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"Most" PCs are running x86 versions of Windows? Still? In 2013? I find that hard to believe. Valve shows 55% of Steam clients running Windows 7 x64 and another 10% running Windows 8 x64.

In addition most people with a proper gaming PC will be running a 64bit OS because of those memory limitations. I'd doubt they would lose many sales at all if the big shiny PC games (especially those targeting DX10+ only) were 64bit only.

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I only upgraded to 64 bit last summer when I decided to turn my old PC into a gaming machine and quickly ran into the memory constraints after installing a 1GB GPU. To be honest I hardly knew the difference before, although my Mac has been 64 bit since the day I bought it. It stopped Skyrim with the HD texture pack and mods from crashing at any rate, so it was totally worth it.

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Don't worry about Mark Rein, he always talks up whichever new device is currently throwing GPU cycles at the Unreal engine. He'll be doing it with the Xbox 720 in a month or so. He knows his stuff, but mostly he's a businessman. What he probably means is that you don't need to take 32bit operating systems or memory limitations into account when you build a PS4 game, that's all.

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It's onnnnnnn! Possibly.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417397,00.asp

Would love to see the final unit.


Source: Sony Planning Big PS4 Reveal Before E3

Expect a big announcement from Sonyicon1.png about its next-gen PlayStation 4 console this month or possibly in early May, a source familiar with the company's marketing strategy told PCMag this week.

Sony already revealed some PlayStation 4 specs at a February event in which the company unveiled the console's controller (pictured) and a stereo

camera with motion capture capabilities, but not, to the chagrin of gamersicon1.png everywhere, the PS4 itself.

But Sony may be parceling out information about its coming game console to build up buzz, according to the source. Some industry watchers anticipated another reveal or at least some PS4 news at last week's Game Developer Conference, but the company only tipped some details about the underlying hardware, Ars Technicareported.

GDC was probably the last big stage for the company to talk up the successor to thePlayStation 3icon1.png $269.96 at Amazon before the E3 gaming conference in June, unless Sony manufactures its own event. That's precisely what Sony plans to do, according to the source, who said late April/early May will be the likeliest timeframe for a full-blown launch of the PS4.

Microsoft, which is playing its cards much closer to the vest with regards to its own next-generation console, has also been rumored to be planning an April event to lift the curtain on what many are calling the Xbox 720. The source had no knowledge of such plans but guessed that an E3 reveal would be more likely given Redmond's recent history—Microsoft unveiled Kinect (then dubbed Project Natal) at the 2009 show and announced both the availability of Kinect $109.99 at Kmart and its redesigned Xbox 360 at the expo the following year.

What's more, Microsoft in January posted a countdown to this year's E3 on its blog, which many have interpreted as a countdown to the next version of the Xbox.

Unlike Sony, which has doled out some information about the PS4, Microsoft has yet to even officially state that it even has a new console in the works at all—though leaks and rumors about the Xbox 360's successor have been rampant for more than a year.

So far, Nintendo's Wii U $349.99 at P.C. Richard & Son is the only member of the so-called eighth generation of video gameicon1.png consoles to have hit the market. Both the PS4 and the unnamed Xbox 360 successor are rumored to be slated for release later this year, in time for the holidays.

Meanwhile, with no console news coming from the Sony and Microsoft camps at GDC, Kickstarter-funded upstarts Oculus VR and Ouya were able to hog the hardware spotlightat the conference. Oculus treated attendees to demos of its Rift virtual reality headset and Ouya announced it will make its $99 Android console generally available on June 4.

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I'm putting my money on "black rectangle with distinct, flowing curve top to make it an absolute cunt to stack other things on".

It's going to have the Move LEDs on the front as well, like a rainbow cylon.

Michael Pachter is predicting it will be the size of a portacabin.

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Industry insiders are suggesting that it will be black with blue lights.

But how many lights? I think there are three lights. What do you think, Patrick Stewart as Star Trek: The Next Generation's Captain Jean-Luc Picard?

Fucking calm down mate.

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mushashi

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I'm not sure what's worse, that you made such a stupid comment to start the whole debate or that you are now trying to criticise people for daring to challenge it.

You were the one who suggested Sony are only implementing remote play so they don't have to discontinue the Vita even though the tech has been around since the last generation. Then you tried to suggest that marketing and cross promotion was a bad thing. Then you have the audacity to criticise people as being sensitive for daring to challenge you with level headed responses. It's the sort of nonsense I would expect to see in the comments thread of a games blog. You always carry yourself as having this great insight into things but this is a time you've got it all wrong.

I think you have erroneously interpreted what I originally wrote, fair enough that the first few words of my statement could be taken in isolation and used as something to jump down my throat about and I could have chosen a different way to say it, but in the context of the full post, I don't believe I wrote what you think I did, did you read the entire thing or get so incensed by that opening bit that you had to blast out a reply?

Go back and read it again and chew on it for a second, I'm certain I did not say what I believe you think I said, I may have literally said it as you chose to just quote that bit out of context, but in context, it isn't the same thing as on its own.

As to your other observation, feel free to PM me about instances where you think I'm incorrect as I'd prefer not to take this thread any more off-topic, the Vita has its own thread for this discussion.

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This is a bit of a reach, but you can take a guess at the state of Sonys current product design by looking at this wacky media streamer thing they've just announced

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Just imagine if the PS4 is circular! That'd be quite annoying.

Hopefully they announce a round TV so you can rest it on top.

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Why 'indies' love Sony.

Working with Sony felt like a “coffee shop chat” as opposed to the “intimidating corporate vibe” of Xbox.

"“Microsoft treats independent developers very badly,” said Jonathon Blow, creator of the breakout indie success Braid. Blow appeared at Sony’s recent PlayStation 4 announcement event to show his new game The Witness. He said in an email that Microsoft’s stance on relations with independent developers is to “put you through as much pain as you will endure in order to extract whatever [they] feel like this week.”

#TeamSony

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Sony has proven itself over the course of the PS3's lifecycle that it's not afraid to try something different and target different markets.

ModNation Racers, LittleBigPlanet, MAG and the likes of Journey or Tokyo Jungle on the PSN Store are all names that - while not huge sellers like Uncharted - show that Sony is willing to try new things.

This will remain for the PS4, it seems, with Sony's Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida claiming in an interview in the latest issue of Edge that not all games will be targeted at FPS players.

When asked about why the importance of the PS4 reveal's first game being decidely cutesy game Knack, Yoshida said "Yeah, it was pretty intentional.

"Mark's idea was like, "What about a Crash Bandicoot for PS4?" When he suggested the concept of Knack, we were like, "Yeah, we hate to see all the PS4 games being FPS or action-adventure or very photorealistic" - you know, big-budget blockbuster games."

Yoshida added, "We know that people like these games, but these are not the only kinds of games that people can have fun with."

We're glad to see Sony isn't losing that sense of inventiveness with the PS4 then.

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1880716...s_yoshida.html

#teamsony

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