Sony unveils the PlayStation 4, coming this holiday season

I was very impressed and quite frankly did not expect them to achieve those levels of graphics. And we haven't even seen what their premiere developers have done yet, IE: Naughty Dog, Polyphony Digital, and Sony Santa Monica.

Imagine what Polyphony Digital could so with that raw power! and RAM for that matter, the amount of detail they could add to a track (and car) could be astonishing!

I just wish they could have released a few more details and actually show off the console, we didn't get to see it at all and they didn't go into the details such as hard drive space (and if it is changeable like the ps3) or show the OS properly from boot up, Hell my stream cut off a few times but I didn't even hear a mention on Blu-ray! but I think thats a given

Original Crysis had more than 2M poligons on some scenes on highest settings. 30k is very low...

The 7970 has 3gb of GDDR5. My 680 has 2gb of ram and it's the same speed as the 7970. The 680 with 4gb is barely faster than the 680 with 2gb. The amount of ram is not what counts for a GPU.

And the 8gb of ram was for the PS4's system memory, not the GPU

they were talking about individual characters, not entire scenes. Watch the event and you'd have known.

Happy to see the new consoles finally arriving, Wont be buying one, but console ports will be much more bearable now.

It's Unified Memory meaning it's both system and video card memory.

Okay guys, I think this is a bit of a misprint.

Didn't they say it would have 8GB of RAM, and it would have GDDR5 on its graphics card (without giving it a number)?

8GB of GDDR5 sounds ridiculous for the power of the graphics card they will be using.

Nope, if a dev wanted to, they could use the whole 8GB for the Graphics card, its unified memory is what they said.

"its like buying an xbox360 even you have a ps3"

How can anyone possibly understand? This makes no sense. It's not even a real sentence.

3 way SLI try 18GB GDDR5!!!!!!!!




Yeah but you have to cough up $3000 for that 18gb

Yeah and pigs can fly. The 8 gigs is system RAM, not video RAM.

The rumor is 429 and 529

I guess the Dual Shock 4 is the PS4 lol. I really wasted my time watching this stream for like 2 hours... and not even seeing the console.

Ps4 is just ps3 over again, only with beefed up graphics.
This is becoming more of an american social network entertainment pc box, might as well go for the Xbox.
Playstation isn't what it is just to be...where are the japanese inhouse game developers?
Every original A-title that made the ps1 and ps2 big, is not there anymore and every japanese game project is being outsourced to eastern europe and american game companies, no disrespect to them, but it's just not the same experience.

I'm happy with the first three PlayStations. There are so many great games who needs a new system?

eh just better graphics... I gotta say Killzone got me interested, looks awesome, but there will be plenty of those types of games ahead for PC.

The current consoles bottleneck what can be done in terms of graphics, and scale. Some people are fine being locked in at graphics which are lower than the 'low' setting on the PC versions, and being locked in at 30fps. But they tend to be the people who haven't experienced the better graphics on a PC.

Look at it this way: the only thing that let us go from Pacman sized games (not that I dislike Pacman of course) to Battlefield, and Crysis, and Grand Theft Auto, etc, is more powerful consoles. Grand Theft Auto is a great example, because they wanted to add more to GTA4, like jets - but couldn't, because the console couldn't handle more.
Imagine being able to go into every single house in the game, or imagine what the next stage of destruction could be for Battlefield.

There is a reason Battlefield limits the amount of people on a console, compared to the 64 per game on PC. People need to realize that we really do need new generation consoles.

Sli does not work that way, Only the memory for one gpu will be used, 6GB