PS4 Announcement Feb. 20th?

[SKILL_SHOT]

Agreed! It looks like it has eyetoy tracking light on it and a microphone.

 

[jrolson]

"A separate source also indicates that the R2 and L2 buttons may actually be more in line with spring-loaded Xbox 360-like triggers and what looks to be an audio jack is underneath the controller, perhaps used to plug in a headset."

 

[Sinistar]

"A separate source also indicates that the R2 and L2 buttons may actually be more in line with spring-loaded Xbox 360-like triggers and what looks to be an audio jack is underneath the controller, perhaps used to plug in a headset."

Audio jack huh? try a port to connect PS Vita and use it's screen , if Sony was smart.

 

[Metalzoic]

if you don't like the ps3 controller go play xbox we like our thumb stick position just fine, xbox left thumb stick position is just so wrong that's why i don't like xbox much. a bulkier ps3 controller is about all i would tolerate

Not sure what you mean by "we", but I own both systems and the 360 controller is so ergonomically superior to the PS3 controller that I'd say it isn't even really a competition.

 

[Sumez]

As another unbiased owner of both systems I agree with the above, it's really difficult to argue otherwise. Sure, the 360 pad looks like the one for the old Xbox, but there's a world of difference.

Also, that PS4 controller picture has to be a fake! It looks like a really crappy cheap third party product. The horrendous design aside, look at how clunky and random the Dpad looks compared to the PS3 controller, or, for that matter, Vita's downright excellent Dpad that I would love to just see reused.

 

[shutyertrap]

Chalk me up as one who likes his analogue sticks symmetrical.

Pretty interesting putting the Move sensor in the controller. Didn't expect that.

 

[Kevlar]

if you don't like the ps3 controller go play xbox

I do.

 

[brakel]

Chalk me up as one who likes his analogue sticks symmetrical.

Pretty interesting putting the Move sensor in the controller. Didn't expect that.

That's the one thing that kept me from keeping the Xbox was the asymmetrical design of the thumb sticks. I could get used to the weird buttons and awkward triggers but not the asymmetrical thumb sticks. But I don't knock anyone for not liking the PS controller. We all like what we like.

 

[jrolson]

Another pic,

 

[Fearmonkey]

EDIT: Beaten.

Looks like there's a headphone jack on the bottom of it too.

Also, keep in mind, this is just a prototype. Final hardware could look different.

EDIT^2: My picture is bigger though if you want to click on it instead of me taking up more bandwidth on the page.

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

Im not liking the CORD in these pictures.

 

[Fearmonkey]

Im not liking the CORD in these pictures.

It's a dev kit. All controllers on dev kits are wired AFAIK.

 

[ER777]

I looks like they're doing some work on making it more comfortable, that's promising. The new d-pad looks a lot better, but then the one we have now is terrible. Some of the other new features look interesting..

 

[jrolson]

The newest rumor is in regard to the next PlayStation’s ability to stream games. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that “Sony Corp. is planning to offer technology to stream games to its next videogame console,” according to its own sources.

The new technology, to be unveiled Wednesday along with the new console, will allow users to play games delivered over the Internet, these people said. The streaming service, they added, is designed to use current PlayStation 3 titles on the new console; the new device is also expected to play new games stored on optical discs.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/16/report-playstation-4-will-stream-games

Sounds like a bad idea... laggy streaming games...

 

[monty22001]

I just don't see how they can move forward trying to emulate Cell that much. Sadly, this might be the best they can do.

 

[Metalzoic]

The newest rumor is in regard to the next PlayStation’s ability to stream games. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that “Sony Corp. is planning to offer technology to stream games to its next videogame console,” according to its own sources.

The new technology, to be unveiled Wednesday along with the new console, will allow users to play games delivered over the Internet, these people said. The streaming service, they added, is designed to use current PlayStation 3 titles on the new console; the new device is also expected to play new games stored on optical discs.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/16/report-playstation-4-will-stream-games

Sounds like a bad idea... laggy streaming games...

They spent nearly $400 million buying Gaikai so I would imagine they will invest heavily in streaming games. The rumor is that MS has something similar in mind.

 

[ER777]

The newest rumor is in regard to the next PlayStation’s ability to stream games. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that “Sony Corp. is planning to offer technology to stream games to its next videogame console,” according to its own sources.

The new technology, to be unveiled Wednesday along with the new console, will allow users to play games delivered over the Internet, these people said. The streaming service, they added, is designed to use current PlayStation 3 titles on the new console; the new device is also expected to play new games stored on optical discs.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/16/report-playstation-4-will-stream-games

Sounds like a bad idea... laggy streaming games...

Great, so the PS4 is going to be a thin client? Wonderful..

At least Farsight has confirmed there will be TPA on the next-gen consoles in the Newsletter, lets just hope it runs locally for pinball's sakes!

 

[monty22001]

ER777, I think they're saying PS3 games on it will be thin client, but native PS4 games will be full.

 

[ER777]

Ok, if that's just how they're doing backwards compatibility for PS3 games that's not so bad. Although I would probably just keep the PS3 hooked up to play the old games then.

 

[Dont Troll Me]

The newest rumor is in regard to the next PlayStation’s ability to stream games. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that “Sony Corp. is planning to offer technology to stream games to its next videogame console,” according to its own sources.

The new technology, to be unveiled Wednesday along with the new console, will allow users to play games delivered over the Internet, these people said. The streaming service, they added, is designed to use current PlayStation 3 titles on the new console; the new device is also expected to play new games stored on optical discs.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/16/report-playstation-4-will-stream-games

Sounds like a bad idea... laggy streaming games...

so if we have say zen pinball 2, TPA and physical copies of full games stuff like that it may work on it hmm but the thought of having to pay monthly fee for online play is making me vary squeeze, dear god say its not so .thin client?? more i hear the worse all this sounds.