February 22nd, 2013
Announced
There was a conference/announcement type thing the other day. Things were announced! PS4 type things! While not a whole lot was revealed other than that there will be games on it, we did see the controller. There’s a big, fat touch screen slapped in the middle of it. Seems neat?
I don’t know. The whole thing didn’t really catch my interest, but I thought it was pretty funny that a bunch of people didn’t even bother to show up. (There was a Kotaku article talking about that, but I can’t seem to be able to find it now.) Though, I rarely get excited about announcements like this. The last announcement I felt true joy and excitement for was when they announced that Sonic was in Brawl.
Not really impressed with the hardware.
From the reviews I’ve seen, it looks like the engine is going to be really powerful with very realistic graphics. They paid extra attention to making the lighting realistic.
Also, the games are probably not only going to be released in discs , but you will buy them and store them in an online storage.
I was really impressed by that, but I will probably miss collecting the cases :<
True dat.
i too will miss the boxes that the games come in.
but i will not miss the upcoming Psn vs. Steam vs. Xbox Store/Live battle for domination. Soon… Soon… Soon, nothing will ever go past the 2nd game…. :<
but there will be hats. lots and lots of hats.
I found the most interesting thing of the conference imo was blizzard announcing that they’re rejoining the console scene.
I wasn’t terribly impressed, but overall I don’t think they really told us much about the system anyway. I guess the social sharing thing will let me make some nifty wallpaper without having to worry about a video capture card, but otherwise I didn’t get a big draw out of that; I don’t even have a Facebook account.
The big disappointment was that it’s not backward compatible with our PSN purchases. I guess I understand why, since they’re finally jumping to a x86 architecture, but given that they’re trying to make digital purchases a big draw it’s kind of a bad start when they begin by invalidating all your previous generation ones.
I’ll still get one, of course. :p
Completely off-topic, but Ence, did you see this?
http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/news/champs-irl-jnx-t-shirt-design-contest
You got this, man.
i have actually became fairly interested in just plain PC gaming, theres also steam big-picture, which when paired with some linux voodoo (lots of autostarting homemade command line) can run entirely off of controller, so, thats your console.
Yeah, I’ve done little to no console gaming for a very long time.