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Is There Any Reason to Be Impressed By the PS 4 Specs??

Calin Ciabai writes on Unigamesity: "Sony announced the PlayStation 4 tonight and everybody got extremely excited about the amazing power of the console and how truly next gen it will be. For me, as a PC gamer, things didn’t seem impressive at all and the only reason why I am excited about the release of the PS4 is that PC gaming can finally take off and explode with quality releases because it was held back by the crappy specs of the current-gen consoles."

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majiebeast4079d ago

We click the plus next to the site name and grade it Wtf? and no.

Pc gamers should be happy with this, you will surely see less bad pc ports. As a pc gamers and a playstation one i am very excited for what pc and ps4 will bring.

LOGICWINS4079d ago

The PC will have exclusives that the PS4 will never have and the PS4 will have exclusives that the PC will never have. Anyone who wants the best of both worlds should get em both.

torchic4079d ago

one thing I definitely see this generation is PC traditional PC games making their way to consoles, a-la Diablo III.

D3 is just the start me thinks.

Scenarist4078d ago

ya but diablo 3 porting to next gen system is going to be gay unless they redo all of the assests.. .

i mean whos going to want to play a game that doesnt even look that good on PC@max settings on their next gen system ?

DigitalSmoke4079d ago

PC even needs to step up, 8 GB of unified GDDR5 at 176 GB/s BW.
Good luck finding a PC GPU with that kind of ram behind it.

TenkoTAiLS4079d ago

By the time the PS4 has released the PC will already be way past that. Its how it always goes with consoles.

Besides, game developers BUILD the console games on PC, if a PC couldn't design, build and run the game it wouldn't get made, full stop. When will people learn that they don't make the games on the console itself >.<

PCpower4079d ago

You're not too smart. The GDDR5 on video cards is a buffer frame which means you need less where as your PS4 needs more ram because system data will also be stored on it as well as video information. Also 176 GB/s is a joke because my HD7970 video card has a bandwidth of 264 GB/s. It would be wise to know what you are talking about before you type.

jmc88884079d ago

Good luck finding a PC GPU that can push that much GDDR5.

Though the problem with a PS4 is, it surely can't.

It can push 2 GB's of that 8, the rest is there for shortcuts when the system gets long in the tooth and 2gb's reserved for the OS. It can properly push somewhere between 2-3 GB's, that's really it. Even then I think I'm overestimating it. A much stronger GTX 670 can barely push over 2GB's, which is why the 4GB version doesn't do crap more than a 2GB version.

I've had a GPU with higher bandwidth than that 176 gb/s since last year, and it cost me less than a PS4 will cost me when I pre-order it. Hell you can buy one right now for $300 with higher bandwidth. Plus a newer line will be out before the PS4 ships.

The PS4 will play fun games, but to compare this midrange 2011 GPU and 2007 midrange CPU as something PC's don't have and that the PS4 will magically properly push 4x the ram it is actually capable of while not accounting for OS reserve is pretty silly and inaccurate.

ZoyosJD4079d ago

The PS4 will be out by holiday 2013 for less than $600, likely $500. It was running 4k, go check the screenshots. A pc that can run those graphics at 4k above 30fps would run you $2000 to build from the ground up.

BTW, 4k tvs will be launching around $2000 for the 50" later this year.

Eyesoftheraven4079d ago (Edited 4079d ago )

The Radeon HD 7970 has 3GB of GDDR5 capable of 264Gb/s, 3.79TFLOPs, 32 CUs, 2048 Stream Processors, and all that's not even the GHz edition. That 3GB of GDDR5 RAM by the way is for just the GPU——it isn't shared memory.

[PS4 will have similar to a Radeon HD 7850, 1.84TFLOPs, 18 CUs, 1152 stream processors, 176GB/s memory bandwidth]

PCs use dedicated DDR3 (DDR4 en route) system ram up to 64GB (excluding server stations) at very fast speeds of up to 2133Mhz with tight timings of around 9-10-9/24 or 10-9-10/24.

CPUs like the i7-3930k, 6 core 12 thread, easily overclock to 4.3GHz and have 12mb L2 cache.

[PS4 CPU is a 8-core AMD Jaguar notebook/tablet reduced power version with 2mb L2 cache @ a very tame 1.8GHz]

I have 7 TB worth of raided Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM HDDs in my rig and a 240GB 550mb/s read-write SSD.

