Comment by Tokyochuchu on February 21, 2013 at 11:58am

Oh shit. I'm first comment for the first time ever! I've got to find something good and evocative to say. Um... Yeah, I totally listened to the podcast. What was the subject of it again (checks show notes)... Oh yeeah! The PS4. I totally watched the live broadcast of the meeting. How about those games, eh? And as for that gizmo they showed! and, um....

This is totally not a comment just to be top of the comment board. No. It's not.

Comment by Ice21 on February 21, 2013 at 12:16pm

I find it ironic in the event is that Sony is trying to make the PS4 more social friendly console and that facebook will play a huge part in it. After announcing that, infamous the second sons and watch dogs talk about how bad it is that more and more people are becoming connected to the web and that people are revealing their information to the government.

Comment by ratty redemption on February 21, 2013 at 12:26pm

why have you guys been ignoring the reports of extremely slow download speeds for some of your users? audio only podcasts should not take an hour to download on broadband connections. it's been over a month since myself and at least one other user reported this.

Comment by Kolo on February 21, 2013 at 1:11pm

I thought that I'm the only one who's not so enthusiastic about the social aspect of PS4. I don't play games to show everybody how good I'm or to share every gameplay minute with my friends. I'm doing it for myself and at that time I'm having great adventure, where I want to do what to things my way, without someone sitting on my back telling what next to do or judging my attempts. One of my favourite journalists once said "I don't runaway from people into games, to later search for them in the network" and perfectly pictures how I feel. Don't get me wrong, I'm really excited about this new piece or hardware but I only hope, that I won't be forced to set Facebook account in order to play games.

Comment by Amrit Randay on February 21, 2013 at 2:01pm

I liked the conference yesterday about the PS4.  The only reason I kind of feel dissapointed is just that they didn't say anything about the Last Guardian.  Honestly, if they had just given some indication that it is still in existence and is being worked on for the PS4, I would be be elated.    

Knack, for one, really intrigued me because I am sucker for games like Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter etc so it looked like a lot of fun.

The trailer for inFAMOUS: Second Son looked fantastic, but I just wish we had seen some gameplay.  I'm pretty excited for it though, but I still need to go get inFAMOUS 2.  

Killzone: Shadow Fall looked amazing yesterday, and I think it actually was running in real time because of how they shared it on facebook and it was actually there.  But again, it was a Killzone game, and I'm not too fond of the series in general.  

That Capcom "Deep Down" work in progress game blew my mind at how amazing it looked.  That's a game that truly looked next-gen to me, but I can't but remind myself that this is Capcom.  I'm sure they'll have some truly next-gen DLC shenanigans as well.  

The controller was pretty sweet, but I don't know yet how the touchpad on the front will be utilized and how exactly will we be using it?  Will we have to move our thumbs off the sticks to use it, because that seems like the only logical way.  I guess we'll have to wait and see how devs will utilize it in unique ways.  

I was not enjoying the idea of all this social interaction that they were introducing to the PS4, but when I think about it now, it seems pretty cool.  I don't game much on Steam, but I know that you guys all share screenshots and seeing Brent's screenshot of the thing he found in BL2 pretty much tailored for Lorin was pretty sweet.  I like the idea of being able to share things you find in the game with friends, and being able to record video of gameplay.  I was actually thinking of capturing some video of my gameplay, but I never knew how with the current consoles.  Seeing how easy PS4 is making it, with the introduction of the share button, it is a pretty awesome feature.  As long as I am not being bombarded with notifications of friends beating my scores, or w/e, then I am all for the new social interactions.        

Comment by Christopher Brady on February 21, 2013 at 2:23pm

What's this with this 'Unblock us' website BS?

Comment by Ry Marinara on February 21, 2013 at 2:37pm

I feel like Sony's press conference was spot on, both in terms of information told and games shown.  While I agree that there were points where it got a little dull like seeing the Agnis Philosophy tech demo again, but being that its only February, Sony did a great job.  They delivered on every aspect of modern day gaming like the specs, a controller with touch and motion, social integration, video streaming, cloud streaming, ease of development and most importantly games.

Whats most intriguing is the way the social aspects of Ps4 will be integrated into games.  Yes, there are a lot of people who "HATE" playing with people they don't know, but how cool would it be if you're able to show your friend (who's playing a different game at the moment) something in your game that he might find useful later?  We have all these channels on Youtube giving tutorials and guides but how convenient would it be for you just to pause your game session view your friend's session and ask him/her to show you something that you personally are having trouble with?  Thats awesome!  I love tech, I spazzed out when I heard "8gbs of unified GDDR5 RAM." I love games, Infamous: Second Son and Watch Dogs... bring it on!  But when I look at this streamlined interconnectivity between players, it strikes me as something truly truly new in the console space.  

Announcing this early was smart and by briefly going over the system features in this conference, Sony now has GDC, E3, Gamescom and TGS to give us a more detailed look at those features and surprise us with more games.

Comment by StarBound on February 21, 2013 at 2:51pm

I enjoyed the first hour of the show (blacked out at 2am my time) and it was good to hear that the PS4 has been confirmed and part of the hardware to. I don't believe it will drastically change how games looks but it should put games on par with the pc versions and potential for games to look how they should. Take Skyrim for the PC with its mods and high resolution textures. Playing the game in any other way is simply a crime. 

In the end what matters is that Sony has given the developers the potential to give better looking and better running games with new ways of interacting with it.

Comment by FoxCyrus on February 21, 2013 at 3:12pm

Just quick on my BattleCry:

I agree that "old" doesn't equal bad, and that "new" doesn't automatically guarantee quality. I just see more potential in things that haven't been tried before. Although, I guess you could argue that using all existing features in one excellent synthesis, eventually brings forth the greatest products (see: BioShock).

Anyway, PS4-talk:

I feel like the conference had a lot of ups and downs, but overall was a very strong showing. The hardware specs and features are mighty impressive, however I expected a little more from the software side of things. Some of the videos were quite abstract, barely more then gloryfied tech-demos (Media Molecule, Quantic Dream), while others showed a great deal of promise (Watch_Dogs, Destiny, Deep Down).

It was probably a little too early for more actual gameplay demos, but we'll probably see a lot of that at E3. Especially the PS4's social features and share function seem to be quite intruiging. For now, I most definitely feel compelled to stick with the next generation of Sony.

Comment by Stephen East on February 21, 2013 at 4:57pm

here is the sony conference summed up lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0rJDn0jRnUQ

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