Updated: PlayStation 4 Becomes Reality

[Easton Dark]

Recording your games is pretty cool, but...

Taking over your friend's controller to help them? Like, over PSN? That's a new idea that... isn't so terrible. Interesting. Gonna be following these features.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Its called a PS4.....call me totally surprised. lol.

Thing is,with every new generation of consoles, we just get shinier versions of previous games....except with an even higher budget for development cost. The graphics of look amazing, but why should that surprise anyone? I expect that. Maybe im just cynical, but how much of what they will show will be real or just games with touched up graphics to make them impressive?

Like alot of us we grew from playing C64 and always wanted better graphics. Now, i think we are at a point were the graphics are perfect. Can we now concentrate on new experiences in games? Not more CoD with shinier graphics.

 

[DugMachine]

That streaming option and allowing friends to take over one another's games sounds interesting. Monitoring this thread.

 

[dalek sec]

I'm just waiting for info to confirm or disconfirm the "Used-Game-Blocking" rumors. Because if Playstation doesn't do it, there's no way in hell XBox WILL do it unless they want to send players flocking to their biggest competetor in droves.

I know I'll sure as hell be picking up whichever one doesn't block used games (assuming that one does and one doesn't).

Likewise here. If they're smart and don't block used games then they can gladly have my money. If not, well I guess I could see how I like an XBox. So far it sounds interesting but that's the deal breaker for me right now.

 

[J Tyran]

Some pretty interesting stuff, I like the idea of the Gaikai enhanced Vita remote play. PS3>Vita remote play kinda sucks.

 

[piinyouri]

Still waiting on the anti-used game verdict.
So far the low power feature seems very cool and useful.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Also, a tech demo isnt game play footage.

My Captcha said Grump Cat. lol

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I was honestly not expecting that! GDDR5 RAM is stupidly quick! Assuming that they have a good CPU and a northbridge chip that can push such high speeds from RAM to CPU then we might actually see something that can match and possibly even BEAT a high-end PC!

Keep in mind though, all those social gimmicks like taking video footage, screenshots etc. consumes RAM. Question is, how much. And how much will developers have left to use for actual games when they have to account for all those things in advance when making the game?

 

[Phrozenflame500]

The stream is so awful. Sound cutting out, the chat constantly crashing and I can't log in because their servers are too busy.
Apparantly UStream will be integrated into the PS4, how nice, awful streaming directly from my console

 

[Vault101]

8Gb of DDR5 RAM? That's INSANE!

Yeah, that's almost as good as my computer! Wait...

That's better than any computer. PC's only have DDR3 RAM. Only GPU's have DDR5 memory.

If I might ask what's the difference?

 

[The_Darkness]

Low power feature and recording footage just might be enough to pull me over to the PlayStation and away from Xbox (which would be amusing, since it was the X360 that converted me away from Nintendo...)

The online features? I don't see myself having a strong online console presence any time soon, so I'll give that a miss. And if it's anti-used games, I'm out.

Now I just want to see a price-tag. Because that's the other thing that's likely to leave me running for the hills.

 

[dagens24]

Colour me jaded but I give zero effs about sharing and videos and blah blah blah; I just want to play my damn game.

 

[EHKOS]

Apparently you'll be able to share your gaming in real time and allow your friends to take over of your controller over the internet. Yeah, can't wait to see that get hacked. xD

I can just see so many jerks fucking people over *jumps into a game while friend is in the bathroom, drops a grenade at their feet and then goes offline*

Still, while I'm impressed with the system (somewhat) I'm not fancying participating in this generation. Plus I'd need to see games.

Edit: Well, the playing as you download thing is neat, I've been thinking of that for years.

 

[dagens24]

Also, gametrailers has a really strong stream going. Working 100% for me.

 

[J Tyran]

I was honestly not expecting that! GDDR5 RAM is stupidly quick! Assuming that they have a good CPU and a northbridge chip that can push such high speeds from RAM to CPU then we might actually see something that can match and possibly even BEAT a high-end PC!

Keep in mind though, all those social gimmicks like taking video footage, screenshots etc. consumes a lot of RAM. I wonder how much RAM will developers have left to use for actual games.

Wont PCs be able to catch up pretty quickly anyway? Say with 12GB or so of triple channel PC3-22400 for system memory and 4GB or more of GDDR5 on the graphics card? This stuff is already available on the market with the price almost dropping day by day

Edit

The standby feature will be awesome, the Vita has it and its one of the best thing about the console. You can just pause your game and shut it down with one button, then minutes, hours or even days later one button press will restart it exactly where you left off.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I was honestly not expecting that! GDDR5 RAM is stupidly quick! Assuming that they have a good CPU and a northbridge chip that can push such high speeds from RAM to CPU then we might actually see something that can match and possibly even BEAT a high-end PC!

Keep in mind though, all those social gimmicks like taking video footage, screenshots etc. consumes a lot of RAM. I wonder how much RAM will developers have left to use for actual games.

Wont PCs be able to catch up pretty quickly anyway? Say with 12GB or so of triple channel PC3-22400 for system memory and 4GB or more of GDDR5 on the graphics card? This stuff is already available on the market with the price almost dropping day by day.

Of course. In fact, PS4 will probably already be technically outdated on release day. But a high end PC will be a lot more expensive than PS4. I mean, really, really significantly more expensive.

 

[mb16]

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/ps4-release-date-news-and-features-937822

"The PS4 will back the same CPU as the Xbox 720 but will have more powerful graphics. The beating heart of both consoles will come in the form of an AMD processor based on its forthcoming Jaguar CPU architecture. The chip packs eight cores (yay) but is clocked at a measly 1.6GHz (boooo). The main benefit of a setup like this is that the console will be very power efficient, meaning less draw and quieter operation, i.e. no need for any mahoosive, loud and invasive cooling fans."

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

Well I certainly won't be rushing out to buy this Killzone thing.