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Russic · 02-21-2013, 09:04 AM

Given Sony's start to the current generation I see why they felt the need to be aggressive and get themselves out there early. I do think this comes at the cost of demo gameplay as a few of those had to be quite early. Aside from the dragon game from Capcom, nothing looked overly impossible (anybody remember the Madden HD first look from the 360 launch?).

I'm not actually that interested in graphics. The RAM upgrade is very interesting and the architecture built with developers in mind is very interesting to me. The PS3 was publicly torn apart for being needlessly complicated so for the first few years everybody just build on 360 and then did what they could to shoe-horn a port into the PS3. To hear they are focusing on developers is a big thing for them I think.

I've always wondered how the hell we'd ever get to a download-only future with games ballooning to the sizes they're at for this generation. Streaming/downloading is a great solution I hadn't thought of, and the ability to play anything instantly is cool.

While I'm hesitant about Gaikai being able to pull through with their streaming plans, if they can do it it'll be amazing. The 1 hour trials of full games for Playstation Plus members is outstanding, with the only downside being download times (you have to download the entire game). Also, the ability to have ps2 and ps3 games always available is incredibly cool. My hope is Sony has learned lessons from Steam and sees that people don't seem overly concerned with used games if you just put on a crazy sale every 6 months.

I see lots to like here. They couldn't announce too much otherwise E3 would just be a giant snooze for them (plus I'm sure they have an alarming ways to go still). I had my sights set on buying a new iPhone this year, but this has given me slight pause. My thinking was that I have too many ps3 games as it is and could be held over for a long time. If I could get those games easily on ps4 (many are in my Playstation Plus Instant Game Collection), then it would make things a lot tougher to ignore.

Bring on NHL 14.

02-21-2013, 09:04 AM	#221
Russic Dances with Wolves Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Section 304 Exp:	Given Sony's start to the current generation I see why they felt the need to be aggressive and get themselves out there early. I do think this comes at the cost of demo gameplay as a few of those had to be quite early. Aside from the dragon game from Capcom, nothing looked overly impossible (anybody remember the Madden HD first look from the 360 launch?). I'm not actually that interested in graphics. The RAM upgrade is very interesting and the architecture built with developers in mind is very interesting to me. The PS3 was publicly torn apart for being needlessly complicated so for the first few years everybody just build on 360 and then did what they could to shoe-horn a port into the PS3. To hear they are focusing on developers is a big thing for them I think. I've always wondered how the hell we'd ever get to a download-only future with games ballooning to the sizes they're at for this generation. Streaming/downloading is a great solution I hadn't thought of, and the ability to play anything instantly is cool. While I'm hesitant about Gaikai being able to pull through with their streaming plans, if they can do it it'll be amazing. The 1 hour trials of full games for Playstation Plus members is outstanding, with the only downside being download times (you have to download the entire game). Also, the ability to have ps2 and ps3 games always available is incredibly cool. My hope is Sony has learned lessons from Steam and sees that people don't seem overly concerned with used games if you just put on a crazy sale every 6 months. I see lots to like here. They couldn't announce too much otherwise E3 would just be a giant snooze for them (plus I'm sure they have an alarming ways to go still). I had my sights set on buying a new iPhone this year, but this has given me slight pause. My thinking was that I have too many ps3 games as it is and could be held over for a long time. If I could get those games easily on ps4 (many are in my Playstation Plus Instant Game Collection), then it would make things a lot tougher to ignore. Bring on NHL 14.