News & Rumours: Playstation 4/ Orbis *spin*

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Arwin said:
I haven't even noticed that.
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You didn't notice this full screen monstrosity everytime you turn on your PS3 or exit game back to XMB?
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IMHO, if they want to promote SingStar, it should show a grid of the funniest and the most talented SingStar user videos in XMB. I love them.

I sure hope their rumored "Share" button is more than a game video publishing tool. They should also take care of the video promotion mechanics.
 
patsu said:
Eventually, they may pursue streaming games more seriously.
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Change "may" to "will absolutely."

And it may be the core strategy come 2015 and beyond.

From that perspective how the new consoles are designed and their cost reduction are closely tied to that development.
 
its a singing game or smiling game?
the guy seems just smiling, or smirking? :p

Btw the different region different stuff is also happends on XBox 360. and sometime is annoyingly weird too.

example is the Kinect Voice Command.
For whatever reasong, Microsoft decided to DISABLE all voice command on dashboard if you online from unsupported Xbox Gamertag Region.

If disconnected from LIVE, the voice command works perfectly.
if playing games, the voice command works perfectly whatever online or offline.

why they bother disabling it then :/
 
Acert93 said:
Change "may" to "will absolutely."

And it may be the core strategy come 2015 and beyond.

From that perspective how the new consoles are designed and their cost reduction are closely tied to that development.
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Well given the death of Onlive, and non-success and purchase of Gaikai into becoming a mere tool for BC on future Sony consoles, I'm entirely unconvinced that streaming games will become anyone's core strategy for distribution. Even if global internet speeds somehow magically improve by an order of magnitude before 2015.

The markets simply don't want it, regardless of how much the greedy coorperations do. But of course that's a completely sideline issue ;-)
 
patsu said:
I think that's the intention. To use cheaper off-the-shelf parts to lower cost. Give low level APIs to developers to give games the performance leap they need.

The idea is not to overtake PCs and tablets in raw performance. They will have overhead because the user will run many other tasks at the same time. It's to provide a stable, long term platform for the devs to work on.

If Sony decide to update their consoles faster, they don't have to try to recoup their h/w R&D investments every generation. They may need to ensure their low level APIs are "portable" (or at least not hard to port) across generations.

Eventually, they may pursue streaming games more seriously.
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Yes, you have a company like Nvidia stating time ago that the days of customized hardware for videogame consoles are quite gone because of the economics of it all. I expected these next gen consoles to use off-the-shelf parts.

Secret ingredients aside, it seems nearly confirmed because a developer like John Carmack and some others have been mentioning that PS4 and X720 consoles won't be doing anything revolutionary or be not that much more powerful than the previous generation consoles. (I find them much more efficient and quite powerful though, given the energy budget!)

The rumours are pointing towards affordable units using off-the-shelf parts or based on computer components, which is more economically feasible.

That being said, we are talking about Sony here, and they have a long history of heavily customized hardware with more or less good results, so I'd expect some fine tuning of some sort. Let's see how things pan out.
 
Prophecy2k said:
Well given the death of Onlive, and non-success and purchase of Gaikai into becoming a mere tool for BC on future Sony consoles, I'm entirely unconvinced that streaming games will become anyone's core strategy for distribution. Even if global internet speeds somehow magically improve by an order of magnitude before 2015.

The markets simply don't want it, regardless of how much the greedy coorperations do. But of course that's a completely sideline issue ;-)
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I think that what Sony could be more interested NOW from Gaikai is the data compress algorithm. I don´t know if to stream PS4 games to Vita or what. But streaming videogames from a external server nowadays is not both cost and infraestructure wise viable.
 
Yes, streaming over LAN between my devices would be great.

Gaikai-like service may be good for quick game demoes. Most of today's demoes s*ck and seem to take too much dev time. If they select a segment from the final game, it may be more effective.
 
Cyan said:
Yes, you have a company like Nvidia stating time ago that the days of customized hardware for videogame consoles are quite gone because of the economics of it all. I expected these next gen consoles to use off-the-shelf parts.
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I'm wondering what the so called "economics" for NV and AMD high end GPUs are. By common market size logic they aren't anything else but customized hardware from their bread&butter GPUs.
 
Nisaaru said:
I'm wondering what the so called "economics" for NV and AMD high end GPUs are. By common market size logic they aren't anything else but customized hardware from their bread&butter GPUs.
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The Professional market; Quadro, Tesler and Fire products.
 
Seems Sony are live streaming the event on the 20th. Surely it can be nothing other than a ps4 announcement/reveal.
 
I got an email from Sony saying 'be the first to know' with the 20/2/2013 date and the teaser trailer.... Surely everyone with a PSN account got it? what else would it be...
 
london-boy said:
I got an email from Sony saying 'be the first to know' with the 20/2/2013 date and the teaser trailer.... Surely everyone with a PSN account got it? what else would it be...
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You could register your email address on that site, with a similar message, that they'd mail the stuff out and you'd be the first to know. Or something.
 
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