I actually think that the Share button is a great add, in the sense where you can record yourself playing. For Tutorials and Let's Plays, it's a great thing, because you can do it Live or you can record it, edit it and publish in any of the social networks there will be available.

Dynamithix is put off by the creator of Braid making a puzzle game.........


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True but then the same could surely be accomplished by making pressing all the face buttons at once do the same thing? Like on the DS you can reset some games using L+R+Start+Select or something.

Look at modern smartphones, most have 3 or just 2 buttons and yet they are perfectly fine. Not that I'm complaining just saying that when you have a button, might as well give it multiple purposes rather than just 'SHARE'. *flips table* not really, can't afford a new table :(

I think people are missing the point and thinking SHARE as in Facebook. It's true that the console market really wants you to be social and all that, but why not make a share button? I really couldn't care about the social media and all the networks, aside from those that really matter to me (YouTube, UStream, TwitchTV, etc, etc) so being a more social console is the same as having a CD reader, I won't use it but it's there. They got rid of the Select and Start button and put an options one... I think we need to see how the interface will interact with the controller. And I really think we need to wait for upcoming news and details about the OS and whatnot.

I am with AlexFili, it's not like the gamepad has a "Home" button (or better, "Options" button), and the share option could be there... I mean Why bother making something practical/clever, Come on, let's add something like "Volume up/Down" buttons to the gamepad. Or a separate "Change Controls" button.*sets the table and flips is again*

I, for one, love the physical share button built into my TV computer tablet phone

I think the worst part of this is the complete lack of backwards compatibility. Like, the Gaikai stuff they mentioned? “Exploring options”. That’s code for “we don’t know how but we’ll try and get something in mid-2015; by the way you’ll have to rebuy any of your physical games”.

Just when I thought backwards compatibility was coming back in.

Maybe I phrased that badly, I meant that the world looks amazing and I'd love to explore every bit of it, but it would maybe work better in a different genre of games (adventure/platformer).

e: I don't really even know what I'm going for here, I guess I just want to explore the world instead of doing puzzles in the game.

Ummmmm....You can do both!

HEY GUYS YOU CAN PREORDER THE PS4 FOR $900 YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Australia, the land of over priced everything about games.

Also it very clearly says placeholder price.

but it's a placeholder price

Edit: Oh, Daxter King.

I'm perfectly aware of that. Still, it's something about the PS4, so it's entirely relevant to this thread.

EDIT: Joke not funny any more damn posters posting all the time

900: one dollar for every title your new console won’t support any more.

Actually, it's $899

There's this thing called a tax that will probably kick it up above 900

Well yeah, minus one dollar for the Move.

Except that Australian law insists that listed prices must already include sales tax.

Damn. I wish the states had that law.

So, £399.85 for a PS4...Not bad, I guess.

hahahhahahhahahaaha no

That's just a little cheaper than the PS3 was upon release.

Not bad but uggh uggh

All these companies are guessing prices. Until you can send me a link of a Sony announcement, I'll take them with a shaker of salt.

Just spitballin’, but if the price was going to be amazingly low Sony would be crowing about it right from the start, like with the PS1/Dreamcast thing.

I wouldn’t expect them to announce it until we’ve seen the next Xbox.

Hearing the original Playstation start-up sound give me so much nostalgia.

The PSX start up sound gives me mixed feelings because on one hand it brings me way the fuck back to my childhood when everything was candy and rainbows and on the other hand it unsettles me because it was a reoccurring sound in the worst lot of my dreams.

Oh look, what's this?

I don't know. What is this?