Sony announced too soon, the buzz is gone.
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Sony announced too soon, the buzz is gone.
Bagel seed
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They are after the developers at this stage. That's why they announced early.
From our perspective, we would hope to see developers port their stuff quickly to PS4. Hopefully the goodies they show won't be just videos, but high quality, playable chapters. The familiar tools and large + fast memory should help. It is important if PS4 have zero b/c.
The actual Orbis user experience (OS, PSEye, Gaikai, DS4, PS+, ...) will probably be revealed in stages. There should be unannounced features and service offering.
Didn't some Sony exec talk about female consumers recently ?
From our perspective, we would hope to see developers port their stuff quickly to PS4. Hopefully the goodies they show won't be just videos, but high quality, playable chapters. The familiar tools and large + fast memory should help. It is important if PS4 have zero b/c.
The actual Orbis user experience (OS, PSEye, Gaikai, DS4, PS+, ...) will probably be revealed in stages. There should be unannounced features and service offering.
Didn't some Sony exec talk about female consumers recently ?
If you look at console launches going back decades, a lot of this stuff isn't hard to figure out.
1) Price: base model: $399, higher tier: $499 (what the difference between those tiers would be is unknown, but doesn't matter because most people will buy the higher one anyway which is why it exists)
2) Launch date: mid-November, certainly before Black Friday. I'd heavily bet sometime the week before.
3) Console design: who freaking cares. it'll be black.
We will need the new PS+ and PSN prices too ! Plus new game price. There may be partnerships with other companies.
Console design may include SKU family design, not just the game console.
Yep. Orbis is a known quantity. The only left now is software and services, which can't really be discussed until revealed. Unless people wanna start making up rumours. I heard you can only create a PS4 user account if you provide a valid credit card, and other users of the console have to pay to play games individually, so you can't buy a game and let your bro' play it without him paying.
Have they spoke about PSN pricing scheme already ? Would be great if you could throw me a link.
Paying for a product and still having ads is... dead. I hope you don't pay for cable, satellite, watch movies or TV shows because EVERYTHING has ads.
Prices have been higher in the past, were you not around during the SNES era?
TV has always had ads. We'll see if ads in games are tolerated. Show production and sports broadcast rights are far more expensive than games production.
But maybe people will accept more intrusive ads in games. There are suckers born every day.
When were SNES prices the norm, like 20 years ago? Manufacturing prices were higher and if you wanted to play games you had little choice. Charging more than $60 when there are cheap and free mobile games ... Lets see if they get away with that.
But maybe people will accept more intrusive ads in games. There are suckers born every day.
When were SNES prices the norm, like 20 years ago? Manufacturing prices were higher and if you wanted to play games you had little choice. Charging more than $60 when there are cheap and free mobile games ... Lets see if they get away with that.
They have other stuf they can "announce".
4K support, now that they presented a $700 player at NAB it's obvious that they could present the PS4 as a 4K player, Console and everything else machine for only 399,- and HDMI 2.0 (super deep color?
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Not as big as Blu-Ray nor important but still something that would sell to the avs crowd.
They didn't really reveal a lot about the controller, there is more to be had there.
PS++? Final specs? Final look? Price? Digital Market for used Digital Purchases? PS1+PS2 BC
So far i am satisfied, price doesn't matter that much to me. I just need Microsoft to step up to the plate and not do anything stupid so i can get a 720 from launch, perfect console year!
4K support, now that they presented a $700 player at NAB it's obvious that they could present the PS4 as a 4K player, Console and everything else machine for only 399,- and HDMI 2.0 (super deep color?
)Not as big as Blu-Ray nor important but still something that would sell to the avs crowd.
They didn't really reveal a lot about the controller, there is more to be had there.
PS++? Final specs? Final look? Price? Digital Market for used Digital Purchases? PS1+PS2 BC
So far i am satisfied, price doesn't matter that much to me. I just need Microsoft to step up to the plate and not do anything stupid so i can get a 720 from launch, perfect console year!
God no. Ads are the reason I don't watch TV. It's the reason I have the time on my PS3 set to 4 years into the future so I don't have that stupid f*cking news ticker in the right corner. It's also the reason why I might start to aprove of piracy of blurays/dvds, because they are starting to shove down cheap quality and more ads down our throat. It's the reason why I browse all my web-content through Squid (Proxy) where I have an extensive list of sites/domains that are blocked purely because their sole purpose is to deliver ads. I even block Facebook.
If we start seeing ads in games - I'm off, and that's a guarantee.
Perhaps product placement in games, like we have in movies. But ads? no f*cking way.
Gradthrawn
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People (largely game journalist) are taking that as gospel, or some promise that games won't be more than $60. However, if you look at the context of the statement he appears to simply be giving an example of the range of games he feels they need (or want) on PSN and in retail.
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They still have a lot of stuff to show until launch to reignate the buzz.
For instance, they actually kept most of their AAA next-gen titles under wraps up until now. Moreover, they still need to show the final external design, etc.
I think the first event was very important in order to address analysts and devs and build up the notion of beating Microsoft to the first official next-gen announcement.
With the Playstation Event in February, they basically got most of the technical and high-level stuff out of the way - and can better focus on games and services now.
E3 will be very interesting.
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