News & Rumours: Playstation 4/ Orbis *spin*

Because it was brought up...

 

Will be interesting to see if a home console can be successful in Japan again.

 

Really seems like the time has passed. At least for breakout success.

 

I really want this...hopefully it can recapture those 2006 360 feelings of really being the first true next gen game...

Probably I look forward to Gears as much or more than Halo games. Even though since 1 they haven't been great.

It does not seem like anything is on the front burner regarding Gears, sadly. Even rumors it might come back as multiplatform.

 

It's going to be the longest six weeks ever!

 

That same site reports Sony has re-registred Psygnosis as a trademark.

Fking whoah!

Shadow of the Beast related, maybe...? I sure hope so. Now, if they could just re-make Barbarian (not the Palace version, naturally), Terrorpods, Obliterator and Blood Money also.

 

The PS4 Liverpool SoC can now be renamed... the Psygnosis SoC (tongue twister, say it three times fast).

 

So... it's officially stackable, with proofs
The front slant is messing with my brain, I can't grasp the form factor in the picture, this stack is only 8 inches high???

https://twitter.com/Gerritzen/status/386659305199378432/photo/1


I guess this is what we'll need to play GT7 in 4K.

 

"PS4 capable of using 32GB of stacked memory" confirmed - the pic should actually go into the technical discussion thread

 

Hybrid memory cube, stacked memory and stacked processors are soooo yesterday. Its all about the stacked system on system (SoS). Hynix aint got nothing on this baby.

 

Thanks to the magic of NFC this could be possibly true!

 

Patcher 'allegedly' has put post E3 pre-order numbers for the PS4 at 1.5million. But there may well be shortages after.

 

Has Sony detailed the PS4's support for media formats (and things like supported H264 levels)?

I have all my movies ripped to my portable external HDD and they currently work flawlessly on the PS3 (though not on many other HDTVs/Bluray players) so I hope the PS4 doesn't go backwards in that regard.

I'm a bit concerned about whether the Jaguar cores will be able to match Cell in demanding HD H264 decoding and whether that might mean some cutbacks to things like the max number of reference frames supported etc.

 

PS3's main fault in that respect is that it only works with external HDDs formatted in FAT32. Bothered the heck out of me due to the 4GB filesize limit. So PS4 better supports NTFS.

Decoding itself shouldn't pose any problems for PS4.

Did SONY comment on WiDi / Miracast support for PS4? That would be great, too.

 

PS4 can't support ntfs which is proprietary to windows.

 

Running BSD it should be fairly easy to implement ntfs-3g drivers for compatibility if they wanted to.

 

Interesting, hadn't heard of that one before. I seem to remember hearing they were using something else though.