[PS3] Next-next-gen

I'm half expecting them to push the 4k UHD display experience with this thing. Via streaming of course but the double capacity blu-ray discs the PS4 is expected to have could probably manage it too. Now, that's only really for potential media of course. The PS3 was promised to do upwards to 2k for gaming when it was announced and pushing things to multiple displays and such but that didn't really pan out at all. I wouldn't expect 4k gaming at all unless it was 1080p up-scaled to 4k which could work I guess with enough AA. Really, if they can even manage a pure 1080p environment at 60 fps with this machine with the rumored hardware specs I'll be surprised.

I hope whatever they show off on the 20th is significant. They'll probably end up holding most of their cards until E3 but Sony really has a lot riding on this and I hope they don't screw it up. I've actually enjoyed the PS3 quite a bit as of late and personally I think both Sony and Microsoft are jumping the gun. They could easily wait another 2 years to release better systems that don't cost them nearly as much and actually deliver a better punch in capability.

I think they're worried about Nintendo having a head start which they really shouldn't since while I love Nintendo they've really only played catch up and re-introduced and re-polished gameplay that wasn't successful on the GameCube by packaging a tool developers know the consumer will have by default. I believe Sony may have learned something from that by if pictures of the PS4 controller are true then bundling the Move tech into the controller. Similarly Microsoft will be pushing Kinect 2 onto people with it's next console as well if they have any intelligence. Differentiating yourself through exclusives and gameplay is basically the only thing these guys can do to keep themselves afloat in terms of gaming. Well at its core anyway. The extra stuff helps too I guess.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Besides it's not like 4k uhd tvs won't be upscaling shit themselves anyway.

I guess it has been a while. I guess I was just hoping for beefier hardware than what's rumored is all. It's going to be a rather ho-hum jump in my opinion but I'm willing to be wowed.

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One is a 3d head tracking device that you wear and the other is essentially a handheld that you can stream your pc for gaming. They're kinda neat.

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Well that was sort of a waste of time. We caught only a glimpse of the controller and its kinect device. We got a lot of yakety yak and not enough actual gameplay of which most of it was derived from PCs or prerendered. No bullet points for important shit like will it take discs, is it download only, is it anti-used games, and what the fuck does the console even look like? They're saving a lot for E3. I'm hoping some really long running PS3 projects get moved to PS4 and actually make it for its launch window: looking at you last guardian. There's a lot of potential and the PS4 seems to be a step in a good direction but the unanswered questions could make or break the console and the same is aimed at Microsoft as well. Right now, I'll probably get one depending on what games are at launch and if the answers I seek are favorable. I hope Sony and Microsoft don't do anything stupid.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm kind of curious how they'll emulate the start and select buttons for streamed PS1, PS2, and PS3 games. There's an Options button in the place of start which is fine and while the select button wasn't heavily used the Share button takes its place and if that is being used for well sharing your play session of anything then where does the button that functions as the select button come from?

BC isn't that big deal for me. I wish they'd kept it in for the PS3 slim I bought but it's not the end of the world for me. I have an original PS2 that plays both PS1 and PS2 games fine. Although I have thought about getting PS2 slim or whatever its called with the flip open top since apparently it has a better disc drive that allows faster loading.

I really hope this E3 Sony answers most of our questions and that most of the answers are good ones.

I was speaking idiomatically.

The only thing they did was come out and finally say that Diablo 3 was always meant to be a console game. Can't spell BLIZZARD without an Activision.

I'm not even mad about it since I've never liked most of Blizzard's games anyway. Only ones I cared for were Lost Vikings and Rock and Roll Racing. The rest is RTS and MMO - two of the type of games I don't really much like. Sooooo...

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Also here's a thing that sums up yesterday for the most part.

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What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?