SONY PLAYSTATION 4

What are the features we most want to see the PS4?

PS4info dream of next-gen PlayStation with your 32nm processors up to 16 SPE, double the number on the PlayStation 3. While more than gamrConnect, there is talk of a larger partnership with Google. Sony's new favorite for Android on Xperia Play an interesting strategy. Blu-ray on the PlayStation 4 is a dead cert. While digital distribution is undoubtedly the way forward, not every PlayStation owner has access to fast broadband connections. As Kaz Hirai says Develop, "we do business in some parts of the world where network infrastructure is not as strong as one always hopes there will be a requirement for a business the size and scope to have a physical medium .." .The PlayStation controller 4, Dr. Richard Marks (Sony Computer Entertainment U.S. R & D special projects manager) said that "anything that allows us to get players into the system mean that more" is the technology they will see. There is no brain wave games first.


Could there be a redesign of the PlayStation Network as well?

According to Reg Hardware, Sony has the PlayStation Network upgrade design in the works to compete with Xbox Live - could finally launch with PS4?

What about the PS4 release date?

Tricky. If you side with the likes of ITProPortal, you may believe that "the whole concept of a device that is bound to play a single room can become obsolete".The future of gaming may lie in a more portable device / controller that you can play on the move or plug into your TV. Epic Mark Rein has some interesting thoughts about this here. Sony claims that PS3 will have a 10-year life cycle, indicating the next PlayStation will arrive at the end of 2016 at the latest. Or we might not get a PlayStation 4 at all. Developers have not maxed out the potential of the PS3, while the release of PlayStation Move has provided an extra dimension ...

Senior executive for a large U.S. retailers told their shareholders that they do not expect the Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 til 2014.

Bethesda Todd Howard, game director of the upcoming blockbuster Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, saying that gamers should not expect a follow up to PS3 and Xbox 360 until 2014, at the very beginning.

Speaking to PSM3 magazine, the Bethesda exec says that gamers are happy with the current generation console technology and that he did not expect to see an Xbox 720 or PS4 before 2014.

However, according to Digitimes, Sony PS4 to begin production in late 2011 with Kinect-like body control. Although we are not sure how accurate that might be.

"Where do we go from here is an interesting one," said Sony Computer Entertainment UK boss Ray Maguire. "The online is very exciting and a big part of our business going forward. But in terms of what kind of technology we will use, it is too early to tell yet because we're only half way through the life cycle of the PS3 - there are more years to come on that machine"