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Sony Corp. is planning to unveil its next-generation home videogame console during a February event, showing off a successor to its current PlayStation 3 system.
The Japanese electronics giant Thursday unveiled plans for a special PlayStation-themed event set for Feb. 20, teasing fans to "see the future" at the event. People familiar with the matter have said the new device will make its debut there, beating Microsoft Corp. to the punch in announcing its own next-generation game machine.
Sony's device will be released later this year, these people said, and will spar against Microsoft's own machine, which is also expected to be released by the holidays.
Sony's updated console's arrival comes as the console videogame industry has entered a tailspin. Sales of new videogames, consoles and accessories at U.S. retail shops fell 22% in December when compared with the same time a year prior, according to surveys by industry watcher NPD Group.
In another sign of the difficult environment for traditional videogame machines, Nintendo Co. slashed sales forecasts for its new home console, the Wii U, earlier this week. After launching its first new home console in six years in November, Nintendo said Wii U sales disappointed during the holiday shopping season. The company is now forecasting plans to sell 4 million units versus an earlier estimate for 5.5 million units.
The videogame industry is undergoing a sea change. While videogames used to be limited to dedicated game machines and personal computers, the proliferation of smartphones and other Internet connected devices is opening the floodgates to free or inexpensive games.
Such shifts in consumer behavior and the aging consoles—the Xbox 360 debuted in 2005 and the PS3 a year later—are weighing on game sales, which have contracted every month since December of 2011. Further, Electronic Arts Inc. said the console industry's packaged goods sales fell by about a fifth last year.
In a nod to the changes afoot in the industry, Sony is planning to incorporate more social gaming aspects into the new machine, people familiar with the matter said. Also, while hardware improvements were a key focus of past console upgrades, Sony is more focused this time on the changes in how users interact with the machine, these people said.
When developing the PlayStation, Sony had considered removing its optical disk drive, opting instead to require gamers to download titles over the Internet, people familiar with the matter said. But concerns over the size of videogame files, and slow Web connections in some countries led Sony to scrap the plan, they added. Microsoft made a similar decision for its console as well.
Complicating the design of the new device will be the likely inclusion of chips designed by Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which people familiar with the matter said have been used in prototypes. The chip is separate from the technology Sony currently relies upon for its PlayStation 3, known as the Cell chip, which was developed jointly with International Business Machines Corp. and Toshiba Corp. The move would both introduce compatibility concerns with existing games, built to run on the Cell chip, while also ending a long-running partnership with Nvidia Corp., which supplies graphics chips for the current PlayStation.
In Sony's efforts to beef up its videogame offerings, it purchased Gaikai Inc. for $380 million last year. The company lets gamers play visually sophisticated games through a Web browser, without the need for specialized hardware or graphics circuits. Gaikai's technology runs games in a data center and then streams the images over the Internet.
The PlayStation 3 was a technological marvel when it was released in November 2006. While it has sold more than 70 million units since its debut, the PS3 didn't dominate the industry in the way that its predecessors did. Initially, the machines gave consumers sticker shock, launching two models at $500 and $600. Even at that price, the console was selling at a loss, forcing the company to incur massive losses.
Over time, Sony brought down the PS3's price and improved the machine's profit margins, but it still trails Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360 in overall units shipped.
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Development sources with working knowledge of both next generation consoles have told us that PlayStation 4 will be more powerful than the next Xbox, will ship with a redesigned controller and launch by the end of the year in Japan and the US. PlayStation 4’s European launch will follow in early 2014.
Sony is set to reveal its next PlayStation on Wednesday February 20th at an event dubbed ‘see the future’. Sony Computer Entertainment released a teaser video last night to announce the event. Below, our sources revealed what to expect from PlayStation 4.
The controller
Sources close to the hardware have revealed to us that PS4 will ship with a redesigned controller which is the same size as an existing DualShock but features a small touchpad in place of the existing Select, Start and PS buttons. The tech is based on Vita’s rear touchpad, and is similarly responsive in use.
