Source: "Top-Line Publishers" Already Working On PS4 Stuff
See Full ImageThe rumors concerning the next generation of hardware continue to thrive, the latest of which saying that the new Xbox will require a constant Internet connection (uh-oh).
But more "inside sources" have apparently been talking to VG24/7, and it seems Sony is "confident" that they'll beat Microsoft to the punch this time around. In fact, the "design goalposts" for the new PlayStation were in place over two years ago, and the system should be ready for Christmas 2013 (about the same time as the rumored launch for the new Xbox). The source also said to keep an eye on next year's E3 keynotes...yes, next year's.
"Sony are completely in the belief that they have the jump on Microsoft this time. You should be watching the timing of next year’s E3 keynotes, and who’s going to go first."
Another source has claimed that all next-gen consoles will be on store shelves "by 2014." Furthermore, it appears the biggest publishers and developers "already know what's going on."
"Top line publishers already know about it. Developers working with publishers – like Ubisoft, for example – already know what’s going on. They’re already working on it."
Specific details on the system are lacking (unless you count all the unconfirmed info), but it almost seems inevitable that we won't make it through 2013 without seeing at least one new console. At this rate, chances are, we'll see both Sony and Microsoft release their fresh hardware to the market some time before or during next year's holiday rush.
Tags: ps4, playstation 4, next-gen, next generation consoles
4/2/2012 10:12:05 AM Ben Dutka
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Highlander
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 10:38:59 AM
http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/8572.html
and this one;
http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/9147.html
I remember reading some more elsewhere, but can't find those as easily.
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jimmyhandsome
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 10:40:38 AM
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Highlander
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 10:46:56 AM
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jimmyhandsome
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 10:48:45 AM
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cLoudou
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 12:34:32 PM
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Highlander
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 1:05:20 PM
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Fane1024
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 @ 4:43:14 AM
;P
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Lord carlos
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 10:47:34 AM
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What new hardware innovation is there for sony to promote with ps4??(ie.dvd/blu-ray)
The last guardian & Agent don't even have release dates yet,e3 ps4 announcement means at least another 1.5-2 years before it hits the market!
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Highlander
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 11:00:08 AM
7 years is about 4 generations of technology. So if PS4 does arrive in 2013, it's actually a very fair time for it to arrive. Given the economic picture since 2006, an extra year this generation was to be expected since the economy essentially skipped a year with the depth of the recessions. So 7 years is a good time technologically and economically.
The trick will be bringing the PS4 in at around $400. But since they won't have a $300+ BluRay drive to worry about (factory gate prices for BluRay drives are well under $50 now) a big chunk of the price is already taken care of. This time though Sony needs to have a GPU that costs $100 or less, and budget the CPU in at no more than about $150. I doubt that they will want to lose $300-$400 per unit at launch this time around.
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Lord carlos
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 11:21:58 AM
Anyway i think the technology leap is not sufficient enough yet to justify a new round of consoles.
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___________
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 @ 4:48:50 AM
only format out there that would require new systems thats ready is for full HD 3D support, but does that really warrant new 600+ dollar consoles?
wait till 2014 when the 4K TVs are finally out!
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Highlander
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 @ 9:44:57 AM
4K TVs are not going to take the market by storm for a variety of reasons, first and foremost is that to see all the pixels on one you need eyes with superior vision to humans. The viewing distance for a 55" TV is 8-10 feet. At that distance it's essentially a retina display. If you double or quadruple the resolution you again increase the size of the screen and the appropriate viewing distance. There are not many people who have room for such things and fewer still will pay the hideously inflated prices when it becomes clear that the benefit of the additional resolution is quite limited.
Of course we could also mention the simple fact that 1080p is still working through the process of becoming mainstream, BluRay is already fully 1080p even in 3D, and Hollyweird was not real happy with that level of quality on a home video presentation, 4K resolution is more or less film resolution and really eats into the advantages of a theater presentation.
But, hey, you get your 82-inch 4K display, sit 4 feet from it and get a sore neck from looking around the screen (and tilting your head) so that you can follow the action. The rest of the known world will continue to enjoy their 1080p without noticing any meaningful difference.
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___________
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 @ 8:21:18 AM
there is nothing out there that warrants new systems yet.
obviously better graphics and DX11 or future support, but that does not warrant the purchase of a 5,6,7,8,9 hundred dollar system!
only things that would make a new generation worthwhile then would be ray tracing and online features like onlive and neither of those are ready yet.
so theres really zero point to releasing new consoles, especially in the economy were in now, and especially since allot of people just bought one within the last 2 years because thats when they finally became affordable.
