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PS4 the features – 25 most wanted (wishful thinking)

Reports predict that the PS4 might release as soon as 2013. We hope these 25 features will make the cut. Some of these features are improving what the PS3 already did while other features extend the possibilities.

VideoGameGuru4268d ago

I hope they put a lot of your list into the PS4..we can hope.

Senzazu4268d ago

Well I certainly hope so, cheers!

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ABizzel14268d ago

I agree with most, but a few are iffy.

1. I doubt 4k will be for gaming, and if so it will be as rare as the current 1080p @ 60fps 3D games running on PS3.

3. I understand why region differences are there, but I too wish they were gone especially on PSN. People know what they're getting into by ordering something from a different country, so put up a warning, but let us buy from those stores.

4 & 5. Lag has more to do with devs. & coding than console alone, but the less lag the better, and that goes for online servers as well.

6. I can't agree anymore. While Xbox Dashboard is filled with advertisements, it's not problematic (like Youtube), and it's bringing in free money. The XMB is efficient for getting you to your media, but it needs to be replaced. I would love to have a new OS (PS Home should be the PS4 OS IMO) while having the XMB running in the background like it currently does for games. That way everyone has a PS Home account which will bring in advertisers, and give Home more developer support. Home is actually decent now so if you haven't been in a while go check it out.

7. Sony and Google are buddies. Get Chrome for your browser.

8. PS Vita has it, PS4 will.

10 - 13. This will get PS move involved in ESports, as well as give competitive gamers a reason to spend the lives online.

17. Mods will put the PS4 ahead of all the other consoles. Unreal Tournament did it, and it was great. LBP, ModNation, and inFamous 2 did it and it was great. It's a great way to give your games more life especially multiplayer games. However, to prevent a spam fest or game breaking mods, have people obtain a license to make mods.

20. It's really up to the devs. If the dev has a PC version it's possible to make it compatible with the PS3. I know Portal, Dust, DC Univers (I believe) and a few other games have done this and it works.

21. Doubt it, maybe PS Vita.

22. Gaikai

Senzazu4268d ago

Thank you for that awesome comment. I don't think that Gaikai will be the solution for the PS4. Maybe the transition between PS4 and PS5 but pysical media is still very important and thats why I think it would be very very important for Sony to incorporate this in the PS4.

ABizzel14268d ago

No problem it was a good and well thought out article.

As far as Gaikai, I really believe that's the only way you're going to get backwards compatibility.

1. It saves money. Sony cut PS2 BC out of the PS3 to save money on the Slim model, and there's no reason to think it won't happen to the PS4. It may have BC in the early models, but more than likely that feature will be cut out for the PS4 slim.

2. It makes PS+ a must. If you want BC and Gaikai only comes to PS+ (as it should) then that's going to get a lot of people on board for PS+. I honestly don't understand why everyone doesn't have a PS+ account by now, I guess some people are just slow (take that as you will). But Gaikai should be a PS+ exclusive feature simply because it cost to keep those servers up and running, and Sony's finances are shaky at best, so they need a way to cover the price of Gaikai.

3. Gaikai currently runs games in 720p @ 30fps which is what over 90% of PS3 games run at, so there's no massive loss. They'll have to work in those games that run at 1080p (not a problem if you drop the resolution) or 60fps (this is where the problem comes in), but for the most part everything transfers, and there's already a decent library on Gaikai now.

4. Sony's new business Strategy is "taking you media everywhere". THey want you to play your games on the go, and move them from one system to another if it's powerful enough to run them. But with Gaikai the only thing that matters is if the connection is powerful enough to run the games making hardware less of a factor. Streaming is the future of gaming like it or not, and Gaikia can stream games, and has the potential to stream movies, music, and more.

mamotte4268d ago

"1. I doubt 4k will be for gaming, and if so it will be as rare as the current 1080p @ 60fps 3D games running on PS3."

I dont think it'll be as rare as having a 4k TV in every home to play the game properly.

GribbleGrunger4268d ago (Edited 4268d ago )

I see Gaikai as a bridge myself. I honestly believe that we'll get PS4 game demos on PS3 through it and full PS3 games for the PS4 through it too... and of course PS2/PSP/PS1 games and probably SOE games.

