Will PS4 Beat the Xbox Kinect?

Xbox 360 Kinect has already started a revolution in the gaming world with its controller free gaming technology. With Kinect’s body movement sensing and audio recognition software, players get involved in a real life gaming experience. You can play the way you want by kicking or jumping or running around the console which makes the gaming experience more interactive. This is Microsoft’s biggest milestone in game console development. Now Sony can’t just follow the same technology alone to be successful in the market, of course. It’s believed that Sony is also going to introduce a controller-free gaming console, but critics says it won’t match up with Xbox, if that is the only major advancement in PlayStation. Sony always gives something more than what is already available in the market, so they must make the PS version better than the Xbox Kinect in order to compete.

One major advantage with Sony over Xbox is believed to be its massive internal storage space, but that won’t make a big difference in the competition of real world gaming. Do you think Sony can bring in something better than the voice recognition controls of Xbox? Yes, they believe they can and they have already brought up something more interesting than the boring voice recognition. There has been some rumors that the artificial intelligence implementation on PlayStation 4 is believed to sense your mood and suggest the game you would like to play or suggest whether you would like to watch movies now or play games—how? We have no idea, but it still sounds pretty cool.

Rumors always have something extra than what the devices actually have but it could be true, since Sony has to make something different than that of their competitors. We have been following several tweets from the Sony developer and they revealed that Sony PlayStation 4 is going to be a biggest milestone in console game device history. They also claim nobody can surpass them in future.

But we know technology is constantly fluctuating; when new technology emerges new trends will emerge and new consoles will emerge. Let’s hope Sony maintains their standards and gives us a better gaming experience with the PlayStation 4.

Video Streaming and Editing on the Playstation 4

The PS3 isn’t just for gaming anymore, but for media playing as well, thanks to Sony’s additions. Now the gaming console can integrate various tools for video streaming. Rumors around the world about the PlayStation 4 suggests that the media player options will get even better!  Despite Sony has its own video streaming service, it provided access to various third party application to enhance the media experience of PlayStation 3. This has been proven to be an initial achievement of media streaming service.

PlayStation 4 might be having more advanced application built-in with in the system, which provides access to all the popular video streaming providers like Youtube, Dailymotion, Netflix, VidZone, MUBI, VUDU, Hulu Plus, etc. Already, most of the above mentioned third party tools have a wide range of support through PlayStation 3. Most of these media streaming service providers have a paid service network where users need to subscribe for the required services. Users will be allowed to get these subscriptions through Sony’s new authentication process which will enable more security over the network. Other than this Video on demand service, Sony’s Video editor tool was a major success. Following its Success over this Video editor application Sony has planned to introduce an application for cutting edge editing of High definition videos. This application is believed to be installed with the System software bundle. This Video editing software may provide ability to edit three dimensional videos and it might have the ability to split videos based on the timeline.

This Video editing tool might have a bundled feature of extraction audio separately from the inputted video. Users will have option to edit the audio embedded in the videos. Users may have various options to enhance and boost the sound of a video. This application is expected to have a built in capability to upload the video files directly to the social media networks like Youtube, Facebook, etc. PlayStation 4 will be the first gaming console to come with a built-in video editing tool for High Definition videos.

No Custom firmware upgrade for PS4

Custom firmware is a common word among the hackers and intruders of gadgets world. Hackers customize the system’s original firmware as per their need to enable blocked features of various devices, including PlayStation. PlayStation 3 with the firmware version 3.55 was believed to be very secured but a famous hacker, Geohot, released a version of custom firmware which enabled the installation of cracked applications with authorized signatures. So how can we predict this will play out in the PS4?

The custom firmware jailbreak method has become more common in the Jailbreaking world of gadgets, especially Smartphones and PlayStations. As this firmware comes with some preloaded basic premium apps, users don’t need to download and install again. Later, Sony developers identified the root cause for the introduction of custom firmware and they have tried to block this loophole through a critical firmware upgrade, version 3.56, and through its successor version 3.60. Since this is just a critical software upgrade users may have choice to cancel this upgrade and continue to use the already Jailbroken device which has older firmware.

This is going to end in PlayStation 4, as developers have taken already enough measures to close the gap in PlayStation 3. Several application developers across the social media network have already expressed their achievement in blocking the Jailbreaking of PlayStation.  The PlayStation 4 will release with more security features than that of PlayStation 3. Sony will test this threat through its beta version of firmware 4 in the beginning of 2013, which will give a clear idea about the possibility of Jailbreaking in the new PlayStation 4 release.

Developers claim that early intrusion tests conducted on Firmware version 4 beta has passed all level of security breaches. Though PlayStation 4’s Firmware is believed to bring an end to the Jailbreaking of PlayStation, Jailbreakers are more involved in researching about the latest threats in the latest security devices. Hopefully, PlayStation 4 will be a challenge to Jailbreakers–unless, of course, they miss some crucial features gamers should have.

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