The PS4 - what do we know?

[bn3]

Rumours say end of the year for us and Asia with mid 2014 for eu

 

[bn3]

Not sure what you linked there mate?

 

[MH]

Not sure what you linked there mate?

Removed it, it must have been taken down.


(TT)

 

[bn3]

Fair enough

 

[fradleyp]

What the PS3 should have been

 

[bn3]

What the PS3 should have been

????????????

 

[bn3]

Sorry been late posting official spec as of the reveal this week but here you go

The complete specification is below:



Main Processor

Single-chip custom processor

CPU : x86-64 AMD “Jaguar”, 8 cores

GPU : 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon™ based

graphics engine



Memory

GDDR5 8GB



Hard Disk Drive

Built-in



Optical Drive

(read only)

BD 6xCAV

DVD 8xCAV

I/O

Super-Speed USB (USB 3.0) 、AUX



Communication

Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)

IEEE 802.11 b/g/n

Bluetooth® 2.1 (EDR)







Best easy to read post I could find

 

[fradleyp]

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Graphics like this were available years ago.

Stuff like being able to share, should have been a firmaware update.

 

[Zooropa]

Just had this email from zavvi


Really want one but at that price guner be a long while,hearing rumours of being able to stream the games to the psvita like the wii u does,will be brilliant if you can and will defo boost the sales of the psvita

 

[bn3]

Yer they said its going to but they also said most of the features like that will not be available on release , so I would hold out for at least the first price drop

 

[segel]

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[giu]

with the specs sony put out of the ps4 im actually very disappointed gaming pc's will be better than the ps4 so hopefully they make some adjustments.

 

[DougP]

Will it be able to play PS3 games ?

 

[Firemouth]

all look as as you would expect, old tech dressed up in new clothes.
Am i the only one not pleased that Sony are trying to lock games to consoles?
so once a game is bought it can never be played on any other console (PS4)

not only that but it would be illegal under EU law.
so can you see Sony selling none lock consoles in the EU and lock consoles in the US and the rest of the world?

 

[deedie]

Will it be able to play PS3 games ?

no, it wont

 

[prezzy_78]

Am i the only one not pleased that Sony are trying to lock games to consoles?
so once a game is bought it can never be played on any other console (PS4)

not only that but it would be illegal under EU law.
so can you see Sony selling none lock consoles in the EU and lock consoles in the US and the rest of the world?

Errm they have already said this is not going to happen - all they did was file a patent for the tech some time ago they never said this would be on the ps4 at all

 

[prezzy_78]

with the specs sony put out of the ps4 im actually very disappointed gaming pc's will be better than the ps4 so hopefully they make some adjustments.

What gaming pc's have 8gig of DDR5 RAM at the moment?

 

[prezzy_78]

Sony tells Eurogamer: PlayStation 4 will not block used games.

Shuhei Yoshida confirms it. Plus: source tells EG patent wasn't PS4-related.

Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has told Eurogamer that PlayStation 4 will not block the use of second-hand games, contrary to various reports, speculation and even a Sony patent unearthed last month.

I sat down with Yoshida a few hours after the PS4 reveal tonight and one of the first things I asked was whether used games would be blocked.

"Do you want us to do that?" he asked.

No, I said. I think, if you buy something on a disc, that you have a kind of moral contract with the person you've bought it from that you retain some of that value and you can pass it on.

Do you agree, I asked?"

Yes. That's the general expectation by consumers," said Yoshida. "They purchase physical form, they want to use it everywhere, right? So that's my expectation.

"So if someone buys a PlayStation 4 game, I asked, you're not going to stop them reselling it?"

Aaaah," was Yoshida's initial answer, but seemingly only because he'd forgotten his line. "So what was our official answer to our internal question?" he asked his Japanese PR advisor. The advisor stepped in but didn't seem to answer clearly, at least to my ears. Yoshida then took control again firmly:

"So, used games can play on PS4. How is that?"

I said I thought that was fine.

Interestingly, I also spoke to a Sony source elsewhere at the event this evening who told me that the anti used-game patent*discovered last month*was actually nothing to do with PlayStation 4 at all. The patent suggested that discs would come branded with a contactless tag that could be recognised and read by your console, which would then bind it to you and prevent you from selling it on.

But whatever reason Sony did have for patenting it, it sounds like it wasn't for its next-generation console.

Hopefully Microsoft will also avoid this ludicrous technology with its next-generation Xbox as well.

>>source<<

 

[Firemouth]

Errm they have already said this is not going to happen - all they did was file a patent for the tech some time ago they never said this would be on the ps4 at all

Sony president of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida last week confirmed that used games will play on the PlayStation 4. However, it was not made clear if users would have full access to secondhand titles or if they would need to pay to activate the game as a second owner.

what they actually said was "we will do the right thing". but gave no "yes" or "no" answer.

paying to activate a sh game is the same thing!

 

[bn3]

By looking at the quote you posted from eugamer it actually looks like they are going to attempt to block or just not offer any way for digital download games to be sold on , following in steams footsteps , who are still getting away with it since no one has contested