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Sony confirms 4K movie service for PS4

Sony has confirmed the PS4 will feature 4K movies that could eat up as much as 100GB of space.

Speaking to The Verge, Sony Electronics President and COO Phil Molyneux indicated the PS4 will feature movies that could eat up "100 gigabytes and plus," but the company is working out ways to make such girth sustainable.

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TheLyonKing4224d ago

Be good if I could afford a 4K T.V

bumnut4224d ago

Agreed, I don't care what PS4 is capable of, PS5 will be out by the time I can afford a 4K TV!

Gamesgbkiller4224d ago

They think ahead for the future
You never know when you use it

GribbleGrunger4224d ago (Edited 4224d ago )

Yes, this is a future proofing feature rather than a realistic bullet point for launch.

NBT914224d ago

Yeah that's one thing I do like about Sony's consoles, even the fact PS3 had Wi fi built in, I didn't use it when I first got my ps3 and was using Ethernet but now I have it I wander how we lived without it and am grateful for it being there in my ps3.
It's neat that they plan ahead for things and are continuing to do so.

MasterCornholio4224d ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but the PS4 will be the first device on the market to deliver 4k movies.

That does sound pretty good especially for those who will own 4k TVs.

Also I'm happy that Sony was honest this time with the resolution instead of making claims that the PS4 could play 4k games.

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WildArmed4224d ago

Looks like it. It'd be interesting to see what publishers jump on.

The jump from DVD to Bluray was pretty rough -- going to 480i to 1080p.
I wonder how going from 1080p to 4k is going to go for the movie industry

DeadIIIRed4224d ago

I think Sony actually releases a server unit for streaming 4k films and up-scaling others for their 4k TV.

PS4 would probably be the first mass produced device to do so though.

g-nome4224d ago

No thanks , I struggle to download a gig.

clintagious6504224d ago

Lol wat u using AOL Dialup? haha

JBSleek4224d ago

You laugh but this is the reality of the internet infrastructure. In some countries like US it is completely a joke as a whole and over-priced. Until we have an internet breakthrough or the government gets involved(which I oppose). The reality is that streaming, downloading and such isn't the forefront of the present.

GribbleGrunger4224d ago (Edited 4224d ago )

Capping is becoming a real issue here in the UK. I currently roll with Virginmedia at 10mb (supposed to have gone up to 20mb) and I'm capped all day long by 75% because I exceed the download limit. So I'm paying £24 for 1.73mb. I'm not going to suggest that Sony's strategy isn't going to work just because the UK will struggle to cope, I'm just pointing out that this is the problem a lot of people face.

Even if the new compression techniques that are being developed by Sony at the moment can enable Gaikai to run efficiently at 2mb, you can see quite clearly that I'm going to get the occasional problem because I fall below that baseline. Hopefully when I get 20gb that will be more manageable.

I'm not at all against Sony offering this service though. I'm really just annoyed at the network providers for their lack of foresight. By now NO internet provider should be able to cap any more than 50%, or even at ALL IMO.

Oh_Yeah4224d ago (Edited 4224d ago )

@JBSLEEK and others in the U.S. is comcast in your areas? 30-40$ a month for 20 mbps downloads and no data cap isn't a bad deal. And if you qualify for low income they have a plan for 10$.

bumnut4224d ago

@GribbleGrunger

You're getting shafted mate, VM don't even do 10MB anymore. The minimum you can get now is 30MB, they will happily leave you on 10MB until you call them and complain.

The download caps are a lot higher on 30MB too.

cleverusername4224d ago

What planet do u live on? Here on earth not everywhere has fibre optic yet!!

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State of Play returns tomorrow

State of Play is back tomorrow, September 24! Tune in live for news and updates on more than 20 upcoming PS5 and PS VR2 games from studios around the world.

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Sonic18811h ago

Hopefully not a lot of remasters

Eonjay49m ago

Agreed, but if I could pick one game to remaster first it would be Killzone 2. If you had to pick one which would it be?

Mr_cheese47m ago

I know it's not the same but I'd love a reboot of resistance or warhawk

u-bEttA-rUn37m ago

If they announce Kill Zone 2 remake or resistance 2 that multiplayer would be crazy. But Warhawk I would cry like a 2 year old 😂😂😂 give me bloody roar

ravens5217m ago

God of War 1-3, Ascension, Ghost of Sparta and Chains of Olympus all in One.

