Good Pinball Arcade News : They're moving forward with Season 3 tables. Here's the first - Fish Tales:

Bad Pinball Arcade News : Season 3 will be only one table per release. Season pass for ten releases will be $29.99, so that means at least $3 per table, but probably more like $4. Less value per table.

Ugh, well, they better be good tables instead of the Gottlieb trash like the last few packs. Fish Tales is a good start at least. So only one table per month now?

They just announced that Pinball Arcade for the PS4 will be on PSN this Tuesday, Dec 17. There is also a PS4 disc version currently available at Amazon for $39.99 which includes all the Season One tables.
They still haven't announced the pricing on PSN, but have said previously there will be some sort of a discount for owners of the tables on PS3/Vita.

We finally get confirmation of a Pinball Arcade PS4 discount :


Pinball Arcade Out Tomorrow on PS4

+ Posted by Bobby King // Lead Designer, FarSight Studios



The holidays are here, and we’re happy to be launching Pinball Arcade on PS4 tomorrow! We’ve been working hard all year on remastering and relighting the classic pinball tables in our game to take advantage of the PS4′s power. And you’re getting a table on PS4 for free.

That table happens to be one of the best pinballs of all time, Tales of the Arabian Nights, which was designed and manufactured by Williams in 1996. We can’t wait for people to try it who may never have tried pinball before. Pinball is a much deeper game than some people think.
Out Tomorrow

The digital version goes live this week in North America. The blu-ray is also getting delivered to a few retailers this week — a great stocking stuffer for anyone who likes pinball (hint hint).

We’re launching with all of our Season One content available. That’s more than 20 tables worthy of first ballot Pinball Hall of Fame inductions. In fact, nine of the top fourteen ever, according to pinside.com are available from day one on PS4. We’re humbled to get to recreate these masterpieces for all of the real pinball fans out there.


Lighting Tech

Since we started re-creating pinball tables digitally, a decade or so ago, we’ve wanted to implement point lights — the illumination of light from specific points. Pinball tables are a great way to show off this technology. Some tables have more than 100 points of light that have been designed to flash on and off during the different modes and features of the table. I’ll always remember the PS4 for being the platform that we developed this on first.

Also adding to the eye candy is the amount of real-time environment map reflections we can add. Pinball tables are made up of lot of plastic and metal parts. Lots of chrome, combined with lots of colored lights going on and off makes for a beautiful light show!
Improvements

Since we first released the Season One tables on PS3 and PS Vita, we’ve been making fixes and improvements to our engine and each table. These fixes will soon be released for those platforms in a big patch that should be out in January. The PS4 version will get this updated gameplay on day one.


Discounts

We want to give players who own the PS3 and PS Vita content a discount on PS4. There have been some technical hurdles, but we’ve been able to work with PlayStation to implement a loyalty discount on PlayStation Store for the Season One Table Packs. Players who own all of the Season One tables can buy either of the Season One Packs for half price! We’re also giving 10% off of these Season Packs to PS Plus members for the next two weeks.

Happy holidays to all of you guys from everyone at FarSight!

The company releasing the PS4 disc version of Pinball Arcade looks totally legit, you guys. http://www.alliancedigitalmedia.com/

Here's a pic of my current lineup. I'm going to be doing some trimming soon though, I'll be getting rid of at least the Pinball 2000 games (Star Wars Episode 1/Revenge From Mars combo), and Time Machine:


I also installed the greatest mod ever on Tron:


It's fiber optic lighting for the ramps that react differently based on the gameplay. So they change colors depending on the mode you are in and what you are doing. It's super badass.

Nice to see that Farsight learned their lesson from the Crave disaster on the 360 and are now thoroughly vetting their potential publishers.

But dude, their subsidiary is the publisher of Super Juice Master 5000!
http://www.metaversalstudios.com/

Yeah...

I don't understand why they don't just self-publish.

I'd love to see some Oculus Rift support in a pinball game. It would be a lot more work because the way I'm thinking of it, they'd have to render the entire room (since you'd be able to look around). But, it would largely solve the issue of perspective; you could look up to the top of the table and then look down close to the bumpers.

Maybe you'd even be in a room full of tables, and you could walk around to each one.

Can I come over and play? Please!!!

Sure. Seriously, if any of you live close or are in the area, just send me a PM.

"Watch your cornhole man..."

