Reports Suggest 8 Core CPU, Advanced Sharing Capabilities
Sony this week confirmed a major unveiling related to the future of the storied Playstation hardware franchise to occur on February 20th. Multiple outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, reported today the event will show off the next Playstation, tentatively dubbed Playstation 4. Invitations have been sent to the press, and the event will be streamed live.
Another report from Edge Online suggests an 8-core AMD CPU backing the system, with at least 4 and the potential for 8 GB of RAM. The controller allegedly includes a share feature, allowing instant capture of screenshots and video that can then be distributed. It is also rumored to include a small touchscreen that will replace the start, select, and PS buttons.
The Edge report suggests a launch in Japan and North America at the end of the year, with Europe to follow early next year. Other circulating reports suggest a $400 price point.
We normally are not fans of announcements-of-announcements, but if you’ve been following various rumors suggesting the next Sonic will be revealed this month, this particular exception may be of interest. Those circulating rumors suggest the next Sonic was developed with the intent of being released on both the next Playstation and Microsoft’s next XBOX, in addition to current-gen systems. This unveiling would be a prime time for Sega to show off what’s in store. But assuming Edge’s report holds, would the company potentially shut out a key market for the 2013 Holidays and make European Sonic fans wait to play the blue blur on the latest and greatest system until 2014, diverting players to the current PS3? The last time a Sonic game released that wide was in 2008, when a neutered Sonic Unleashed was released to Wii and Playstation 2, in addition to the PS3 and XBOX 360.
If nothing else, February 20th may be a date to watch for all gamers. We will of course bring you any significant developments to come out of that reveal.
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I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
I sure hope that $400 price is accurate, because that honestly sounds decent compared to PS3 when it first came out.
if they use that no used game tech in the ps4 then I won’t be buying it.
@ChaoticFox
Feels kinda nice in my hands as I type this right now, except for the top shoulder buttons.
@Amuro – Funny thing is that I wanted a PS3 just to play 2006 as well. My gtandmother said that the console was “too adult” for me and got me a Wii with Twilight Princess and Mario Galaxy instead. I also got a girlfriend because of the damn thing.
…Don’t die anytime soon, Miyamoto, you bringer of fortunes… XD
It is odd that they are inviting press and streaming it live i must admit. But Sony always has these showcases and fiscal meetings in Feb, and there has been no official word that they are showing anything that big. I do admit the chances are high that they are showing something off or else why stream it and invite press. But just because they are hyping it up doesn’t mean it is the showing of their next console. Perhaps a return to an old series or another big game?
Already been burned with all the “leaked” release schedules for GTA V only to have them delay it to the end of the year. I also wouldn’t expect anything super impressive from PS4 anyway, no console will ever be as good looking as what a PC can do, plus Sony has been through very rough monetary issues in the last couple years. They also have said many times that they don’t want to make the same “mistake” as the PS3 launch and have a super expensive console and risk a bad start again, their last two consoles before that were the underdogs and did much better than the PS3 which has taken ages to catch up in sales. I’m expecting a closer gen than last gen, something more akin to GC/PS2 and Xbox than what we got this time around. I will keep my expectations in check till we see what happens.
@Stephan – Tell me more about your magic Wii that got you a girlfriend! xD You must teach me your ways!
Have they ever announced their consoles this early? Why February 20th, there’s like nothing there.
@Ricardo
His magic Wii got him a girlfriend, I think you should ask the girlfriend about his ways. (Woo, one last phallic Wii joke before the thing is completely obsolete!)
@Chaoticfox
Unless you have actually used the Gamepad you will not really know how comfortable it is. To me it is very comfortable. It has become my favourite controller (the only problem I have with it is that the ZL and ZR buttons are not pressure sensitive, which kinda sucks in racing games). If you have held a PSP or PS Vita in your hands then that is the feeling (except a tad better because of the nice grips on the back). Of course this is my opinion and whether or not you find it comfortable is subjective, but I would just say give it a try because most people who have told me that the controller looks uncomfortable have walked away with a completely opposite opinion after trying the Gamepad in their hands.
XD I wonder if I should really believe myself on this –>http://fav.me/d5q4prp…..D: nahhhhh its all in my head XD
@AM
I have, in fact, used the gamepad and still consider it beyond awful. It’s easily several times the size of a Vita (not that the Vita is setting any standards) It’s not unusable, but it’s still an ergonomic step backward, imo. I haven’t tried it for a lot of different games, but I imagine it’d be even worse for a hardcore button-mashing action title (like the upcoming Bayonetta 2).
@Ricardo
You’re right, they CAN choose to ignore it. And the best games do. But even then (in the case of the Wii U) that just means you’re playing a regular game with a gigantic fucking tablet in your hands, which will always be less than optimal. It may not be so bad in the case of the alleged PS4 design, but even if all it does is host your start/menu buttons, a touch screen will be less reliable/responsive than a physical button setup.
