Hiku said:
thismeintiel said:
I don't see how a small reveal was obvious when the PS4 got an incredibly hyped PS Meeting as its reveal. Neither was the release date. A lot of speculation, but nothing obvious, with predictions ranging from 2019-2022. The other three I'll give you.
How is the drive incorrect? Yes, he incorrectly labeled it HDD, which usually means the mechanical type, BUT right after he uses that term he states it uses NAND Flash, so he obviously meant SSD. Or it may still have a HDD, but has a large pool of NAND that aids loading the game you are playing.
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Well, "Small reveal" can be interpreted as "partial reveal", so their choice of words there would cover both scenarios.
For the timing, they said "somewhere around E3" which is a fairly large window. Arguably covers Q2-Q3 and may include the Playstation Experience which has occurred in August for the past two years. But I don't think Q2 specifically was an obvious choice, so I should have acknowledged that.
As for release date, I think 2020 - 2021 have seemed like the most likely release dates for quite some time. And 2020 more so after Sony announced they'd skip E3 this year. Because that may indicate few new announcements for PS4 this year, which should not be the case if they were planning to keep PS4 as their primary console all the way to 2021 -22.
As for the drive, maybe you're right. I took the 'some sort of nand flash' to mean something less significant in addition to the 2TB HDD. As in some flash memory on the side.
Maybe it's just me but I've never heard anyone (when speaking in specific technical terms, as this person is) refer to an SSD as a HDD.
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The point I'm making about the small reveal isn't so much that the reveal was partial or full, but rather when has any Playstation system had a small reveal? All other systems were announced at E3 in front of a large audience and dozens of media reporters present. And the PS4 was announced at its own large, hyped meeting. There was absolutely no reason for someone to believe or guess that there would only be a small reveal.
I will give you that 2020 definitely seemed like a more realistic date as 2018 came to a close. And as for the HDD, we have to remember this is a guy from Europe, so English may not be his first language. He did misspell launch as lunch. Of course, it could have just been a simple mistake, either way.
