Gamers PS4 Expectations

A recent survey has been conducted among game console users all over the world on their expectations for future gaming console releases. The survey has more positive as well as negative features on the new wave of consoles. This survey has been initiated by Sony’s official forum to get in touch with the end user’s requirement for upgrading their upcoming gaming console, the PlayStation 4. Most of the console game critics around the world have participated actively on this survey to express their thoughts about the recent trend of console gaming.

Though the survey reports are yet to be published officially, the comments around the forum expressed their expectation on the device. Almost 45% of the expectation went positive for a motion sensing, controller-free device, i.e. playing games without any controller device. Though this is feature is available in most recently released Microsoft consoles, people had set their expectation for Sony’s standard. On the other side PC game lovers expressed their hatred about playing games by crazily jumping around the consoles without controlling from a comfortable position.

Every device has its own pros and cons as per their users. Most users expressed their need for a high definition projector to be embedded on the device so that they don’t need to connect in any TV. Many other users supported the high resolution of upcoming device with a 360 and 3D gaming experience. A smaller group of people expect it to support new trend OS for their research activities by using this device chips as a super computers.

All gamers have their own requirement for a gaming device but, to be more successful in the market, Sony is keen in upgrading their upcoming device with more advanced requirements and features. As a core gaming console user I would like this device to give me more realistic gaming experience by running around and playing without any controllers rather than sitting idle in a place. Gaming is always fine when you play it with full interest and involvement, let’s wait and see what Sony brings in for us.

PlayStation 4 a gamble over memory

The next-generation world is believed to be nothing without internet and gadgets. Almost all the gadgets around the world support quick access to the internet world. This is nothing new to the PlayStation 4, as the previous version PlayStation supports wide range of services through internet. But it is believed that the PS4 will push this digital era by including a social networking app into the PSN, increasing access to the latest games and media in a virtual drive.

This application is rumored to use cloud computing to give access to the PS4 customers to play the game in the cloud and provide an on-demand service. Whenever any user needs to play a specific game they don’t need to download it, just they need to subscribe to the game available in the cloud and they will be provided access to play the game whenever they need. This cloud application is rumored to be released with the beta version which is expected to solve memory issues and is expected to have huge drop in price of PlayStation 4 despite its high end configuration. The benefit: we won’t have to worry about upgrading to the next step up harddrive, since the cloud stores it and not the console itself.

Users subscribed to the games will have a virtual drive other than the internal hard drive and the subscribed games will have a shortcut in that virtual drive so that user doesn’t need to authenticate again through cloud. Though this rumor doesn’t have a strong source, this technical change is expected from all gadget providers as cloud computing is the upcoming solution for disc space related issues. If this is implemented PS4 will be the first device which has a built in on-demand game service provider, since other game consoles use downloading onto a harddrive instead.

Though several third party applications provides a limited on-demand gaming service in PlayStation 3, this new application in Playstation 4 is expected to bring huge turnover to the gaming market as it provides access to play games through PlayStation 4′s authentication service and with which users can play in the same way as they play through internal/external hard discs. The only drawback: any time someone wants to plan a game, they must be online. No more playing some little game without PSN friends knowing.

Playstation 4 Improves Digital Management & Image processing

PlayStation’s Network Right Digital Management is prone to be the next level of achievement produced by Sony through PlayStation 3, but may risk the satisfaction of costumers. It provided a copyright to all the data available in the console’s internal drive. In short: it restricts users from distributing the purchased games to other gamers or consoles, through a copyright signature using console’s system ID. This feature is believed to be derived from Apple iTunes’s Authorization mechanism where users will be allowed to tag a maximum of 5 computers using a single purchase ID. Similarly, PlayStation’s NRDM account can be mapped with a maximum of 5 different PlayStation devices.

In PlayStation 4, Sony has a plan to renovate the NRDM system through a single user authorization system mapped to a single device which will restrict the re-usability of games and distribution of games to different consoles. Sony’s strict policy on Digital Management will lead to the use of more copy protected products and Sony believes it will produce good revenue.

Will it? Or will it simply anger consumers and risk their costumer base? After all, many gamers buy used games or rent; how can they do that, if each game is only allowed to be used on one console? If the PS4 is anti-used games, what will happen? That means gamers will have to shell out the full price of a game to play it!

For some good news, rumors say PlayStation 4 has more pre-installed software for better experience of digital media. It comes with a Photo Gallery application which will enable users to view, edit, make collages, and will provide option to publish in all popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. A previous version of this software was already tested as an optional application in PlayStation 3.

The current version of this Photo Gallery application provides a key feature to organize photos with several categories like color paring, age pairing, expression pairing. This application acts as an image recognition tool rather than a simple photo preview application. Another PlayStation 3 application called Play Memories is a three dimensional photo viewing tool, which is believed to be integrated with PlayStation 4’s default photo preview application. This application is believed to support a three dimensional zooming feature and with the support of HDMI devices, a complete high definition Photo output can be rendered.

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