With Sony’s E3 press conference behind us, we can finally reveal all the little details you’ve been wanting to know about the PS4. Now that we know the PlayStation 4 will be priced at $399 and what’s included in the box, it’s time to round things up with the technical specs that make the PS4 the gaming powerhouse that it is. As the Joes say, knowing is half the battle so after the jump, expect to be schooled on some PS4 internal specs and inputs/outputs.
It seems as though Sony just didn’t want last night to end. After showing off the PlayStation 4 before a packed audience at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, declaring that the console would not require an online connection and that used games resale was never going away, and announcing a price $100 cheaper than their primary competitor, members of the PlayStation community still had more to say.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Worldwide Studios, took to Twitter after the PlayStation press event to address just a few more things. The first order of business, region-locking:
Microsoft made it clear that game sharing is dead in their eye. Between your console needing to connect to the internet every 24 hours, even for single player games, and then odd rules about having to be friends with someone for 30 days, before being able to lend it to them if the developer allows and if you take your game to a friends house, you have to connect to the web every hour, things began to get dizzying and yet clear at the same time. Microsoft does not want you to share your games. To help clear things up on the PlayStation 4 front, President of Worldwide Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment Shuhei Yoshida (not pictured above) has put together a new video tutorial that shows you the process required to share games on the PS4.
As you probably know by now, Sony has priced the PlayStation 4 $100 under the Xbox One, making the console only $399. This not only makes the PS4 a highly competitive console, it also priced the unit not far off from where the PS3 was two years ago. Still, like myself, you’d like to know what your hard earned green bills will get you. After the jump, we have all the details you’re looking for.
Without a doubt, Sony had a fantastic PlayStation press conference at E3. Sticking to their promise, we heard about games and more games for the PS3, PS Vita, and PS4. However, some final details about the PS4 remained, even after the show’s finale. For example, what does the PlayStation 4 Eye cost? What size hard drive will the PS4 come with, and how much for an extra Dualshock 4 controller? Now, thanks to a detailed press release from Japan, we can answer all of those questions.
It’s not breaking news that Microsoft is going into E3 with a tarnished image. Despite all the gains the tech giant made with gamers in the US, Microsoft has lost all the good will in spectacular fashion that started with their less then well received Xbox One announcement. Since then, Microsoft has gone on and announced that they will “kill Sony” at E3 and that they’re investing a $1 billion into gaming. PlayStation is well known for its first party exclusives with games like God of War, Uncharted, Killzone, and Gran Turismo to name a few, Microsoft on the other hand tends to opt for paying for exclusives as oppose to investing in first party studios.
While in the past, Microsoft has paid 3rd part studios like EA and Activition for timed exclusives to DLC and game releases, it looks like the company is taking things to the next level and paying off multi-platform developers to not show their PS4 title at E3.
With E3 right around the corner, speculations and expectations are high. Information regarding what is being announced and what will be available to preview is slowly trickling into social media, and everyone is generally excited about what the next generation consoles will have to offer. I’ve been thinking a bit lately on what I expect to see, want to see, and would lose my mind in excitement to see, and how that would affect my personal opinion on the effectiveness and success of the Sony press conference. Some things are must-haves, while some things are really reaching into the depths of hopefulness and fangirling.
What I Expect:
1. the box, a price and a release date
This is pretty much a given, and honestly if they DON’T reveal what it looks like, what it costs and when you can give Sony your money, they will get a lot of slack. I expect to see what it looks like because we’ve already seen the new XBox, and I expect a price and a release date because we’re less than six months out, and people need time to budget for spending hundreds of dollars.
If Sony doesn’t provide this information to their fans at E3, they will be behind XBox, and you know that Microsoft will be providing more finite details on the cost and release date. And I think we have all waited long enough.
What would you do if you were the survivor of a deadly epidemic? You’re low on supplies and you’re stuck inside a boarded up, decrepit apartment complex surrounded by shambling corpses of the infected. Do you stay and rot or do you venture out into the dangerous complex, tempting fate and attracting the mutants to your scent? Thankfully, you’ll be able to decide for yourself once Lone Survivor arrives on PS Vita later this year.
Lone Survivor is an retro-styled indie psychological-survival horror title fusing the adventure, stealth, and platformer genres into one incredibly scary package. The game casts you as a lone survivor (unmistakable because of your iconic surgical mask) of an unknown contagion that wiped out most of the population. You’re low on food and supplies so you must explore and discover useful food and items that will help keep you alive and sane a little while longer.
More on our Lone Survivor PS Vita preview after the break.
If you didn’t already think that PlayStation Plus was one of the best values in gaming, you may want to have your head examined. Last year at E3, Sony introduced the Instant Game Collection to PS Plus, a revolving door of free games each month, with a total of 12 available every month regardless of when you sign up for the premium service. Games like Infamous 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, Spec Ops: The Line, Sleeping Dogs, and Demon’s Souls are just a few of the titles that have been free for PlayStation Plus users, with almost seventy games available for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita over the last year.
