News & Rumours: Playstation 4/ Orbis *spin*

That's pretty interesting stuff. They should be focusing on solutions for those problems.

The NAT problem will be solved in the next generation though. Or so they say. Using dedicated servers and the cloud the NAT isn't necessary at all.

 

Thats if all games/services is forced to have a server, but is that the case?
And what happens when they do not want to host the server anymore, you can not play online anymore? I guess this is whats happening to a certain extent to day.

What about remote access from Vita to PS3/PS4, when the console is "turned off", how to wake it up without a known port?

 

In terms of gaming, I see no more NAT and no need for NAT traversal (still needs firewall setup for security), hence better p2p communication (chat, online gaming, video sharing) possibly more reliability with much less UDP.

 

Well it sounds right. The VGAs is about the perfect time to spring that. TLOU walking off with all the awards, the PS4 having just gone thru It's launch stock and looking for the next thing to propel sales, so you drop the megaton of Uncharted4, GoW4, and Resistance4 for 2014. Sounds like a plan.

 

Resistance 4? i'm calling fake, he is making it up for hits.

 

Sony owns the IP so not that out there. Gives them a bit of a chance to thumb their nose back at Insomniac for going MS exclusive.

You could be right of course.

 

I'm not sure he's ever actually been the source of a rumor that turned out to be true, but I agree that it'd be a good idea to show off the 'big hits' that are to come in 2014 before launch at Gamescom, TGS and VGA's which I'm pretty sure is the plan... to entice core gamers to take sides early on.

Anyways, I think it's wise for some combination of GoW, Uncharted, and GT to show up before 2015. The strongest franchises need to be there early, but not too early, to keep momentum going.

 

After, Insomniac's excellent Resistance 3, which felt a shade like an action oriented precursor to The Last of Us, I'm definitely in for more Resistance, but only if they follow the R3 formula, not the travesty that was R2.

Honestly, I think over the course of the PS4's life, we can reasonably expect to see everything make a return in some form.

 

There is a screen shot floating around in the web of God of War Redemption PS4+Vita:

http://playstationgang.com/rumor-new-god-of-war-redemption-game-coming-to-ps4-and-ps-vita/

Who knows if true...

 

Actually there is a big debate about IPv6 firewall placement, if it should be on routers/gateways or not.
The argument is that all host devices should run their own firewall instead of having a central firewall for a LAN etc.

 

Great, so now whichever random employee gets told to be the "IT person" has to manage (and understand) firewalls on every machine / device instead of just at the gateway? At least as it stands now NAT helps to mitigate some security issues thanks to non-routable IPs on the local LAN.

IP6 seems like it is going to be a massive clusterfrack DDOS shangrila.

 

Arguments are nice and all, but they will be at both again as always, trust me.

 

I do hope both companies support IPv6 out of the box this generation. Sony made a big deal several years ago about supporting IPv6 across all of their hardware, but never did a thing to support it on PS3.

 

PS4 is launching in India this year.

http://www.indianvideogamer.com/news/ps4-to-launch-in-india-in-2013/21066

 

If Sony pull off this simultaneous world launch, something I have doubts about, then they are going to be at a massive advantage globally and on a very level, if not slightly skewed Sony wise, playing field in the US. It's one for the dominance thread methinks...

 

Both Sony and Microsoft's supply chain arrangements must be fascinating. I'd love to get to see a diagram of all of the money / component flows that are involved in a modern tech roll-out.

 

I don't think so (Dominance Thread). Even with a 5:1 sales ratio, XB1 will still get full game support, I'm sure. The only thing it might lack, maybe, is Indie titles.