB/month) as their baseline at higher speeds. And their 45Mbps non-unlimited plan is $5 cheaper. ($3 now)

They both charge the same $100 + $10 shipping for a DCM476 cable modem. Both offer unlimited usage between 2AM-8AM. Start's install is $50; TekSavvy's is $65, or $45 with modem purchase. Both have $0.50/GB overage on non-unlimited plans; Start has a $25 maximum, TekSavvy has $50. (Though in my experience on DSL, TekSavvy supposedly takes a rolling average of 3 months for your traffic before they get into charging overages.)

 

[Edwin]

PS3 all hooked up and diving into the back catalog. Regarding digital games, though: holy shit, that installation process is awful. Is there some secret I'm missing? It took over 30 minutes to install Shadow of the Colossus.

 

[tekcop]

Only 30 minutes? That's nothing. Little Big Planet 2 took me 2 hours. It needed something like 6 separate updates.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

PS3 all hooked up and diving into the back catalog. Regarding digital games, though: holy shit, that installation process is awful. Is there some secret I'm missing? It took over 30 minutes to install Shadow of the Colossus.

No, that's how it is. What you can do is start the download, then when you're ready to shut down, go to Users on the XMB (all the way to the left), then all the way up to Turn Off. On that screen, there's a check box to automatically shut down after downloads are finished. I'm pretty sure it will install the game as well.

If you have PlayStation Plus, and set the system to do auto-updates during a select 2-hour period, I'm pretty sure it'll do the same thing for games that need to be downloaded. (If you do a standard shutdown mid-download.) It will automatically download and install updates for games you've already played. I don't think it will do the same for games you have on the hard drive, but haven't launched yet.