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Hahahah the dark souls in his mailbox without him knowing part made me laugh.

Man hes rough on playstation in this episode though.



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I'm still under the opinion that Sony will release a "PS4K" in the fall, but that it will NOT have an upgraded GPU or CPU system. All that Sony will touch-up is the video outputs and video/audio decode blocks of the system, to allow it to decode/read the new Ultra HD Blu-ray discs and output the new audio formats that come with those.

PS2 was Sony's trojan horse to getting a DVD player to everyone. I know a lot of people, myself included, whose sole DVD player was a PS2. And PS3 did the same for Blu-ray - again, a lot of consumers including myself only ever had a PS3 as a Blu-ray player in the home. It makes perfect sense for Sony to go for the hat trick, and turn the PS4 into the Ultra HD Blu-ray trojan horse.

No doubt Sony will make manufacturing jump to TSMC's 16nm FinFET process, which will result in a chip less than half the size of the current 28nm one. But when you move to a different process, you are (in a sense) redesigning the entire chip. If you are doing that already, why not upgrade the A/V blocks to support 4K discs and output?

So my prediction is this: in October, a $299 PS4/500GB with 4K video (not games) capability built on the new 16nm process. That would allow Sony to sell something "new-ish" while cutting the price AND maintaining (possibly even improving) profit margins on the system.



Pretty on point in everything.



 

So much BS in this video

Sony dropping new hardware?

- PS Move: is required for PSVR now, how is it dropping hardware if its required on the newer console?

-PSPGO: wasnt a new system to begin with but a digital only PSP, all what they did is closing down the store but you can still buy/download PSP games on the PSPGo from your PS3. So again, were was it dropping the hardware/system?

- PSVITA: Despite that Sony ceased first party support the Vita gets plenty of japanese games and gets now more games than the 3DS. It should be visable to anyone whos really into handhelds. So even a Sony system on the dying bed still gets more games and support than other systems in their prime times.

- just some days ago they closed down the servers for FF11 on PS2. If that isnt prove enough what else do you need?

 

And in the rest of the video hes contradicting himself. First he says that not many games are exclusiveley to the new 3DS as a bad thing and then he says that higher Performance is a bad thing because splits the userbase. Hes all over the place with his opinion. 



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