Sony reveals the first official details of the PlayStation 4

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[Gary Patterson]

:facepalm: Oh Sony, you just can't ever drop the pretentious nonsense and just give us the tech specs can you?

No matter the specs, there's a group on the Internet ready to call anything a failure, and media waiting to pounce on any weaknesses in their desperate quest for page views.

I understand why they're reluctant to immediately announce specs. Eventually it'll get out, but hopefully after people have made up their minds about the capabilities of the device.

 

[Gary Patterson]

For those bitching about gameplay - yes, gameplay hasn't advanced as fast as graphics, but now we're reaching the point where extra graphical achievements are costing a lot of effort and providing minimal rewards, so all that power can be harnessed by the game engine for other purposes.

Good AI takes a lot of processing power. Be happy - this machine provides a lot of processing power.

It'll be a while before people make really good use of it, but the PS4 looks like it will allow more realistic AI behaviour by proving far more CPU cycles to do AI stuff in.

I feel it's unfair to look at the release games and say they're not far beyond the current game titles. Advances take time, and right now people are still thinking as though they're working under the constraints of the current game consoles.