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Showing posts with label PlayStation 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PlayStation 4. Show all posts

Friday, February 22, 2013

Hahaha, The Abridged version of Sony's PS4 Release Show

Oh this is just fucking hilarious lol. The Abridged, and infintely more enjoyable, version of Sony's PlayStation 4 release show/extravaganza/IDKWTF


Seriously I'm not seeing a whole lot (or literally anything) here that's making me rethink my hatred for Sony or most of its products (including this POS Vaio laptop I'm writing this blog on! This fucking thing was the last straw for me as far as buying Sony products as a whole goes..). Just looks like more of the same ol' bullshit and I'm not even seeing super super fantastic graphical advances..I understand a lot of that has to do with what engines are out there or it and that as time goes on it will improve.

Problem is it just looks (specs and gameplay) like another shitty Sony product. Sony was once THE electronics company. But their standards have been falling in every category for years. A lot of what their running on these days is brand name. I read this very interesting article on Kotaku a couple of months ago about how poorly Sony was doing domestically, as they have traditionally always had strong domestic sales in Japan. The article went on to say that a lot of the smaller electronics retailers in Japan no longer even carry a supply of Sony devices. Samsung/Korea is where its at these days.

Oh and fucking blasphemy! Notice Bungie? :(  I know thats dumb but whatever. I know that the frst Halo was supposed to be an RTS on Mac. Whatever. Bungie shouldn't be on Playstation...its just wrong.

 I really love how their doing their damnedest to get their name out there before Microsoft this time around. Maybe they learned something from the last cycle after all. I doubt its gonna save'um.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

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