BGR reports possible 4K resolution..
4K resolution? Seems far fetched in games, checkout benchmarks for the rumored hardware. The graphics chipset couldn't handle it well. So just means 4K movie supports, IMO

IGN claim they may have the spec sheet:

http://m.ign.com/articles/2012/04/04...ocessing-specs

Kotaku reports a source.tells them no backwards compatibility. Games will be console locked. Not that Im that surprised. Too much money to be made on remakes

http://m.kotaku.com/5896996/the-next...re-the-details

From the article:

THE NEXT PLAYSTATION, AT A GLANCE IS CALLED, OR AT LEAST CARRIES THE WORKING CODENAME, "ORBIS". IS SCHEDULED FOR A HOLIDAY 2013 RELEASE. WON'T BE BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE WITH PS3 GAMES. WILL LOCK NEW GAMES TO A PSN ACCOUNT AS AN ANTI-USED GAMES MEASURE. NEW GAMES CAN BE BOUGHT EITHER ON BLU-RAY OR DOWNLOADED. CURRENT SPECS ARE AN AMD X64 CPU AND AMD SOUTHERN ISLANDS GPU

If the no used games feature is true for MS and Sonys next machine I will be done gaming. Or I will just start pirating games. Very stupid move by them if true.

They are doing us a favor, you'll never have to worry about who will.pay the most for your old games ever again!

Nothing I'm going to complain about. I'll be more upset if I can't carry my PSN games I've currently bought over to the PS4.

Originally Posted by musha666 If the no used games feature is true for MS and Sonys next machine I will be done gaming. Or I will just start pirating games. Very stupid move by them if true.

agreed (not about the pirating though) but with how opposed they are to the used game market and then not getting their"cut" im not surprised that theyre doing this. once they said m$ may be doing it i knew the only way itd work would be if all the console companies agreed to it across the board.

however if the price of new games drops then id go ahead with the console if not then yeah id say im done. but the drop needs to be significant like 30 to 40 for new games.

I'm not one to sell back my games, I keep them as part of a collection, but I do buy a lot of used games. Mostly the used games I buy are less popular games that I can live without, or will never play. Lot of Superhero movie games, run of the mill shooters and RPGs, etc...

I almost always buy the AAA titles upon release. The Uncharteds, Call of Dutys, Skyrim, and so on, because I hate to wait for games I WANT to play.

Eliminating my ability to buy used games will severely limit my collection, but not my overall gaming time. I'll still buy the games I want, I will just have to pass on buying Iron Man 3, unless I find it new in some bargain bin.

However, I do think it will really hurt publishers of mediocre and average games. I bet a lot of people buy those type of games and quickly sell them to recoup their money. You're not going to be able to do that if the used game market is eliminated. Most people arent going to risk $70 (which i assume is going to be the new price point) on a stinking turd of a game.

They will also eliminate the "rent first" mentality, forcing people to rely on game reviews more than ever to see if the game is good or not.

I'd hate to see Gamefly go out of business; they have been very good to us with their sales over the last few years.

if thats the case why not go DLC Save on making Disc thats Dumb because how do they tell from use or new because if you opening a game up it beComes a used game so if i bought a new game for full price would it be locked later on

If this turns out to be the case I won't pay more than $20 for a game ever even if I have to wait a year for certain games

I've had the sneaking suspicion for a while now that not only would disc-based compatibility be spotty come next gen but that they'd (Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo) find some way to us over when it comes to digital content as well.

I have an ever-growing digital library both on consoles and on PC and if any console maker decides to not carry over digital purchases then I'm not purchasing their next system period the end. That means Games On Demand, XBLIG, XBLA titles, Minis, PSOne Classics, PSN games, PS3 digital games, Virtual Console games, WiiWare games and my relevant DLC across the platforms.

If Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo decide to go that route come 2013/2014/whenever knowing full-well that places like Steam and GOG and the Android/Apple app stores all allow me to purchase digitally and carry said purchases forward regardless of upgraded hardware then it'll be my phone in my pocket, my tablet in my bag, and my PC hooked up to my TV come next gen.

Obviously there are going to be some unavoidable edge-cases and that's fine but if the vast majority of my current content doesn't carry over then I'm done with console gaming.

/rant

Originally Posted by finsfan0210 If this turns out to be the case I won't pay more than $20 for a game ever even if I have to wait a year for certain games

Same here. I wait for most games to hit $20-$30 anyway but I fill the down time with $10 used games. This could be the beginning of the end. There are a ton of games I never would have played if I couldn't get them used and no doubt some of them led me to paying full price for the sequel. This is just short-sighted and dumb and I don't like where we are headed with all of this nickel and dime bullshit.

Now, if used games just required a $10 "activation" fee or something that would take the sting out of it and be a little more palatable. Of course, I'd assume used game prices would be adjusted downward to compensate for that...

I don't buy used games, but I do borrow a lot of games from my friends and if the next generation kills that I'm going to be pissed. Used games sales aren't killing companies, they're doing just fine. To completely kill borrowing games from friends because you want some extra cash is ridiculous, and it just makes me want to get a PC gaming setup.

Well, if that's the case then that's going to put a serious hamper into GameFly, won't it? Yikes.

At the end of the day, though, I'll keep on doing what I've been doing for the past few years. My gaming backlog is already at anywhere from 1 to 3 years long, depending upon how fast I can go through all of them. I am more than happy to wait out any of the major new releases until they drop down from a presumable $60 to $30 or less. Easy enough to do as far as I'm concerned, and it's barely any different than what I'm doing right now.

If they do drop the prices, people would love to have to have them $40-45 but we all know that's not gonna happen. It would have to be somewhere around $50-55 if we're lucky... or $60 -_-

No BC hurts. Especially for the numerous PSN games I own. I would be fully behind an all digital solution, as long as PS would follow Steam's lead and have aggressive pricing and sales.

Originally Posted by musha666 If the no used games feature is true for MS and Sonys next machine I will be done gaming. Or I will just start pirating games. Very stupid move by them if true.

Because wanting to keep money in the dev and publishers' pockets and not GameStops is such a terrible thing...

Originally Posted by SynGamer Because wanting to keep money in the dev and publishers' pockets and not GameStops is such a terrible thing...

Wanting to be able to sell something that I should legally own is a terrible thing in mine and many other people's opinion.

Originally Posted by Mr Unoriginal Wanting to be able to sell something that I should legally own is a terrible thing in mine and many other people's opinion.

You will still have the ability to sell it, just no one will want it. Pretty smart move on their part.

Originally Posted by gettinmoney662 You will still have the ability to sell it, just no one will want it. Pretty smart move on their part.

When I can't sell my games, I don't have money to buy more of their products. Pretty smart move.

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Originally Posted by Mr Unoriginal When I can't sell my games, I don't have money to buy more of their products. Pretty smart move.

Get a job. Super smart move.

Originally Posted by gettinmoney662 Get a job. Super smart move.

I'm going to assume that you're being dense on purpose and leave it at that.