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Leebo33 wrote: - I'm trying to be patient but there were several times tonight when I wanted to throw my controller through the TV regarding the profiles. When you have kids sometimes you just want to show them how to do something or take over for a few minutes to get through a difficult part and the Xbone goes ape sh*t when I grab another controller. I'm going to go back and read through the thread again to find some way to stop this because I literally screamed a few times it was so frustrating and I'm about the calmest person you'd ever meet.
This is exactly what I was ranting about a month ago. Trying to simply play a multiplayer game was a nightmare when my brother was in town and we'd try to play football or Forza. What I discovered was to completely turn off the auto-sign in with Kinect. Then it just used the controller IR to say "who's using this?" and you press A. Then it knows who's using what controller. With that Kinect sign-in turned on, it's auto-face recognizing crap was constantly changing what controller we were using, or if I grabbed his to choose a team while he was out of the room, it remapped to mine, etc.

I haven't had huge issues without the auto sign-in on.
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Grrr...had my first crash while playing FIFA14 on PS4.

Game had just ended and after watching the glorious highlights of Giroud's hat trick (now on my Spurs :)), the menus froze. Probably didn't save, but you never know.

For those of you with kids, a PS4 and the PS4 camera, you should definitely check out the free app "The Playroom", which is essentially a tech demo for what the camera is capable of. It involves playing with some virtual robots in your living room - really cool stuff. I also downloaded the companion app for my smartphone, so now my 3.5 year old can draw pictures on my phone and then flick it onto the screen so that the robots can interact with them.
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Funny my PS4 locked up on me 3 times this weekend. Every time while watching live streams, had to physically unplug it to get it to reboot.
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TCrouch wrote:
Leebo33 wrote:Trying to simply play a multiplayer game was a nightmare when my brother was in town and we'd try to play football or Forza. What I discovered was to completely turn off the auto-sign in with Kinect. Then it just used the controller IR to say "who's using this?" and you press A. Then it knows who's using what controller. With that Kinect sign-in turned on, it's auto-face recognizing crap was constantly changing what controller we were using, or if I grabbed his to choose a team while he was out of the room, it remapped to mine, etc.

I haven't had huge issues without the auto sign-in on.
Thanks for the tip. Will definitely do that next time guests are using the XB1.

My only other gripe now the party system and the waiting to launch a friends "app" to send invites. But I read that they are already working on improvements.
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I'm making the move soon to PS4.

Going to sell my 360. But before I do, how do I erase all the info on my HD? Just delete the profile or format the HD?
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Inuyasha wrote:I'm making the move soon to PS4.

Going to sell my 360. But before I do, how do I erase all the info on my HD? Just delete the profile or format the HD?
System restore from the console settings section. It'll warn you that it'll wipe the device and restore it to factory configuration.
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got my ps4 from amazon today but don't see the free month of PSN PLUS card. should it have been in this card? who do I contact if something messed up?
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Can anyone get into the PSN Store?

I'm having the same problem as the other day with Live streams. It says I am logged into the PSN store but when I click on it to see it I just get a blank blue screen. The only thing I can do at this point is hit the button on the controller, turn off my ps4 and restart it. When I do this the controller light turns a yellowish orange.

No one else is having this issue?
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Inuyasha wrote:got my ps4 from amazon today but don't see the free month of PSN PLUS card. should it have been in this card? who do I contact if something messed up?
IIRC that was a Sony promo for the first run units. It should be in a small packet folder. It had the 1 month free PSN, $10 gift credit for PSN+ and 1 free month Sony Music. I still have that code if you want it.
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Please Rodster! Can you PM me the code :)
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Inuyasha wrote:got my ps4 from amazon today but don't see the free month of PSN PLUS card. should it have been in this card? who do I contact if something messed up?
It should be in with the manual and other paperwork.
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Yeah but you have to surrender a credit card to use it.

I bought a 12-month card, redeemed it weeks ago.

Then I go online and play a game of Madden. Then after I'm done, the screen is blank and after a long time, it says I have to have PSN Plus for this feature.

WTH?

