PlayStation 4

Wired opinion piece.

Nothing against Sony, but this is pretty funny.

No, it is not.

It is absolutely hilarious, and given what Sony actually did, rather accurate as well.

edited 22nd Feb '13 3:58:17 AM by TamH70

Further proof it didn't have to be two hours.

Well this is mildly alarming. I was thinking of buying some old PS 1 games I used to have on the PS 3, now I'm wondering if I should.

How different can the consoles be?

I get the feeling that the console wars are going to just kind of fall by the wayside after this generation, because there's really little you can advance at this point that's still feasible, and it's a touch silly that one specific media is spread over a plethora of exclusive devices. All they can really do is throw in more gimmicks, which only makes them a pain in the ass later on down the road when people want to emulate things. I mean seriously, emulating the Wii U is only really feasible by having a synced PC and tablet simultaneously running the same software on independent virtual machines.

In short we could really use a standardization of accessibility, and that'll probably come into play after the PS 4 and 720. Especially given that Sony is faltering now.

Very different. The PS 4 doesn't have the Cell processor, the split memory pools or the non-standard crap that was inside the PS 3. It's basically going to be analogous to a mildly updated Xbox 360 slim, with a bit more memory and a blu-ray drive. (that isn't a dig, btw, since it is going to be a PC (mostly) which is exactly what the Xbox 360 slim is.)

It amuses me how quickly these things come out.

Spin almost everything in a negative light, then fail to mention anything that was positive.

This is the internet. Loving something isn't nearly as funny.

I did enjoy the animations.

I like Andre Meadow's breakthrough of it myself:

Was that animated video from China? It sounded vaguely Mandarin Chinese for me, and was hilarious to boot.

edited 22nd Feb '13 6:37:08 PM by TamH70

Uh oh...

Blegh

I do buy most of my games new, but if this becomes Online Pass 2.0... eck.

It's those Taiwanese guys who make those bizarre CGI versions of major news stories.

edited 22nd Feb '13 8:11:41 PM by edvedd

Yeah, I think I'll pass on this one. We don't know how much the system is, we don't know how much games will cost for it new, and I think we all do know what the publishers are going to do.

What amuses me is that these publishers think if there's no used copy, buyers will plop down full price.

No, they'll just wait til the software drops in price.

I'm not really any kind of expert on this stuff, but it seems to me that Sony's going to drop the $60 standard with this system. I mean, looking at those tech demos and knowing how high development costs are, would $60 a disc really be enough?

Nintendo might have had the right idea after all...

They already confirmed that PS 4 games will still be priced $60 at max.

That's a relief, though it may disgruntle some people who are still buying PS 3 games new when they think about the comparison.

Did they confirm that during the announcement, or was that some time earlier?

Jack Tretton confirmed it. He said games would cost from 99 cents to $60.

PS 4 games for 99 cents? Betterrrr... write an article about it!

Well Sony, you're tied to this one now! Deliver or drop dead!

edited 22nd Feb '13 9:12:17 PM by Ryuhza

Eh...I'll believe it when I see it. Those development costs are going to have to hit consumers somewhere.