*** The Official Playstation 4 (PS4) Thread ***

[Shamikebab]

The Sun found out first?

 

[McBain]

Will the PS+ sub be seamless across PS3 and PS4 like Xbox Live across the 360/Xbox one?

Nevermind, yes it will.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/06/17/ps4-gara-explains-new-ps-plus-subs-cross-game-chat-more/

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Just in time for Black Friday. Hopefully be some big discounts

 

[Bennie-Mac]

There are also rumours of it being released on the 16th of Nov to coincide with SCEA's 20th anniversary. Id trust mild hearsay like that over some weird poll/advert/factsheet from the Sun.

 

[Murray]

Well it is all just rumours but its looking like mid-late November from most of them.

 

[djkav]

I wonder if the touchpad will be good enough for RTS style games

 

[Shamikebab]

I wonder if the touchpad will be good enough for RTS style games

I doubt it, would be awkward to hold like that for an entire game.

 

[Mobius 1]

its bad enough playing rts or similar games on tablets. screw using a touch pad for the main control in games. it'll be a secondary control mainly.

 

[*Rich*]

Question from a dumbass here, a while ago i read that the ps3 was slow at reading discs leading to long loading times.....has this been improved on the PS4?

Also what would be the max size of hdd you could install into a PS4, if known?

Rich.

 

[TheVoice]

It has a faster Blu-ray drive, so yes. I doubt there'll be any specific limit on HDD capacity.

 

[steveo]

really hope the rumours are true and that the Dayz guys are bringing the standalone to the PS4

 

[Richdog]

I'm guessing that keyboard and mouse support in games is still wholly dependant on devs implementing it, like for the PS3?

 

[RedStarRiot]

Rumoured release date - http://blog.games.com/2013/06/19/ps4-release-date-leaked/

Holiday requested at work!

Just to be safe, can't risk waiting for official confirmation!

 

[RedStarRiot]

I'm guessing that keyboard and mouse support in games is still wholly dependant on devs implementing it, like for the PS3?

Probably just as it is now. It would be too good to be true being able to use my mouse keyboard for FPS.

I'm terrible with a control pad on FPS and I'm hardly amazing at them anyway so this would even it up!

 

[XeNoN89]

Rumoured release date - http://blog.games.com/2013/06/19/ps4-release-date-leaked/

That's just taken from The Sun, I wouldn't believe that at all to be honest.

Date I have seen thrown around was 29th October

 

[RedStarRiot]

That's just taken from The Sun, I wouldn't believe that at all to be honest.

Date I have seen thrown around was 29th October

Surely this information would be supplied by however paid for this advert, most likely Sony?

 

[Davey_Pitch]

That's just taken from The Sun, I wouldn't believe that at all to be honest.

Date I have seen thrown around was 29th October

I'll be shocked if it's before November personally, all rumours I've heard point to November.

 

[TheVoice]

Surely this information would be supplied by however paid for this advert, most likely Sony?

It looks nothing like an official Sony advert though, I suspect it's from a retailer or something.

 

[Shamikebab]

Surely this information would be supplied by however paid for this advert, most likely Sony?

Yeah but it also says it can play PS3 titles through streaming. Have Sony even confirmed this? I didn't think they'd discussed it yet.

The Sun is just not a reliable source at all.

 

[steveo]

Yeah but it also says it can play PS3 titles through streaming. Have Sony even confirmed this? I didn't think they'd discussed it yet.

The Sun is just not a reliable source at all.

I believe the service is called Gaikai (or codename) its set to launch in 2014, so the ability to play ps3 games via streaming is there, just not sure how well it will deal with it