[PS3] Next-next-gen

It looks like Sony are going to announce the PS4 next week:

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So what is everyone expecting or hoping for from this?

I personally don't see the point. A new console means higher specs and for deelopers to realy make the best of this means higher development costs, all this at a time when games companies are going bust all over the shop. Who apart from EA is likely to chuck huge amounts of money at a new console? Do we really need shinier versions of FIFA and NBA games? Yes it would be nice to have more than 16 a side in Battlefield style games but that's as much to do with people's internet connections as it is the processor on the console. I'm planning on upgrading to fiberoptic briadband once it becomes available in my street in the next few months bumping me up to 50-70 odd mbps download speeds but that's far from the norm these days.

With Freemium gaming being increasingly popular with developers, what kind of games are we likely to see on a new console? I'm guessing more MMO efforts. Sony have realy lacked any must-have console specific titles in recent years and although there are the odd things like Little Big Planet and just recently, Nino No Kuni, nobody's going to fork out a few hundred quid to play an updated LBP. What could potentially be a big boost is if the delay to GTA V is in some part due to it getting ready for release on PS4. If they managed to orchestrate that then Sony could sell a lot of consoles to GTA fans, probably me included.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Not in games with dedicated servers, true, but not that many console games have dedicated servers. Frontlines had 32 a side on the 360 but that was pretty painful.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I've read some stuff saying that the PS4 will suport 3d. One wonders where these websites get their info from, given that you can already get 3d games on the PS3.

I've actually been using my PS Vita a lot more recently, although granted it's been mainly playing FFIX and a couple of PS Minis. Ridge Racer is pretty decent on it and it was only a tenner for the complete package as part of the one year anniversary sale.

I agree that a download only market would be a terrible idea, especially if Sony haven't worked out why Live is so much better than PSN yet (Let me decide if I want the latest update Sony, don't hang my PS3 for 20 minutes downloading it whether I like it or not). Also one use only discs can fuck off too.

It will be a loooooong time before I can afford to upgrade from HD to whatever becomes the new industry standard so I don't really care about that, although I will care if games start using text you can only read on an Ultra Def tv the way they started making games you could only read in HD on the last generation.

Pang, to be fair, despite having done almost all my gaming on an Xbox for the last 10 years, I still refer to the buttons on the controller as X, triangle, circle and square and Sony don't really have a lot else going for them in terms of brand identity for their consoles.

I really don't see this as a knee-jerk reaction to Nintendo. Nintendo are now a niche market supplier, they're not competitors to Sony and Microsoft. I see it more as a way of shoring up their share price after announcing massive losses again this year. They really need to ditch the TV division and concentrate on stuff Korea aren't better at.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

When I got a PS3 I was a bit bummed that it wouldn't play PS2 games because I still had a few to play but to be honest, I've not played a single Xbob game since I bought a 360 and I've still to get round to playing those last couple of PS2 games since I got a PS3 so lack of BC isn't really an issue for me. It's nice to be able to stick PS1 games in and play them on my Vita but at a couple of quid a pop, I don't mind re-downloading the PS1 games to have them sat on a memory stick either. Seeing as how I just got an SD projector and I'm going to use my PS2 as a DVD player through it, I might actually get round to playing those last couple of games one of these days.

All the social stuff on this is largely pointless for me, although watching Acer play games is always amusing.

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