So the high end PC market is already well above the PS4 specs, even more so than back when PS3 & 360 launched, but that is unavoidable and also irrelevant because exclusives and the benefits in "coding to the metal." I love my high end, $2000 computer which I use for games and work, but I'll sure as hell buy a PS4 for the incredible exclusives.

At least now with the x86 transfer, all ports should be of a much higher & consistent quality across all platforms.

Highlife4079d ago

people aren't mentioning that the PS4 will also have a secondary chip so you can download and do background tasks so it won't take away cpu power from gameplay or the os. You pc gamers have a secondary chip for that???
Besides hardware this is why I left pc gaming.
AIMBOTS, hacks and cheats. They are in all multiplayer games.

callahan094079d ago

@PCPower

So 176 GB/s memory bandwidth is a joke because you have a video card that costs between 400 and 500 dollars that can do better? Come on, man. 176 GB/s is about 5x faster memory bandwidth than the PS3 had, so it's an enormous leap from previous console generation technology. Just because the top of the line out there in the PC world right now is better than what will be in the PS4 doesn't mean much. You wouldn't have them release the PS4 at 1200 or 2000 dollar price point, would you? They'd be crazy to do that. There's no way they put a HD 7970 into the PS4. The cost of that graphics card alone is probably about the same as what the entire PS4 has to cost.

DigitalSmoke4079d ago

Every single one of you is locked up thinking from inside the box, ya'll have no clue what this means, yet attack me, maybe subconsciously for that excact reason.

The PCI-E slot is only able to comunicate at about 37 gig a sec, the X86 CPU in PC also do not fish in the same memory pool as the PS4 does.

Later funny dummy's.

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Bladesfist4079d ago

The whole thing bored the hell out of me because I did not get a wow factor from the visuals (PC Gamers are used to it) and the tech demos were old. The social aspects were pushed way to hard. The only thing I enjoyed watching was Watchdogs. Anyway I am going to purchase a PS3 today to play uncharted 3. Anyone got any other games I should pick up?

Bladesfist4079d ago

I guess I struck a nerve, want to tell me what you dsagree on? Watchdogs is the only game that had interesting gameplay shown. The rest was pre rendered and boring linear shooting.

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Eyeco4079d ago (Edited 4079d ago )

I disagreed with your comment because, it just comes across as an ignorant and unfair judgement.

Ok so you weren't impressed with conference that's fine it's your opinion but then you state your reasons for not being impressed, and I'm like what?

You didn't get the wow factor from the visuals because your a PC gamer and that's understandable but that doesn't change the fact that its a substantial leap over anything on the ps3/360, meaning if your a CONSOLE gamer then the visuals on NEW CONSOLE would have impressed you.

You say the social aspects were pushed way to hard, I disagree because there showing of the new revamped PSN, something that overly bitched about on PS3, the abilty to stream, and share your own game play videos, and jump into your friends game, again is a big deal, please name me one console that can do that

And by saying the social aspects were pushed too hard I'm assuming you mean not enough games were shown ? I've also seen people complain about a lack of price range, release date etc, but that's why we have E3 which is 4 MONTHS AWAY, this was the reveal conference, People seem to ignore that when judging the conference, if you want more depth, more games, pricing wait till E3 christ.

Your comment seems to ignore how relevent everything that was shows is to console gaming, let alone to Playstation, you seem to ignore aspects like the partnership with Blizzard, think about it, one of the most iconic, innovative and greatest devs on the PC and gaming in general is gonna be working with a console for the the 1st time in 20 years, can't you see how much that means to a console ?

And again, Sony didn't have to show half of what they did this gen, Just officially revealing the specs and saying that guerilla games, MM, and sukerpunch are developing a game would have been enough, but if they showed this much in a reveal, just think of how much more will be shown in E3 this year.

akaakaaka4079d ago (Edited 4079d ago )

Bs in your statement .. leave the ego on the side and you will see how much advanced this games are.. no pc games uses 8gb of gddr5 from what I have read here not even 3gb of ram lol this is way ahead pc and you will have to upgrade you pc very soon if you want to keep up with the PS4 .. "next gen games"

Well get gt5, motor Storm Pacific rift, killzone 2, demons souls, heavy rain, infamous 2, resistance fom and 3 campaign are good!
Those are some amazing fun games you must play!

Bladesfist4079d ago (Edited 4079d ago )

Thanks for the list of games. I will be picking up at least one of the killzones.

