Digital Trends - When Sony unveiled the PlayStation 3 console back in 2005 at E3, it was an impressive machine. The much-anticipated device and multimedia hub offered a new experience, allowing users to not only play games, but view photos, browse the Internet, and watch Blu-Ray discs all in glorious 1080p. Here we are seven years later and we’re equally impressed by Sony’s next-generation console — which pretty much blows its predecessor out of the water in a couple key areas.
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"Here we are seven years later and we’re equally impressed by Sony’s next-generation console"
How so? Sony literally blew Billions in research for the PS3.
The Cell for its time was def ahead of a low performance, power saving tablet CPU.
RSX was ahead of its time in comparison to the 7850-7870 Mobile GPU on the PS4.
Sony isn't introducing any new media format this time around. Hence its plain old bluray.
No Backward compatibility as the PS3 did feature.
The only thing going for the PS4 is the RAM, which to be honest doesnt really do any sort of calculations what so ever. Funnily enough its also the RAM that people have mostly been talking about (the CPU & GPU have just been ignored, with the PS3 release the CELL was the talk of the town not just some RAM). Almost gives you a feeling its Sony that tells the media what to talk about, Since they invested alot on the Cell thats what they wanted the media to talk about naturally the effect trickled down to the fans. This time around since the CPU and GPU are nothing special they need to talk about something else and since they dont have much else to talk about, they decide to focus on the RAM lol.
I wonder how we are EQUALLY impressed by the PS4 as we were with the PS3.
Of course the PS4 will blow its predecessor its releasing 7 years later, thats the least we would expect of it. However equally impressive not a chance.
Imo in comparison to the PS3, PS4 looks like a cost saving exercise. Whats left to be seen how much of these cost savings are going to be forwarded to the fans and how much is kept for corporate profits.
Ill just be getting the camera for the streaming part where people can watch my sexy ass face playing a game :3
I think about it like this:
-The Ps3 to the Ps4 is like the psOne to the Ps2 which is a evolution but not the Ps2 to Ps3 which was a revolution. We are still in the HD era.
PC gamers (I count myself as such) will benefit greatly from the "next generation" games on consoles.