So it's finally been announced! all that waiting and secrets they have finally confirmed it but no pictures of the console. That was the only thing that annoyed me at the conference last week was not seeing the actual console itself but I can understand they want to hold some things off for the E3 event, plus the main thing a gamer should really want to know is what it can do.
They answered that quite well, I was like a kid in a candy store or on Christmas morning bouncing off the walls as they told us about it and showed off game trailers. I don't know what I was expecting to be honest but it was not that, I'm very impressed with what they doing and I will get the console on launch day.
So before I start talking about what I like here is the conference video itself, if you not had chance to watch it then I recommend you do so now.
Right a lot of the specifications announced I have heard are not final but I bloody hope they stick with it, especially the 8GB of RAM. It will need it or even more to run all those lovely new features they talked about, and thank you Sony for finally putting a separate chip in for downloaded. Instant downloading and play while downloading should had been put in the PS3 a long time ago, this was one of the things I wanted changing and they did it.
I love the idea of the new social stuff like the video capturing, I've been wanting to do it for a long time now but the price of some of the capture cards put me off. Plus the fact only a selected few will work with HDMI really kept me away, so the idea that a click of the Share button and my game play session is ready to be shared is awesome. I will be using it a lot for my blog here folks, so many times I've done something awesome and wish I could had shown it. Also it would be great to add into reviews once I got back into writing them again.
Also I do like the idea of allowing friends to watch you playing games, bit like eSports streaming and the options of them able to post messages into the game to help. I know quite a few friends asking where certain items in a game so now I could just show them, or if they ask what a game is like I can send them a video or let them watch me play. So that's all brilliant to me and I really do hope they stick to their guns and actually do all these features.
Very gutted to hear that it's not backwards compatible with retail or digital PS3 games but in the end I do have to agree with people, I don't buy a new console to play the past console games. Just means I won't be saving any money by trading my PS3 in since I will be keeping it, might need a few new shelves under my TV.
I'm not going to go into the games in this post, going to do each one separate so expect a few more posts in a bit. But anyway Yes I'm going to get the console (as long as they stick to all of this that was announced) and it probably will be day one and I really, really, really hope the UK See's it for the Holidays as well and not delayed. Don't ruin Christmas for us Sony and be a scrooge, a world wide launch should be your aim or within the same week.
It's going to be interesting to see what Microsoft has up it's sleeve for their console, every one is saying April announcement. On that note I'm going to go work on the game posts, don't forget to comment with your thoughts on the new console. Plus I have a poll running on the facebook page to see who will be buying on launch day, so far it's four yes and three maybe's.
~Iznic
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