"no pc games uses 8gb 5dram" Nor does any PS4 game or you will have an out of memory exception. We have no idea how much memory those games used.

What was BS in my statement? I have no ego here. I just did not find the games interesting or that great visually. Killzone looked like a boring generic shooter. Explosions everywhere. Made me think of CoD.

I doubt I will have to update my PC.

CPU 8 core @4ghz
GPU GTX 660TI
RAM 8GB 2100mhz
SSD 126gb
HDD1 500gb
HDD2 2TB

2 x 1080p monitors

Does not look as good as crysis 3 as a lot of you seem to think http://farm9.staticflickr.c...

akaakaaka4079d ago (Edited 4079d ago )

it does look good!, it's like how a PS3 game remade in hd for the PS4 will look like, but look at this KZSF pics they are ahead in details and tech..
your pc spec seem good but I still believe you will need to upgrade to reach this quality remember PC specs do not equal Consoles.

the whole city looks photo realistic
https://www.facebook.com/ph...

beautiful!
https://www.facebook.com/ph...

look at the fabric texture.. on the arm.. is just ahead anything on PC..
https://www.facebook.com/ph...

jmc88884079d ago

No, the PS4 won't push 8 gb's.

It'll push 2-3 gb's properly, if that, and it will have 2gb's most likely reserved for OS, and then the other 3-4 GB's will sit in reserve for five years from now when they need to use tricks like the current consoles use to make them last longer.

The PS4 is 1/8th-1/9th the power of an Uber PC. 1/3rd or so from a midrange 2013 PC. It is comparable to a 2011 midrange GPU with a midrange 2007-2008 CPU.

Those are the facts. They have been confirmed now. The only question is, how long will it take to bump up the raw to effective power by 50-100 percent and how often will developers spend the time to code it properly?

Because what that means is the PS4, at best, will equal a GTX 680 overclocked. AT BEST...YEARS FROM NOW. As for now it's a GTX 580 OC. Or a GTX 660 you can buy for $200.

mandf4079d ago (Edited 4079d ago )

Is this journalism? Is n4g going to approved it and lower itself further. Where are the articles discussing the games shown? All I have seen tonight is the Pc crowd taking one shot after another at Sony

1 article for Destiny

2 articles for Media Molicle

3 articles for killzone

Now go look at all the fail articles. Now look at the half praise with reference to pc or xbox. Get the picture. Sony released specs, games, and features but the most of the articles tonight don't focus on it. They just gotta crap on something. Such childish behavior in the gaming media.

xPhearR3dx4079d ago

So it's okay for you PS3 guys to complain that Xbox holds back the PS3 versions of games, but it's not okay for PC guys to complain about the PS3 holding back the PC version of games?

mandf4079d ago (Edited 4079d ago )

I have no problem with any console or platform being less capable. Pc gaming holds itself back. I'll let you in on a little secret other than mmo's, and rts games, consoles are what drives the video game industry. Modders are what saves the pc from going under. This up coming gen you will see more pc centric developers hop over to consoles because that is where the money is (Blizzard just a start). Blame your fellow pc gamers for pirating.

BY the way ask the founder of Steam, Windows is also holding back pc in a really big way

With all these 50 plus exclusives you put on a pedestal you would think some of them would push boundaries on pc but it doesn't happen. Crysis and Metro were the only 2 games that tried. I never said pc is going under. You act like gaming is pc when the money is found in consoles wether you want to believe it or not.

xPhearR3dx4079d ago

They're hoping over to consoles because they want more money in general. After all, that's why they're making games. Why limit yourself if there's millions of gamers on other platforms. Problem is, 7 year old tech limits what devs can do. It's a lot easier to make a game for the weakest hardware and port it to PC and add a fancy little texture pack.

If you honestly think PC gaming is going under, you need a wake up call pal. More and more people are switching to PC gaming every day. It's a wise decision, I suggest you do it as well.

d3nworth14079d ago

Jesus christ. Explain how the PC version of games which look and run better than the console version is being held back. Explain how my PC version of Street Fighter x Tekken which run at native 1080p was held back by my ps3 version which run at 720p. Explain how my PC version of Super Street fighter 4 which run at 90 fps was held back by my ps3 version which runs at 60 fps.It not okay to complain about the ps3 holding back the PC cuz its not holding it back. You PC elites are always complain about console hold your games back when half you dont even have the specs to run the game any better. What's is worse is the thing you guys mostly complain about the amount of pixels on screen. Why dont you people just shut up and play the god damn game. I swear you guy are annoying. Even though I game on PC i dont call myself a PC gamer mainly cuz I dont want people to grouped me with you guys. You guys are hands down the worst fanboys of any platform.

