Sony PS4 Reveal (sorta…)

So I’m going to try and go about this with out bitching too much. However, it is going to happen so for that I’m totally absolutely sorry. Who the hell am I kidding? I don’t give a f**k.

Today (February 20, 2013), Sony had a press conference talking about the “Future of PlayStation.” Well in my opinion I will say that they might have failed in this department right from the start. Actually, even before the start. I started out by watching the stream from http://twitch.tv/playstation. It was linked to me through an email from Twitch.tv on which I stream my own content. Before the conference started, Sony ran on a loop their “Future of PlayStation” teaser video. After about 15 minutes of the video looping I noticed that the video was buffering. Upon closer inspection I realized that Twitch doesn’t use that buffering graphic. It was a faint Sony looking blue and at that moment I realized that their stream was bad. Finally the conference started and it is buffering bad.

What’s a guy to do? I thought I’d give the official PlayStation site a try. After entering my date of birth into an annoying flash form, I get into the stream. What a fucking surprise, it too is buffering really bad. Then I notice again that the same buffering graphic is showing. At that point I figured out that the stream from Twitch is really actually coming from Sony’s stream. Then all of a sudden through all the buffering it skips, I hear clapping, then it skips again and shot from the ground up to the screen I see a graphic, “PS4.”

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WELL FOR FUCK’S SAKE! I COMPLETELY MISSED IT BECAUSE OF FUCKING BUFFERING! FUCK YOU!

So that’s my experience. There were some highlights that I think I managed to catch.

Social Media:

It’d seemed as though Sony wants the new experience to be more social. Which I only wish would happen but probably wouldn’t. Being more social would obviously sell a lot more PS Vita’s I’m sure, but at the same time I think it’s a hard sale. Look, I love being a gamer and I love playing games. There are times when I need to be a part of the real-world too. The way they go about having the experience any time any where is nice, but where will anyone connect to a human being in person? Social gaming is nice but for the general population, it isn’t about being a social gamer on the go. No, in fact its more about having something to do when you are bored, waiting for the bus, standing in line waiting at the DMV for the next moron who does not know how to follow directions. I’m sure there are those who are able to call up a friend and ask, “Hey join me in this match so I can finish this part.” While others will most likely say, “No, I can’t right now. I’m standing in line for tickets to the new Hobbit film.” Most people are going to wait till they get home. Sorry Sony, it just isn’t going to happen.

Another bit of their social media plan was about having gamer’s real names and photos along side their gamer tags. Yeah, when I flame someone’s ass on a match and brutally humiliate them, I don’t need them knowing my name and what I look like through a simple look up.

Of course there is also Facebook integration but that’s typical. The one that caught many off guard was the announcement to seamlessly take a highlight or stream your game play with UStream.com. The video game streaming community basically shit a brick in protest. Fecal matter was being flown digitally from every direction possible. I told another streamer the news about it and his exact words were, “WTF is UStream?” Why the big uprising? Well to simply put it, Twitch.tv for the last few years has basically established itself as the Internet’s official streaming content provider for everything Gaming related. For Sony to go with UStream is bad business and a terrible idea.

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I feel like I need to explain this a bit. The people who are making gaming popular as a form of entertainment right now is Twitch. They already broadcast major pro-gaming leagues of highly successful eSports events. UStream is just site that allows users to broadcast themselves through a webcam. So the question I can hear right now is, “So? Then why all the outrage?” In my mind and my opinion, this can lead to a huge lack of support for either. The typical player who chooses to use UStream may never get viewed outside of their friend pool because the site lacks a big gamer community. Twitch is a gaming site for everything a gamer wants with a community of users to back it. That in my mind is a huge fail.

DualShock 4:

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I can’t say much more than interesting. It’s a bit bigger in the middle where a touch-pad has been put where the SELECT and START buttons used to be. The D-Pad and Thumb-Sticks appear to be a lot more tactile. On each side of the touch-pad are dedicated buttons for “Share” and “Options.” Why? I have no fucking idea. Now, all I know is that I can’t fucking pause the game. :-/ Also added will be a port for a headphone and microphone. This was the greatest thing I loved about the PS3, no whining children screaming in my fucking ear when they get killed or “OOOOH I JUST FUCKING KILLED YOU BRO!!”

Game Demos:

Well from what I could see through all the buffering and skipping I could see that I really want to play Killzone, Destiny, Watch_Dogs, inFAMOUS Second Son, and I would like to say The Witness but that buffered like fucking crazy so I didn’t see much but a couple blips.

It was nice of Activision to show us more of Bungie’s project called Destiny. I can not wait to play this game and the anticipation is seriously killing me. inFAMOUS Second Son looks so epic and I’m sadden that I have not had the time to finish the first one yet so I can move on to the second. The story is great, but ever since I moved I never had the chance to finish it. I was hoping for more about another Little Big Planet game from Media Molecule but I will say that their sculpting tech demo was actually pretty sweet. I’m not sure if Sony made them use the Move controller to sell more product but what they had made was actually very entertaining.

The big disappointment was my childhood fanboy fave Square-Enix came out to talk about their engine. Except for the fact that WE ALREADY SAW THIS FUCKING TECH DEMO! It wasn’t just that, Brand Director Shinji Hashimoto came out and said that he was happy to be here and that everyone should stay tuned for a big announcement at E3. WTF?! Well why did you even fucking show up guys? Seriously!?

I was also highly surprised when I saw that Chris Metzen from Blizzard was there. I was having a holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit moment when he started talking about Blizzard always wanting to come back to the console market. I was thinking, “Are they going to announce Titan?” NOPE! Diablo 3 is coming to PS3 and PS4. Well shit. I guess that’s cool but I’ve already finished that three weeks after it came out and two more times after that a week later.

