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StarBound wrote:CPU: x86 architecture like PC, APU,
RAM: 8GB shared, GDDR5
Storage: Still HDD

What you’ll be playing on Sony’s new PS4: Knack, Diablo III
Sony promises to help developers open "new business models."

by Kyle Orland and Megan Geuss - Feb 21 2013, 1:55am -200

When Sony's PlayStation 4 arrives, the titles available on the system are going to be at least as important as the console's actual hardware—if not more so. Sony and game developers took to the stage on Wednesday to announce some of the games that will launch with the latest-generation console, and while we couldn't do any hands-on demos just yet, we got to see some interesting videos to pique our curiosity.

CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Andrew House promised "socially enriched" content (as seen in the dedicated "share" button on the new PS4 controller) as well as "episodic and free-to-play" games. Here are a few games that Sony is promising, with these ideas in mind.

The new titles

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StarBound wrote:it made sense what they said for the most part.

StarBound wrote:I wa also hoping for the view of the box. But we have an ok spec sheet although I didn't see the speed of the cpu. Infact we didnt see any clock speeds.

rustypup wrote:consoles make sense now?

rustypup wrote:meh.. yet another overpriced brick for mouth-breathers to waggle their rapidly deteriorating limbs at...

Cataclysm_ZA wrote:...eight-core AMD "Jaguar" cores at 1.6GHz.

rustypup wrote:

StarBound wrote:it made sense what they said for the most part.

consoles make sense now?

meh.. yet another overpriced brick for mouth-breathers to waggle their rapidly deteriorating limbs at...

Ron2K wrote:30.

The forum's built-in search makes such searches extremely trivial.

StarBound wrote:Steam games costing a fracture of the price

Of coarse it depends on how cheap you wish to go.

1.6Ghz though is a disgrace though. It is slow regardless of the 8 cores. I think the Wii U is running at 1.8Ghz though.

downloading in the background while your doing your stuff is common to PC

Analysis: The one-two combo Sony used to knock Microsoft out of E3 2013
Used game support and lower-priced hardware create a PR coup.

Over the past ten years attending events like E3 and the Game Developers Conference, I have been to at least 40 press conferences held by console makers or game publishers both major and minor. In that time, I've learned the subtle art of interpreting the many ways an audience can react to the various announcements that a company makes.

There are the announcements that get loud whoops and hollers from random audience members, as if to say "I recognize and enjoy the game that is a sequel to, and feel the need to let you know this." There are announcements that get late, half-hearted applause, almost out of pity more than anything. There are the announcements that only get a response from the development team sitting in one very specific section of the crowd.

There are announcements that lead to awkward laughter, as if to say "This is the best you've got?" There are those that lead to genuine laughter, as if to say "Oh my god, I can't believe what I just saw!" There are announcements that lead to small gasps and a murmur of confusion throughout the crowd (Sony's infamous "Five hundred and ninety nine US dollars" moment is one of these).

For all my experience in instant, comparative E3 crowd analysis, though, I was left without a useful reference point of comparison at Sony's press conference this year. That's because the sustained reaction the company got when it announced that the PlayStation 4 would not restrict the resale and sharing of games on discs was, without hyperbole, easily the most overwhelming reaction I have ever seen to any announcement from an E3 audience. The only moment that came close, in my mind, was the unveiling of a new "mature" Legend of Zelda game to the Nintendo faithful in 2004.

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