Yes. They straight up said PS4 after only 9 minutes into the conference and then the whole thing after that was about the PS4. They also showed much more than I would have thought.
Didn't think I would be excited. I was wrong. I really enjoyed what they showed, the features like jumping into a friends game and watching them play sound awesome.
@fluxwavez: While I thought some of it was pretty good they really needed to cut some shit out completely to make it shorter. I could have gone without David Cage and Square Enix being up there.
I only cringed and groaned a couple of times, so the show was a huge success in my eyes. I'm sure everyone's gonna flip when they find out that all those features are locked behind a subscription, and people are going to be pissed when it's not backwards compatible out of the box, or whatever, but they showed more than I thought they would, and it doesn't sound woefully under-powered, so color me excited.
Yup, it was a slick production and they gave time to great developers: Bungie, Johnathan Blow, Blizzard, David Cage (kinda?) They also should an awful lot of stuff for something that won't be out until the year's end.
seemed to have a lot of info while at the same time completely not talking about other things. very much what I expected with even more games than I thought.
Yeah, they did really well. I think the SquareEnix bit was a bit unnecessary. I also am curious, what things are going to cost more, what is the new PS+ service like. Also, is it backwards compatible?
Maybe not the right place for this question but did they mention if the livestream of the conference will be archived? Feel like i need to watch this again.
They showed the new controller and the Kinect copy, didn't actually show the console, no information on specs, no pricing or release date, only showed one Sony 'exclusive' franchise game.
This was good, happy about mostly everything they showed. BTW Atlus was up there when they show the 3rd parties that were working on PS4. I'm betting P5 will be on PS4!
They showed the new controller and the Kinect copy, didn't actually show the console, no information on specs, no pricing or release date, only showed one Sony 'exclusive' franchise game.
Just bad bad bad.
You must have got there late. They totally had specs. And if you thought they were gonna blow their wad and not save anything for E3, you crazy.
Great presentation, totally stoked and ready to ditch MS (well not totally ready, waiting to see what the next xbox is like).
Only disappointment is Diablo 3. Not that that's a bad game or that it's not cool it's gonna be on the console but when they announced Blizzard I got reeeeal excited then Diablo 3 and ughhhhhhh crap.
Repeating games announced at E3 last year and tech demos with almost zero content is not worth spending two hours on.
The details of the system also seem to exist in the ether of the Cloud. Behind the scenes I wouldn't be surprised if the PS4 is just a naked mini-ATX board sat on a cardboard box.
If everything they announced today had been just a series of press releases, my time would have been better spent.
Too much talking at the beginning, but it really picked up and i thoroughly enjoyed it. My major wow moment from the conference is the unveiling of Killzone, i think for me it was the first "Welcome to next gen!" moment. Once the HUD popped up i was shocked that it was actually gameplay, Guerrilla Games' art direction has been impeccable as of late and i'm actually excited for this series.
I also like the fact that the major 3rd parties worked their way out EARLY in Feburary to showcase stuff for the new system. Next Final Fantasy confirmed, Diablo 3 and major support from Blizzard, Destiny and exclusive content from Bungie, New IP from Capcom, Watch_Dogs etc is really reassuring.
No Price or Console unveiled is a bummer, but there's always E3. I'm expecting this thing to be 499 with maybe a standard model around 399/450.
Great presentation and something I personally was asking for (a more appealing console UI philosophy etc.) seems to be in the works. Overall some nice information and possibilities. Really liked the look of Jonathan Blow's new game. Now I'm really curious what Microsoft will show, as this was a pretty exciting thing to watch and got me a little bit back on board with Sony overall.
The system sounds good for the most part, the showed some fun looking shooters, a penis sculpting game and a few other colorful titles. I'm not sold yet, I need a price, date and a few more games to be scheduled in the pipeline before I jump. The presentation was kind of boring but I feel ok with the information presented thus far.
Edit: Reading the above post reminded me. Square Enix is a filthy tease and can go to hell, if they showed me something substantial I think I may have been on board.
Decent. I'll be the elitist PC snob and say the multiplatform games that looked great made me go, "this is going to look even more awesome on my PC!" The exclusive games is what has me on board though. I really liked the Motorstorm games, so I want to see more of their next racing game. The next inFamous game also looks good and has me wanting to play inFamous 2.
Then there is Destiny, which will most likely stay only on consoles. I don't want to deal with Microsoft's bullshit ecosystem that they have set up on Xbox, so I'd definitely pick that game up on PS4.
Yo, I likes me some PlayStation. Still especially excited for Watch Dogs, and a new inFAMOUS game?!.. HNNNNNNN- Hype has been successfully administered, now to go to bed and wake up feeling all cynical about everything again.
The one thing that got me excited was thinking how much better PC ports will be. At least I hope they will be. I mean, if the PS4 has the architecture as a PC I don't see why it wouldn't be easier to make a PC version or vise verse.
I was very happy with it. If they execute on their promises to do things like allowing people to play games while downloading, then the PS4 should be a big step forward for video games. I was also very pleased to see some footage of The Witness. The only things that disappointed me were how little was shown of Destiny and the presence of yet another installment in the Killzone series, which has never interested me.
The system sounds good for the most part, the showed some fun looking shooters, a penis sculpting game and a few other colorful titles. I'm not sold yet, I need a price, date and a few more games to be scheduled in the pipeline before I jump. The presentation was kind of boring but I feel ok with the information presented thus far.
Edit: Reading the above post reminded me. Square Enix is a filthy tease and can go to hell, if they showed me something substantial I think I may have been on board.
I was more surprised at the "lolwiimusic" part. So bad lol. Luckily we got to see some new Watch Dogs. I have to say when I saw that "Iraq War Veteran: Unemployed, Income $0" part I was like oh man Ubisoft.
Too much talking at the beginning, but it really picked up and i thoroughly enjoyed it. My major wow moment from the conference is the unveiling of Killzone, i think for me it was the first "Welcome to next gen!" moment. Once the HUD popped up i was shocked that it was actually gameplay,
Unless it wasn't. They've done it before. And frankly Killzone looked like a generic shooter with QT sequences. Visually no more impressive than Crysis 3 or many other games on a PC.
The most interesting game they showed is still Watch Dogs and that was shown a year ago.
that was a depressing look into the stagnation of gaming technology for another 7+ years.
theres a fucking share button on the controller.
a share button.
Uhhh people actually like to share a big chunk of their lives through social apps/platforms. This feature basically cuts all of the expenses and hassle for many people who like to record and upload their gameplay. Maybe that feature is not for you, but I'm sure it is, or will be, for a lot of folks.
Yes, but I wish they'd shown more exclusive Sony games. Knack looks very cool, like some kind of weird mix of Astro Boy and Kameo.
Killzone looked stunning, but it was totally more Killzone. I'm excited to see where they take Infamous, but the trailer wasn't so great. The Dragons Dogma game looked cool if a little generic fantasy and the creepy old man head was great.
Diablo 3, Squares announcements were dull. I didn't care much for the car game, but that's because it's not my kind of thing. It's hard to get excited about Destiny and Watch Dogs because we already knew what they were. (yes, they look very cool.)
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