Comparing PS3 and PS4 specs: what it means for everyday use
PS4 will improve upon many other facets of the system beyond just prettier graphics. We take a look at Sony's official specs and breakdown what to expect.
Recharging PS4 controllers should take far less time
Here's another picture of DualShock 4, because we don't know what the PS4 looks like
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PS4 will improve upon many other facets of the system beyond just prettier graphics. We take a look at Sony's official specs and breakdown what to expect.-
I'm still hoping they abandon their legacy Dual Shock thumb stick layout and flip/flop the D-Pad and left thumb stick so that when you hold the controller in a natural position your right thumb is over the buttons and your left thumb will be over the left stick instead of the D-Pad.
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But, but, that would mean admitting that it needs to be changed.
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Seriously? What is one good reason to maintain the current design?
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That's just because it is what you are used to. The fact is, the location of the sticks doesn't take into account ergonomics or comfort, they are where they are because they were tacked onto the PS1 controller. That's poor design, and it is silly to not take the opportunity of a new console to make a better controller.
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Yeah. I've large hands and I've no problem playing with either controller.
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I'm not assuming that a better controller design is the 360s, I'm just saying Sony shouldn't stick to the Dualshock, since it wasn't designed in the first place.
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For action games, you want want both thumbs on the stick anyways so that's not really an argument. It makes more sense that both sticks are in the same place as each other. Whether that should be where the xbox puts their left stick or where the playstation puts both of it's sticks may be up in the air, but having them in symmetrical locations makes more sense than not when using both simultaneously.
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That's a ridiculous thing to hope because A) the controller is just fine and B) they've already shown it.
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three times faster than the ps3. should be fine.
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At least they're offering digital purchases on everything.
I would guess this is a big part. Why decrease the margins for every unit sold if they expect/hope most games to be played off the hard drive (whether installed or downloaded) by the end of its lifetime.-
i personally don't plan on using the PS4 drive for anything but blu-ray movies. i want a 100% downloaded library with instant launching. no getting up or fishing discs out.
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All games will be digital download. The last two computers I got don't even have a cd/dvd/blu ray drive.
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Not everyone wants to use the Net.
Also I much prefer buying games, new, but on physical format. Older games - but still brand new copies - are much cheaper as there is a market and the market drives down price. When one entity (be it MS, Sony, Apple, etc.) get to set the prices they get to rig the market.
For example, some of the dodgy older games I'm considering getting Kane & Lynch 2 (I know I know) is is £9 to buy physically and £18 to download.Alpha Protocol is £10 to buy and £20 to download. Witcher 2 is £15 to buy and £30 to download. Syndicate is £6 to buy and £24 to download.
From four games that's over £50, that's some $75, more to purchase online than physically. And that's not even second-hand, that's brand new.-
They are going to be digital soon like it or not, even if some people don't want to use the net to download games or can't use it. physical media is dying.
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the blu-ray is the worst bottleneck. I really have to wonder if they won't just remove it from the system in the future. it's a digital world at this point anyway.
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there are still people who need discs. also, movies. sony gets a piece of all blu-rays sold.
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Do they need those discs at 8x instead of 6x that badly?
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No HDD information yet other than there will be one.
Ethernet port was confirmed in that spec sheet they released and it's even a gigabit port:
http://cdn.cnet.com.au/story_media/339343410/sony-specs_2.jpg-
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Considering the rest of the specs my best guess is a regular drive. A hybrid drive would be the only other option but it looks dubious. Would love to see one of these 500gb models since ssd is out of the question.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Western-Digital-Black-2-5-Inch-Hybrid-HDDs-Revealed-320038.shtml
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I think "games will be better" is a pretty obvious bullet point that doesn't really need much more hammering on. I wanted to focus on things that are less obvious.
That being said, I'm assuming the added RAM will be helpful with all the sharing features PS4 is promising.-
Added RAM will be helpful with everything.
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QFT. The biggest thing to hurt open world games was the lack of RAM. This will help things immensely.
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More rumored info.
http://www.vgleaks.com/orbis-gpu-compute-queues-and-pipelines/-
Also the info on the wireless b/g/n doesn't mention the fact that it's 2.4ghz band. Some are hoping they bump it to support 5ghz band.
As for the bluray drive there is no info yet on whether it supports reading BDXL discs or not which would be odd considering they are saying the console will output 4k video unless it's just 1080p upscaled to 4k. h.265 support is another feature not mentioned yet.-
Yeah, for this piece we only wanted to focus on what's been officially released as spec, and avoid as much speculation as possible.
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I would prefer you instead speculate as much as possible.
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So you didn't watch the stream? They're specifically addressing that issue, or at least making a pretty valiant effort to.
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Good thing that Sony put in an actual processor just to handle background tasks so this wouldn't happen!!
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First off playstation 3 has 9 cores not 7 cores plus this comparison isn't complete it's missing the ram core clock speeds,processor core clock speeds,memory bandwidth amounts,memory bandwidth core clock speeds etc..which are provided if you dig hard enough so you can give a proper comparison.
Cell processor:
http://youtu.be/gV_95-rmYNo
http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cell/Cell5_v2.html
https://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/Cell_Broadband_Engine
http://www.rambus.com/us/technology/applications/gaming/ps3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4
Cheers Gamers & Happy Gaming!
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I vaguely remember reading that PS3 could only use somewhere around 6 of the cores for gaming but for purposes such as Folding it can be utilized to its full potential.
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its 6 spes but inorder to increase yield only 6 of 8 are required. because yield is somewhat random there are ps3s between 6 and 8 functional spes. since games need to hit a min spec so that all games work all games can only use up to 6. Something like folding might be able to use the disabled spes.
heres an image of a capped cell.
http://static.trustedreviews.com/94/036690/a9ed/8889-ibmcellspan.jpg
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The unsung hero of it all will be that PS4 uses an x86 architecture. This will make development for the system much easier than that of the PS3 thus bringing more games to the system from 3rd parties and especially indies.
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This is a good thing. The tired piracy argument has been long debunked. Games still gather profits on the platform regardless with a long term window and near zero overhead. While PC piracy is a bugbear, consoles has one of their own in the form of second hand circulation.
Having PC as a platform that is once again viewed as a respectable priority platform with proper porting will encourage competition between platforms. Consoles should emphasize their own variety of product differentiation without forcing developers to pick and choose a platform to champion.
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The Playstation is dead.
The architecture is the primary difference, the PS is dead.
This is the Sony Xbox.
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You sir, officially, make no since. If the iPhone has nearly the same specs as say the HTC one x, it doesn't make it a apple one x. Just because the ps4 will kick ass (as far as we have heard) doesn't mean you have to fanboy about how it will be a good competitor to the 720 or Durango or whatever they are calling it.
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