A new Share button on the controller will, when pressed, launch a new feature that will allow screenshots and video to be distributed online. The PS4 hardware will continually record the most recent 15 minutes of onscreen action (with no processing penalty, claims our source), which users will then be able to edit and broadcast via the Internet.
The launch
We’re told that PlayStation 4 will launch in Japan and the US by Christmas, with a Euro rollout following in early 2014, the delay attributed to the complexities involved in European distribution. Alongside the console, Sony will also introduce a new, improved iteration of its PlayStation Eye peripheral, which remains compatible with the PlayStation Move controller. Move will be available at launch, but it’s not clear yet whether it will be bundled with the hardware.
The specification
Sony has already earned an enormous amount of goodwill among studios working with PS4 development hardware. Privately, Sony representatives have conceded that the company made a mistake in creating such esoteric architecture for PS3, and its strategy for PS4 gives developers more opportunities this time around, notably because the hardware is much more PC-like in its makeup than PS3.
We have confirmed with sources that recently leaked tech specs are accurate. Though Durango devkits offer 8GB of DDR3 RAM, compared to Orbis’s 4GB, Sony’s GDDR5 solution is capable of moving data at 176 gigabytes per second, which should eliminate the sort of bottlenecks that hampered PS3 game performance. Importantly, we’ve learned that Sony has told developers that it is pushing for the final PS4 RAM to match up to Microsoft’s 8GB.
Both platforms are driven by eight-core AMD CPUs clocked at 1.6GHz, with Microsoft opting for a D3D11.x GPU from an unknown source and Sony utilising a more capable solution in AMD’s ‘R10XX’ architecture, alongside the so-called ‘Liverpool’ system-on-chip.
It’s clear Sony has designed a system that, on paper, outperforms Microsoft’s next Xbox. One source familiar with both platforms tells us that in real terms Sony’s console is “slightly more powerful” and “very simple to work with”.
Ultimately, the performance differences between the two consoles will have as much bearing on multiplatform releases as the differences between PS3 and 360 – very little – but Sony will be expecting big-budget firstparty releases such as the PS4 Uncharted sequel to demonstrate its console’s superiority.
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Voy a comprar PS3 porque las consolas de Sony siempre duran más tiempo y Microsoft sólo quiere ganar pasta y la está cambiando cada 5 años.
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Krain escribió:¿De verdad anuncian PS4 el 20 de Febrero? Sensacional... que interesante se va a poner esto madre mía
Bufff, hoy me he levantado calentito...TROLL mode on:
Voy a comprar PS3 porque las consolas de Sony siempre duran más tiempo y Microsoft sólo quiere ganar pasta y la está cambiando cada 5 años.
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kxalvictor escribió:Krain escribió:¿De verdad anuncian PS4 el 20 de Febrero? Sensacional... que interesante se va a poner esto madre mía
Bufff, hoy me he levantado calentito...TROLL mode on:
Voy a comprar PS3 porque las consolas de Sony siempre duran más tiempo y Microsoft sólo quiere ganar pasta y la está cambiando cada 5 años.
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4, cada 4, te va a dejar tirado y sin sacar juegos para la consola a los 4 años, mientras ps4 durará 10.
PS3 seguramente dure 2-3 años más, al menos va a seguir teniendo lanzamientos de juegos japoneses, cosa que 360 no.
tiku escribió:Krain escribió:De PS3 se habló que duraría 10 años y ese tiempo comprende desde lanzamiento a sucesión.
Eso debe ser cómo lo entiendes tú, porque yo entiendo lo que Atolm, que va a tener soporte durante 10 años, no que su sucesora tarde 10 en aparecer xD
Y vamos, es lo mismo que pasó con PS2 (donde juegos como FFXII o Gow II estaban ahí ahí con PS3), estuvo 6 años en el mercado hasta que apareció PS3. Si PS4 aparece estas Navidades, PS3 habrá estado 7 años hasta conocer a su sucesora, uno más que PS2.
No hay mucho mayor problema cuando tienes una consola en la que las third parties te dan el grueso de catálogo, puesto que en la transición sigue ampliando catálogos con juegos de calidad debido a que las compañías saben que tienen una base de usuarios demasiado importante como para dejarla perder.
