Experiment...PS4 Deets Released

After weeks of speculation, Sony officially unveiled its next console from a live event in New York today: the PlayStation 4. The console will be released this holiday season.

Sony's Andrew House said the new console will create "experiences that surpass gamers' wildest expectations."

Lead system architect on the PlayStation 4, Mark Cerny, said "the development of a next-gen platform started about five years ago" and that it's goal is "freeing developers from technological barriers." Cerny has a history in the video game industry dating back more than 30 years, first with Atari and later companies like Sega of Japan and Universal Interactive Studios.

Cerny said the platform is "by game creators for game creators" and that its architecture is "like a PC, but supercharged." PS4 uses the X86 CPU and has 8GB of memory and a local hard drive. It uses APU technology and GDDR5 memory, which is typically reserved for "top of the line, high end graphics cards."

The pillars of PS4 are Simple, Immediate, Social, Integrated and Personalized. PlayStation 4 supports suspending and reloading play sessions. The console has a secondary chip for uploading and downloading in the background. Digital games can be played as they are being downloaded.

Lol, this is NOT what it will look like. They've released all the specs but unit design is still a mock up.

Ok, now I could give a fuck a less about the PS4. 

The Original PlayStation was one of the best consoles of all time. Amazing and groundbreaking. I still have vivid memories of that xmas when I woke up and tore open my first PS and popped in the Warhawk Demo (remember those? they still do those in gaming mags?) and had my god damn mind blown. Shit was awesome.

Now the amount of love and veneration I hold for the PS1 is almost diametrically opposed to the low disregard that I hold the PS2 and 3 in. PS3 never really got a fair shot. I'll admit I'm a 360 fanboy. But thats only because I liked the original Xbox so much better than the PS2...hell I liked the GameCube better than the PS2. And I know I'm very much in the minority there. They still make games for that fuckin console lol, shits wild. My biggest problem was that it never seemed like enough of a step-up from the PS1 to me. And by the time the PS3 came about I was firmly in Microsoft's clutches. Plus, do any side by side same game on 360 and PS3 and the PS3 version looks like shit. They're acknowledging they lost this round of the console wars just by these press releases. What happened to that 10 year dev cycle? Lol.

Anyway let's see if the experiment works.

Again though, and for real, fuck the PlayStation 4. For that matter fuck Sony. I have been burned by that company waaay too many times.

Link to IGN article

Link to the Techradar.com article