Sony unveils the PlayStation 4, coming this holiday season

Happy to see the new consoles finally arriving, Wont be buying one, but console ports will be much more bearable now.
 
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.
 
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.
 
3 way SLI try 18GB GDDR5!!!!!!!!




Yeah but you have to cough up $3000 for that 18gb
 
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.
 
I'm happy with the first three PlayStations. There are so many great games who needs a new system?
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.
 
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.
No we don't. Consoles are fine for kids but real men use the proper tool. A PC.
 
I agree, I only PC game. But don't you think PC games are being held back, because of games being produced primarily for consoles, and not utilizing the more powerful PC's?
Of course they are but you have to realize buying a console costs far less than a gaming PC hence their popularity. Publishers are only interested in making money so they publish more games for consoles and put PC games on the back burner. When they're asked about this they always cite: 1. PC game piracy is too rampant. 2. There are far to many PC configurations to be able to cater for all of them.
While I tend to agree somewhat with their 2nd statement, the 1st one has gotten old very quickly.
 
@ dennis777
Wait so what's your PS3 sitting there for?
As for my personal experience, I have 2 as doorstops, 1 still working.
What happens when it fails (which it will), and I can't buy PS3's new anymore?
Games become coasters?
Guess I'll just need a PC powerful enough to emulate it!
IMO both M$ and Sony made machines prone to failure this last time. I can only hope the next gen are a little more resilient. In contrast, my phat PS2 still works after 13 years. So does my Gamecube for that matter, but Nintendo has always made tough machines.
 
Of course they are but you have to realize buying a console costs far less than a gaming PC hence their popularity. Publishers are only interested in making money so they publish more games for consoles and put PC games on the back burner. When they're asked about this they always cite: 1. PC game piracy is too rampant. 2. There are far to many PC configurations to be able to cater for all of them.
While I tend to agree somewhat with their 2nd statement, the 1st one has gotten old very quickly.

I wasn't arguing with that fact at all, I totally agree, and only an ignorant douche (to keep language clean) would want them to develop for the minority.
My comment was just trying to say that whether you play console games or PC games, it will affect you either way - which you seemed to not understand.
 
In reference to the 30k polygon count, they did not say that was the potential for the ps4; that was just the potential for 1 character in 1 GAME that is coming out THIS year, so the potential count is much higher.

(Not that polygon counts are the most important aspect of gaming anyway.)
 
In contrast, my phat PS2 still works after 13 years. So does my Gamecube for that matter, but Nintendo has always made tough machines.
Okay and I still have my original xbox 360 from 8 years ago and it is working beautifully; in contrast I went through 3 ps2 in that consoles lifetime... you can throw out subjective allegories all you want but hardware failure happens... TO EVERY CONSOLE.

And honestly quit whining about having to buy new games, Sony never said that the ps4 was going to be backwards compatible, so the blame for investing in the current generation is yours alone. You obviously can still play them now and you have been able to, so it's not as if you bought them and never got to use them.
 
Ahh so many good things about this. Basically, Sony, Take my money. Really.

I love that all next gen systems use AMD(most likely). This is so much good news for the whole computer industry.

People will whine about console ports and what not, but the games are being designed around a PC basically, so while the ports may be just ports, I think we will see a whole bunch of devs porting to the PC with upgraded graphics, because the system is based on x86!

I love that the system uses 8 cores, I bet we will see so many more games coded for all 8 cores which could mean we will see AMD doing better vs Intel processors. Which will also mean games should play better for all gamers.

Last gen I was Xbox, this gen Sony. I think I'm going to enjoy my stay.
 
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