Awesome we can play all night long

Okay, now you are creeping me out... pass revoked!

Sometimes, I miss you guys.

Awww, sometimes we miss you too, PixyJunket.

Thanks, LosingMyMind!

Nice, man... Very nice!

I've been trying to get those for what seems like forever. Pinbits never has them in stock . I was actually tempted to buy your STTNG, but put the $ toward the new ST instead.

After playing a bit at Disney, I'm really thinking of getting Avatar, too.

Well I'm glad I already own a BK2K, because that's going to be in Season 3:
GREAT choices so far. Hopefully no Gottlieb garbage.

I used this plugin for Chrome called "Auto Refresh Plus" and set a watch for the "sold_out.gif" line in the html source, so when that went away, it alerted me. It took like 3 weeks before they were back in stock, but it seems like they've been restocking them every few days ever since.

I've only played Avatar a few times, but I wasn't a fan. It just felt too barebones and didn't have enough going on for me.

Some announcements from Zen today:


Zen Pinball 2 Hits North American PS4s on 12/24, Doctor Strange Out Today

+ Posted by Bobby Loertscher // Community Manager, Zen Studios


Hey everyone, Zen Studios here with a quick update: the release of Zen Pinball 2 on PS4 here in North America has been pushed ever-so-slightly, now releasing next Tuesday.

When you’re working on a new platform with a complicated game, there might be a few hiccups along the way. Everyone at Sony working behind the scenes to make our game releases possible have been incredible and very accommodating. We’re so lucky to have an incredible team (who probably rarely get thanked) making it possible for us to get our games in your hands!

If you need your Zen Pinball fix now, Doctor Strange is still releasing today on PS3 and Vita for $2.99 (and yes, it will be on PS4 next week).



In advance of our PS4 release next week, we want to give you some detailed information about how the import process works. Please bookmark this post in case you need this information next week.

There are a few details that we really need you all to pay close attention to so you have a smooth transition from PS3 to PS4. As you may have read in the announcement post, if you bought the tables coming to PS4 in Zen Pinball 2 on PS3 or PS Vita, you can import those to Zen Pinball 2 on PS4 at no charge. Here are more details on how that works:

The tables can only import from Zen Pinball 2 > Zen Pinball 2. You cannot import from Marvel Pinball or Star Wars Pinball on PS3 > Zen Pinball 2 on PS4. You CAN import from Marvel or Star Wars Pinball on PS3 > Zen Pinball 2 on PS3 and then > PS4.
There is no going backwards from PS4 > PS3. If you want to play the tables on PS3 in the future, we suggest you buy them on PS3 first and then import to PS4.
For those of you who downloaded any of the applicable tables via PS+, you can import to PS4 just the same. However, if your PS+ account expires, you will lose access to the content.

The actual import process is pretty easy, but here is a step by step walkthrough that you can reference if you encounter any issues:

Press the square button (Import Tables) on the collection screen to start the import process
Please wait while the game is searching for tables available for import
If there are tables available to import, the store will offer the next batch of content it has found. Press the x button (Enter) on each offered content’s download icon to add them to downloads, then press the circle button (Back) to return to the collection screen, and if there are still tables to import, the store will offer them in the next batch. Repeat this process until all content is added to the download queue.
Alternatively, if you want to import just a specific table, you can go to the table’s menu, wait a few seconds while the game checks for availability and press the “Download and play!” button when it appears. As the store comes up, press the x button (Enter) on each offered content’s download icon to add them to downloads, and press the circle button (Back) to return to the game.
Wait until all downloads finish (you can check their progress in the PS4 user interface under Notifications/Downloads), and there you go! You can play your imported tables straight away!

If you find the process is not working for you, we have posted a comprehensive FAQ in our forums and are standing by to answer your questions.

I'm not seeing a PS Plus discount on the regular Season 1 Bundle (Discounted) - $14.99

Yeah, same here. Trying to decide if it's worth $1.50 savings to wait until that gets fixed (if it even does). Feel like I should get that discount as well, but it's so little difference, it hardly seems worth complaining about.

Now re-reading that post above, I think they meant that they are giving 10% discounts to PS Plus members for the Season One Bundle and the Season One Pro Bundle (which is a totally worthless difference, BTW). I don't theink they were ever planning on giving 50% off AND 10% off discounts to PS Plus members who owned all Season One tables.