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Re: ps4 specs You are asking for way too much. Top of the line CPU and hardware along with a price point cheaper than most PCs? I am thinking Sony's engineers know what they are doing and believe the hardware they are putting in now is going to make the PS4 compete with next generation gaming consoles. It would be stupid of them not to, as Microsoft will eat them for breakfast if they can't produce a gaming system far superior to the previous generation. |
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 CylonRedPremium,MVM
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Bloom County | said by SRFireside:You are asking for way too much. Top of the line CPU and hardware along with a price point cheaper than most PCs? I am thinking Sony's engineers know what they are doing and believe the hardware they are putting in now is going to make the PS4 compete with next generation gaming consoles. It would be stupid of them not to, as Microsoft will eat them for breakfast if they can't produce a gaming system far superior to the previous generation. Don't let anything that makes sense get into the thread... 
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 ztmikeMark for moderationPremium
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Michigan City, IN | reply to me1212
How does a game company announce a new console..but doesn't even show the actual console? |
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Woodbridge, VA | I suspect they'd want something to show at E3. |
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 SilvanosIt's a new Silvanos experiencePremium
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Tonawanda, NY | reply to ztmike
said by ztmike:How does a game company announce a new console..but doesn't even show the actual console?
They said the design isn't finalized. They also said no B/C with PS3 and No lock out of used games.
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| said by Silvanos:They also said no B/C with PS3 and No lock out of used games.
Is that the final and official word about the used games? It's been a major sticking point these days. |
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 BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | reply to Metatron2008
said by Metatron2008:The cpu is a joke. People laughed about Nintendos combo of power pc and power7 at 1.25 ghz and Sony goes with a chip that barely beats intel's atom and loses to it in a lot of tests too.
haters got to hate. Can you at least wait until the thing comes out before dismissing it? |
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me1212
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Pleasant Hill, MO | We know what to expect with that cpu. Its a chip made to compete with the intel atom, sure sure 8 cored blah blah, but only does so much. 8 weak cores are still 8 weak cores. Sure the gpu is mid rage but thats all thats midrage about it. |
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Urbandale, IA | reply to Goggalor
said by Goggalor:said by danawhitaker:said by me1212:In GPU bound games yes, since the gpu in it is slightly stronger than the 7850. For cpu bound? Yet to be seen. AI, physics, ect take a lot of cpu power. Take skyrim for example, it was very cpu bound, it used the havok and had above average reliance on AI that takes a lot of cpu. Sure threading can help but only so much, eventually the latency will rise because of it.
Has Skyrim had problems on the 360 and PS3? Skyrim (and all of Bethesda's games this generation) has the issue of an ever increasing save game size on the PS3, to the point that the file corrupts its self. Bethesda has not found a fix for it, which is why they are not releasing DLC for Skyrim on PS3. That's funny, because I've been seeing DLC content releases for Skyrim - one just a few days ago. It does look like they've fixed it.
»www.gamespot.com/news/skyrim-dlc···-6403277
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said by BF69:said by Metatron2008:The cpu is a joke. People laughed about Nintendos combo of power pc and power7 at 1.25 ghz and Sony goes with a chip that barely beats intel's atom and loses to it in a lot of tests too.
haters got to hate. Can you at least wait until the thing comes out before dismissing it? LOL...oh the irony.
This coming from the guy that shit all over the WiiU constantly, before even being released. |
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IMO, 8GB of ram seems on the small side. Sure it's a lot now, but what about 5 or 6 years down the road?
I'd rather have drives that I can upgrade or replace as needed. I hated the original Xbox because of the way MS made it. You couldn't swap out the DVD drive if it broke, you had to pay someone to repair it. |
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said by Ghastlyone:LOL...oh the irony.
This coming from the guy that shit all over the WiiU constantly, before even being released.
Yup, that is funny. |
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CylonRedPremium,MVM
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Bloom County | reply to me1212
There are plenty less overall demands on a console than on a PC. The CPU will be more than enough... |
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said by Snakeoil:Sure it's a lot now, but what about 5 or 6 years down the road?
Hopefully you will be a good consumer and buy the next console. |
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me1212
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Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to Ghastlyone
said by Ghastlyone:said by BF69:said by Metatron2008:The cpu is a joke. People laughed about Nintendos combo of power pc and power7 at 1.25 ghz and Sony goes with a chip that barely beats intel's atom and loses to it in a lot of tests too.
haters got to hate. Can you at least wait until the thing comes out before dismissing it? LOL...oh the irony. This coming from the guy that shit all over the WiiU constantly, before even being released. Lol priceless, especially since we know the ps4's hardware and no one had any idea what the wiiu would have in it until launch.
@Snakeoil, eh then it'll probably just have more loading screens, and less eye candy(ie trees). Repairing consoles like, man that would be the dream, but sadly ms and sony dont seem to want it.
@cyclonred,
I know there are, but that only does so much. This cpu is basically (at best)two smart phone processors duct tapped together. It should be "enough" but that depends on what the devs view as enough. Sure its better than the ps3, but really thats not saying much. |
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It has on Kotaku too:
"This is nice, but it has the feeling of the spectacle of visuals alone is reaching a point of diminishing returns.
"More impressive is how much more social the PS4 seems - to be able to capture video of what you play while you play and share that with people brings console gaming closer to the cutting edge of modern gaming on a PC."
I don't buy a console for social media, my TV/phone/mp3player does that already. Seriously, why does everything have to be more "social".
Edit: As far as specs go, I see the WiiU runs a PowerPC processor as well (3 core, PowerPC 750-based), at a meager 1.3 Ghz. Seriously? The original Xbox 360 at least had 3 cores that could do 2 threads apiece. I'm curious as to what Microsofts console response will be, hardware-wise. |
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Pleasant Hill, MO | Because casuals/fratbros/12yearolds. |
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For those that are complaining about the social aspects of the new console, honestly, that is the way things are going. I've been doing it on PC for a while - twitch.tv, youtube, etc. I make videos / stream games I play, and so do many, many others. It's all the rage these days, and a lot of people enjoy watching others play games - especially when they can interact with them like on twitch.
Personally, I'm excited for the PS4 and just hope that the cloud service in the states will be up to par so we can actually stream the games at a decent rate. We don't have the same caliber of internet speed nationwide like Japan, Korea, China, and many parts of Europe do (not to mention the caps that many people are stuck with), so it could be severely underused over here in comparison to other countries that have better infrastructure. |
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| said by Gandalf4503:For those that are complaining about the social aspects of the new console, honestly, that is the way things are going. I've been doing it on PC for a while - twitch.tv, youtube, etc. I make videos / stream games I play, and so do many, many others. It's all the rage these days, and a lot of people enjoy watching others play games - especially when they can interact with them like on twitch.
Personally, I'm excited for the PS4 and just hope that the cloud service in the states will be up to par so we can actually stream the games at a decent rate. We don't have the same caliber of internet speed nationwide like Japan, Korea, China, and many parts of Europe do (not to mention the caps that many people are stuck with), so it could be severely underused over here in comparison to other countries that have better infrastructure.
It may be the way things are going, but I'm still convinced the individual services themselves are fads (look at Myspace, who in the early-mid 2000s had heard of Facebook?) in and of themselves, but I digress.
I like the idea of the cloud service (it generates more jobs for my field of employment), but for the most part with the majority of broadband connections as you mentioned being subpar, it will likely be very underutilized, and of questionable merit/value. |
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said by CylonRed:There are plenty less overall demands on a console than on a PC. The CPU will be more than enough...
Agree 100% on this. The CPU in a PC is running 20 other processes while playing a game where compared to a console will most likely just be running a game |
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