“Touch screen seems as if it will be the new standard in gaming, or at least, for this generation. It’s really time you stop just regularly with games now, and get used to innovative new ways to interact with games. If you don’t like it, well….I don’t think this gen will be for you then”
I agree with you wholeheartedly. The industry has been moving more and more in a direction far removed from the traditional gamer/gaming experience, and for the most part this has not been for the better. The motion controls of the original Wii were rarely used to any meaningful or interesting extent, and as a result we wound up seeing Microsoft and Sony follow suit with the even LESS impressive/interesting/well-utilized Kinect and Move.
Touch screens are the same thing. The DS and 3DS, despite having been using similar technology for years, have STILL yet to offer many truly memorable additions to the traditional gameplay experience. If this is the direction the industry/generation are heading and the most I have to look forward to is half-assed gimmicks watering down and overcomplicating what could otherwise be an elegantly designed video game, then you are absolutely right – this generation is most certainly not for me.
Give me REAL innovative gameplay, don’t just make me doodle on a touchscreen or blow into a microphone (looking at you, Phantom Hourglass). That’s not real innovation, those are just worthless gimmicks.
Not all that excited honestly.
May be just because I never owned a PS3, but unless it introduces something pretty badass like the Wii U and it’s touch-screen controller and other things, then it wont even get a thought of a buy from me.
I hope the PS4 doesn’t get a touch-screen controller, cuz that’d be pretty stupid. It’s just showing Sony lost ideas and decided to copy a system meant for the family >.>
@ChaoticFox
Well I guess people have different opinions, but it is nice that at least you gave the Gamepad a try and formulated an opinion based on your experience
@ChaoticFox,
Nintendo knew that there would be a few people like you that wouldn’t be so hot-on with the tablet idea, and THAT, my friend, is why they made the Wii U Pro controller
I am excited as all get-out with the announcement of project “Red Herring,” a Sonic game sure to revolutionize the series once again. (SARCASM)
@ChaoticFox – I understand that you don’t like the whole big-controller thing, and I understand. I agree with you on the 3DS and and DS never getting any real innovative uses, and the gamepad too, for now.
That’s why I’m interested in seeing what Nintendo brings to the table with their big name titles, as President Iwata has said that many companies have yet to use the gamepad in a smart, innovative way.
So let’s see how the Wii U will fare with “innovative” titles this gen…
I can’t wait for another 2 years of great sadness like the PS3 and 360 launches, actually no It greatly depresses me that gaming is stuck in this cycle. The console cycle concept has been fetishized subconsciously by gamers and devs alike, the second the 360 surpassed the original Xbox’s lifespan people started to freak the hell out and blamed every bizarre hangup they had with games on the console daring to live past the norm.
I’ll only get excited for this stuff if they come out at a decent price and aren’t plagued by faulty hardware and launch trash but anyone thinking these systems are the cure for nonstop brown cover shooters and sequels is lying to themselves.
I’d like Sonic Team to grow some balls and just make the best game they possibly can for current systems as other publishers shower us with bad launch titles and overhyped launch titles that will be looked back with scorn a year later.
@Ricardo
Yes I can’t wait for more games to bless with the true innovation of looking away from TV to do a bunch of bullshit that got old back in the original DS days. It’s willful ignorance to think this kind of shit hasn’t brought down plenty of games.
Sacrificing battery life and portability in a controller to put a touchscreen when the TV is the main attraction that you actually need to focus on is never going to stop being a moronic design decision cooked up by cooperate suit hiveminds instead of intelligent industrial designers. The suits get these ideas that putting them into console controllers will somehow shutter mobile which is never EVER going to be the case, mobile is the endgame of personal computing literally predicted decades ago it’s not going to back in the box now.
@SSJ – Suit yourself!
@SSJ
Yep.
Not excited at all for new consoles (Wii U may be an exception because Nintendo’s really just catching up at this point, even if the U surpasses the 360/PS3 on a TECHNICAL level). They really just make me feel like someone took a big shit in my Easter basket. I can’t even fathom them having anything new, substantial, or exciting to offer (Oh joy, more polys! That’s all I ever wanted!).
At this point I just feel like I’m being hazed with a $4/500 price tag just to be allowed access to the new games fraternity.
Geez, will we really need a use for all of these crazy features? (I’ve only just recently found a decent use for the video recorder on my 3DS, using it as a substitute for an MP4 player and recording my favorite videos on it to tide me over till I can afford a vita)
Call me old fashioned, I only really care about the power under the hood tbh. Better Graphics and more space for developers to play with.
Innovation’s great and all but nowadays I barely find a use for half the features a console comes loaded with. (does anyone even really need their wii’s or ps3′s to store digital photos or their 3DS and PSP to store all of their mp3′s?)
I’m looking forward to the announcement anyway and if this new sonic game really IS as great as they say, I’d gladly sample and support all the different versions just to see how they compare.
P.S. Calling the Wii/PS2 version of sonic unleashed ‘watered down’ is too generous a compliment, it’s more like the runny watered juice that falls out of a used tomato ketchup bottle and completely ruins your sandwich.
Or runny yogurt, whichever makes your stomach churn worse. :S
CAN I F***ING CRY NOW!?