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Nintendo says Switch 2 will be officially announced before the end of March 2025

This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.

Profchaos6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

I'm excited for a switch 2 however I don't feel it will be coming this year as per the tweet in they are commuting to a reveal in this Japanese financial year in 2025.

Realistically we will get one last holiday season to focus on the switch because it would be madness for Nintendo to go into the holidays where the switch always performs well when they have announced a switch 2.

I'm thinking we see a announcement late Jan 25 personally with a release between March and June depending on when the software is ready and how strong the holday sales were if they need to boost those figures for the next earnings call or not

gold_drake6d ago

yea agreed. they'll probably match it with the new pkmn game they announced

VenomUK6d ago

So it begins!

Where one contender pulls out of the game, another comes back bigger and stronger.

Nintendo Switch 2 - let the games begin.

Cacabunga5d ago

A new Splatoon launch title for sure.. hoping they change the recipe and make it open world.

I think it’ll come out Q1 25. Let’s wait and see

H95d ago

There's a event in June for games on the switch and they said there won't be a switch 2 announcement so no way they will announce the console after june and still release it in the same year

Eonjay5d ago

So, I think they will shoot for another FYQ4 release (like with the first Switch) but I am confused by the headline:

'[...] Switch 2 will be officially ANNOUNCED before the end of March 2025' This implies that the Switch 2 isn't coming out till maybe holiday 2025 or maybe even 2026. I think they will be better served by NOT releasing when GTA 6 launches (unless there is some shocking reveal that it will run on Switch 2). Release early 2025.

Neonridr6d ago

I'd say it'll be released before March 2025 tbh.

notachance5d ago

Holiday announcement with summer launch

thesoftware7305d ago

It should be an interesting year; Sony, Nintendo, and MS all have new Hardware to show.

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PS5 Pro specs leak video taken down by Sony

Sony is taking actions as video by Moore’s Law is Dead, has been issued with a copyright claim.

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andy8526d ago

And people say it's all fake because Sony haven't said anything 😂 conveniently forget the PS4 Pro was only announced 2 months before release.

BeHunted26d ago

It's fake. There's no factual evidence other than his own made up specs.

Hereandthere26d ago

What were the specks Sony was afraid of showing?

Shikoku26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

Digital foundry put a video out saying what he leaked was exactly what they also knew about the PS5 PRO. So no it's not just stuff he made up

Babadook726d ago (Edited 26d ago )

If it’s fake what copyright does MLID infringe upon?

😂

andy8526d ago

Aye because they'd go to the effort of copyright claiming it if it didn't exist 🙃😂 you'd have to be a special kind to be thinking its not a thing by now

Cacabunga26d ago

They need to reveal it with uncharted killzone or a heavy hitter like this

Ironmike26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

U mean the specs that we'll established digital foundry which said these are the actual specs published a video on 2 weeks ago I mean they are only one of most trusted sites for tech information but they just made up a video for the sake of it

Christopher25d ago

I would love for it all to be fake, but lots of people are saying they've seen/heard the same thing. But, man, we 100% don't need mid-gen upgrades when we're failing hard to optimize current hardware.

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Seraphim25d ago (Edited 25d ago )

if I recall Sony lowered sales expectations for PS5 earlier this year. if that is the case we won't hear anything about a Pro until next year or shortly before/when it's dropping. After all, if the Pro was dropping this year/fiscal year they wouldn't have lowered expectations.

As for squashing rumors. Yeah, shit like this prevents potential buyers from adopting now, just like slim rumors in the past. It only makes sense to keep things under wraps from a business perspective. Despite living in a technological age of unfettered access to information we don't need to know whats going on behind closed doors be that at Sony, Nintendo, MS, or amongst any development studios. When the steak is done we shall feast.

