PS4 sleep mode, friend takeover features still coming

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The PS4 is missing a few features Sony promised during its console reveal last year, such as sleep mode and the ability to let a friend take over your game online. These features are on their way, Sony Head of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida told Kotaku at E3.

"Our team has been working on it," Yoshida said. "There are some things that we announced in February of last year that were not planned for the launch timeframe."

Yoshida didn't provide a timeline for the new features, but said he's asking his tech team "every other week" when they'll be ready.

During its PS4 reveal show in February 2013, Sony Lead System Architect Mark Cerny described sleep mode as a suspend/resume process that allows you to power down and boot up the PS4 from the same spot at the press of a button. In October, we learned that feature wouldn't be ready on day one.

Posted: Jun 18, 2014 10:06 pm
Related Forum: PlayStation Forum

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/06/18/ps4-sleep-mode-friend-takeover-features-still-coming/

Comments

MissPosted: Thu. Jun 19, 2014

Maggardo
Jovetic
Miss Don't really understand what they mean by "take over" your game. Can anyone explain?

I think this is what they planned to do with the share button. The thing where you send an invite or similar to your friend and they can control your game. It would be the same as passing the controller off to someone I believe.

That's pretty cool. I would've never thought they would bring out a feature like that!

Now to me, that sounds pretty stupid. I don't see why that would be needed at all. I hope that's not what it is.

MaggardoPosted: Wed. Jun 18, 2014

I honestly haven't really been awaiting these features. I am fine with the consoles current features at the moment. But it would be nice to see some new features come to the console real soon.

MaggardoPosted: Wed. Jun 18, 2014

Jovetic
Miss Don't really understand what they mean by "take over" your game. Can anyone explain?

I think this is what they planned to do with the share button. The thing where you send an invite or similar to your friend and they can control your game. It would be the same as passing the controller off to someone I believe.

That's pretty cool. I would've never thought they would bring out a feature like that!

JoveticPosted: Wed. Jun 18, 2014

Miss Don't really understand what they mean by "take over" your game. Can anyone explain?

I think this is what they planned to do with the share button. The thing where you send an invite or similar to your friend and they can control your game. It would be the same as passing the controller off to someone I believe.

MissPosted: Wed. Jun 18, 2014

Don't really understand what they mean by "take over" your game. Can anyone explain?

SmurfsPosted: Wed. Jun 18, 2014

I've never even heard of these features before. The feature where you can let a friend take over your game seems really neat. I'm interested to see how it will turn out once it's released.

TomPosted: Wed. Jun 18, 2014

The Friends Takeover sounds interesting! Might need to look more up on that! But Sleep mode will be a nice feature!

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