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PS4 Predictions

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destrekor

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I, for one, expect it to ship with a new optical media format, launching the next wave of terror on media consumers.

Also likely it will be a year late or more, behind the first next-gen launch.

In all reality, the timing won't likely work out to include it in this console - or they may include it as a gaming medium, in hopes the consumer disc finds more grounds. Would, like all other modern optical drives, include lasers for all the other current formats (excluding any potential rival in the near-future competing for the official format crown).

If they have a decent projected lifespan of the PS4, the PS5 could be launched at the same time in the format intro period as the PS2 was with DVD. Sony took a big gamble with the PS3 and Blu-ray, but DVD was a sure-thing in the PS2, considering entry-cost of DVD stand-alone equipment wasn't as exorbitant as Blu-ray at the time of console launch.

I guess it depends on exactly how long it will take for the current various prototype equipment to reach a stage where it can be included in a small electronics package.
 
> I, for one, expect it to ship with a new optical media format, launching the next wave of terror on media consumers.

I think it will murder your children while they sleep. It needs their blood to live.

Or not. I can't think of a sane reason for a new optical format since the studios are saying they want to stick with blu-ray for at least another 10 years.
 
Probably somewhere between the two above predictions. I can't see there being too many more generations of optical media before it is just streamed or downloaded to an internal storage drive.

Also, DaveSimmons is right that Blu-Ray is still just warming up. It will still be alive and kicking during the next generation of consoles.

However, am I the only one who wants less gimicky motion control built into consoles from here on out? It is pretty lame to do some kind of jumping jack in front of a camera mounted to your TV just to make the game do something.
 
I'm pretty confident that Blu-ray will be the last successful new generation of optical media. Everything is going to be downloaded over the Internet in the somewhat near future, it makes more sense to do that.
 
dguy6789 said:
I'm pretty confident that Blu-ray will be the last successful new generation of optical media. Everything is going to be downloaded over the Internet in the somewhat near future, it makes more sense to do that.
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Not unless ISPs stop competing heh heh
 
I think Sony will sent out number '4' as bumper sticker that you can put on existing ps3. It will cost you $50 for this upgrade.
 
Making fun of the PS3 is sooooo 2007.

Anyway, I'm going to have to agree that the next consoles will likely be the last disc based ones. Physical media is already in its death throes on the PC. The only thing really holding it back is broadband costs and infrastructure limitations. Especially when we're talking games in excess of 15gb.

Direct download will dominate for a little while once it does get going. However, I can see cloud based gaming eventually taking over. The industry has been testing the waters for subscription based systems for a while now. It would cut piracy (in theory) and ensure a continuing revenue stream.
 
My predictions:
-Instead of 1 Cell CPU, or even 2, they will be putting 8 of those suckers in there! (And you thought it was hard to program before!)
-No optical drive at all
--You will be required to re-download all your old games, at cost
-Will have PS1 and PS3 backwards compatibility, and PS12 forwards compatibility
-It will have DisplayPort, HDBaseT (or whatever video over ethernet is called), HDMI, DVI and VGA outputs, but will only ship with the standard AV cable by default
 
DaveSimmons said:
> I, for one, expect it to ship with a new optical media format, launching the next wave of terror on media consumers.

I think it will murder your children while they sleep. It needs their blood to live.
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You are getting the PS4 confused with the Xbox 720.
 
dguy6789 said:
I'm pretty confident that Blu-ray will be the last successful new generation of optical media. Everything is going to be downloaded over the Internet in the somewhat near future, it makes more sense to do that.
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not even that. blu-rays market penetration is still low simply because the average person doesn't see the benefit of it over DVD and really isn't keen on the idea of repurchasing all their movies. if you toss another format on people itll just flat out backfire
 
It will have 8 physical CPUs, but only 4 of them will be enabled at a time, and the ones that are enabled will be random. So as not to make it too easy for developers you see.
 
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