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New rumours regarding Sony’s next-gen home console have emerged, revealing Sony is currently calling the PlayStation4 “Orbis” and is aiming for a release during the Christmas shopping bonanza window of 2013.
According to games blog Kotaku who heard this from a “reliable source,” the hardware is still on track to be provided entirely by AMD, which will be producing both the CPU and the GPU. The source claims the GPU has been beefed up since it was last rumoured, with the current PS4 hardware now believed to be built around AMD’s 2012 spec Southern Islands chipset.
The source also claims that PS4 will not be compatible with PS3, as you might expect from a complete switch in hardware provider. Plus there may be an online authentication system in place, to effectively kill off the used game market, or require buyers of used titles to pay an additional fee to access the full game.
Sony’s actual plans will depend heavily on what Microsoft does, though. If MS goes ahead with its own rumoured 2013 launch, we could see the above mooted PS4 coincide with that. If Microsoft delays its plans, PS4 is likely to be similarly delayed for further beefing up to ensure the next-next-generation is a fair fight. [Kotaku]
I call fake.
Orbis – sounds like a rip-off of the Okama Gamesphere.
There’s no way any system would kill off the used games trade. It does negatively impact software sales, but hardware sales increase and people have to buy the games in the first place. here’s a suggestion: make games people are willing to pay £50 for…
Sony almost always sell consoles at less than cost price, and make their money back off game sales.
that’s more a reflection on how bloated and inefficient these companies are. point still stand though – the software is rarely worth the disc it’s etched onto.
Well given my current experiences with my PS3, I won’t be hopping on board this one. I’m sick of it not being able to connect to anything, or recognise anything.
Lol, your PS3 is broke bro
Nope, like that out of the box. I have a Nas server which the damn thing can only recognise if I bus it through a P.C. first, bro.
I love the way they keep labelling these things as “next-gen” lol my pc is wayyyy ahead of even this supposed console. Until they put 2/3gb gfx chips and decent amounts of ram in there, They will always be “last-gen”.
having a gaming pc myself, i appreciate what your saying, but you need to understand these machines are designed to run on the 512meg of ram they have because its all they need (or did need in 2005) plus, uf your gunna put gaming pc specs in a console, its gunna cost the same as a gaming pc, and thats not what console gamers are after
I guess you are right. You get what you pay for I suppose.I think they should at least attempt to make a console with some upgradable options though.