I check around some other areas outside of Madden and there's some message about maintenance or service outage.
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Inuyasha wrote:Please Rodster! Can you PM me the code :)
The only code I have is for the Sony Music service. Let me know if your interested.
wco81 wrote:Yeah but you have to surrender a credit card to use it.
You can turn off auto renew which is what I did then you can delete your CC from your billing info. It's a lot easier than it is on XBL.
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Sure, still interested :) Thanks!
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I called Sony and they said the new units don't have the 1 mo promo anymore. Ugh....... no biggie.
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Initial Initial impressions PS4/Next Gen :

-Nice Interface for PS4. It's different, but more on that later.
-Only have FIFA, and played hell out of FIFA on 360, so a little underwhelmed. I will have to try out some other games.
-Like the controller, but I guess I don't understand the logic of charging thru the console instead of using batteries like the XB controller.


Biggest Gripe : PSN Network - wow, the thing was down I think 2-3 times when I was playing. Really Sony? You want to compete with XBL you better have this thing up and running without any outages. I'm sure everyone got a PS4 for XMAS and it's overloaded their system, but I really hope it gets better. Even though I don't online game much anymore on XBL, at least it's nice know XBL will be up and running 99 percent of the time if I need to download demos or do anything else on XBL. I'll give PSN a break, because i'm new to it too and some of it is probably me getting use to the system.

Ok, more on the PSN interface - It's nice, because it's different than what I'm use to, but I appreciate it's simplicity. But at the same time, not only is it a poor man's XBL, it really a skelton of what XBL is. At times it's a joke. But again, I'm willing to give them more time. XBL wasn't built in a day, so if PSN is trying to be like XBL, it will take some time and growing pains on sony's side.



Overall, I am happy I got PS4 because it's the future, but if you're on the fence, I'd suggest just wait until next year. If you have PS3/XB360 (or WII U), it's more than enough on those systems to keep you busy. I guess I got caught into the next gen hype but I'll be buying NBA and NFS next week and will maybe feel a little better about my next gen purchase. But it wasn't the OMG reaction I was expecting out of next gen at this time. But more like a very nice compliment to what I have.

Also, felt guilty selling all my older XB games. Lot of those games I played with my kids for like the last 5-6 years (WC 2010, BLUR, Street Fighter, etc...) and felt like losing some nice memories. I think I'll keep my XB360 around for a few more months mainly because it has a few games the family still enjoys. Lego Batman, XBArcade games, and I see some games I sold are going to be offered on the cheap like NCAA14.
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So we setup the new PS4 and apparently the sony network is down! :lol: I txted a friend of mine and he says "It's probably just busy"....WTF? it's an online gaming network. I'm going to give it the rest of the day, but if we still can't get signed it by tonight it's going back tomorrow for an Xbone. I was hoping their network would be fixed but apparently Sony still can't touch microsoft when it comes to online.
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tjung0831 wrote:So we setup the new PS4 and apparently the sony network is down! :lol: I txted a friend of mine and he says "It's probably just busy"....WTF? it's an online gaming network. I'm going to give it the rest of the day, but if we still can't get signed it by tonight it's going back tomorrow for an Xbone. I was hoping their network would be fixed but apparently Sony still can't touch microsoft when it comes to online.
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tjung0831 wrote:So we setup the new PS4 and apparently the sony network is down! :lol: I txted a friend of mine and he says "It's probably just busy"....WTF? it's an online gaming network. I'm going to give it the rest of the day, but if we still can't get signed it by tonight it's going back tomorrow for an Xbone. I was hoping their network would be fixed but apparently Sony still can't touch microsoft when it comes to online.
Rant over...MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

LOL! Right after I posted my impressions, I turned it on to go to PSN and it was down. It's been down like 2 hours or more. I looked at the Sony forums and I guess it's sort of status quo for PSN to be up and down. But it's probably the influx of new users who got PS4's today for XMAS. But still, compared to XBL this thing is bush league. I hope it gets better.
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The store has been down for me since yesterday. Even when up the store is not very good from a design standpoint and Sony's online infrastructure is lacking to say the least.

I was charged for Music Unlimited renewal even though I know I turned off auto renew but I can't even get into it to check and make sure it is turned off.

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Lighten up, Francis!
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Anyone played on PSN with her yet?

Kids?...Ooops :oops:

Sorry guys!
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Thank you 34, that explains why the servers are slow. :)
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