Sony said we'd 'see the future' of PlayStation on February 20th, and it appears to be true: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company will not only reveal the next PlayStation at the event, but actually put the new video game console on sale later this year. According to the publication's anonymous sources, both the next PlayStation and Microsoft's next game system will compete head to head going into the holiday season.

Though Sony CEO Kaz Hirai and others had originally telegraphed that the next PlayStation might not be ready as soon as the next Xbox, it appears to have been a feint. We may see what the so-called PlayStation Orbis has to offer in as few as three weeks.

will it still be bundled with composite cable? That's the biggest announcement I wanted to hear..

I think this time they upgrade; bundle with component cable.

will it still be bundled with composite cable? That's the biggest announcement I wanted to hear..

Hmm i just know ps3 willl stand till at least 2015 lol.

They should change the naming for their next gen console.
PS4 is lame.

UPDATE: We've confirmed with Sony that the event will be livestreamed. More details to come.

Livestream IS A GO

Source: http://kotaku.com/5980715/is-sony-going-to...-on-february-20

They should change the naming for their next gen console.
PS4 is lame.

rumours said that PS4 will be named as Orbis or Thebes. idk..

rumours said that PS4 will be named as Orbis or Thebes. idk..

how much the price ?in ringgit

Are u serious? Huhuh

why? the price not announce yet..any estimation

est rm5k

est rm5k

dafuq

versus 13

looks like you know much about future PS console ... you damn right and come to think why that V13 holding us soooo much

confirm ps4 out dis year? price must be at least rm3k. becoz hv to buy from sg. msian set will be out 1 year later lol

apa barang funding..kluar trus beli

Development sources with working knowledge of both next generation consoles have told us that PlayStation 4 will be more powerful than the next Xbox, will ship with a redesigned controller and launch by the end of the year in Japan and the US. PlayStation 4’s European launch will follow in early 2014.

Sony is set to reveal its next PlayStation on Wednesday February 20th at an event dubbed ‘see the future’. Sony Computer Entertainment released a teaser video last night to announce the event. Below, our sources revealed what to expect from PlayStation 4.

The controller

Sources close to the hardware have revealed to us that PS4 will ship with a redesigned controller which is the same size as an existing DualShock but features a small touchpad in place of the existing Select, Start and PS buttons. The tech is based on Vita’s rear touchpad, and is similarly responsive in use.

A new Share button on the controller will, when pressed, launch a new feature that will allow screenshots and video to be distributed online. The PS4 hardware will continually record the most recent 15 minutes of onscreen action (with no processing penalty, claims our source), which users will then be able to edit and broadcast via the Internet.

The launch

We’re told that PlayStation 4 will launch in Japan and the US by Christmas, with a Euro rollout following in early 2014, the delay attributed to the complexities involved in European distribution. Alongside the console, Sony will also introduce a new, improved iteration of its PlayStation Eye peripheral, which remains compatible with the PlayStation Move controller. Move will be available at launch, but it’s not clear yet whether it will be bundled with the hardware. Sony has already earned an enormous amount of goodwill among studios working with PS4 development hardware. Privately, Sony representatives have conceded that the company made a mistake in creating such esoteric architecture for PS3, and its strategy for PS4 gives developers more opportunities this time around, notably because the hardware is much more PC-like in its makeup than PS3.

We have confirmed with sources that recently leaked tech specs are accurate. Though Durango devkits offer 8GB of DDR3 RAM, compared to Orbis’s 4GB, Sony’s GDDR5 solution is capable of moving data at 176 gigabytes per second, which should eliminate the sort of bottlenecks that hampered PS3 game performance. Importantly, we’ve learned that Sony has told developers that it is pushing for the final PS4 RAM to match up to Microsoft’s 8GB.

Both platforms are driven by eight-core AMD CPUs clocked at 1.6GHz, with Microsoft opting for a D3D11.x GPU from an unknown source and Sony utilising a more capable solution in AMD’s ‘R10XX’ architecture, alongside the so-called ‘Liverpool’ system-on-chip.

It’s clear Sony has designed a system that, on paper, outperforms Microsoft’s next Xbox. One source familiar with both platforms tells us that in real terms Sony’s console is “slightly more powerful” and “very simple to work with”.