RaiderNation9m ago

I love Killzone, but I would prefer a complete reboot of the franchise, using the newest version of the Decima engine, rather than simply a remaster of part 2.

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IAMRealHooman48m ago

only remasters, even remasters of games that aren't even out yet

DodoDojo34m ago(Edited 32m ago)

Wrong, there will also be a 2 minute snippet of Lego Horizon.

RaidenBlack41m ago

Pretty sure : RE9, Days Gone Remaster, HZD Remaster, 1 last SH2 trailer, Wolverine trailer, Until Dawn trailer
Maybe(s) : GoT 2 announcement, DS2 (but already happening@ TGS), Pragmata, TLOU2 or SpiderMan 2 PC announcement,
Wishlist : Santa Monica & Naughty Dog's new project tease, Marathon gameplay trailer
Don't Want : Any AC Shadows trailer, Any more remasters other than the ones leaked

Eonjay37m ago

You really think that other remaster is Days Gone? And my God what happened to Pragmata?!?

seanpitt2333m ago

It’s 30 minutes, I think you’re being optimistic there, don’t have high expectations, I know mine are the lowest they have ever been since what i have witnessed these past 4 years!

Christopher17m ago

Only 5 remasters. They had to cut back to squeeze in 1 new announcement. They will have another SoP next month to cover the other 12 remasters.

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Marxist6991h ago

More remasters and third party multiplats 🥱

shadowT1h ago

Starfield Remaster for PS5 Pro :D

Marxist6991h ago

It is 12 months old… if Sony owned it, it would probably be getting a remaster right about now 🤭

Lightning7747m ago

Let's hold out a little hope they're vague what's gonna be there other than VR stuff. They didn't say 1st party or 3rd party so it'll be a mix of both and HOPEFULLY Some new first party but I wouldn't hold my breath still.

Just something to think about.

Relientk771h ago

Hopefully there's good games, but we'll see. Going in with low hype, and I hope to be pleasantly surprised.

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Why do Sony keep making obviously bad decisions?

TSA writes: While the PlayStation 5 has been the runaway winner of the generation, running laps around Xbox for the last few years, it's been a pretty bumpy ride.

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darthv7217d ago

I disagree... Sony may make a bad decision now and then, but to say "keep making" implies they are doing it all the time. That is MS who does that. And to be honest, Sony gives every idea a chance, no matter how good or bad the end result turns out. The "bad decisions" are more associated with the teams who come up with them than Sony who just lets them do their thing.

pwnmaster300016d ago

100% agree.
One thing I like about Sony is they at least give it a try. No matter how much some fans disagree, they always take chances.

I mean look at Concord and Astrobot.
Two completely different games.

GhostScholar16d ago

Concord is the whole point of the article and no one wanted it and no one is playing it.

outsider162416d ago

They should have researched how the fanbase would react to it.
Would the game be better as a f2p model or paid.
100 million or more spent, they could atleast have done that.

Chevalier16d ago

I think people forget the original Uncharted opening month only sold 50,000, but, Sony believed in the series and built it up from nothing.

They could have been complacent and said no to TLOU when Uncharted blew up too.

Cacabunga16d ago

It’s ok to make bad decisions, the important thing is to learn from them and improve from there.. grants you more respect

fr0sty16d ago

Jim Ryan steered them off course with the GaaS BS, and once you start up several projects and dump hundreds of millions into them, you have to try to at least make something back off of them. Now that these games are releasing, we can start to move past them, and back to what made Sony so great to begin with.

thorstein16d ago

Concord was made by a studio that Sony bought a year ago. This entire article makes no sense in that context.

Tankbusta4016d ago

Concord wasnt a chance it was a idiotic cash grab that was 5-7 years too late to the hero shooter genre...a chance would be creating a game in a genre that wasn't established

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GhostScholar16d ago

But people blasted Microsoft when they let the redfall devs “do
Their thing” lol

Rude-ro16d ago

Big difference in waiting a decade for a new AAA ip from Microsoft for it to be redfall vs A game that got hammered non stop from the beginning from Sony.
Huge difference.

DodoDojo16d ago

Let them do their own thing? Lol Microsoft had them rush it outdoor when clearly they needed more time and according to reports many of the devs left during development because they didn't want to make a multi-player game.

pwnmaster300016d ago (Edited 16d ago )

Yeah like how everyone busted Sony for the same thing.

But also Sony didn’t really hype up concord. It was already blasted to hell.
Now MS hyped up redfall fully knowing it was ass.

Also red fall was really bad at launch unlike concord.

