It’s Been Two Years — Where Is Suspend/Resume for PS4?

[Ineedmoney504]

I can’t stand the barriers that stand between me and just playing video games today. Booting up your system and filtering through your library of games to find the one you’re looking for is hardly impossible, but it does make me long for the plug-and-play days of the cartridge based era.

Which is why two years ago when the PS4 was announced, I was excited to hear about its “suspend/resume” feature. The PS4’s lead system architect, Mark Cerny, announced that players would be able to suspend their play session, saving it to the system, and leave it indefinitely (assuming the power to the console was never interrupted) and resume by with a press of the power button. “The minutes that it takes today to boot a console and load a saved game will be a thing of the past” he claimed. Load times have been bogging gamers down ever since we made the jump to disc-based content, but Cerny promised a return to the immediacy of yore.

look at this cac breh, cac look like a dope head that aint have no dope or sleep, that fukked up sony

It’s been two years since that hopeful announcement, and Sony is wary to even talk about the feature, only confirming that it hasn’t yet been cancelled. When the only news you have to bring to the table after over 18 months is, “We haven’t thrown it into the dumpster yet,” there’s a problem.

The feature is already available on Xbox One and has been since launch. The PS4’s eight gigs of GDDR5 RAM outshines the Xbox One’s DDR3, so it seems illogical that Sony is having trouble making the PS4 store game states in memoru. Sony’s already made it work astoundingly well on PSP and Vita; why can’t that success be repeated on more powerful hardware?



Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, stated in an interview with Kotaku in mid-2014 that “There are some things that we announced in February of last year that were not planned for the launch timeframe.” That’s understandable, but it’s been over 15 months since the PS4 launched and Sony is extremely tight-lipped about a feature that they once bandied about as a huge selling point – a feature that their competitors have already implemented. It’s reached the point where hearing, “It’s coming,” is not enough.

“Powerful functionality [needs] to be just a button press away,” said Cerny at the PS4 reveal, but Sony supporters have now had their systems for over a year, and there’s clearly more between them and that power than a button.



@fatboi i thought u said the playstation 4 had suspend/resume already


http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2015/02/24/its-been-two-years-where-is-suspendresume-for-ps4/135954/

 

[illadope]

Oh ok

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Oh ok

so sony can lie to us and get away with it?


ole ps home beta ass feature(comes out years later after expected and is trash)

 

[Fatboi1]

I can’t stand the barriers that stand between me and just playing video games today. Booting up your system and filtering through your library of games to find the one you’re looking for is hardly impossible, but it does make me long for the plug-and-play days of the cartridge based era.

Which is why two years ago when the PS4 was announced, I was excited to hear about its “suspend/resume” feature. The PS4’s lead system architect, Mark Cerny, announced that players would be able to suspend their play session, saving it to the system, and leave it indefinitely (assuming the power to the console was never interrupted) and resume by with a press of the power button. “The minutes that it takes today to boot a console and load a saved game will be a thing of the past” he claimed. Load times have been bogging gamers down ever since we made the jump to disc-based content, but Cerny promised a return to the immediacy of yore.

look at this cac breh, cac look like a dope head that aint have no dope or sleep, that fukked up sony

It’s been two years since that hopeful announcement, and Sony is wary to even talk about the feature, only confirming that it hasn’t yet been cancelled. When the only news you have to bring to the table after over 18 months is, “We haven’t thrown it into the dumpster yet,” there’s a problem.

The feature is already available on Xbox One and has been since launch. The PS4’s eight gigs of GDDR5 RAM outshines the Xbox One’s DDR3, so it seems illogical that Sony is having trouble making the PS4 store game states in memoru. Sony’s already made it work astoundingly well on PSP and Vita; why can’t that success be repeated on more powerful hardware?



Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, stated in an interview with Kotaku in mid-2014 that “There are some things that we announced in February of last year that were not planned for the launch timeframe.” That’s understandable, but it’s been over 15 months since the PS4 launched and Sony is extremely tight-lipped about a feature that they once bandied about as a huge selling point – a feature that their competitors have already implemented. It’s reached the point where hearing, “It’s coming,” is not enough.

“Powerful functionality [needs] to be just a button press away,” said Cerny at the PS4 reveal, but Sony supporters have now had their systems for over a year, and there’s clearly more between them and that power than a button.



