Thursday, February 21, 2013

Your Move Microsoft

Sony fired the first shot in Console Wars v5.0 last night with a press conference where they announced the PS4 would hit shelves this year in time for Christmas. The press conference was long but a lot of the details were vague. Here are a couple of the things that stood out to me.

- My prediction from last year that the next generation of consoles would be under-powered was pretty much right on. Oh sure the PS4 is a big step up from where the PS3 is now, for example the PlayStation 4 will have 8 gigs of ram compared to the PS3's 512 MB. But it's not the groundbreaking jump forward in technology the cell processor was (or at least was supposed to be). Technically it's a mid level gaming PC, which again is nice, it's just not revolutionary.

- Sony really wants you to share everything. Seriously, there's a big ol share button right on the face of the controller. I personally have zero interest watching my friends play video games in their living room from my living room but I'm sure someone out there will like this.

- Backwards compatibility is stupid and Sony finally realizes that. You know how many PS1 games I ever played on my PS2? Or Xbox games on my 360? Zero. If you're that worried about playing your old games go ahead and keep your old system, ok?

- Have you heard about this Cloud thing yet? While you might not be able to pop in your disc of Uncharted 2 into your new PS4 you will be able to play it streaming from the Sony cloud. At least that's the idea. Sony has invested a ton of cash into the ability to play server based games without any downloading (personally I think that's the future of "console" gaming anyway). If they can pioneer the technology it could provide them with the same kind of edge Microsoft had with Xbox Live.

- Nothing on used games and required on-line connectivity. With so many rumors flying around about these two subjects and the new Xbox their lack of mention says more than if they had been mentioned. Sony probably could have sold an extra million units just by saying "used games for everyone" and moved on to the next topic.

That's about it for my quick thoughts on the topic. There were a I have no real brand loyalty in the console wars, I'll probably just pick up whichever one is the cheapest so I don't know...

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