Earlier this week Sony invited the world to gather around on February 20th to check out the future of PlayStation. Without actually namedropping the Orbis in any way, the internet was set ablaze with opinions, comments and speculations about what exactly that future entails. All of a sudden every news outlet was given secret reports containing details about the new system.
The bottom line? The next PlayStation system will be announced on February 20th, shown off at E3 and released this holiday season in the US and Japan with Europe probably lagging behind until early 2014. Sounds familiar. And plausible.
Some of the reports talks about the new DualShock. It will feature a small touchpad where the start and select buttons usually live and contain a nifty share button. The share button will enable you to share the last 15 minutes of gameplay of whatever it is you’re playing and also take screenshots. The system itself is said to be more powerful than the upcoming Durango/xbox360 and that a focus on entertainment and social interaction will be just as important as the gaming aspects of it.
When asked to comment Sony simply pointed at the calendar.
So, are you ready for the future of PlayStation? My backlog says no, but my curiosity for what the next generation brings overshadows the fact that I have a gazillion games still shrinkwrapped. What games do you want to see at launch, and what features do you expect the system to launch with? With a rumored 8 GB of RAM I guess we can safely assume we’ll get our cross game chat, right?
Sources: The Wall Street Journal, Edge.
Well, we might get ahead of ourselves here, but why not? Maybe it’s just an event to announce the dates of Uncharted 4 and Last of Us :p
I pretty much like every bit of info we get spoon-fed now. The sharing stuff sounds great but when it really comes down to it, it’s about the games. Hopefully this machine will be easy to work with out the gate as opposed to the launch of the PS3. One thing I haven’t heard rumored yet is how it will look, how about something really rectangular this time? Kinda like the PS2 slim?
Anyways, I’m on that hype train! Tooot!
Let see when the day come. (.^..^.)
:D