@fatboi i thought u said the playstation 4 had suspend/resume already


http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2015/02/24/its-been-two-years-where-is-suspendresume-for-ps4/135954/

You must be mistaken. I never said that.

I'm going to bet that you saw me say "suspend" but I was talking about when you open up certain apps like PS Now to stream a game, the current game that's playing get's suspended. I'm not talking about suspend/resume as in the actual suspending of the system period.

 

[illadope]

so sony can lie to us and get away with it?


ole ps home beta ass feature(comes out years later after expected and is trash)

Breh who cares, Im thankful for whatever theyve given me so far. Id go crazy if i relied on shyt that was sposed to come out but didnt.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

You must be mistaken. I never said that.

I'm going to bet that you saw me say "suspend" but I was talking about when you open up certain apps like PS Now to stream a game, the current game that's playing get's suspended. I'm not talking about suspend/resume as in the actual suspending of the system period.

na we had this debate a while back, and i said i hate that ps4 dont have it and u was like the xbox and the ps4 one aint no different


after opening any app i hate having to load the game back up, xbox i can go to anything(twitch, any digital game, apps) and come back wit my game exactly where i left off


having to load the game up on ps4 seems so bruh

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Breh who cares, Im thankful for whatever theyve given me so far. Id go crazy if i relied on shyt that was sposed to come out but didnt.

man if already experienced it on another system the shyt is so and a huge problem to come back to i hate loading the fukking games up bro

 

[Fatboi1]

na we had this debate a while back, and i said i hate that ps4 dont have it and u was like the xbox and the ps4 one aint no different


after opening any app i hate having to load the game back up, xbox i can go to anything(twitch, any digital game, apps) and come back wit my game exactly where i left off

The PS4 IS like that though which is why I said some apps either run at the same time or some suspend the running game.

For example, if I"m playing a game on PS4 and I switch to Netflix, the PS4 will quickly suspend the game and put me on Netflix. When I switch back to the main menu and go to the game, it'll be right back at where I left it. No reloading or whatnot.

having to load the game up on ps4 seems so bruh

I'm gonna call bs on that, PS4 games load considerably faster than XB1 games virtually all the time especially when it comes to installing and downloading updates.
I'm gonna shoot a quick clip to show you what I'm talking about.

 

[illadope]

Cry about what Sony does but not about the lies Congress does that actually have an impact on us breh's....

 

[Ineedmoney504]

The PS4 IS like that though which is why I said some apps either run at the same time or some suspend the running game.

For example, if I"m playing a game on PS4 and I switch to Netflix, the PS4 will quickly suspend the game and put me on Netflix. When I switch back to the main menu and go to the game, it'll be right back at where I left it. No reloading or whatnot.



I'm gonna call bs on that, PS4 games load considerably faster than XB1 games virtually all the time especially when it comes to installing and downloading updates.
I'm gonna shoot a quick clip to show you what I'm talking about.

u not understanding i dont even have to load the game on xbox

and madden takes a long ass time to load, it has to download rosters, connection to servers, verify bullshyt shyt is like a 2 minute process, same wit 2k

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Cry about what Sony does but not about the lies Congress does that actually have an impact on us breh's....

cry about a nikka crying bout sony, instead worrying about congress bruhs

 

[Fatboi1]

u not understanding i dont even have to load the game on xbox

and madden takes a long ass time to load, it has to download rosters, connection to servers, verify bullshyt shyt is like a 2 minute process, same wit 2k

Yeah you gotta load the game on Xbox if you switching games. If you got two digital games on your Xbox, only one can be suspended right?? You can't say suspend both Madden and BF4 at the same time while you go watch TV or get on Netflix right?

 

[illadope]

cry about a nikka crying bout sony, instead worrying about congress bruhs

im just trollin breh

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Yeah you gotta load the game on Xbox if you switching games. If you got two digital games on your Xbox, only one can be suspended right?? You can't say suspend both Madden and BF4 at the same time while you go watch TV or get on Netflix right?

yea u can, i can load tomb raider, madden, bf(all digital game i have, also have that ea service that give u the free games) all at the same times, go jump into amazon prime and and go back to any game with out missing a beat bro

 

[Fatboi1]

yea u can, i can load tomb raider, madden, bf(all digital game i have, also have that ea service that give u the free games) all at the same times, go jump into amazon prime and and go back to any game with out missing a beat bro

fukk outta here