Playstation 4 Inbound!

[nirojan]

OFFICIAL PS4 ANNOUNCEMENT VIDEO:
http://youtu.be/RiNGZMx2vhY

[Loony BoB]

Can't read the Kotaku article as it's blocked at work, but from what I've read at Gamasutra it's not written in stone that this will be the PS4 announcement (although it is most likely).

I'm wary of the early announcement, personally. But then, I'm wary of any kind of news because console launches are generally horrible things, not wonderful ones. At least in my experience, anyway. I suppose it's good for me because it means I get to wait until a little later when the console has more games before I start shelling out my cash.

[NeoCracker]

Yeah, Kotaku.

Need I say more?

[Mirage]

Well, you could take a look at the video Sony released (linked to from the Kotaku thing) and make your own guess.

[Madame Adequate]

You know the crazy headlines in The Simpsons where Marge says "That's not Bigfoot, it's my husband Homer!" and the paper reports "I MARRIED BIGFOOT!"?

Yeah, that's what Kotaku is like.

[Bolivar]

I'm really excited, these reveal events and console launches are always fun, but it's going to be some time before I jump in on this one. My PC will probably run most games coming out on this thing for a while and a lot of the games I'm currently into are things I only would or only can play on the comp.

[Mirage]

My issue isn't that my PC can't run new games, but that many of the games I want aren't released for PC.

[Ouch!]

You guys should be ashamed. Read the damned article. It cites the smurfing Wall Street Journal. Kotaku may be a bit of a rumor mill (and yes, the article they linked to was moved around), but more often they're rarely any worse than the rest of the video game news media, which has a terrible habit of abusing news without proper citation and letting rumors spiral out of control.

[Bolivar]

You guys should be ashamed. Read the damned article. It cites the smurfing Wall Street Journal. Kotaku may be a bit of a rumor mill (and yes, the article they linked to was moved around), but more often they're rarely any worse than the rest of the video game news media, which has a terrible habit of abusing news without proper citation and letting rumors spiral out of control.

Hideki Kamiya trouts all over Kotaku - NeoGAF

[Loony BoB]

Say what you like about Kotaku, at least they keep up their payments for their domain!

[Rostum]

Even though there's no way in hell I'll be buying a new console any time in the near or distant future (too much backlog with my PC, PS3 and DS), I'm still excited! Mainly to see where the next generation of tech is going to lead us.

[Psychotic]

I like how their "The Next PlayStation" image is clearly from the PSOne era.

[Bubba]

I'll be waiting at least six months before getting my hands on one of these bad boys. Unless the early batch of PS4's are backwards compatible with PS1, PS2 and PS3 games... extremely unlikey though

[Ouch!]

Hideki Kamiya trouts all over Kotaku - NeoGAF

Congratulations on missing the point. Not arguing that Kotaku isn't trout, just that they're not much worse than any other gaming "journalism" site. But you know what? Never mind. I'll let you all get back to your circle jerk.

I'll be waiting at least six months before getting my hands on one of these bad boys. Unless the early batch of PS4's are backwards compatible with PS1, PS2 and PS3 games... extremely unlikey though

Given that the PS4 is reportedly switching over to an AMD chipset, backwards compatibility with the PS3 is almost impossible without putting the guts of a PS3 inside it as well, and I doubt Sony would do that after how poorly that went with the early models of the PS2.

[Loony BoB]

Chill, Zach. No need to be nasty.