Just like how Titanfall helped increase sales of the Xbox One by 96%, the release of inFamous: Second Son last Friday has helped increase sales for the PS4 by 106%. PS4 sales were said to have rose 74% during the Titanfall launch, so this is another 104% on top of that, but without actual sales numbers, it’s difficult to tell how many extra PS4s were actually sold.
Sony’s next-gen console is still affected with supply shortages, and the company has told the WSJ that it doesn’t expect to meet demand before this summer. The console is now available in every major territory, including Sony’s home country of Japan, where 300,000 units were sold in the first week.
Ubisoft has confirmed the next Assassin’s Creed game by releasing some next-gen alpha footage of the game, which has been in development for the last three years. Assassin’s Creed Unity is set in France from the clues in the teaser trailer, where you can see the French flag and Notre Dame.
PS4 exclusive inFamous: Second Son has shot to the top of the UK games chart, smoking the competition (get it?) after releasing on Friday, 21st March 2014. inFamous beat multi-platform new release Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, which took second place, and Xbox One exclusive Titanfall, which fell to third place.
A new patch for Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition on the PS4 is now available, updating the game to v1.02. The patch is said to fix the online issues affecting the game since launch, and was patched fairly quickly thanks to players submitting crash reports from the game.
Yet another feature is making it’s way to the PS4 in the next firmware update. This time, it’s the ability to download a game that’s been pre-ordered ahead of the official release date, allowing you to have the game ready to play at launch. However, the feature may be limited to North America for the time being.
With the release of Watch_Dogs finally nailed down and only a couple of month away, Ubisoft have released the first footage of the exclusive content available only on PlayStation. The PS4 and PS3 will get four exclusive missions with approximately 60 minutes of additional gameplay, in addition to a character skin and in-game perk.
If you picked up inFamous: Second Son at the midnight launch, you’ll notice that a patch for the game is already available to download. The patch makes many tweaks and enhancements to the game, including the increase in difficulty to the Normal and Expert difficulty modes. Karma progression has also been increased to support longer gameplay.
In an interview with Geoff Keighley, Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios for SCE revealed that the next PS4 firmware update will allow gamers to dim the lightbar on the DualShock 4. The next firmware is already in development and will be releasing in coming weeks.
Just Add Water has revealed the very firts gameplay trailer for upcoming game Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty. Released in celebration of GDC week, the trailer shows gameplay elements and locations in the game that re-imagine the original Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee game.