The only thing that saved red fall from having the same fate as concord was game pass. If Sony put concord on plus it would have a way more active fan base and be alive still

For me redfall is far worse then concord.

TheNamelessOne16d ago

@pwn

Sony didn't hype Concord? Open and closed beta, tons of advertising. They even spent the money to get it featured on that upcoming Amazon tv show - Secret Level. They outright bought the studio.

The hundreds of millions of dollars Sony spent around the Concord IP says otherwise.

derek16d ago

Neither the maker of Redfall or Microsoft are the victims of unfair treatment.

pwnmaster300016d ago (Edited 16d ago )

Thenamelessone.

I rarely saw any ads for concord, compare to other games like god of war, spider etc. tons of advertising??? Literally just normal advertising for a game they own.

Open and close beta, of course they will do an open beta. It’s a multiplayer game. Has any multiplayer game not have that?? The purpose of it is to work out the kinks that people didn’t like. That is not hyping a game up. Your reaching.

They literally just released how a normal multiplayer game should be. of course they will market a game they own, it’s literally their job to do so, but they did not overhype it to be something more then it was.
Redfall had more advertising then concord and that’s fact.

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Einhander197216d ago

Ok, Redfall and Concord are totally different problems.

Redfall was rushed by Microsoft so much that the game was completely and obviously unfinishe. You might remember they had to put a sticker on the box because it didn't have the promised 60FPS mode, as well as the game being so broken the games enemy AI didn't work as well as textures that took minutes to fully load and many other problems, the game was barely even a beta build on release.

Concord was a fully finished and highly polished game that consumers simply didn't want. The game was not bad on the technical level at all, it was 100% made to Sony's highest standards.

FinalFantasyFanatic16d ago

@pwnmaster3000

I think I only ever saw one or two ads before Concord released, and even then, I saw more from streamers talking about the game, otherwise it's like this game barely existed, or at least the marketing barely existed.

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CrimsonWing6916d ago

Jim Ryan has been a complete sh*t show from the very start. In fact, this whole Gen has been maybe the weakest I’ve seen since… well, ever for Sony. I thought with Jimbo out things would be brighter, but… well, we’ve got a bunch more GaaS coming our way. Let’s just hope it gets balanced out with their stellar traditional games.

DarXyde16d ago

Frankly, we shouldn't really care if they do GaaS. Why not?

The issue, for me, is having the very competent non-GaaS studios work on GaaS. If they want Haven to do Fairgame$, I really don't care. Bungie can make Destiny and Marathon forever. But when you try to get Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Insomniac, Guérilla, etc etc on that?

Now we have a problem.

CrimsonWing6916d ago (Edited 16d ago )

@DarXyde

What is the point of the GaaS business model vs just making a traditional game? I guess the real question is why would you choose to develop GaaS games? I’ll give you a hint, it’s to f*cking continuously milk consumers through recurring revenue on a budget stretched thin over years.

The model is disgusting and quite frankly it’s some Frankenstein’d concept stemmed from the mobile game design model. I don’t care how fun a GaaS game is, it’s a model that is the cancer of this industry and the fact that they keep forcing it after failure after failure is revolting.

DarXyde14d ago (Edited 14d ago )

Mate, I'm not a fan of GaaS games. I also don't like online multiplayer or first person shooters.

So what do I do?
Avoid all of them. I just pretend they don't exist. And really, I don't care for the studios making them either. Never played a Treyarch, Bungie, or whatever game I couldn't just tune out.

Same deal. Allow them to exist, but don't engage. They can be super scummy pay to win models, but we've got to let the community decide. Sony has already learned the hard way that a great single player studio doesn't mean they're a great GaaS studio.

I think they're learning the lessons quickly, really. Even if they still have some GaaS in the pipeline, we see how quickly they pulled the plug on Concord. They've been letting Insomniac cook, so I tend to believe they're being cautious and not letting their golden geese make those games.

0hMyGandhi16d ago

why do I get the impression that no one actually reads the articles anymore.
Read the article.

BehindTheRows16d ago

They'd rather argue with each other. If it wasn't so typical, it'd be funny.

Jin_Sakai16d ago

You don’t keep making bad decision when you just released one of the best games of the generation.

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Goodguy0117d ago

This gen has all but been odd.

Philaroni16d ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this. I don't want to even guess what's next. For all I know we could finally divide by zero. And the Mc Flurry machine will work at every Mc Donald's.

