Top 5 things to expect with Sony's possible announcement of the PlayStation 4 this week
Are you getting excited? I'm a huge fan of PCs, but next-gen consoles are always exciting and they should push the bar of games up much higher since games are developed on consoles and ported on PCs.
What should we expect from the next-gen console from Sony? Sony are holding an event this week where
they've said we'll "see the future" - most people, myself included, are expecting an announcement of the PlayStation 4. If this is true, here's some things you should expect from the PS4.
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Price. This is one of the most important parts of the PS4. The original PlayStation 3 launched for $600, where we saw 60GB included. The PS4 should hopefully hit the $300-$400 price, and include 500GB of storage. We should hopefully see a decently fast HDD inside, or some form of flash storage - maybe 64-128GB of SSD to help the OS feel snappy.
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PS4 launch games? Launch games are going to be important this time around, more so than any launch of any other console ever. It's a harsher economy this time around and mobile devices have come out since the current-gen consoles to rule consumers' wallets. We're going to need to see some seriously awesome launch titles, where I hope to see Grand Theft Auto V, The Last Guardian, The Last of Us and maybe a few others - Battlefield 4, maybe?
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Cloud-based gaming? This is relatively new news, but it's being reported that the PlayStation 4 will stream games in real-time over the Internet. This is thanks to
Sony's acquisition of cloud-based gaming form Gaikai, which saw Sony throw $380 million at them in July of 2012. This would be a very new direction for next-gen gaming and could see a real push toward a full digital platform.
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New controller? We've seen the new prototype PS4 controller, which has fans of the PlayStation brand up in arms. Will it work well? What is the LCD for? Will it have Move integration? Will the PS4 controller be faster for FPS games?
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Next-gen hardware. As a hardware enthusiast, this is the part that excites me the most. We should expect an all-AMD system, with an eight-core processor, Radeon GPU and some serious grunt for next-gen games. Because it's a Sony, we should hopefully expect 4K support as Sony have 4K UHD TVs available. I expect nothing less than 4K @ 30fps from the PS4, but we should see a default of 1080p @ 60fps (with AA, AF enabled).
This should give the PS4 a huge jump on current-gen consoles, and the struggling Nintendo Wii U, it's Japanese rival. It will also pump it up to current mid-range PCs that are more than capable of 1080p @ 60. We should expect a serious leap in texture quality, as current-gen consoles are constrained in multiple areas stopping them from having high-res textures.
Expect a huge graphical leap with the PS4, but let's hope it's not all graphics and we see some innovative titles from Sony and their partners. Not long to go now folks, expect some huge PlayStation 4 coverage from us during the week!
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RumorTT: For "a long time now", The Last Guardian has been a PlayStation 4 release
For a game that has been stuck in development hell forever, news of The Last Guardian is coming out and it's finally exciting - it will end up as a PlayStation 4 release and has been for "a long time now".
This is all according to a former Bigbig developer who posted on the
NeoGAF forums, where he added "
I don't know, but I know it's been in development on Orbis for a long time now. Its platform has been questionable for nearly two years, but the last time it was restarted (it's been restarted a number of times), it was moved to Orbis."
We should hear about the PlayStation 4 in a few days time, so hopefully we see this game as one of the teasers of its next-gen capabilities!
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Google Nexus 4 Smartphone Review 2.0 - Two Months with Google's Superstar Smartphone
The Last Two Months
My
initial review of the Nexus 4 was very positive. But why don't we try something different here? We're going provide you with some thoughts on how it has been, two months after our review of LG and Google's very competitively priced - if you can find one - smartphone.
I was incredibly lucky at the time, even if it didn't feel like it, to score a Nexus 4 at launch. Remember, this isn't a review sample; I had to sit in front of my computer and smash my F5 key like the rest of you, in a very small 15 minute window, to secure one of these bad boys. Even now, I read on various forums and Reddit that people simply can't buy one still. This isn't the case everywhere, but we know that there just isn't enough stock of the Nexus 4 to meet demand. This happens, even to Apple, but it seems people want the Nexus 4, sometimes more than you see the crazy demand for the latest iPhone.
I've been using my Nexus 4 pretty much exclusively for the last two months as I haven't received many samples of other phones over the holiday period. I've taken it everywhere with me and it has become an increasingly important tool in my day to day life. You can say that about any smartphone, but when you have your digital life so intertwined with Google services, owning a device that provides you with the 'pure Android experience' does just that.
I'm a daily user of Gmail, I live on it. Heck, I'm lying in bed right now typing this into an email to myself so I can work on it on my desktop in the morning. The experience of Google services on the Nexus 4 is nothing short of near perfection. Google's apps are pretty solid, but apart from that I'm very efficient in the amount of content and apps I keep on my phone. I use Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, SwiftKey, Twitter and a few other apps on the daily. No games, no movies and no TV episodes.
Every smartphone user is different, which is why it's incredibly hard to be a reviewer of these devices. Not everyone will agree with review methods, and this can upset some people. So let's get to my thoughts on the Nexus 4 from using it over the last couple of months.
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