Sony reveals the first official details of the PlayStation 4

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[undervillain]

Will be interested to read about this, will watch and look at the product, but probably will not buy. Not after all of the hacks against PSN, not after the removal of the Linux feature from the PS3. It would have to be an unprecedented integration of amazing hardware specs and pleasant software experience to make me reconsider.

 

[undervillain]

you can browse live game video of what your friends are doing at that exact moment

This is actually pretty cool. I'm hoping that we start to see a lot more things come about to really utilize the always-connected world that we're building. I just hope we can get the bandwidth to use them.

Unfortunately, I was just told (this afternoon even!) that 5mbps/896kbps is "really high-speed" Internet by the CenturyLink folks. I'm moving across town and that's still the best offering they can make, even though I'm less than a mile from the CO. I guess I'm sticking with Comcast...... :-(

 

[undervillain]

A hard drive, how quaint! For the complete throwback experience, I hope they include an optical drive.

What's wrong with hard drives? I own several, and for mass storage they are cheap and effective!

 

[undervillain]

I have a question for those with more knowledge than me....how expensive is GDDR5 memory? For instance, how much would it have cost them to double it to 16GB? How much additional headroom would that give them for future-proofing the system?