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Highlander
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 @ 1:04:44 PM
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___________
Thursday, April 05, 2012 @ 9:35:31 AM
hell my dual 570s struggle to break 10FPS on design garrarge which is using ray tracing to render 1 car a road and a few sky scrapers.
a static immage!
were a looooooooooooooooooong way from creating whole games with it!
only thing we could do for next gen is every game native 1080P 60FPS higher texture detail and more open worlds, better AI, things like that but im not sure that would warrant a generation shift.
thats what really concerns me theres nothing worse then for a company thats bleeding money for the past 6 years to go spend a arm and a leg on R&D for a new console and it ends up flopping.
thats what worries me, there are very few people ATM who can afford a new console.
and the few that could wont want to because the leap from ps3 to ps4 is allot smaller then it has ever been!
you always need something significantly better to warrant a shift, and this time we just dont have it.
games can get bigger, better, smoother, faster, but not to the extent where it warrants a new 5,6,7,8,9 hundred dollar console!
only thing that i can see warranting a new console is some type of new controller or something like what ninty is offering with the tablet device with the wiiU.
but even then im not so sure even with the better graphics, new amazing controller, im still not so sure that really is enough to warrant a new generation.
fact is technology has been travelling EXTREMELY slow the last 10 years!
look at TVs where have we come in the last 12 years?
weve gone from CRT which used fluro tubes, to LCDs which use fluro tubes, to LEDs which use fluro tubes.
oh and weve had plasmas the only really new tech we have had in the screen department in the past 12 years!
we need something new and amazing that requires new consoles.
sadly yet we dont have it.
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Temjin001
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 10:48:52 AM
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Highlander
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 10:55:08 AM
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maxpontiac
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 10:52:18 AM
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Whatever Sony has in store, I am sure my PS3 will be traded in for it, albeit grudgingly.
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jimmyhandsome
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 11:03:47 AM
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Highlander
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 11:05:45 AM
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AcHiLLiA
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 1:29:47 PM
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BigBoss4ever
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 2:25:56 PM
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also, with the dumb-ing down of the games these days, I am not sure what I can do with a super powerful PS4 (or wutever it will be called) along with all games that are nothing more but "eye candy" or "flower pot" --- not thrilled to the least when thinking about that.
Last edited by BigBoss4ever on 4/2/2012 2:31:36 PM
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Lotusflow3r
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 8:54:03 PM
But the brightside is still there, don't give up just yet.
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Soultaker
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 2:39:51 PM
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dbyzforce
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 9:10:39 PM
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bebestorm
Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 3:09:10 PM
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___________
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 @ 4:52:17 AM
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i just cant see $ony being first to the line this time.
another problem i have with this is the E3 2013 reveal and late 2013 release.
systems are always announced a year plus from release!
look what happened to the ps3, it was delayed so many times because of manufacturing issues with bluray and cell.
hell they had to ship with some of the SPUs disabled because they could not get them working they were so behind schedule!
one reason why i find it so hard to believe there going to announce and release a system within 6 months when they normally take 2,3,4, times that amount of time!
6 months is just not enough time from reveal to release!
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Highlander
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 @ 9:45:53 AM
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___________
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 @ 8:14:41 AM
theres a reason why hardware always sees a 12+ month gap from announcement to release.
look at the wiiu, announced last E3 and is releasing late this year.
6 months just is not enough time.
plus i seriously doubt they will be using cell simply because its the whole reason weve had to put up with crappy ports.
they have gotten a hell of allot better but we still sadly get games like skyrim which are unplayable.
till they stop trying to be so different and bring down the differences all there doing is hurting themselves and their fans.
IGN had a article today listing what developers wanted in next consoles.
first thing mentioned was from epics CEO, stating systems really need to close their differences so developers can stop making multiple games for multiple consoles and start spending that time and resources on polishing and making games better.
plus look at the vita its allot more conventional and allot easier for developers to make games for, so id like to see that as a sign that $ony has learned their lesson and am sticking to conventional terms.
plus all the rumours going around saying its gone, and all the rumours stating no BC which no cell would explain.
id be too costly to do what they did with the original PS3 and just add the chips in.
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Highlander
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 @ 1:02:47 PM
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Thursday, April 05, 2012 @ 9:27:19 AM
do you really want to have to put up with the bethesdas, crapcoms and ubisofts next gen?
i dunno about you but im sick of playing inferior ports!
allot of todays best games are far better on other platforms.
AC for example has far less screen tearing and frame rate issues, same goes for ME, and allot of crapcom games like lost planet 2 or something more recent like SFXT.
if $ony ditch the cell and make the ps4 allot more like PCs and the next xbox then that will help eliminate the inferior ports were constantly having to put up with.
yea its a waste throwing all this away after so much has been invested in it, but isent that what $ony always does?
every single console they have brought out has introduced some amazing new architecture and that is exactly why they have been so expensive at release, costly to manufacture, and a pain in the a$$ to develop for!
in other words its always been a thorn in their side, a massive weak spot!
i still remember the day where everyone thought the emotion engine was the bees knees and would path the way for future playstation devices.
then $ony officially announced the ps3 and the birth of another totally new architecture.
thus is the $ony way, however this time go back to conventional methods.
only reason why $ony has been so ambitious and stubborn is because of father ken.
now hes gone, there starting to try stick to the mould.
look at the vita.
im as intrigued as the next guy to see where we could go if the ps4 sticks with cell, but that is one of the worst things $ony could do for the ps4!
the ps4 needs to be more developer friendly, not less!
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Cravit8
Thursday, April 05, 2012 @ 11:02:14 AM
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Ackehece
Thursday, April 05, 2012 @ 12:58:18 PM
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4 primary threads per core for 32 threads per die
*current in testing CELL based chip
we are sitting stage 3 SOI already (http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20051027/110194/1027sce_cell_roadmap.jpg)
If they use the in development chip (power8) expect a serious boost in processing power as little as 8x to as much as 20x as the cores will be faster (and more energy efficient!)
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Highlander
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Monday, April 02, 2012 @ 10:28:07 AM