News & Rumours: Playstation 4/ Orbis *spin*

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My launch 360 controller has a barely working d-pad and a completely broken r button. But they were never good, and the analog sticks and triggers are still pretty ok. All my controllers ever are still pretty good actually. I don't play that hard - definitely wore out more wheels than controllers.
 
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So am I seeing this right, that this is still an issue and no hardware updates have ensured that the rubber sticks are more resistant?

BTW: It's my left stick too that is peeling off.

Shifty; Thanks for the link. Does anyone have any experience with these or rubber 'strap-ons' (whatever you'd call them :p)? Am I right that they'd be slightly bigger, so best to just buy enough for all my pads so that they all feel the same?
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I do. I use the same convex thumb grips given in Shifty's link (ORB, they sell you 2 pairs, one concave and one convex).

The convex model is perfect for me. Yes they are slightly bigger and have a much better grip than the originals that were crap (too small and too slippery).
 
List of features coming in system software 3.0 - from the EU PlayStation blog:

The below list isn’t a final rundown of everything that’s included in the update, but we wanted to give you a glimpse at some of the exciting new features coming your way.
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    • Events: A new hub for events has been added, giving an overview of activities taking place in the games you play most, as well as official broadcasts. For instance, you may see an update for a double XP weekend, a special enemy appearing at a scheduled time, or seasonal events like in-game towns being decorated for the winter.
    • YouTube live: PS4 owners will be able to live stream gameplay to YouTube. Live streams will be viewable across YouTube, including on the new YouTube Gaming mobile app and website.
    • Online storage capacity increase: PlayStation Plus members’ PS4 cloud storage capacity will increase from 1GB to 10GB
    • Favourite Groups: Favourite Groups has been added to the Friends app, letting you add new or existing groups as a Favorite Group and quickly access groups of people you like to play games with frequently. This will make the process of getting a game session up and running even easier.
    • Communities: PS4 users will have the ability to create communities based around shared interests, like games, genres and more. Communities include a message board with general discussion, screenshots shared by players and the ability to join parties or games. If you want to tackle a big multiplayer raid, but don’t have enough friends, this could be a great way to connect with other likeminded players.
    • Sharing video clips to Twitter: Users will have the ability to share video clips directly to Twitter. The maximum video length is 10 seconds, but you’ll have the ability to trim longer clips.
    • Live from PlayStation: We’ve added the ability for users to view popular broadcasts, video clips and screenshots on the Live From PlayStation area
    • Screenshots: We’ve listened to your feedback and we’re happy to confirm that PNG format is now an option for Screenshot saves
    • Now Playing: The Now Playing screen will display more information about what your friends are doing, and you’ll be able to quickly jump into a party, request a screen share, or jump to PlayStation Store to buy a game your friend is playing.
    • Request to watch: Want to view a friend’s gameplay session? Now you can send a ‘Request to Watch’ notification to a player, which will start a live broadcast or Share Play invitation to the person playing.
    • Stickers: Tired of typing out messages? With this update, you’ll be able to send stickers to friends through the messages.
There’s a lot more included in this update, but that’s a quick glance at some of the items we’re most excited about. Stay tuned for more information as we approach launch​

I'm very glad about the increase in cloud storage size to 10 gigabytes, I hit that 1 gigabyte ceiling recently then found out that the DriveClub demo, which I'd barely played for a ten minutes, had consumed hundreds of megabytes of online storage.
 
Do you know what is missing? A "Follow" feature, aka like twitter. I've been playing a lot of trials and just noticed it would be nice to follow players (PSN accounts that decide to be "public") without actually having to add them. In this social digital world we live in, this would be a really nice feature.
 
that and the ability to delete games form my catalogue I have no interest in playing again (or at least an 'archive' option that hides them)
 
As always, I expect many other undocumented changes. Sometimes the best changes are those that are not promoted by fw changelog.
 
How about a dedicated function that shows all your past digital purchases and lets you download/install them without you needing to open the PSN store and browse through every single past download I've ever done since forever?

My personal nightmare is that I buy something, then forget to download it for whatever reason (full drive, maybe) and then not have any record of me having purchased that thing. My memory's really crap, and the download list will quickly become incredibly cluttered if trying out free stuff, demos and whatnot.

This I really, really miss.
 
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As always, I expect many other undocumented changes. Sometimes the best changes are those that are not promoted by fw changelog.
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Guess you're referring to the "Bug fixes and stability fixes" ? Sony loves those. Sometimes I suspect there's just a stub function called "ps4_do_some_random_stuff_for_the_fun_of_it" with some code the developers runs in the background and change once in a while...
 
Grall said:
How about a dedicated function that shows all your past digital purchases and lets you download/install them without you needing to open the PSN store and browse through every single past download I've ever done since forever?

My personal nightmare is that I buy something, then forget to download it for whatever reason (full drive, maybe) and then not have any record of me having purchased that thing. My memory's really crap, and the download list will quickly become incredibly cluttered if trying out free stuff, demos and whatnot.

This I really, really miss.
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There is a function called "add to library" if I am not mistaken. This adds games to your Library in the main menu even if they are not downloaded.

edit: I am not sure if they are added if the games are purchased from your computer's web browser
 
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