Playstation 4

[Spaceman Spiff]

The excitement I seem to detect mostly boils down to:

--the hardware seems genuinely powerful

--the architecture breaks from Sony's previous model, which should make ports and development much easier

--Major relief that the "nightmare scenarios" of used games being abolished and constant internet connections required at all times that everyone was fretting about did not come to pass, it seems.

..That's about all I took away. Everything else was...well...pretty standard, if not downright "meh".

[Wurm]

I skipped the PS3, I might get the PS4... my wife has wanted a blu-ray player for a while now. lol

[PCVSNotebook]

I skipped the PS3, I might get the PS4... my wife has wanted a blu-ray player for a while now. lol

:O

poor wife ... another long year to wait...

[richardginn]

yes, to me the best part of the new ps4 and durango (next xbox) is that it should significantly raise the current console performance bottleneck we are seeing on multi platform titles... all the games that came out this year have been held back by console porting... even if you never plan on buying a console, you should appreciate the intangible benefits they bring to PC games

I can agree to that.

[Timman_24]

Well at least we will have an 8 cores optimized games ... I hope Intel will release their 8 cores i9 by then

Hardly. Rumors suggest that one core will be dedicated to the os and others to various other system level tasks like networking and the video buffering. I probably say the devs get 4-5 cores to work with.

[richardginn]

Hardly. Rumors suggest that one core will be dedicated to the os and others to various other system level tasks like networking and the video buffering. I probably say the devs get 4-5 cores to work with.

Even so that should be more powerful than what the PS3 has now.

[Timman_24]

Even so that should be more powerful than what the PS3 has now.

Lol, well I'd hope so!

[PCVSNotebook]

What are the chances that MS uses low voltage Intel 8 Cores Xeon like cpu in their XBOX 720 ?

The 50 Watts 8 cores Xeon looks interesting

[HossamN]

I heard that Sony will offer PS4 games with prices ranging from $0.99 to $60

[Wurm]

What are the chances that MS uses low voltage Intel 8 Cores Xeon like cpu in their XBOX 720 ?

The 50 Watts 8 cores Xeon looks interesting

If they want a PS4 like solution (everything on one die) they will have to get their GPUs in line first, gaming on a Intel GPU is painful to say the least.

[PCVSNotebook]

If they want a PS4 like solution (everything on one die) they will have to get their GPUs in line first, gaming on a Intel GPU is painful to say the least.

Who needs a cheap built in GPU when it is Microsoft... I d love to see them goto Intel + Nvidia somthing like GTX 670 + 8 cores ULV Xeon.

[Recon]

This will be the first set of consoles I will not be trying to grab on release day. I just dont care anymore. Sad when I stood in line forever for a PS2 back in the day.

[Wurm]

Who needs a cheap built in GPU when it is Microsoft... I d love to see them goto Intel + Nvidia somthing like GTX 670 + 8 cores ULV Xeon.

That's not a console that's a PC.

[PCVSNotebook]

That's not a console that's a PC.

Apparently , the PS4 is a PC too

so why not .. I want to see games optimized for GTX670 using every bit of the hardware !

[richardginn]

That's not a console that's a PC.

Console or PC the fastest GPU on an Intel CPU you can buy today is crap compared to what AMD can give you on CPU.