Más problemas presenta esto para Nintendo por ejemplo, que cada 5 años de manera casi religiosa cambia de consolas y, sin el apoyo de las third, se ve una consola con lanzamientos casi anecdóticos desde el tercer-cuarto año como le ha sucedido a Wii.
Mathias escribió:No me jodas, que me compré la PS3 en navidades del 2011 ?_?
tiku escribió:Yo insisto: todo apunta a que puede haber algo, pero no hay NADA oficial ni confirmado, que luego aún habrán enfados. Es un evento de la marca Playstation como siempre se han hecho xD
tolkir escribió:tiku escribió:Yo insisto: todo apunta a que puede haber algo, pero no hay NADA oficial ni confirmado, que luego aún habrán enfados. Es un evento de la marca Playstation como siempre se han hecho xD
Como no sea PS4, que no abandone Hirai el recinto que no sale vivo. Incluso alli mismo le tiran piedras seguramente. xD
Atolm escribió:tiku escribió:Yo insisto: todo apunta a que puede haber algo, pero no hay NADA oficial ni confirmado, que luego aún habrán enfados. Es un evento de la marca Playstation como siempre se han hecho xD
Están enviando invitaciones a todos los medios de comunicación y a sus principales inversores, se prepara algo gordo. Si fuera el anuncio de una máquina para descascar pipas no se tomarían tantas molestias, ni harían un teaser en el que aparece la simbología que ha acompañado a PlayStation desde 1994 titulándolo "See the future".
CNet: There were rumors that the Wii would be priced for less than $250. How did that affect PlayStation 3?
Hirai: "The pricing that we announced for the PlayStation 3 is a price that ultimately offers fantastic value to the consumers. I think that we are offering a very good value for the consumers. We look at our products having a 10-year life cycle, which we've proven with the PlayStation. Therefore, the PlayStation 3 is going to be a console that's going to be with you again for 10 years. We're not going to ask the consumers to suddenly buy another PlayStation console in five years time, and basically have their investment go by the wayside."
ertitoagus escribió:CNet: There were rumors that the Wii would be priced for less than $250. How did that affect PlayStation 3?
Hirai: "The pricing that we announced for the PlayStation 3 is a price that ultimately offers fantastic value to the consumers. I think that we are offering a very good value for the consumers. We look at our products having a 10-year life cycle, which we've proven with the PlayStation. Therefore, the PlayStation 3 is going to be a console that's going to be with you again for 10 years. We're not going to ask the consumers to suddenly buy another PlayStation console in five years time, and basically have their investment go by the wayside."
Que os juega malas pasadas la memoria a algunos....
tiku escribió:ertitoagus escribió:CNet: There were rumors that the Wii would be priced for less than $250. How did that affect PlayStation 3?
Hirai: "The pricing that we announced for the PlayStation 3 is a price that ultimately offers fantastic value to the consumers. I think that we are offering a very good value for the consumers. We look at our products having a 10-year life cycle, which we've proven with the PlayStation. Therefore, the PlayStation 3 is going to be a console that's going to be with you again for 10 years. We're not going to ask the consumers to suddenly buy another PlayStation console in five years time, and basically have their investment go by the wayside."
Que os juega malas pasadas la memoria a algunos....
Vamos, que dice que va a tener un ciclo de vida de 10 años y que NO te van a hacer comprar una nueva PS a los 5 años.
ertitoagus escribió:CNet: There were rumors that the Wii would be priced for less than How did that affect PlayStation 3?
Hirai: "The pricing that we announced for the PlayStation 3 is a price that ultimately offers fantastic value to the consumers. I think that we are offering a very good value for the consumers. We look at our products having a 10-year life cycle, which we've proven with the PlayStation. Therefore, the PlayStation 3 is going to be a console that's going to be with you again for 10 years. We're not going to ask the consumers to suddenly buy another PlayStation console in five years time, and basically have their investment go by the wayside."
Que os juega malas pasadas la memoria a algunos....
