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Because I’ll be liveblogging the PlayStation event, I’m writing this ahead of time and completely banking on the fact that we’ll have some idea of what the new PlayStation will look like, cost, etc — thoughts?
I’ve been informed that, at some point we’ll also have more local information about the console, so I’ll update as soon as I hear what’s what.
In the meantime — have at it!
Less focus on games….you know this based on two hours, of which more than half of it was showing off games and tech?
I mean Sony never buy up companies and put out more “AAA” (hate that title but yeah) than their competitors.
What an insightful bunch we have here.
the more a company focus’s on social media the worse off it is for gaming, sociel media leads to casual gaming which in turn leads to micro transaction. not being elitist, just pointing out a fact.
i see a the PS4 as a portal for sony into the microtransaction world, whats the bet in 2-3 years there will be full facebook integration, where you can buy microtransation items for your facebook games directly from SOE? meaning SOE will start making pay to play games more predominent, making real gaming a secondary function of the console.
Insightful enough for you?
Cool, even if they do this, as long as it isn’t mandatory, who cares?
If people want to pay to do it, more power to them. I won’t. I probably won’t even sign my fb account up to my PS4 at all.
Problem solved.
The problem isnt the making me use FB (just wont happen), its the lack of focus on real games.
im a PC gamer, have been for over 16 years and i’ve seen DEV’s lose the love and move to consoles as they have a wider audience/deeper pockets, now the same trend is occuring with console devs, moving into the social gaming realm no longer are games made for the love of the game.
What lack of focus. All you know about the PS4 is 2 hours long, of which more than half of that was about games.
So in it’s entire existance, more than half of it has been about games. That is focus.
sooo the entire history of gaming goes out the window in your views because the PS4 has only 2 hours of info? who has no insight now? GG buddy GG
Lol what? How did you leap too such a ridiculous conclusion?
Your argument is a lack of focus on games. They spent more than half of the show talking about games. Again, I ask, where is the lack of focus?
Those new control sticks = best part about the new controller (and/or system). It almost looks usable now!
Couldn’t see them in anything my friend was showing me before. But that’s friggen good news too.
As usual (except that one time I got a DS day one) I will wait for a big fat pile of games I like before I buy. All these new features seem exciting/frightening but I’m just a game fan.
I make very little use of the extra features consoles offer.
But one day, I will own one. 🙂
It sounds exciting, but that’s what these things are designed to do so I will wait and see what comes up over the year. To be honest, I’m not that excited by new consoles any more because they are becoming close enough to PCs that I can’t justify having separate machines as much. As always, it will come down to the games and the platforms which require me to sign up for social network crap the least.
The social media integration is extremely dissapointing for me too. I choose to have nothing to do with it, and do not want it appearing on my console. Hopefully can turn everything off easily.
Obviously still working on the aesthetic look of it.
Line-up title isn’t wowing me, hopefully Naughty Dog announce a delicious PS4 Uncharted.
Diablo 3 on Playstation… Everyone knew it was happening, I wonder what changes they’ll make, perhaps it won’t have the always online component (because you know, no-one’s ever hacked a console before)
They didn’t show the hardware and they glossed over the tech specs and capability.
I don’t think anyone is surprised that the graphics look better. That’s a given.
I’m interested in what the whole thing can bring to the table over a PC or other consoles.
The sharing thing is interesting but I don’t know how much I’ll really used that. I always suffer from the problem that half my friends play on Xbox and half on PS. Which instantly splits my “social” experience in half. Or actually in 3rds since my PC friends take up the largest chunk.
Nothing really interesting on the Move front, no really new tech. They glossed over the controller completely – what is the little screen for?
The hard drive seems very small considering we will be streaming, downloading and installing pretty much everything. (my steam folder is about 350 gig).
That being said the background loading and instant demos is awesome. The background downloading for blizzard games atm works pretty well.
Will the usb ports (if any) and games support mouse and keyboard?
All this talk of using multiple devices, phones, tablets, the vita etc… seems very counter intuitive to not release the content on multiple platforms. I’d love to finally be able to play watchdogs or a racing game with PC friends from my PS4 or xbox or vice versa. Exclusives suck.
No word on the single player side of things, no word on DRM or backwards compatibility.
One good thing is that the hardware is getting closer to PCs so we might finally see games that are equally optimised for multiple platforms.
EDIT: also price is going to be a massively important point. If its $900 like the PS3 at launch, they are dreaming.