ThatXboxGuy4079d ago

^

Don't bother man.Every gen, as console games get better and better, PC gamers bitch more and more.No matter what.Massive insecurity issues with those guys.

They need serious mental counseling.

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user98412884079d ago

The next gen for gaming is just trolling and hating everything... It's sad and the main reason the mainstream will always shy away from the gaming crowd. The internet just seems to suck all the fun out of things anymore because you can't even talk about anything without a bunch of depressed people that need meds always showing up to fight about things no normal person would care about.

mandf4079d ago

Rock on man. I totally agree. I came hear tonight to read all about the reveals but all I got was insecure Pc articles defending there system. I got 2 articles about Media Molicule with hardly any info. What a let down. Blame the media for repeatedly fueling this stupid fanboy war.

Revolver_X_4079d ago

Well said...anal......rapist. Its seriously sad I have to agree with this guy. No one enjoys gaming anymore. PCers are glorified graphics whores, and each console has flamboyent fanboys. Im not pathetic enough to troll 720 or WiiU articles. My allegiance is to myself, not a piece of plastic or company. KZ and Deep Down looked amazing, btw, just in case you didnt know.

TheGamerDood4079d ago (Edited 4079d ago )

@xPhearR3dx

but..but the PC has 50+ exclusives coming out... whenever, so remind me again how consoles are holding back the PC again.

jmc88884079d ago

What do you think you watched earlier....

Was it a PS4 running demos?

Or was it a PC running what the PS4 target levels will be?

Hint, it was the latter.

Believe me, as someone who will be buying the PS4 and 720 and already bought a Wii U even though I have a PC better than them all, I wish for the sake of the industry, that something would actually push PC's, like last generation.

The starting point of this generation is if in 2005, MS didn't release 2005 tech, but released 2002-2003 tech.

A 360 and PS3 could outperform a 3000-4000 PC (or 2500 in core PC parts to build yourself) from a 2004 PC (the year before the 360 launched).

A PS4 is comparable to a $600-800 in core 2011 PC parts. (motherboard, ram, psu, CPU, GPU).

You make the determination whether or not that is high end and whether or not that is a step back or three from the starting point of a new console generation.

Then wrap your head around that you didn't see much of anything.

You didn't see price. You didn't get a list of games. You got vague references to devs that will eventually support PS4. You got demos ON PC of mostly multiplatform games that ummm, are on PC....thus probably why they were shown, because they are PC games running on a PC, showing merely what the PS4 SHOULD hopefully look like.

But we really don't know, because we weren't watching a PS4 do its thing, we were watching a PC pretending to be a PS4 do its thing.

We should be concerned. We should all want more for what we purchase. PC gamers are ONLY HELPED by consoles being stronger.

Most PC gamers are pointing out to people gushing that no, guys, this isn't a great reveal. They didn't reveal much, and what did, looked pretty ordinary. Nice, sure. Capable of providing fun. Sure. But entirely doable with a $200-300 GPU upgrade by most people with a PC with a decent quad core processor from the last 6 years.

What was the specs behind the PC we were watching during the PS4 reveal?

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The Meerkat4079d ago

I'm a 360 and.......F### YES!!

It looked fantastic.

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How to recruit Lam in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

Lam is among the 120 characters available for recruitment in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. While she is one of the many straightforward recruits, a known bug may prevent players from recruiting her if certain conditions are met. Despite developers’ assurances of fixing the bug, some early access players still encounter issues with recruiting Lam despite attempting the standard method.

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Tomb Raider Remastered just quietly censored one in-game detail

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered players are ticked off by the game’s most recent patch, which censors in-game pin-up posters of Lara Croft.

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rlow18h ago

This is why gaming is screwed. When people change things to fit someone’s agenda, it’s a slippery slope downhill.

Christopher8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

Even if that agenda is of the developer? Way to remove developer rights.

***One player called it a “huge problem with modern games,” saying they can now be “ruined AFTER people buy them”.***

The level of drama. Yes, I recall sitting there for more hours than I did anything else in the game. These two pinups are the core of the game, after all!

coolbeans6h ago(Edited 6h ago)

rlow1's cringe catastrophizing aside, I do think developers *ought* to strive to maintain an original work to the best of their ability. The language of a "remaster" tacitly implies that - for good or ill - what's being resold is what fans remember but better.

