Imagining The PS4

[MrPopo]

Sound unlikely? The upcoming PSP GO that Sony announced at this year’s E3 already makes the leap away from physical media, so Sony clearly favors the idea.

This article was written before the PSP GO came out and flopped hard. This was also before OnLive was proven to be just as crappy as we all knew it would be as well. I can understand why they'd think that given how successful download services have been for other things.

Hey now, I still get many hours of entertainment from my Infinium Labs Phantom.

[Pulsar_t]

blue ray

red light

Yellow Light

Brilliant (figuratively and literally)

[J T]

I like the idea of no more discs but I'm not a huge fan of streaming games or needing internet to play them. I think it's time consoles go back to cartridges. There's like terabyte SD cards now so it can be done.

I would love to see this happen.

I think the future of gaming will lie in cross platform transferability, through either a universal portable media like SD, or through internet cloud technology. It would be great to be able to play on a console hooked to a big HDTV, save and pause the game, load the game to a handheld device and pickup where I left off, then take that with me on a bus ride, then when I get to my new destination (maybe the office) be able to slingshot from my PC to my home version and play remotely from a web application, using my handheld as a wireless controller the entire time if I want to.

[Krooner]

A look forward to a future where we will be able to play video games just by taking a simple pill.

Actually it'll be a suppository.

HAHAHA

[J T]

I predict it will look something like this:

[Xonticus]

I have still yet to be shown any real data that Onlive is a failure. Actually I got a free year and a free game by signing up early, and can't wait to try it out in a couple weeks.

The possibility of having little user-end hardware and having most of the processing done server-side is awesome to hear. If done right, gaming and game networking could be the future of games. VR in gaming could become a bigger and more viable possibility in the near future.

Just because you heard some people saying "LOL this idea sucks" doesn't mean it will fail. From what I've heard, those people beta testing Online who experienced most problems had moved to different locations and varied internet connections after the confines of the testing had already been set. I don't know how it will work until I myself try it, and the system actually goes live. Beta testing is exactly that; testing.

[FiftyDollarCurse]

You may all scoff now, but the lack of physical media is going to happen. It is not a matter of why or how, but only when. The music industry is already disc-less, and the only reason movies, games and TV haven't followed suit yet is bandwith and storage concerns.

The next generation has been delayed for a lot of reasons, primarily global economics. But it is going to be download / cloud-only, plastic discs in plastic boxes will be as quaint in ten years as printed circuit boards are today. There is nothing you can do about it. Get busy living or get busy dieing.

[emwearz]

It wont be non disc based.

Countries like Australia with shitty fuckign internet would be paying out the ass to play games because we pay per GB pretty much.

Dont see it happening, maybe in the future, but not with the PS4 and its generation.

[Inazuma]

Once things get to the point where everything is a download from the internet as opposed to a physical object (such as a disk, cartridge, etc.), I'll be a retro gamer for good. It is complete bullshit for game companies to go all digital, just to save money.

I agree 100%. Unless download games give us complete freedom like many of today's mp3s do, I will also become a "retro only" gamer.

Hell, I've almost become one already. I don't own an XBOX 360 and my PS3 is unable to go online or play new games. That leaves me with Nintendo's Wii for my "current gen" gaming. Funny that the only thing I have current gen is actually using last gen's technology. I guess becoming a retro only gamer won't be all that different from how I am today.

[MrPopo]

Just because you heard some people saying "LOL this idea sucks" doesn't mean it will fail. From what I've heard, those people beta testing Online who experienced most problems had moved to different locations and varied internet connections after the confines of the testing had already been set. I don't know how it will work until I myself try it, and the system actually goes live. Beta testing is exactly that; testing.

So the people who had problems were the ones who tested real world conditions? That doesn't give me hopes for the service.