I don’t think it has a disc drive. I really didn’t believe the rumour, but the other rumours associated with it were true. Also, no mention in the architecture, lots of mention of pre-loading.
I think I’m going to buy one all the same. I think Sony has the best internal dev studios, so the third party support is nice, but not that important to me because I prefer PC.
Great.. All we get is a controller. So unless the PS4 guts are IN THE CONTROLLER.. Then we had a PS4 announcement but no actual PS4.
they had that “light bar” as well that tracks the controllers… so I guess if you fit the PS4 into that and 4 controllers then?
~Suspend/resume function is awesome, always love it on portables and consoles desperately need it
~Dedicated hardware to handling background downloads updates etc, PS3 is a total mess so anything will be better
~Diablo 3 lol they should’ve have bothered going on stage if they weren’t going to announce Ghost…
~Destiny will be on PS3 anyway so who cares
They started strong, but went totally eh by the end. Oh well.
I’m actually disappointed. They didn’t show The Last Guardian or the console itself, even if it’s not the final design. They did have a few new IPs, but it was a bit disheartening to see another Killzone and Infamous game.
There goes any hope I had for The Last Guardian seeing the light of day.
Prior to this, I wasn’t sold. But now…..make it a reasonable price and I may just camp out and get one, just for Killzone & Infamous.
Remote play is already on the PS3 for the Vita and only supports like a certain 10 or so PS3 games so I’m not expecting much.
As a PC gamer I’m happy they’re largely confining the experimentation to the software and the controller, and leaving the internal hardware nice and PC-like.
I’m wanting the console, I’m wanting a few games for the console. However I’m reluctant to start throwing money at my local games retailer for something I haven’t seen and don’t know the price for.
I’m guessing they haven’t finalised how it will look, but they probably should have just said that.
That is what they call ‘Professional?’ 2 hours of drivel about how amazing a console is, that is nowhere to be found!
Here are some extended cuts of multi-platform games – all streamed in real-time from the PC out back!
Does Sony realise that the PS4 will be leaked before E3 2013, defeating the purpose in holding back the reveal of the PS4?
And I thought I was underwhelmed by last years WiiU announcement. Video sharing and the ability to watch other people play. Wow what innovation!, don’t tell youtube.
Sony Computer Entertainment is a pail imitation of it’s original self. GTFO!
Suckin F*cks and it F*ckin Sucks! http://youtu.be/zovYQ1zXD0k
So as it turns out, it’s probably going to be a winner this cycle. Strong focus on games and social play, top notch third party support and good launch/near launch games – those are the things we want to hear. If they can bring it in at less than $400 without DRM crippleware it will hands down crush this cycle. If it’s closer to $500 or has the DRM, it will depend on what Microsoft do.
They didn’t answer any of the questions I wanted answered.
The one about used games rumours is probably the key one for me. Also, need a disc drive. I have a small internet plan with slow speeds. Streaming and downloading games won’t cut the mustard for me.
You and 80% of Australia. My internet is slow as shit, and because of where I live, no cable ever, and NBN isn’t even saying within the next 3 years.
Well if anything the support from third parties was very strong. If only Nintendo cold get this type of support, although they have the luxury of one extra year to get third party support (which i hope is coming). Only problem i see is if the games are on ps3 as well which means a little less incentive to get the ps4 version unless there are major improvements, although it has some new exclusives too which look interesting (as all launch consoles should). IMO very strong showing (support wise) and Nintendo need to show alot more support for the Wii U during E3 or sooner.
As for hardware i expected it to be powerful, psp vita integration is still here nor there (Gamepad is still finding its feet to) and i dont think the vita integration will do much for the console, social gaming doesnt sound a big a draw to me but we will see how they play this feature and games streaming for my mind wont be appealing to alot of people with slow internet.
Excellent third party support means regardless of the hardware not being spectacular (think ps3 to ps2 spectacular) it still should get the games that sell systems so ps4 seems off to a good start. Now it comes down to price.
Im just happy graphics can move forward, the current Unreal engine is getting a little old and grey looking.
I like where things are heading, but it comes down to price at the end of the day. Going the x86 route seems like an insanely smart move especially if Sony ever wanted to move any of their in house exclusives to Windows.
In other news on it, I got called a Sony fanboy for pointing out to someone that it’s a moot point for saying the next Xbox will have better specs than the PS4, when there is only speculation about what is in the next Xbox.. I suppose I am a raging Sony fanboy with all these Sony consoles I don’t own 😛
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