Hmmmm....it's looks interesting, but I am not so much interested in the hardware, but rather software. As in, what kind of games will there be? I was never into the console wars and while I have played most systems, I have not found a reason to buy all of them. The games are what appeal to me the most and even if these systems, whether it be XboxOne or PS4, have all these huge tech and power I don't see a lot of that power being used. I am gonna wait a little while before I buy any of these systems.
Now this whole thing with the one game-one account is something I am pissed off about, but not towards Microsoft themselves. You see all gaming companies are starting to do this. Pretty soon even Sony is gonna do this. It's not just one company, it's the fact that used games exist and even gamers who pirate those games. So I blame them. However, I will say this doesn't help solve that problem. In fact, I may even say this will only encourage people to pirate more.
So I am not sure how to take that. Eventually almost everyone is going to be doing this.
One thing that really is a turn off is the Kinect crap. I don't want to use the Kinect.
They keep pushing multimedia content...
Uhm excuse me, but I DON'T need another TV/MUSIC/VIDEO/Etc. on a gaming console. I only exclude the option of internet and ability to play movies on disc format (DVD, Blu-ray).
Can these consoles stick only to gaming?!
I have to agree with this. Me and you, Derock, feel the same way. I have my computer to surf the internet and such. At best all I use on my system is Netflix and play games. I don't really need it to do anything else. Now while this doesn't seem like a big deal, I sometimes have to wonder if they get so focused on these apps that they neglect the games themselves. Peter Molyneux said it too that he feels the more generations we go, the less the consoles appeal to games.
People may tell me this is to suit to more generalized populaces, but I have to tell you....My N64 didn't need it. My NES didn't need it. My Gamecube and Playstation 2 didn't need it as well as my Xbox.
This is my fear when so many focus on these apps. It's not a bad thing yet, but I always fear.
Nearly everything about the conference just got me more and more dissapointed, and it pretty much confirmed to me that allot of the rumours were true, that 2-3GB of the 8GB RAM will be taken up by the OS at all times, it won't work without Kinect, 2 of the 8 CPU cores will be dedicated to the OS and Kinect functions, and it is GDDR5 RAM but DDR3, (otherwise they would have mentioned it. They didn't mention the GPU's power as well so the 1.23Tflops is likely to be true, and if a chunk of that is also dedicated to the background functions, I wonder if the PS4 will indeed be over a third more powerful than the new xbox.
Power is only good when you use it. I have never seen developers push that power to the max yet. Not even in this last generation. I am eager to see how they use this power.
Edited by James S Cassidy, 21 May 2013 - 11:34 PM.