Profchaos6h ago

Games can be ruined after purchasing them yeah we know this not from this but from GTA IV which had half it's radio content patched out due to licensing expirations and to me that was a huge deal.

This pin up poster is a bit of nonsense but the whole argument of modern games can be ruined post launch is Absol true.

DedicatedDark5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

It's not their work to censor. They are incharge of restoration & remastering the work, not overwriting it.

Barlos4h ago

It's not the agenda of the developer though, they're pandering and trying to increase their ESG score.

Way to support censorship...

victorMaje4h ago

It’s not the end of the world for sure, but I understand the hate towards this kind of change. I believe it’s also a matter of principle.

Imagine a Picasso painting being restored & the restorer deciding there aren’t enough strokes, or some lines aren’t straight enough or curved enough…not sure it would/should sit well with people.

Have all original devs signed off on this change? Even if it’s the case, are we saying older gamers are better mentally equipped to process what was there than current gamers, hence the change?

Enough time ago the case was made that games are an art form. We’re supposed to have won that case.
So which is it? Are games art or not?

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Eidolon4h ago

Hasn't this been happened for over a decade since remasters? I can't see that it's any worse now. Maybe if Sweet Baby starts getting their hands on remasters we will definitely have a problem.

Rebel_Scum7h ago

tbh I dont see something like this as censorship. Does anyone else not find it strange for someone to stick pin ups of themsleves in a locker room?

Now of it was a pin up of some half naked firefighters it might make sense as Lara might like that, and if they removed that I would cry censorship. But removing pin ups of the main character, yeah I get it.

Barlos4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

It's a game, and they were placed there for the audience. It's not real life. If it was, she wouldn't have fought a T-Rex now would she?

Yes, it's censorship but it's a bit less in your face. If they were in the original game, then they should have been in the remasters. It's bad enough that they have that ridiculous unnecessary warning at the start, but then they start removing things post launch. I don't care how small the change, they shouldn't be doing it. It's nothing but ESG pandering but in a subtle way.

Rebel_Scum3h ago

Look bro, if you have pictures of yourself naked on a bear skin rug up in your house let me tell you, its not normal.

jambola2h ago

I wasn't aware censorship was based on what made sense to you

Rebel_Scum1h ago

Likewise, what a stupid comment.

jambola1h ago

I agree
Your comment was pretty stupid

Rebel_Scum1h ago

I never said censorship is based on what I say dumbass. Just because I dont see this as censorship doesnt mean I’m saying others cant.

How about you come at me with your opinion rather than snarky comments with no thought on the matter.

SimpleDad4h ago

By the year 2030, this remaster collection will totally be changed and censored. Probably will remove Lara as a playable character. It's ridiculous. Glad that my family didn't buy this.
I still have Tomb Raider 2 PS1 as a memory.

jambola2h ago

Those shorts are a little revealing
Should probably make them snow pants

Barlos1h ago

They'll probably make her trans

CobraKai3h ago

It’s mentioned in the article, and it’s a point i 100% agree with, it’s the fact that they can censor a game after you buy it. That’s total bullshit.

Killer2020UK3h ago

Whilst it's an overreaction to say this has "ruined" the game, it's still problematic that this has happened post launch and for many, post-purchase.

I don't want someone to change a product for the worse after I've bought it. The same goes for implementing micro transactions after reviews.

I wonder why they did this? Nobody was kicking up a fuss as far as I'm aware.

maykhausonninh3h ago

Nobody was kicking up a fuss as far as I'm aware.

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Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster Review – You Are Your Job, Apparently

Gary Green said: In a time where an enhanced, 3D remake of Final Fantasy III already exists, it’s hard to argue that Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster is the definitive version we were expecting. With Final Fantasy III already being the last in the series to be translated and make its way west, this is something of a slap in the face for the fans. Still, let’s not be disheartened. There may be many shortfalls in this edition of Final Fantasy III, however there’s no denying that this classic JRPG still holds some nostalgic value, even if it struggles to break away from its original hardware limitations.

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FACTUAL evidence8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

It’s funny I’m seeing these articles about pixel remaster, and I just platinumed 1-4 within 8 days lol. I’ve been on FF5 for about a week now. Let’s just say 5 was the start of FF having content like crazy. I should have the plat within 2-3 days.