Meet the Future of PlayStation with Us

So the PS4 is basically just an x86 PC? So much for the PC dying, huh?

The best thing to come out of this is that porting from PS4 to PC will be very quick and easy.

"High, my name is Patrick and I'm going to be snarky about everything as much as possible because its Sony and I feel the need to constantly talk shit."

This was the worst way to watch the stream for the first time thanks to Patrick. I like the guy and have been a fan for years but he laid it on very, very thick in this stream. So much so that at times he was breaking the silence of the guys watching the stuff (that they were enjoying) just to be snarky.

Dude from the inFamous bit reminded me of Doug Hutchison when he was on X-Files...such a super weird presentation.

Hopefully the price is reasonable.499 might be a decent price range for a top of the line ps4 model and about 400 for the cheaper one.

Then again maybe one can get the console for a much lower price if one is willing to watch advertisements or something like that.

The hightlight for me was the guy who presented that car game. That was pure comedy gold. I was half expecting to start hearing Barry White singing when the presenter got to the part of opening the car door.

They always meant the total time of support. 10 years after release would be 2016, which is not all that crazy considering how many are out there and how long the PS2 was produced and had stuff released.

Sony need more insane dudes to talk about games on their stage, that how they win.

This was great!

English George W. Bush at 59:00

Pretty impressed with how good the actual conference came out. The technical stuff was all really cool and informative and instantly sold me on the PS4 as far as hardware goes. The games (with the exception of Killzone) were all really interesting as well. I'm still quite disappointed there was no duck demo. Hopefully, they're saving big time stuff like that for E3.

I think the Sucker Punch presenter's methods might be unsound:

A few hours ago (noon Sweden) I headed downtown for some electronics accessories, but dropped by the one GAME shop and checked in on PS4 sign-ups. They had a total of four when I came in from when work started that day, three from employees.

Decent for my 140 000 large city. Looking forward to this even if it takes a year to come to Europe.

Even watching the Oscars would be bearable if the crew was re-streaming it and making fun of everyone in the process.

Vinny and Ryan have facial hair locked down, but I'm looking forward to Patrick chiming in on the mix!

Taiwan news is not impressed...

They need to do this for Microsoft's thing. Whenever they decide to do it. This video was hilarious!

Yeah but Steam really just doesn't have the exclusives, apart from X Mas holiday sales, for games I buy but hardly ever really play, I hardly ever buy games for PC. The 4 PC exclusives I have brought full price in the last 2 Years are Battlefield 3, Diablo 3, Star Craft 2 and Sim City, NONE of which appeared on Steam. So you may as well just build a PC and play all games.

I REALLLY LOVE CARS

I was nearly in tears during the Sucker Punch intro. The dissonance of his absurdly serious tone and the rest of the conference was so fucking hilarious. I could not believe what I was watching. He was spot on, but what the fuck. It was just so out of place. Imagine if that happened in the middle of a Nintendo press conference?

Steamboat has a big opportunity here, if they could somehow deliver a reasonably affordable pc-in-a-box then we're looking at three machines all of which may not be very different at all hardware wise. In which case it's choosing ecosystem. With Sony cutting out the backwards compatibility I'm in a position where I'd easily jump ecosystem with little impact. For me it would be steam because I trust them to deliver games and services with customer service in mind. Whereas I have my own experiences of Sony and Ms hasn't exactly done anything to make me think it'll be any better. When steamboat was announced I was meh but as time goes on I could really see myself getting one. Don't duck it up gave.

*building a pc isn't cost effective for me, before everyone jumps in. I imagine a lot of console gamers are the same

They did not say the words "Blue Ray"

This was so goddamn much fun to watch with the GB crew, that the chat was broken for me for the whole thing too which actually turned out to be a huge plus.

Guessing the whole ten year plan on the PS3 is gone or counting what time it was spent in development. Have to say that the Sucker Punch presentation was toned a little much where I was hoping that what the Bombsquad mentioned about it just being some random paranoid as hell stranger running up on stage instead. Overall, it's a console presentation launch teaser, few interesting things but until playing more with it, it's hard to tell how much it will work right & how much of it will be in eternal beta/ill fitting as Playstation Home.

@patrickklepek

Great to see you back on the couch, duder. You need to do something about that beard, though; you're starting to eerily resemble Vincent from Catherine. If you keep going down this path, who knows what'll happen.

I wander what they will show at E3.

Why is no one excited for this? The first couple of games for 360 and PS3 didn't look that great. They looked better on PC. This looks at least comparable. It's a decent step up. You won't be playing this stuff on the current generation. I really wonder how Watch Dogs will look on current tech. They must shackle it somehow.

@truthtellah said:

...and then, I saw the end of it all.

AHAHAHA!! I love the caption; great job!

agreed

Too many features sound like a information privacy nightmare. I am wary of this.

Christ I was in tears when the Drive Club guy was talking and they were commenting on that... kudos guys. Thanks for this video.

Awesome! ^-^

Okay maybe online multiplayer will be free, but for the streaming/ share button functions you will need to be a Plus member.

This had me in stitches!

Brad - "So maybe this isn't just a pure FPS?"

Character brings out assault rifle and proceeds to shoot wildly

After being beaten for hours until my legs were bloody and mangled, I watched helplessly as my wife and child were brutally murdered with old, rusty machetes and my joy and freedoms were irreparably torn apart by an intense monologue.

The crew's inability to distinquish between CG and gameplay was slightly disturbing.

The SP guy was a total bring down. "I was tear gassed waaaaaa"

Don't be a douche and you won't get gassed

@probablytuna said:

Year of the fucking intense monologues.

Stop treating aftonbladet as anything but a source of entertainment >:)

YEAR OF THE BEARDS.

Infamous' guy is the new apoc-now Marlon Brando.

The future sucks!

Shame the chat was down for this entire live stream.

I guess Sony thought it was a good idea to announce the console before Microsoft to make consumers think it's the superior product, but you have to wonder if they'll have anything original left to show at E3.

The Drive Club guy was incredible.

Patrick's beard has 8GB of GDDR5.

I am reading about it on one of the largest newspapers in Sweden and they really got some things wrong. They interpreted holiday as vacation and said it was going to be released during the summer vacation 2013 which obviously is not what they meant. Holidays means thanksgiving and Christmas. Seems like it was written by someone who knows nothing about video games or American culture. Also it said they talked about Playstation 5 and even Playstation 6.

I'm so glad I watched this here last night. Don't think I could have handled Sony's INTENSE DUDES without Brad, Vinny, Patrick and Ryan pointing out how mental they were.

Coming into the stream and expecting it to mostly show business suits jerking each other off with a mild hope of the GB dudes making that experience bearable I was very pleasantly surprised. Two solid hours of PR and branding were actually presented in a highly interesting and pretty exciting fashion, even to someone like me that cares about system details and games more than anything else.

I thought Sony chose a fantastic selection of personalities to drive the point home, showed more solid information than I could've ever expected and did a great job of conveying their core ideas for PS4. At this point I'm genuinely thrilled to see if and how they pull the new hardware off. The GB commentary accompanying the whole thing was as good as expected. Very nice all in all.

Spoiler alert: it'll be nothing like this. It's gonna be 90% "xbox has facebook and twitter and can stream movies!"

This was great, i hope the microsoft oneone is like this.