So did they ever show the actual hardware besides the controller?
So did they ever show the actual hardware besides the controller?
If what I read is true, the PS4 uses an AMD CPU based on a completely different architecture than the PS3's Cell CPU, making local backwards compatibility impossible.
If you want backwards compatibility with PS3 games, your two options are high speed internet streaming or keep your old PS3.
Not very exciting when they don't even reveal what the fricken thing looks like. I like the touchpad on the controller...screens on controllers are so ridiculous (sorry Wii U) yet touch controls are so useful. The graphics were surprisingly boring. My PC does that now. All in all, a mediocre debut IMO.
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Seemed to spend a lot of time talking up "instant" aka streamed gaming. Not even downloading to your machine, straight "remote server gaming." This is the gaming I disagree with most, because once those servers shut down, the game is lost forever.
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Consoles have always been way behind computers when it comes to hardware.
I don't understand how anyone would expect this to be any different.
Oh well, greed is greed after-all.
I spent some time chatting with a fellow (younger) gamer today, and I think the move is due to years of out right theft.
If a fox keeps stealing from a chicken coop, then farmer brown is either gonna' make her chicken coop that much more secure, or she will keep losing her chickens.
The coop(s) are a gettin' really high tech now.... boys and girls. No more lost chickens.
Plus when the chickens get old they get killed off to make room for new ones...
(btw this is an analogy regarding B.C., and dead or missing future games/servers....).
Game on!
Probably. But it's too soon for its time, imo. My 8 gig WiiU update took 1 hour to d/l in the dead of night. How long do you think a 50 gig COD game d/l by tens of millions of gamers at the same time would take....hours, days, maybe a week? No matter how you slice it such a strain would be a heavy burden on current data networks even with PS4's new "partial play" feature. I think it's one of those technological step you can't force into it without the rest of the world catching up.
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I missed the last 10-15 minutes because Arrow came on. They were just starting to talk about Bungie and Destiny. Did I miss anything else important?
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That's not what I took away by the "instant" theme. They meant that the time it takes to start up and play a game is getting reduced. For example, you can hibernate a game and then hit a button and resume playing the next day. Also, you can play downloadable games AS they are being downloaded (not streamed), and they seemed to suggest the startup sequence when turning on the system will be quick.
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Agreed. pre-ordered, preloaded directly frrm the manufacturer (as in MS and PS networks, as for Destiny).
Has anyone else noticed that gamestop is selling more and more non-game related stuff. Beats for God's sake are there now (btw THE world's worse overpriced music missing heavily counterfeited headphones)
I think that gamestop's days are n u m b e r e d........ dum dum da dum....
Game on!
Can't think of anything that they showed that I didn't like.
Super developer friendly system with the support of all of the major studios, refinement of social features (friend list, multiplayer experience), refinement/evolution of existing controller and move tech, integration with 3rd party hardware like tablets and PCs, game streaming tech, expanded functionality for Vita ... I can't think of anything else that I was hoping for/dreaming of.
Other than those pining the loss of physical backwards compatibility (which was always going to happen if they were going to move away from Cell processors for the sake of making a more developer friendly system) or those who were desperate to see what the box itself looked like I'm not sure what all the unimpressed were hoping for beyond what was shown.
Is there anybody who was unimpressed that can give us some specific detail on what you were hoping for that they didn't deliver on?
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Other than the partnership with Blizzard and the coming of Diablo III I'm unimpressed
I wonder what Sony's answer would be if they were asked if they felt that the PS3 achieved expectations.