News & Rumours: Playstation 4/ Orbis *spin*

Yep, Reality Synthesizer, a great name to succeed the Emotion Engine hahaha.

Ah, doesn't get better than those.

The Jaguars and "eighteen CUs" and so on is just not as interesting on that level

 

Have the fun back then, was getting to find out the names. Lynx had a good one, but now I can't remember it (first 16-bit game machine as well I think? sorry OT)

 

I know but his comment reminded me that some people don't know about the Liverpool code name so I posted the image.

 

https://twitter.com/yosp/status/397170148030681088

It looks like ANYTHING that needs a USB drive is not available on day 1. The only confirmed day 1 feature that can use the USB ports is in safe mode. He even said that if you replace your HDD, you need to redownload the games, I think that completes the list of everything you'd need a USB HDD for.

https://twitter.com/yosp/status/397180666174926848

 

What about FW updates from a USB drive?

 

That can only be done in safe mode.

Cheers

 

The PS2's GPU was called Graphics Synthesizer

 

Interesting. Maybe they need to finish the security aspect of the FW, and so just disable access until that's done?

I wonder though if anyone will buy a PS4, plug their camera in to a USB expecting to be able to view their content? I expect many consumers will expect that functionality, but early adopters are probably better read, so it may be sorted by then.

 

Ah yes, thanks for the correction haha.

It was an OK name... but Emotion Engine? That name will always have a special place in my heart

 

Yeah the security aspect is interesting. Any user-provided data is a significant attack vector. It's probably an immense amount of work to audit that code. If a vulnerability is found in a popular codec post launch, it will be exploited by crackers who bought the launch console, they will cherish that 1.00 firmware.

But services aren't much of a security risk. They are not vulnerable to malformed media which exploit a decoder bug, nor to "chosen plain text" cryptanalysis.

For the media playback, I hope they make something well planned and a unified UI. On the PS3 the most annoying thing is when switching between youtube, netflix and a local file... it's 3 completely different interfaces. I understand it's an issue with the providers, but putting a little weight on them would be great.

 

"PS4 Is Amazing, You'll Be in Awe When You Play Our PS4 Game" says Naughty Dog

 

What are they going to say, the new console made by the people who employs us is shite?

 

Naughty Dog is 2nd party developer (1st even maybe), would anyone seriously expect them to say anything but PS4 is fantastic? (To be quite honest, PS4 is not amazing, it's a very middle-of-the-road piece of hardware, but it's of course the best console by far that we've had since forever...)

 

The emphasis is on their game, guys

 

Cerny answers fans questions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsbivGaJbNQ

 

So MS, Apple and Sony's proxy patent troll just launched a full on assault against Android:

http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/01/j...icrosoft-file-lawsuit-against-google-samsung/

Curious if this will have any ramifications for things like Youtube support on the PS4?

Cheers

 

That's actually part of the mission they've already entrusted Allan Becker with ... so Naughty Dog can just concentrate their mindSpace on making cool games of their own.

 

They pretty much made our jaws drop on every console they developed for. So I take it exactly as it is