This month was already shaping up to be another feather in the service’s cap, as Deus Ex: Human Revolution is already available and Saints Row The Third, Machinarium, Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, and God Eater Burst will be coming soon. Today, Sony announced that three more games will be added to mark the Instant Game Collection’s one year anniversary. XCOM: Enemy Unknown from Firaxis, LittleBigPlanet Karting from United Front Games, and Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception will all be free for PlayStation Plus subscribers on Tuesday, June 11. They will be replacing Infamous 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, and Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, all three of which had been part of the Instant Game Collection since it was announced at Sony’s E3 press conference last year.
Sony Computer Entertainment is expecting big things from the Electronic Entertainment Expo. The PlayStation 3 is now the best-selling HD console worldwide, the PlayStation Vita is riding an indie resurgence, and the PlayStation 4 will be coming full force in preparation for a holiday release. As such, you’d expect that Sony would be bringing a metric ton of games to showcase their systems. And correct you are: according to Sid Shuman, social media manager for the PlayStation Blog, the company will be featuring over 40 games on all three platforms during their E3 showcase.
Shuman, along with members of the PlayStation social media team and other special guests, will be live-streaming coverage of both the Sony media conference on Monday night and throughout the week from the show floor at the PlayStation booth. Among the games to be featured, according to the Blog post, are Beyond: Two Souls (Quantic Dream), Destiny (Bungie), DriveClub (Evolution Studios), The Evil Within (Tango GameWorks), Gran Turismo 6 (Polyphony Digital), inFAMOUS: Second Son (Sucker Punch), Killzone: Shadow Fall and Killzone: Mercenary (Guerilla Games), The Last of Us (Naughty Dog), Tearaway (Media Molecule), and Wolfenstein: The New Order (Machine Games). We can safely assume even more will be added to that list as new games are revealed in the upcoming days.
The PlayStation 4 is going to be expensive. We assume that’s a given, as new consoles tend to be high in price and gradually fall as components and chips and processors and everything else become more affordable to manufacture. Throw in the cost of a game or two at launch, plus the added costs of a PlayStation 4 camera that may or may not be bundled, and you can bet there’s a pretty hefty price tag on day one for the latest Sony home video game console. Wouldn’t it be nice to pick up a few games this year for your brand new PS4, free of charge? Sony Online Entertainment thinks it is, which is why their free-to-play MMOs DC Universe Online and Planetside 2 will be making their way to the PS4.
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It’s not that the Xbox One will do poorly. I’m sure it will do just fine in sales. Remember all the doomsday scenario for Sony and the PS3? Well now, the console leads the 360 in sales so the truth is that while we beat each other over the head on a daily bases about announcements, companies rise and fall based on longterm strategic visions. However, it would equally be silly not to point out that Microsoft is officially hurting. While Microsoft rode the 360 wave high and mighty for a long time in the US, you now can’t go to a website that isn’t somehow jabbing the Xbox One. So how does Microsoft plan on winning back gamers? By games of course and they’ve already got a new one, Killzone: Shadow Fall. Wait, what?
Be it if you’re excited for The Last of Us because you believe in Naughty Dog or because you played the demo that’s packed in God of War: Ascension, there is no denying the anticipation built around the game. With the game set to be released in just over a week, June 14th to be exact, the only remaining question was about the games multiplayer. Would it even have one was out of the question as multiplayer is pretty standard in games, no matter the single player core experience of the game. With Santa Monica Studios proving that they could bring God of War to the world of multiplayer in a meaningful way, would Naughty Dog be able to do the same? In short, yes.
Limbo, the acclaimed indie title from developer Playdead, is available today for the PlayStation Vita. That news, by itself, is great — but if you already own the PS3 version, it gets even better. Thanks to the Cross-Buy initiative, which is kind of like the Avengers Initiative but even better, anyone who already purchased the game on PS3 will have it for the Vita too, at no extra charge. And vice versa — those who buy the newly released Vita version will have access to the PSN titles on their PlayStation 3 console.
Fuse is the first multi-platform (PS3, Xbox 360) game from Insomniac Games, the long time PlayStation exclusive developer. Known previously for their more lighthearted Ratchet & Clank franchise and post-WWII sci-fi Resistance trilogy, Fuse is another take on the shooter genre. Previously titled Overstrike, Fuse tells the story of four agents known as Overstrike 9 and their mission is to stop Raven, an evil corporation, from gaining an alien substance called Fuse.
Like previous Insomniac Games, Fuse incorporates fantastical weapons, features local and split-screen online/campaign co-op, and humor that will bring you back for more. But chances are that the reviews you’ve read for Fuse paint a more bland and forgetful experience. While some have complained about yet another shooter, others have collectively predicted that the sky is falling and that Insomniac Games has lost their touch. Is Fuse truly a lackluster experience or is this a misunderstood game that’s worthy of your purchase? I’m here to tell you that it’s most definitely the latter and here is why.
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