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http://www.the-magicbox.com/1302/game130220a.shtml

I'm interested in seeing how people will react to all the modifications made to the ps4, especially the cloud base system, which i like, since i dont have a huge collection of disk games, and since im anti-gamestop, wonder how itll affect them

Here's a little side by side of the PS4 vs the Xbox 720. PS4 will be more powerful.

Still no firm release date. Christmastime this year still sounds like best guess. Anyone caught wind of prices?

Whether it's more powerful or not has a good chance of being irrelevant. The PS3 was purportedly more powerful than the 360, but consistently looked worse due to cross-platform bottlenecking and ease-of-development issues. I'm more curious about what it's like to develop for, and Sony seemed to be making a lot of noise about the PS4 being more open and simple to make games on. That'd be a big win, if it's the case.

No firm release date, no price announcements yet. The former might not come until TGS, the latter seems like a good bet for E3.



I think that's a myopic way of looking at it, though it's a valid enough mindset if you're indeed only concerned about graphical fidelity. Better to look at the exclusive software - are there games worth playing on it? Then there's ease of use: consoles have always been great for the ability to pop a disc in and play it, no questions asked. Sony's making a lot of overtures towards out-of-the-box functionality, like risk free demos and the ability to play a game while downloading it, too.

I found the announcement interesting, and I'm cautiously optimistic for the system, even if I probably won't be buying one this year. The 1st party stuff shown didn't do it for me (Killzone in particularly disappointed me greatly), and the 3rd party stuff is mostly too nebulous to invest in right now. Watch Dogs looked solid, but didn't blow my mind.

Still, the system's feature list looks impressive, and the company strategy seems legit. That's reassuring for an early reveal.

Edited, Feb 21st 2013 9:01am by Eske

I don't know how relevant this is now but I have always found consoles can have far lower specs than a PC and still produce games on par with PC games.

The #1 thing I am looking at right now is if greed is going to take over and kill the used games market.

yea. xbox 360 has 512 mb of ram and the games arent that horrible.

 

Too late. This is now officially a console vs. PC gaming thread.

**** you forum.

Asylum is that way. There's a reason I don't thread there, you all eat souls and spit out fire there. I stick to my relatively safe gaming/Tv/General forums.

Also I don't mind console vs PC stuff because now they are essentially the same, sans input types.

Don't worry, it's probably one of the tamer forums on Alla now.

BOW DOWN BEFORE THE PC MASTER RACE

Edited, Feb 21st 2013 4:56pm by xypin

Isn't BeanX the stuff that you eat and it keeps you from farting?

It's pure logistics. My computer is tucked in a corner of a spare room. It's nice for computing and even gaming computing, but I can't stand back 6 feet from it and do ninja moves, nor can I do any multi-person stuff with it. It's just not designed to be the center of attention.

Young, naive TirithRR...

As long as I have a computer with better specs than the consoles, PC's are obviously better so I can lord it over the lower classes.

Should I ever fall behind, THEN I demand equal gaming access for all. In the name of equality and fairness, you understand.