FinalFantasyFanatic16d ago

I don't even know what's going on anymore, it seems like dumb decisions all around despite clear warning signs, from Microsoft/Sony, from multiple developers, etc... The entire gaming landscape is just baffling at the moment.

VivaChe17d ago

The writer's take on PSVR -- totally true. But it's not just PSVR; for whatever reason all the VR companies just don't invest and support the platform like they should. Even the mighty Oculus Quest 2 + 3 have oddly feeble software support. I see mostly the same games and apps on the store now as I did 3 years ago. PSVR is another one of Sony's "abandonware" examples (along with Vita, PS TV, etc. etc.) that are just head scratchers. Like why even develop and release a piece of hardware if you're not going to support it? I don't know.

But the writer isn't correct about the Portal. That one has been a success I think. It works pretty well, and lots of people love it. Now notably, that one doesn't require much ongoing support from Sony -- it has one purpose and it does it fine enough -- so maybe that has helped.

ChasterMies16d ago

VR companies are appropriately investing in and supporting the platform. VR is still niche, generally uncomfortable to wear, difficult with glasses ,still causes motion sickness, and requires a play space that a lot of people don’t have.

TheNamelessOne17d ago

They've definitely fumbled hard in the live service space (buying Bungie, the utter failure of Concord, spending years on Factions 2 just to cancel it), Even Helldivers 2, which was a hit at launch, has lost most of its user-base due to weak post-launch support.

Other than that though, they've been doing well.

RhinoGamer8816d ago

Spoiled and arrogant. PSVR failures should have resulted in a house cleaning. The Discord Sony team should be fire...lots of talent on the market.

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Sony Executive Admits Company Needs To Work On Having More Original IPs

Sony CFO says that the company lacks the creation of enough original IPs, but this statement spans more than just Sony's gaming division.

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The thing is they do have a lot IP wise but most of them aren't be used

Legend of Dragoon? Syphon Filter? Resistance? Dark Cloud? Ape Escape? Heavenly Sword? The Getaway? LocoRoco?

You have the IPs, you just don't try to use them

How long have we been wanting Bloodborne 2 or even a remaster?

Whitey2k17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

Or just buy a publisher that do have IPs

EA
Capcom
Sega

These 3 publishers has tremendous amount of ips and not just gaming ips but also for sony movies entertainment and for Esports aswell that includes Live services aswell looking at EA apex titanfall etc etc

Tbh I'm getting sick of remasters it be like gta 5 , ps3 , ps4 , ps5 , eventually ps6 and 7

tehpees317d ago

No. Just no. The first parties cannot afford to buy out major publishers so stop pushing this practice. It’s BS!

Microsoft closed so many because the amount they bought was not financially sustainable.

The only benefit to the buyer is they inherit their IPs. It’s bad for gamers and it’s bad for workers. Enough with the ‘revenge buy’ nonsense

KyRo17d ago

Buying whole publishers is lazy AF. Sony has some incredible IP that people love but they refuse to use them. GoW was reinvented. There's a lot of other IP that could reinvented and modernised too.

The one thing that has let Sony down this generation is staggering out PS first party games (remasters don't count like TLOU, Until Dawn). Were a bit starved of them. Let's hope this state of play fixes some of that.

Profchaos17d ago

How's that working out for Microsoft hasn't killed their platform and forced them to go multi plat because they had to make a return on invest at all right ?

MrDead17d ago

Why would they need to buy those publishers when Sony are their lead platform in the console market? They already make games for the PlayStation, all that would happen is what we've seen with MS, a handful of already rich people getting wealthier at the cost of industry consolidation and thousands more devs being fired.

Whitey2k17d ago

@Mrdead and others Microsoft are a bunch of fools and they don't know what there been doing since xbone all I'm saying is just one. there not just for us gamers but it would probably help them alot more within the movie space and Esports arena if there concerned about the lack of ips not just for games but movies aswell

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Profchaos17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

Nintendo have successfully recycled their legacy IP since the 80s if an IP is good it will have staying power

Sony for some reason love to run with a particular mascot or game series for a generation of two then send them out to be retired.

It's also funny timing this was said right after the launch of the highest metacritic rated game of the year which happens to be their IP

FinalFantasyFanatic17d ago

I honestly don't know why they've benched all these IPs, there are lots of people who would clamour for a new entry from any of them. I already bought some of these games as Playstation Classics on the PS4, I also believe they don't need to spend AAA budgets on them, some of them can easily be done on a AA budget.

raWfodog16d ago

New IPs are always welcomed but, as Foxtrot pointed out, Sony has a vast library of proven IPs that they can draw from. Whoever is in charge of making these decisions needs to get their head out of their you-know-what.