So after being up and down during the whole conference and finally finding a pretty reliable stream from GameTrailers.com the show was coming to a close. During the entire conference the only hardware shown was the new controller. So as things were coming to a close I’m readying my self to see the console. Here it comes! Ok after the video thing highlighting everything. “PS4 Coming Holidays 2013” Ok now they’ll reveal it. *fade to black* WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well shit. After later exploring the interwebs to type this out I find on Kotaku this quote from Shuhei Yoshida, “…we have to keep something new for later.” Well fuck you.

So from a very disappointed fan boy I hope I don’t sound to fucking angry, but I’m sure I do. For fucks sake Sony. You are behind right now, and with the opportunity to actually get ahead of the game with this conference, you just failed. I hate to say it, but you didn’t wow me.

Sincerly,

Sad Sony Fanboy :'(

Time to catch up a little bit before the weekend LOL (Red Lion Waikiki, 30H!3, Shack Waikiki)

Alright It’s a big weekend for me coming up. But here’s a Catch up!

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Here’s the lastest #ShirtLessTuesdays Mix

Broke Ass Mondays – September 29, 2009

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30H!3 Live at Pipeline Cafe – October 01, 2009

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Surf Shack Saturdays – October 03, 2009 – The Shack Waikiki

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Enjoy!! and I’ll see you all this weekend!!!

365 Days Project on Hold

If some of you have been wondering what had happened to my 365 Days Project and why I have stopped. Well it goes like this, there are a lot of thieves in this world and apparently they like to steal from me. Earlier this year I had lost my dSLR at my previous job where someone came in and just straight up stole my setup. I had been going on anyway with my project using my point and shoot and that was working great. Well… someone stole that one from my bag at my current job.  So now I have no camera to take pictures with. I have my video camera, but that’s just way to much of a hassle to use to take pictures with.

So for now I’ve put the whole project on hold until I either replace my cameras or just stop caring. I’ll post up the rest of the photos that I have not posted yet here.

Day 137 – I didn’t feel like cooking so I ordered from @PizzaHut (funny story)

So I guess the delivery girl she was down stairs for a while.She called to tell me she as on her way, but I didn’t think she’d get here so fast so I didn’t go down to get my order, so she sounded a bit mad on the phone when she called to tell me she was down there. I get there and all the mad went away because I think she thought I was cute or something. To bad she was like 50+ or something haha

Day 138 – Fire in Waikiki

This was an interesting one yesterday… I’m on my way to Shack Waikiki to MC and as I’m walking there I notice a ton of smoke coming out from the sewer drain! Crazy! I mean literally there was a fire under ground. I don’t know how it started but it was crazy lol.

Day 139 – Well it’s like still 4th of July fun

but it was also the 5th of July too lol so this counts as my next day of 365 days project. it was a good fun night with lots of friends i haven’t talked to in a while plus i was hanging out with @kristikubota which made it even more fun too. yes this would be my normal goose 7 (which is most of the time sprite but watever)

Day 140 – My Cold Remedy

rrr i got sick again rrr well this is my usual remedy.. i hope to be over it soon

Day 141 – Ono Chicken Oh how I missed you…

AAA BBQ i love their Ono Chicken always good stuff lol

Well that’s all there is left. I want to thank all of you who have been faithful to my blog and project, but the time of CharlieBoy808.com Photog has come to an end for now. I do still plan on buying a new camera, just when I can afford it.

After all I’ve done…

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK…. Sorry I told myself that I would refrain from swearing in here, but after today all I have is anger right now. Want to know why?

Apparently someone thought it would be a good idea to walk off with a bag that just so happened to have my $3000 setup of camera equipment in it. My dumb fault for leaving it at the radio station and forgetting to take it with me. However, after all the things that I have done there, you would think that someone would have the decency to leave peoples shit alone!

I know I maybe blowing this way out of proportion here, but its $3000 worth of equipment… I think I’m staying in my zone by not calling every person in my phone book and interviewing each person one-by-one grilling them till they call me daddy.

Update: No new news about it, but here is a list of what is missing.

  • Canon 30d
  • Canon 17-40mm L lens
  • Canon 580ex Mark II
  • Sto-fen
  • Small Blue Camera Style Backpack
  • LED Flashlist 

All of this was worth $3000 new.
Since I’m not in the photo update mood here are a few links to what I was doing before today.

Yard House & Tsunami’s  – January 21 & 22, 2009: Went out a few nights… First night went to Yard House and had dinner with Dave Hisaka, Haz-Matt, Mortuary Chris, Chris Hughes, Ciara, and her friend Octavia. I had the (Mac + Cheese)2 and it was to die for haha. Next night had a sort of Tweet-up at Tsunami’s on Keeaumoku with Monchi! Haven’t hung out with her in forevers. always a good time with her hehe.

Chinese New Years – January 24, 2009: It’s been a while since I went actually walking around Chinatown for Chinese New Years, but this year was a blast. Ran in to a lot of friends and got to see a real competition type lion dance. That was really really cool.

Is that Heald College on fire? – January 30, 2009: Yup it was and I had my 15th floor view from my apartment.

Dave’s Going Away Party – January 30, 2009: This was Dave’s going away party. It is so sad to see him leave but he is going on to bigger and better things. We love ya Dave!! I know he is going to hate this, but “WE LOVE YOU BROTHER DAVE!”

This made me feel better, but if I don’t find my camera… well I guess i’m going to stop blogging. I don’t feel the need to anymore if I don’t.

FUCK!