Official February 20, 2013 Playstation event

[Xenio]

confirmed gddr5

This si fantastic, cudos to sony

 

[jonabbey]

It's confirmed GDDR5, 176GB/s.

 

[(((interference)))]

Windows 8 called "Who said you could copy Metro"

Was thinking the same thing

 

[BRiT]

Only 8gb. I've just rewatched Cerny speech about memory and he said that its 8gb of fast unified memory, nothing more ;\

He did say GDDR5 later on.

 

[pjbliverpool]

Did I hear that right? Basically instant demos?
How in the world are they going to upload live in game video over the upload speeds around right now?

Streamed/cloud gaming by the sound of it. They aren't the first to do it (OnLive allows instant streamed demo's already on the PC) but it's a great inclusion for a console.

I'm definitely impressed with that one. Especially combined with the partial download to start played the full fat version. Should make trying games and then playing the full version pretty seamless.

 

[jonabbey]

Glad to see that they're putting Gakai to use to serve stuff out from PS4, and not just for backwards compatibility games in the cloud.

Wowsers.

 

[Hardknock]

I am shocked by 8GB of ddr5 memory. Just goes to show that Microsoft could do this if they wanted but are being too cheap. :-/

 

[Xenio]

I told that those Durango band orbis specs was old!!

 

[Laa-Yosh]

The Wii U controller thing is sort of implemented for both systems too - PS4 will have remote play via Vita and a small touchpad on the controller, MS already has Smartglass... If there's anyone looking bad now, it's Nintendo.

Where are the games, though?

 

[Silenti]

MS execs must be shitting themselves right now.

 

[jonabbey]

PS3 titles not supported natively, but streaming.

Yup.

 

[pjbliverpool]

Remote play - final nail in WiiU's coffin.

 

[KKRT]

He did say GDDR5 later on.

Yep, he said that after UE 4 demo.

Amazing achievement by Sony.

 

[jonabbey]

And, hell yes, longevity.

I don't envy them building up their PS3 datacenters, though.

 

[Ruskie]

The comments were insisting that Sony would 'destroy' MS based on just the specs. Market shares and such are also a part of what we here care about.

Again, I think that argument was good when MS went "multimedia" and Sony went in gaming direction with twice less RAM, but much faster. Thing is, Sony has considarably better GPU, MUCH faster memory and actually the same amount of it. It also looks to be very elegantly desing system and comes with Kinect like camera. Now, what exactly can MS machine do that Sony's can't?

 

[DJ12]

I need to get a Vita.

WOW, BC with everything!!!!11!!1!

 

[Laa-Yosh]

Amazing achievement by Sony.

The word I'd rather use is "expensive".

 

[Strange]

I think I just heard full BC all the way back to PS1?

 

[BRiT]

I'm really curious about the consumer cost.

 

[Dave Glue]

Wow - 8GB of gddr5? I'll be amazed if this thing comes out at $400 as well with that amount of GDDR5 memory - 2 Gb of video mem with 6gb of DDR3 sure, but 8GB unified GDDR5?!