Mark Cerny is Sony’s new Good Guy. Wheeling him out in New York was a pleasant surprise, and he’s been refreshingly open about his work on the PS4’s hardware ever since.
In a new, frank Gamasutra Cerny talks GPUs – “it’s ATI Radeon” but “getting into specific numbers probably doesn’t help clarify the situation much”, that 8GB of RAM, longevity – “the timeframe in which people will use these features fully is 2015? 2017?” and the launch line-up.
Well, in passing. “The launch lineup for PlayStation 4 – though I unfortunately can’t give the title count – is going to be stronger than any prior PlayStation hardware,” he said. “And that’s a result of that [tech] familiarity.”
Cerny also said it takes “weeks, not months” to port a game engine from the PC to the PlayStation 4.
Sony haven’t yet talked about a release window for PS4 beyond an initial, vague “holiday 2013” assumed by some to only refer to a US launch period. The presence of GT6 for PS3 hints that here in Europe we might be waiting until 2014.
RudeAwakening
Haven’t they said that about every Playstation launch line up!
The Von Braun
:-)
SEGA said exactly the same sort of thing when talking about just how easy it was to bring PC games to the Dreamcast, SEGA also had the strongest E3 software line up, like EVER when PS2’s was very poor, what happened to the Dreamcast? sigh..i sat there with mine watching folks and developers plump for the PS2.
I’m hoping for PS4 exclusives to be honest, to be making up the bulk of the platforms ‘must haves’, you know, reason i plumped for a console over a PC.If Sony are going to be backing a lot on PC ports, lord strike me down now, for all i forsee is the likes of Digital foundary comments section being brimful of comments from sneering PC platform owners (N.B:not saying all PC owners are like this, far from it, just the vocal ones seem to have very active accounts over there, lol), saying how the PC version is like umpteen times better than the so-called super console version (and not saying how much they spent on the PC that runs game at higher settings).
I do not want yet another generation of Chalk VS Cheese face-off’s between 2 very similar specced consoles VS newer/more expensive based PC platforms.
cam the man
Just read the whole article on Gamasutra, very interesting. Anybody who says it’s just a middle to high spec pc wants to give it a read. The “Enabling the Vision: How Sony Modified the Hardware – The three “major modifications” ” on the 2nd page says why it’s a lot more powerful than a middle to high spec pc.
Root Ginger
I think the second wave is more important than the first. Early adopters can live with two or three decent games to play at launch but it’s the second wave that will start to pull in the masses. If the second wave is a weak arse line up it could allow MS to sneak a lead.
freezebug2
Best Launch line up ever, backward compatibile PS4 that plays PS3 BlueRay games.
Oh wait! that’d include GT6…….I’ll get my coat :P