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DOMination-16d ago

Unquestionably, Sony are sitting on a lot of unused IP .but how many of those games would go on to be commercially successful? I feel like this is the reason why we don't see them being greenlit (even though nearly all of them were critical hits).

Out of all of the ones listed by users, Syphon Filter imo has the potential to be a big hit if they made it a AAA game. There's an obvious hunger still for that genre and there's a gap in the market with Ubisoft continuing to sit on/screw up their Tom Clancy games.

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Lionsguard17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

It just still irks me that they have something like Astrobot for YEARS now and they've really done JACK with it. They could have had a Fall Guys game with the Astrobots before Fall Guys were a thing. They have something great and they're just sitting on it like idiots, that is until the recent Astrobot game and even then... they ignored any VR compatibility...like, what are they thinking? Do the people in charge just hate money or something? That must be it if they sat there and thought Concord was going to do gangbusters. Still no Bloodborne 2, not a damn thing from Naughty Dog or Insomniac other than Spider-man. This entire generation has been a bust.

porkChop17d ago

"they ignored any VR compatibility...like, what are they thinking? Do the people in charge just hate money or something?"

Bro the PSVR2 failed. It was DOA. They aren't going to waste a bunch of extra resources on making the game VR compatible.

And, sure, they could have done a Fall Guys-style game with Astro Bot. However if you just pump out trendy games like that under the Astro Bot name it'll devalue the brand. It's called milking, and it's what killed a lot of great franchises.

Profchaos17d ago

I agree they wouldn't waste a bunch of money on making it compatible but they should it's about respecting the fans that outlayed hundreds of dollars for a headset that they dropped within a year.

If Nintendo can respect it's fanbase enough to release multiple huge games on the Wii U with 13 million sales Sony should be able to respect it's fans who brought the psvr2 also

Lionsguard17d ago

It wouldn't have failed if you know...they made games for it but now we know where all the money is going, crapfest GaaS games. You also can't devalue something if they never really valued it in the first place. Also, is Nintendo devaluing Mario? The ONE thing Sony has going for them and all of a sudden you're protective of it? I'm not saying they have to cram Astrobot into everything, but to also neglect it to this degree is also criminal.

UltimateOwnage16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

PSVR 2 was never going to reach a bar critics would say is a success. Even the PS Vita didn’t achieve that and it was still a fantastic platform with excellent games. PSVR 2 shows Sony is willing to take risks to make new types of content. MS basically bowed out of VR completely and it’s kind of baffling.

Michiel198917d ago

i honestly dont give a fuck about their ips and which they use, just give us more games that aren't 3rd person action games and stop thinking that if you wan't to revive an IP, you need it to be the biggest blockbuster game ever with budgets in the hundreds of millions.

RaiderNation17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

Sony has a blue billion IP's that have been in friggin "cryosleep" for years! I'd rather see them revisit some of those before adding new ones...

Killzone
Resistance
Socom
Syphon Filter
Dark Cloud
Bloodborne
Motorstorm
Mod Nation Racers
Wipeout
Warhawk
Legend of Dragoon
Jack And Daxter
Sly Cooper
Infamous
Twisted Metal
Patapon
Fat Princess
Puppeteer
Jumping Flash

And I'm sure there are more that I'm forgetting!

bRuud8317d ago

They have enough IP's but nog enough studio's to actually make them.

RaiderNation17d ago

I don't expect ALL of those. I'm just pointing out that they already have a ton of existing IP to choose from that are known quantities. I'd rather see them resurrect some of those before choosing to add more to the list.

red2tango17d ago

The fact that we don't have a SOCOM game yet since Confrontation is bull$hit.

porkChop16d ago

We got SOCOM 4 after Confrontation. Though it wasn't so good, and it released the day before PSN went offline after the big PSN hack. Terrible timing and it was DOA.

red2tango14d ago

porkchop, Nocom 4 wasn't socom. That was a lame ass attempt at COD in 3rd person.

GOULDYBOBS16d ago

I played nearly all of this list and yet wouldn't be interested in remake or prolonged sequel! I want something new

RaiderNation16d ago

I don't believe you at all. The law of averages alone say there's at least SOMETHING on that list you'd be interested in playing a new iteration of. I think you're just being hyperbolic to make a point.

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