The PlayRoom Comes Pre-Installed On PlayStation 4 Consoles

Weaver

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The German's have a word: "Fremdscham". I think it adequately describes my feelings regarding this video.

It's worth noting, this will not function without the camera attachment which the PS4 does not ship with.
 

Lord_Gremlin

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Just a thought. I have 5 platinum trophies on Vita and a lot more games. I never ever even launched their crap free game app (play park was it? I want to delete it badly).
 

Arawn

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Not something I'd buy a camera to try, but I'm guessing it's more so for the Devs to play with later. Knowing what the system is capable of. Not like the dancing puppet show wasn't cool from before. I think it's nifty, but not on the top of my to buy/play list. Sorry. Plan to delete it to make room for other games if possible.
 

KoudelkaMorgan

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Personally I would rather have that snail game from the Sega Master System preloaded. I spent a lot of time with that game, even when I had Fantasy Zone etc. I could have been playing.

I miss that snail v_v

This, however looks like it might distract your pets nicely.
 

Callate

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It's kind of cute, but I think the author's assessment is probably about right: people will play with it for a few minutes as a sort of "hey, it's neat that the system I just pulled out of the box can do this" tech demo, and then promptly forget about it.

Frankly, I think AR has some of the same problems that VR is only now (maybe!) overcoming with the Occulus Rift. It just can't keep up with what the player is doing in real time all that well, or if it does, it's only in a very broad or very canned manner (it can tell if you're trying to flick something if that's what the game is designed to do, but won't understand if you're trying to grasp something; it interprets all gestures as "hit", then loses track of collision detection if you start moving too fast, etc.)

Some day it may make for more than "huh, that's sort of cool" moments, but right now it's not unlike computer speech synthesis in the 1980s. "Hey, look what I can make my machine do!"
 

Jamous

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Well this is going to be mostly irrelevant. I imagine most people will check it out once or so, just to see what it is, but aside from that all it'll do is gather dust and take up space.
 

Caiphus

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Do we get a choice of the guy or girl in the video?

Because phwoar.

I'd let her play on my station.

4.

Or something.
 

Strazdas

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a thing that made me see motion control and go "interesting?". wow sony you really outdid yourself there. Not that this will be turned on more than once or anything, but good tech demo.
 

darron13

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Well, it's free. I probably won't use it more than like once, just out of curiosity, but eh.
 

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Earnest Cavalli said:
This post reeks of bias. Just, absolutely covered in it. I mean, you spent half the post practically insulting the PlayRoom.

That's just bad form, man.

... [small]Anyway,[/small]

The software is a toy. Yes, most of us will look at it once at the very most. But there are people who will enjoy goofing around in it.

And did you not notice what appeared to be a competitive game of some sort at 0:56? Five bucks says it has a basic "playroom" where you can do what the majority of the trailer shows, and then there's going to be a handful of minigames.

I for one hope that only parts of PlayRoom will require the Eye, since I'm not getting one. Who knows, maybe it'll actually be tons of fun.