PeteBrant

PS4 announcement woop

You righties can even watch the stream on your favourite newpaper!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...Christmas.html

Gear Head

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Everyone knows that the Xbox is the better machine.

RobsyUK

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I thought the PS family were just expensive Blue ray p-layers then end up being used to hold doors open?

Ant

i remember the ps3 fanboys saying it's the best machine and so much more powerful than the xbox and in real world the developers hated the ps3 and it was never used to it's "amazing" potential

DYK

Xbox rules...

Jamie330S

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Sony can kiss my ***, no longer a loyal supporter after 5 self destructed consoles since 2007.

Roll on the 720!

Fleetster

Cool. Bring it on

billythekid

I am watching. Its looking like the PS3 and the Xbox will be fairly similar I think in terms of specs.

Its already looking like the specs are fairly crappy on both - which is a major downer.

billythekid

8 gigs memory, HDD storage... no major shocks.

jura11

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Major shocks,if will be implemented proposed Blocking playing used games that's will be major shock for most gamers/peoples

Features are good,but they're mainly targeted on the Social and real in-game capturing

Drive Club looking awesome

Specs are here

http://www.idesigntimes.com/articles...-price-drm.htm

Jura

Carlh

I was an Xbox fan, had the original, worked fine, moved to 360, blew up just before warranty. Microsoft wanted me to pack it up and arrange delivery.

**** that. I bought a brand new (then) PS3 80GB, its never missed a beat and its been doing long stints of play (especially with GT5, Skyrim, BF3, COD4 and the Resistance Trilogy).

PS4 looks pretty feckin awesome.

Gear Head

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Not backwards compatible.

dpb

I have to say of all the people contributing to this board your one of the last I expected to be investing in a new games console Pete, but there you go

scoobyverysoon

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lol @ xbox fanboys

Ps4 looks good so far

jpor

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Have all 3 of the consoles (Wii, Xbox360 & PS3). Not really a fanboy of any, but this is how I rate the current crop:

PS3 = Nice all-rounder, but expensive for what it is. pain in the backside updates from Sony when your online (especially system updates and GT5 ones as well), once up and running games run brilliantly, nice 7.1 Dobly sound and 3D ability on games look fantastic. But because of the slow downloads, hardly use the console. Also no talk to mates online feature as standard, therefore okay for single gaming.

Wii = Cheap enough, intuitive controller let down by a lack of graphical content, but games fun. Great for family and friends who come around to play games such as Mario Kart and board games like Monopoly. No real talk to mates when online gaming. Only worth online gaming is with Mario Kart, but found lost connections due to wi-fi connectivity.

XBox360 = Cheapish enough to buy, graphics pretty much on par with the PS3. But was unreliable until late on with the new shiny black case one (Went through 2 of the older models with red rings of death syndrome), system updates are quicker than the Sony. Talk to mates online with out of the box and easy enough interface. Downside is the £30 odd gold membership to do so. But because of the ease of use and the out of the box talk and play online gaming as well as the cheaper price of the console, I have more friends that have this console so no brainer that this gets used the most.

So coming back to the PS4, I hope they have taken a leaf out of Microsofts console and now look to implement the same. But it will come down to price, games available and uptake if it will take off. The rumoured Xbox 720? will have similary specs to the PS4 but using INTEL and NVidia, so basically another PC console in diguise. If you look at PCs on the market today they both run the same x86/x64 architecture, so wouldnt be surprised if someone doesn't come out with some interesting mods/hacks here in the future

myblackwrx

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All the console makers can go on about the specs/processing power of their new machines but what will they actually give us........ more fecking sequels to FIFA and COD.

Tidgy

I've given up with consoles, lack of backward compatability, can't play second hand games, and silly purchase price for games has put me right off. £50 for a single game

scoobyverysoon

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never paid more the £30 for a game - people who buy at the like of game need help why pay £50 for cod etc when the likes of tesco online do it for £30 bonkers if you ask me

stedee

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ive never understood backward compatability. do these ppl really want to play old games or is it just i may want to one day but never actually do. theres always the ol` console to use.

kernel

Hardly a launch simply just an announcement. Got to wait for probably 9 months before it's really launched and there is hardware to see/order

Geezer

Well, it's funny you should say that. I just recently bought Doom 3 BFG edition for PS3, and not for Doom 3, but because it has trhe orignal Doom and Doom II for the 20th anniversary!

Been playing it loads, it's great.

Also playing F1 for Ps1 on it too. Looks crap, good fun. Perhaps I'm just nostalgic.

Geezer

saints_forever

I had the same problem but with Xbox..... 4 ring of death and a major hard drive failure. The 360 was the only non Sony console I had and it was rubbish! Had to buy external pieces such as wifi receiver, HD player (which got dropped as Sonys Blu Ray is far superior) just to match PS3 spec! I quickly converted back to PS3 and have not had a problem since!......plus online gaming is FREE!!

Bring on the PS4!!!

Ant

But online gaming on ps3 is crap and let's not forget for the huge size game updates

saints_forever

Can't say I've seen any issues at all with online gaming for the PS3. Smooth connection, very rarely any problems with the server and none of the stupid avatar rubbish that's on Xbox, or at least when I last looked at an xbox. Simple, straight forward and effective.

Wish

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Love the free online gaming with PS ..... But will PS 4 continue that ?

Geezer

We have both, I haven't found the Xbox to be any better in this respect?

Agree with downloads though, but with modern broadband, it's not really an issue. When I upgrade to fibre, it will be a total non-issue.

Geezer

ScoobyWon't

I watched a bit of the launch and thought that Drive Club looked nice, but the other stuff didn't really interest me.

The stuff about the game switching from console to phone just reminded me of the EE adverts with Kevin Bacon talking about the same sort of thing.

I'll wait to see what MS can produce.

Ant

when i had a ps3 it was a nightmare trying to get a game of fifa in with a mate

jura11

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Fifa has/is notorious for that(not sure,but has been too on the BBC Watchdog),just have look on few threads on the Internet


Jura

jura11

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As you know PS3 has been based on CELL CPU and new PS4 is based on x86 CPU/GPU and from this I would say almost is impossible to have backward compatibility,but will be possible stream games over the cloud(Sony recently bought Gaikai),same about the XBOX which based on RISC architecture and new XBOX will based too on x86 CPU/GPU

About the playing second hand games,its confirmed PS4 will/can play second hand games

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthi...ay-used-games/



Jura

Drive Club looking like great game and really is on my list


Jura