Tag: Keynote

This one’s a little disappointing (though not surprising due to the PS4’s x86 architecture).

Sony’s newly announced Playstation 4 will not be backwards compatable… at least with your current discs. Instead a ‘Playstation Cloud’ service has been unveiled, which when released will stream titles from the PS1, PS2, and PS3 catalogues.

Gaikai founder David Perry stated that he wants the console to stream “everything ever”, but no specific dates were revealed for just when that will happen. Services are set to be rolled out gradually.

I guess I need to finish all of my untouched PS3 games before this hits shelves!

Hopefully you’re keeping up with our liveblog of today’s Sony Playstation 4 announcement. If not, this tidbit of news was too good not to pass on.

PS3 owners know just how annoying it can be to buy a game from the Playstation store… and then wait hours and hours for it to download. This will be a thing of the past with the newly announced Playstation 4; the console features dedicated background processing that will allow you to play a game as soon as you buy it. The data you need will be instantly streamed, and the rest will download in the background.

This is set to work for demos too; rather than having to wait for a multi gigabyte demo to download (by which time you’ve likely lost interest in it), Sony’s Gakai service will stream the entire thing to your console.

Amazing! What do you think of the announcements so far?

Sony’s livestream may be having its issues (is it working for anyone?), but that can’t stop this news from making its waves.

Sony has just announced the Playstation 4. The console is set to hit store shelves later this year! Sony began talking to developers about the console all the way back in 2008, so clearly its been a long time coming.

The system is touted as being a “platform by creators, for creators”, and features an x86 processor (whaaaat?) and a GPU with “remarkable long-term potential.” Playstation 4 also houses a whole 8Gb of RAM, which is a huge step up from consoles on the market today.

A Dualshock 4 controller has also been revealed for the console, and it looks like the biggest design change since the release of the original unit. The controller features advanced motion tracking capabilities, a standard headphone jack (YES), and a touchpad along its center.

Playstation 4 will also feature a new UI with what sounds like a pretty amazing feature; hit the power button and your game is suspended, when you hit it again the console will resume right where you left off!

UPDATE

The stream is over and we got the word that you can get a PS4 this Holiday 2013!