(Rumour) PS4 Not Unduly Powerful Over Current Gen

[FAST6191]

Ooh could it be that I might have to drag myself to an arcade to see the latest and greatest once more (I think we can all agree that although the PC sees some stunning stuff it will probably not be the platform of choice for the next lightgun or arcade racer). That would be an interesting twist.

 

[Deleted_171835]

So a rebranded 6670? Otherwise known as my current GPU.

That's not horrible although I would have expected better. But it's yet another rumour that's probably a load of shit, so whatever.

 

[Ultymoo]

Good Christ on a cracker. Trying to sort through these posts is like wading through lava in a speedo.

Personally, I don't care if a console is more powerful than another one. If they both have games that I enjoy, I'll eventually get both. Hell, you could throw an 8-bit machine at me today as long as it can have around 40 to 50 games I'll want to play over its lifespan. I'd gladly play that.

"You're a shithead fanboy for liking this console."
"No, you're a shithead fanboy for liking that console."

Two different topics, and yet the posts are almost the same.

 

[Hielkenator]

So we post a rumor that the Wii U isn't that powerful and it's an outrage.

We post a rumor that the PS4 isn't that powerful and people don't think twice about or it actually agree.

It's good to see we're consistent.

As consistent as we should be.
Not everyone "falls" for specs.
Sony seems to see that too, if the rumours are treu.
SO IT FINALLY ALL COMES DOWN TO THE QUALITY OF THE GAMES.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

SO IT FINALLY ALL COMES DOWN TO THE QUALITY OF THE GAMES.

Well looks like the PC won.

Later guys, console gaming is dead.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Post real news, bitch.

 

[FireGrey]

SO IT FINALLY ALL COMES DOWN TO THE QUALITY OF THE GAMES.

Well looks like the PC won.

Later guys, console gaming is dead.

Yes, now all we need is the console exclusives and we shall be complete.
Also, Terraria is better than Minecraft, know any good ARPGs for the PS3?

 

[Foxi4]

Another wonderfully made-up article? Really?

PS4 won't be running on an AMD CPU, Sony's never released a single console or in fact any other piece of hardware working on x86/x64 architectures other than laptop computers (for obvious reasons). I will not believe a single word until I see it in flesh, thank you very much.

 

[DiscostewSM]

I rather agree with Foxi4 here. You take a look back, the PS2 used the Emotion Engine processor and the PS3 used a Cell processor. What reason would they have now to go the way of the PC?

 

[Kalidor]

Sony is DEAD

 

[shakirmoledina]

it just does everything that the ps3 didnt do (which itself just does everything)

 

[Mantis41]

I rather agree with Foxi4 here. You take a look back, the PS2 used the Emotion Engine processor and the PS3 used a Cell processor. What reason would they have now to go the way of the PC?

They have realised the ridiculous development costs involved with producing bespoke hardware. Just guessing they have finally come to their senses.

Edit: Not to mention the massive headaches bespoke hardware causes developers.

 

[Gahars]

BREAKING NEWS:

The PS4 is actually incredibly powerful, blowing even high end PCs out of the water. Sony released these false specs out of recently developed senses of modesty and bashfulness.

 

[Foxi4]

I rather agree with Foxi4 here. You take a look back, the PS2 used the Emotion Engine processor and the PS3 used a Cell processor. What reason would they have now to go the way of the PC?

They have realised the ridiculous development costs involved with producing bespoke hardware. Just guessing they have finally come to their senses.

Edit: Not to mention the massive headaches bespoke hardware causes developers.

The x86/x64 architecture is not cut out for strictly gaming, it's simply not a powerhorse. x86/x64 processors are like this "do-it-all" guy who really does it all, albeit with worse results compared to Cell or PowerPC which are vastly more specialized, in this case, towards multimedia. Compare the results of those three architectures using three processors released at relatively the same time. Both the Cell and the PowerPC will excel at floating point operations, which are an absolute must in gaming. Consoles are built primarily for gaming, the choice is clear.

The only instance where an x86/x64 processor would make sense in a console would be if it was running an x86/x64-only OS, like the XBox did.

Sony will go custom on this one. They *always* go custom.

 

[Midna]

This looks like a cash in on Kotaku's Orbis rumours.

Normally your smugness would be pissing me off, Guild, but have at it. This is bullshit.

 

[DCG]

How many FLOPS does a cell processor produce?
I know my desktop cpu (amd x6 @4ghz) can do 74? GFLOPS
GPU does about 1TFLOPS (single point), as far as I remember.

 

[Clydefrosch]

who cares? from this point onward, better specs will hardly increase graphics anyway. the next jump to true photorealism, meaning it looks exactly like a movie with human actors, in a real live environment, will probably not be available on a household budged for another decade or two. so why would they even need to put more power in their machines right now?

 

[tommzy2]

lol, ps4 wont come until at least 2015, believe me. and it will be way more powerfull than said above. my laptop craps on them specs

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

Like the Move not many people will use it.

That's because real gamers don't use gimmicks. Only kids use it, like Nintendo intended

This is a typical argument of children: "nooo dont play this, this a baby game!"

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[DSGamer64]

Well, considering Sony can't afford another 600+ dollar console with no games, that would be one reason to not have a substantially more powerful system. Graphics are going to get upgraded to compete with more modern PC video technology so games can run at the same resolutions and still have the same texture quality and advanced filtering.