JackBNimble25d ago

By the time games are actually made to take advantage of the pro spec's the ps6 will be released or close to it.

jznrpg26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

Just announce it already! I want to preorder one asap. But in reality they don’t want to lessen PS5 sales until Pro is ready to launch so I understand the business part of it. September is probably when they announce it with an early November launch like the PS4 Pro

Ironmike26d ago

Pro won't lessen sales sames ps4 pro never and the ps4 pro was more relevant at the time cos move to 4k this not needed

RaidenBlack26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

Yea, my brother got his PS4 (coz of a good deal) after the PS4 Pro's release.

darthv7225d ago

^^same here. I got a base 4 for only $100 off a guy who bought the Pro. then a few months later I found a guy on craigslist selling a pro for $100 because it was left behind by his former roommate who moved out. That was the beginning of my obsession to buy up the different variants of the PS4 that were released.

As of now I am really only missing the 500m one and the gold slim but otherwise I have pretty much all the other retail ones. https://consolevariations.c...

crazyCoconuts25d ago

Anyone with 4K that appreciates 60fps is gonna disagree about it not being needed.
DLSS is a god send for Nvidia, and there's been nothing like it for AMD...yet ...

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DeadlyFire25d ago

They will announce it around E3 timeframe about May-June whenever they do a showcase for the year.

neutralgamer199226d ago

Just announce it this thing will sell well

Ironmike26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

I don't think it will pll still haven't seen the potential of ps5 yet

Cacabunga25d ago

agreed, but it might sell if they announce some 1st party games to lead the way. if people see the difference with the base version they can move on. for my sake I am still gaming mainly on PS4 (still not finished with RDR2 due to lack of gaming time). I have a huge backlog on PS5 I am hoping to get into.

mark3214uk26d ago

why? game makers havnt even come close to maxing out current spec yet, were getting al lthese new TFlops and game maker are making crappy remakes not worthy of the ps3

Minute Man 72125d ago

The guts of the 5 and X are 5 years old

fr0sty25d ago

People keep saying that, yet we still have games running at near HD resolutions, 30fps, and ray tracing features turned off.

PRIMORDUS26d ago (Edited 26d ago )

I would take that video and upload a torrent of it, fuck that copyright bullshit. If your going to do something that has a chance of being taken down, make a torrent first share it. Then Sony or any other company is helpless and you can laugh in their faces, taunting them to try to take it down 🤣

LoveSpuds26d ago

With kind of analysis and advice, you could be a lawyer for Trump!🤣

tronyx1226d ago

As much as the PS4 Pro didn't represent a major % in the playerbase, announcing a 'better' model will hinder sales from the 'base' model. They are right, business-wise.

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XDefiant misses launch window, Ubi says a new release date will be announced after stress test

XDefiant was originally supposed to be out in summer 2023, but following a seemingly-successful beta test in April of that year, it was bumped to October 2023, and then delayed again to an unspecified future date. In its February 2024 financial report, Ubisoft slated XDefiant for launch in the fourth quarter of its 2023-24 fiscal year, which ended March 31.

A week before that date arrived, rumors surfaced that the game would be delayed yet again, and a few days later Ubisoft made it official.

"The game has always been community-first, with player feedback as a top priority," the development team said in the update. "While we hoped to go live by the end of March, there are still some improvements that we need to test before that."

Ubisoft said it's "finishing preparations" for a server stress test that will run for 12 hours on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. "After this short test, we expected to be able to lock a launch date and start sharing more about exciting content XDefiant has to offer in the future!"

just_looken41d ago (Edited 41d ago )

The previous news was from the team/rumors this is ubisoft themselves now saying the game is delayed again no new date set but they will have a stress test on a date that has not been set.

So the game is delayed to _____ TBD
Network stress test at ____ TBD

Ubisoft we make games whenever for whoever we just do not care

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X-2340d ago

I'm just going to be honest here and say what people seem to not want to, XDefiant success is going to be short-lived and it's because it's a game that's going to be under Ubisoft's umbrella. The development team can be absolute rockstars, but with Ubisoft steering the ship it's not going to go anywhere.

Profchaos40d ago

It could be a truely amazing game (it won't be) but with Ubisoft it will be monitized within a inch of its life.

smolinsk40d ago

The game is dead move on. It's the same with the Finals. These short period hype games doesn't last.

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