Friday, 18 January 2013

PS4-XBOX 720

PlayStation 3 proved to be an costly venture for Sony, and a new report that has surfaced claims Sony cannot miss on this next iteration of PlayStation if they hope to continue funding the console.

According to a report from Spectrum today, Sony has wowed gaming fans with their impressive technology in the past, but now they need to refocus the features of what the PlayStation 4 will have if they hope to survive.

"Sony, which has the most at stake here and has watched its once leading PlayStation franchise lose ground in recent years.

"Sony used to dazzle with its technological daring, but it has been more than six years since it introduced the PlayStation 3, and the company now finds itself in a fundamentally altered gaming universe, in which technological dazzle isn’t nearly as important as it used to be.

"So there’s more than the usual curiosity about Sony’s long-awaited next flagship console, the PlayStation 4, which many insiders and analysts expect will be introduced later this year," the report stated.

It went on to talk about the change that has occurred in the industry since the PlayStation 3 was introduced.

"Plenty has changed since the PS3’s release. With the rise of Facebook and smartphones, the buzzwords in the industry have changed from 'eye candy' and 'AI' to 'social' and 'mobile.'

"Hits like 'FarmVille' and 'Angry Birds' proved that being accessible, communal, and of course, fun is enough to win over both players and developers.

"It’s a distinct possibility that Sony will abandon the Cell in the PS4. And if it does, not everybody will be sorry to see it go," the report stated.

Finally, the feature discussed some of the changes that have been visible from Sony this past year that point to where they could be headed with their next-generation development.

"Sony has already begun pursuing a more social and interactive strategy. In July, the company paid a reported $380 million to acquire Gaikai, a cloud-based gaming service in Aliso Viejo, Calif.

"In addition to allowing video-game publishers to conveniently stream demos to players, Gaikai could let Sony deliver content to other devices, such as the PlayStation Vita, the handheld game system released in December 2011," the report stated.
A detailed comparison has been revealed on Jan. 11 in regards to the rumored specs of the PS4 and Xbox 720. According to the NeoGAF forum, the PS4, which has a nickname of Orbis, has a higher clock in addition to faster RAM. On the other hand, the Xbox 720, code-named the Durango, features more CPU cores and more RAM. Overall, they seemed pretty close in terms of power if the rumored specs are correct. You can check out some concept designs of both consoles in the slideshow at the top of this article and the comparison below (courtesy of the NeoGAF forum):

PS4 "Orbis"

AMD x86 3.2GHz APU Solution (Jaguar/Steamroller), 4 cores (2 core pairs), [Higher Clock than X720/Durango]
Maybe AMD 8000 series GPU solution [Customised Solution Possibly utilizing GPU + APU combo]
2-4GB GDDR5
Launch Fall 2013/Early 2014
Explanation: PS4 has a higher clock, but less cores and is using an APU solution (CPU & GPU elements combined onto a single chip). The PS4 has less RAM but is using faster GDDR ram, so the overall performance should be a wash.

Xbox 720 "Durango"

AMD x86 Jaguar 1.6GHZ 8-Core [Targeting one core being dedicated for OS tasks]
AMD 8000 series GPU
ESRAM on the GPU (unknown amount)
8GB Ram DDR3, [1.5GB of RAM likely reserved for the operating system]
Launch 2013
Explanation: 720 has a lower clock, but more cores. 720 has more but SLOWER RAM. DDR3 RAM is usually good for things like multitasking etc....It is expected to be based on Windows 8 as well.
The PS4 is anticipated to come out later this year or in early 2014 while the Xbox 720 is projected to launch in 2013 for the North American regions. Sony and Microsoft are both expected to make formal announcements in regards to their next-generation plans in the next couple of months.


Conflicting reports from developer sources may reveal next-gen console specs.

With reported E3 2013 announcements and holiday season releases, rumors about the successors to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 have been flying fast and loose for months. The latest report comes from VG247, which claims that it learned of some next-gen technical information from "developer sources" after CES. According to the sources, the PS4, also supposedly codenamed Orbis, will have a run-capability of 1.84 teraflops, while the Durango, also referred to unofficially as the Xbox 720, will be capable of 1.23 teraflops. If true, this means that the PS4 will have a 50% "raw, computational power advantage" over Microsoft's next console.

The PS4 won't have every technical advantage, however; the sources state that Sony's next-gen console will have 4GB RAM, of which 3GB will be used for games. On the other hand, the Xbox 720 will feature 8GB RAM, with 4-5GB reserved for gaming. Both consoles will be able to read 100GB Blu-rays discs.

This isn't the first time VG247 has leaked rumors about the unannounced next-gen consoles; the site previously reported that the PS4 would be based on AMD's A10 APU and would be "very affordable." If even half of the rumors about these consoles are true, they're the worst-kept secrets in the gaming industry. Stay tuned for more rumors as we get closer and closer to the supposed announcements of the Durango and Orbis.

Update: Then again, Now Gamer is reporting that the Xbox 720 will be more powerful than the PS4, so you can choose which rumors to believe based on your console preference. Or, just make up your own specs, but choose carefully; as we all know, the console war is always won by the system that's most technically powerful.

The last we heard, the PS4 could be with us as early as March. Now a Sony exec has hinted a May launch could be more likely.

Sony's vice president of home entertainment Hiroshi Sakamoto said the next-gen console could touch down a month before E3.

Asked if the console would be launched in the next few months, Sakamoto said, "That's still a big secret, but our friends are preparing Sony PlayStation.
I can only say that we are focussed on the E3 gaming event, scheduled for June. announcement may be in that minute or even earlier in May."
Sony (SNE) and Microsoft (MSFT) are both expected to announce their next-generation gaming consoles at the Electronics Entertainment Expo in June, or even a little before then.





























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