Ultimately, the performance differences between the two consoles will have as much bearing on multiplatform releases as the differences between PS3 and 360 – very little – but Sony will be expecting big-budget firstparty releases such as the PS4 Uncharted sequel to demonstrate its console’s superiority.

est rm5k

simply say RM8k-10k also some people will believebuy lol.

coool, ps4 comming soooooonn

coool, ps4 comming soooooonn

How sweet of Sony to announce something big on my birthday.
Jangan announce PSV SUPER SLIM VERSION sudah. lol
If it's really PS4, I ain't getting it til' at least after a year or a year and a half after its release. Play safe, let the faulty ones sold out first.

that was fast lol.
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2692470/+0&#entry58047335

i dont think its ps4. my guess is new conductivities with vita ala wiiu

i dont think its ps4. my guess is new conductivities with vita ala wiiu

How sweet of Sony to announce something big on my birthday.
Jangan announce PSV SUPER SLIM VERSION sudah. lol
If it's really PS4, I ain't getting it til' at least after a year or a year and a half after its release. Play safe, let the faulty ones sold out first.

Edge: PS4 to launch in Europe in early 2014, is more powerful than next Xbox
Source: http://www.edge-online.com/news/playstation-4-revealed/

too excited till post twice

They should change the naming for their next gen console.
PS4 is lame.

Just some info. For those who didn't know Playstation Meeting's are rarely held by Sony.
The last Meeting was 2011 where Sony unveiled the Vita.
Before that was 2005 where Sony unveiled the release plan for PlayStation 3.
Other than that there is no meeting. Still don't get it why some don't think it's the PS4.

PS4! PS4!

PS4 rumoured specs: (subject to change)

CPU:
Orbis contains eight Jaguar cores at 1.6 Ghz, arranged as two “clusters”
Each cluster contains 4 cores and a shared 2MB L2 cache
256-bit SIMD operations, 128-bit SIMD ALU
SSE up to SSE4, as well as Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
One hardware thread per core
Decodes, executes and retires at up to two intructions/cycle
Out of order execution
Per-core dedicated L1-I and L1-D cache (32Kb each)
Two pipes per core yield 12,8 GFlops performance
102.4 GFlops for system

GPU:
GPU is based on AMD’s “R10XX” (Southern Islands) architecture
DirectX 11.1+ feature set
Liverpool is an enhanced version of the architecture
18 Compute Units (CUs)
Hardware balanced at 14 CUs
Shared 512 KB of read/write L2 cache
800 Mhz
1.843 Tflops, 922 GigaOps/s
Dual shader engines
18 texture units
8 Render backends

Memory:
4 GB unified system memory, 176 GB/s
3.5 available to games (estimate)
Storage:

- High speed Blu-ray drive

Single layer (25 GB) or dual layer (50 GB) discs
Partial constant angular velocity (PCAV)
Outer half of disc 6x (27 MB/s)
Inner half varies, 3.3x to 6x
- Internal mass storage

One SKU at launch: 500 GB HDD
There may also be a Flash drive SKU in the future
Networking:

1 Gb/s Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n WIFI, and Bluetooth
Peripherals:

Evolved Dualshock controller
Dual Camera
Move controller
Extra:

Audio Processor (ACP)
Video encode and decode (VCE/UVD) units
Display ScanOut Engine (DCE)
Zlib Decompression Hardware

A new Share button on the controller will, when pressed, launch a new feature that will allow screenshots and video to be distributed online. The PS4 hardware will continually record the most recent 15 minutes of onscreen action (with no processing penalty, claims our source), which users will then be able to edit and broadcast via the Internet.

this is AWWESSOOMMEEE!!!!!!

Excited for this news but I doubt that it will cost more (probably less) than what the PS3 launched at. Sony has to take into consideration of competition from mobile gaming, the Steam console, and Android consoles like nVidia's and the Ouya. If they price this one too high, most will just opt for a cheaper alternative. Hence why this time round they're using mostly off-the-shelf hardware rather than developing their own complicated tech like the Cell processor for the PS3. This is also a boon for developers and will hopefully mean more quality multiplatform games for the PlayStation stable.. Since for current gen the 360 versions of multiplatform games are always better optimised than PS3 versions.

boomerang controller again?

2nd, they use AMD... which i always pantang to use it as it heat up very fast compare to intel... hope they can balance it up before overheating happens... else user will need to use a fan direct blow thru out gaming session.

Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s biggest newspapers, has run an interesting story – translated by The Verge -- indicating that the PlayStation 4 will cost over 40,000 Yen, or about $430.

The Verge puts this into context: PS3 cost approximately 60,000 Yen (nearly $650) in Japan when it launched in late 2006, and as we all know very well, it released at an outrageous $599 in the United States at that time.