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Ah, derr, read through it too fast to see when you specifically mentioned it. In your review of the games you don't mention that you had it enabled so I just assumed you hadn't tried yet. Hopefully it does get updated soon.

 

The main things I'm looking for with a next-gen controller are easy wireless and easy setup. While the 360 controller required no setup you had to buy a $20 adapter (that was kind of rare) for wireless. For PS3 you had to buy a very specific bluetooth dongle for MiJ. No idea if the other method has more options but all I know is that it doesn't seem to pick up my controller with the adapter I have.

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Thanks for all the details, Jack. Any info on whether or not one can use it wirelessly yet? I'm assuming it uses bluetooth as its predecessor did, but I know that getting that to work properly on PC was a task. If I can get it working today, I'll be hunting for one today.

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My reaction to that is the same as my reaction to it not playing audio CDs:  weird, but not really a problem.

 

Ditto. I rarely used this feature and I can't imagine it's a game changer. Do people really want to put in the effort to load up their PS4s with their own music? I think a bigger loss is the media server capabilities. Perhaps Sony just thinks everyone else has another device that can handle this? Which given the trends these days is probably true.

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Well on the PS4 side all this info is coming from their huge FAQ:

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/10/30/ps4-the-ultimate-faq-north-america/

 

They actually have a minim size requirement of 160GB, which might imply in future SKU's a cheap-o/er 160GB PS4 is in the works like the 20GB PS3 (and current 12GB PS3)

 

 

As for the whole media limitations, at the end of the day lack of music playback ins't a huge issue, I can't think of any time I've hugely bothered with it and I guess maybe future plans to add stuff like Spotify and such anyway. the DLNA is a bit of an issue mind, but given my PC is usually a huge cock about streaming I just copy things onto flash drives to play anyway. One thing of note is so far I've seen folks complain about the lack of CD playback, but nothing about the lack of analog video output.

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Easily solution: just be a hipster like me and purchase your music on vinyl!

Then your PS4 can play your music no problem! ;) 

 

One thing of note is so far I've seen folks complain about the lack of CD playback, but nothing about the lack of analog video output.

Who still has a TV without HDMI (and can also afford a PS4)?

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I'm not too thrilled about it not supporting flash drives either. I would transfer videos from the pc to the ps3 so I could watch it on a bigger screen.

 

I'm a little confused about this kind of thing, because the same FAQ says that you can install the day-one update from a flash drive, so obviously it has some kind of support for them.  I just took the "no external storage" thing to mean you couldn't put your games on it, not that you couldn't use it at all.

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