PlayStation 4

...What?

I've used Play Station Now (applied for the beta a while ago). It works decently enough, but it is in no way a proper replacement for local content. It has input lag and some image compression, and all-in-all feels a little sluggish.

The network infrastructure of most countries (esp. the US) is nowhere near good enough to support a quality all-streaming future. Maybe if something changes in a big way, but I doubt that will happen for a long while.

edited 8th Apr '14 10:22:23 PM by Ryuhza

this place needs me here

Not necessarily streaming, but I can definitely see paying for "Playstation" as a service, and downloading straight to your TV.

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15 years ago, when the ps2 was released, dial up was the de facto way of getting internets in your house.

i am pretty sure things will be mildly different as far as infrastructure goes two console generations into the future.

"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." Twitter

The US? Investing in infrastructure in an age where any talk of public works leads to 50 million people screaming the word socialism over and over and over? You really think thats going to happen?

Call centre has got a point. That sort rapid technological growth takes widespread investment from above. The Ps2 was born during the Roaring Twenties, we're not going to that era corporate confidence return for a long long time.

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Sony engineer talks about the Morpheus.

Apparently, the Move was always meant to be a "VR Wand."

And here's my favorite quote.

So, they don't want to be complete idiots and go after an unproven market without any forethought (plenty of cynics will tell you that peripherals rarely-to-never take off). Like I said before, I really don't want this thing to fail in such a spectacular way that Sony loses all the headway they've made for the gaming division. Playing around with new technology can be a pretty dangerous game for a company taking as many losses as Sony are right now.

Google fibre. 15 years is plenty of time for google to figure things out. If not them, then someone else.

It's like people forget that not so long ago, you had to use a laptop and wifi to use the internet while pooping, and not so long before that, you had to read a book.

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I thought people still used toilet paper....

Wait. The PS2 came out in '99? You sure of that?

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

PS 2 was 2000, I believe. Which is close enough. 15 years is already rounding for two generations. It's more like 13.

x4: That's assuming that major cable and Internet companies aren't trying to find ways to slow down or kill fiber optic-based Internet providers that aren't owned by them, which I highly doubt is the case.

Lampshade Hanging: It's a lifestyle.

You're assuming that even combined they have the influence to stand up to Google.

Hrm... well, Google is a powerful force on the Internet, but you have to have Internet access in the first place to utilize it fully.

But this should be a topic for a different forum.

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So there's going to be a The Last of Us Remaster? Sounds cool, but it makes me wonder if Sony is going to open the floodgates to milking remasters like they did with the PS 3.

If it worked before...

It seems like something just done for people who had a 360 and are buying a Ps4.

Really, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, and The Last of Us: Remastered Edition are different from the other HD Collections. They're just Game of the Year editions. It just so happens that the year crossed over a console generation line, so they got a facelift too.

And God Of War Collection just started off as a way to get people up to speed for God of War 3. Then came Sly Cooper Remaster, and then Team Ico, and then a slew of others.

I don't even hate them, I just see them taking advantage of the lack of Backwards Compatibility again.

Except, again, that whether there was a new console or not we'd be seeing rereleases of Tomb Raider and The Last of Us around now, because Game of the Year editions are a thing, and have been for a while. Injustice: Gods Among Us did the exact same thing at launch. It's just that it also came out for PS 3, 360, and Vita at the same time.

As for backwards compatibility...it's not like it's that easy to find PS 2 games anymore. As someone whose first Sony system was a PS 3 bought at the end of the console cycle, HD Collections are super convenient for me because I can experience classic older games at a discount. People who have been playing on Sony platforms all their lives aren't really the audience for them.

I just want that PS 4 version of Metro Last Light they said they'd make

Oh really when?

Yeah, well, they also said they'd make it for Wii U, and then scabbed on that.

There's a rumor going around that the new video-editing feature was worked on by the guys behind Sony Vegas. To offer a feature that PC-users would shell out money for implies that they want to make some kind of money back on this.

One site asked about the possibility of selling "premium" transitions based around certain games, and other customizations with the basic tools available for free.

How do the tropers feel about that idea?

edited 17th Apr '14 9:14:20 AM by Alucard

I'm down for it if the Vegas-esque editor is for people who do the normal Playstation Plus Subscription and not an additional upcharge.