A New Generation

Most gamers have heard about the release of the Playstation 4. It is bound to make it's appearence by "Holiday 2013", and anyone who has ever anticipated the release of any new technology knows this means mid-November. We see that Sony embraces the creation of a social infrastructure, meaning the implementation of Facebook and Twitter or even their own social network. Now as I see it, an independent social media developed by Sony is a failure waiting to happen. Not only does the competition provide a big enough struggle for success, Sony has had one too many bad swings when it comes to designing something... innovative. Let it be the Memory Stick, UMD's, or for all we know, the Compact Disk. Sony just doesn't have it.

But the PS4 does look promising. It has been said that it will have 8 gigs of unified RAM and come with an X86 CPU. Along with an assortment of other upgrades,this means that the PS4 will be faster, stronger, and have the potential to render higher quality graphics. At least we know that we will be getting something different and less of the same. *cough*CallofDuty*cough* Nothing against the game itself, because it is one of the best arcade FPS I've played. It is just how they continue to release game after game after game with only mild innovations in gameplay while only really changing the campaign. And as a multiplayer junkie it is sad that I can notice a change in campaign while being unable to see a reasonable change in online multiplayer.

Anywho, from what I've heard about the Xbox 720, people seem to be displeased about it. The main topic of concern has been the required online connection. I just don't understand the benefit of it from Microsoft's point of view. Most people who own an Xbox 360 now have purchased their gold membership for Live access. If this required connectivity is supposed to be some sort of money-making ploy, I clearly don't understand economics well enough.

People are generally easier to criticize something rather than to praise it. I say we just wait it out and stop speculating. It just as easily could be as successful as the current consoles. And either way, what else are our options?

Enjoy your day :D

John From Belliavis