Playstation 4

[ImaNihilist]

Hmm, I'm trying to remember any buzz words. I thought Mark Cerny did a great job by first telling us what the specs were without using buzzwords. He said "x86", "unified memory", and "enhanced GPU" then he continued to show tech demos to illustrate what these items mean in real terms. They played the thousands of balls dropping to show what the upgraded CPU and GPU could handle. He then made it even more real by showing a demo of the physics heavy game that he is working on, Knack. They followed that up by showing what the hardware could handle graphically with an Unreal Engine 4 demo.

That breaks it down about as easy as you can get. No marketing BS, no dumb names.

Its not Sony's fault that your friends do not know what x86 means lol. Maybe they should have tuned into Jimmy Fallon's demo and left the real conference to people that know anything at all haha.

Lastly, I think people were expecting WAY too much. I was blown away by how much they showed. I thought they would get on stage, talk about how they were going to breath life into Vita, and then announce the PS4 with a few minutes of teasers. We got a crap ton of information: system specs, UI, controller, unannounced games, multiple trailers, numerous game publishers, f*ing Jonathan Blow!, and on-and-on. For a gamer, that conference was bad-***.

I think hardcore gamers have a very different perspective than normal people or even industry people.

What you saw was a pure marketing presentation, and not a very good one. It was all about "play", "social", "connected", "synergy" blah, blah, blah. When they showed that video I literally threw my arms up in the air and said out loud, "What the **** is this?" It's like they tried to copy one of those Apple engineering hype videos, but mixed it with some weird art style. The audio wasn't even level. As someone who creates these things, it was embarrassing to watch. It didn't even make sense. I was thinking, "Did someone even read this script? When does this end?" It wasn't until after the presentation that there was any mention of the actual hardware, or who was going to make it.

They played a lot of videos. They said it was running on real hardware. Sony has a history of straight up ********ting this for both hardware and software releases. I really saw nothing that lead me to believe it wasn't just a bunch of CGI trailers one after another. AFAIK there isn't any actual hardware that comes close to the spec they mentioned. I can't open a dev kit up, but it appears to me to be generic components in an HTPC box. I'm pretty sure, but not positive, that the dev kits aren't capable of even rendering that ball demo. If that demo was real, it came from some kind of internal spec system that no one has ever seen.