Some big announcement regarding the Playstation brand coming at E3 or earlier
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/16/sony-vp-tease-playstation-4/
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/16/sony-vp-tease-playstation-4/
but vita does not, and most smartphones or tablets or tv's don't have it either. It is really a matter of cost, no sure how much would mean adding it for each system, and do not really see what is so special that can be done with it that would justify that cost.
Some big announcement regarding the Playstation brand coming at E3 or earlier
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/16/sony-vp-tease-playstation-4/
but vita does not, and most smartphones or tablets or tv's don't have it either. It is really a matter of cost, no sure how much would mean adding it for each system, and do not really see what is so special that can be done with it that would justify that cost.
i dont think you understand what NFC is... it is not there to replace wifi and bt, it is there to make it easier to use. Tap phone to dual schock and play a video or music on your PS3... whats bad about that? it is dead cheap too.
I own a xperia T . NFC enabled. never used it. Miracast uses wifi, so i guess just pairing via BT would get the job done. Obviously NFC is easier but also needs time to be found on all tvs and phones.All of Sony's 2013 phones will have NFC and their Bravia TVs.
The PS4 is going all the way to 2023. Not having NFC and Miracast would be stupid.
sure, many smartphone users will have NFC, even if most of them will never use the feature or even own a ps4 . Don't get me wrong, i want ps4 to be miracast compatible, but i guess that can be done without NFC too. But if is so cheap, i wonder why even iphone 5 does not include it.I'm pretty sure most of the smartphones released this year will come with a NFC chip included. With a biennial refresh cycle, it won't be long before the tech gains widespread adoption.
I'd put money on no. Whilst the drive will likely triple in speed, there could potentially be 8x the memory to fill.Compared to PS3, yes. Faster drive. However, it may remain the same cause the quality/size will also increase.
LittleBigPlanet 3 - depends on what MM is doing with their R&D project
I own a xperia T . NFC enabled. never used it. Miracast uses wifi, so i guess just pairing via BT would get the job done. Obviously NFC is easier but also needs time to be found on all tvs and phones.
Not that i do not want it, i just don't know if the cost of it, even if it is small, it is worth.
sure, many smartphone users will have NFC, even if most of them will never use the feature or even own a ps4 . Don't get me wrong, i want ps4 to be miracast compatible, but i guess that can be done without NFC too. But if is so cheap, i wonder why even iphone 5 does not include it.
Hm...i guess you have a point there. Does anyone here know how much one of these chips cost?
It can't cost that much seeing how even Nintendo is including it in their gamepad
Hm...i guess you have a point there. Does anyone here know how much one of these chips cost?
It can't cost that much seeing how even Nintendo is including it in their gamepad
What would NFC be used for On a playstation controller?
It costs about a dollar to add to smartphones in terms of BoM and another dollar for licencing.
It costs about a dollar to add to smartphones in terms of BoM and another dollar for licencing.
Don't Sony make NFC chips?, or are part of the NFC board? - they would probably save money somehow.
would the ps4 itself need extra hw or just the gamepad? i wonder if licencing would be tied to controllers or systems.
it is not much but again, probably would spend those dollars on some ram for the OS instead
Again, say you have just downloaded Taylor Swift's 2013 album to your smartphone (trollface.jpg ), you could tap the 'DS4' pad and play the album on your PS4. So to speak.
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Sony enabled an NFC card reader in Japan for PS3 in 2007 so i think DualShock 4 will have NFC built in.
How is this my first time hearing about this?
People don't pay much attention to Sony news unless it is negative, I could be wrong though.
People don't pay much attention to Sony news unless it is negative, I could be wrong though.
o....k....
Or, maybe it's a very niche usage item in a country that's foreign to most of us.
VGleaks needs to come in with that new info asap, or else I'm gonna die from thirst.
Sony enabled an NFC card reader in Japan for PS3 in 2007 used for credit card payments via Felica Cards or Phone payment system. Nintendo has stated they will also be using Felica payment system via NFC on WiiU so I think DualShock 4 will have NFC built in.
Patents are created not because a product exists or will exist, but because in case they decide to make it, or in case they get sued cause their architecture/idea is similar to something else. It's also done to push the competition out. It's the same as cancelled projects; companies renew trademarks and what not. It's a way of futureproofing.
Example:
This was originally filed a while ago, but recently renewed. It doesn't mean Sony is going to make us do butterfly kicks.
o....k....
Or, maybe it's a very niche usage item in a country that's foreign to most of us.
1. Heat
2. I think the website has miswritten. It's meant to write Pitcairn.
3. 1.84 TF is very close to the magical 2.5 TF number. It is 75% of the way there. We should be happy.
Heard a new rumor about the PS4 gamepad from someone who works for a big developer who claims to have examined it:
1. PS Move tech built in
2. Has a trackpad in the middle
3. Controller ID shown in color (did not understand what this meant, waiting for clarification, either means multicolor LED's or a led display)
4. PS4 Coming December 2013 and games can use up to 100GB of data. Don't know if this means a different kind of blu-ray or just games that come on 2 blu-rays.
^Nightmares
Doesn't sony place a absurd amount of patents they never even use?
I think that charging for online MP would be a misstep for their consumers but not for profit margins. It might even help absorb a larger loss on each unit sold. But I hope they don't go that route as it would be an immediate deal-breaker. What they could do is keep a barebones PSN + free MP and charge for everything else like party chat, early demos, messaging, customization -- making it a no-brainer for heavy Playstation consumers to buy-in. All of this under the PS+ umbrella of free games.I think that charging for PSN would be a tremendous misstep. They've got a golden goose with Playstation Plus and they should continue down that road.
Ya but these companies would patent their shit if they felt that the corn design was unique.
Here's my terrible ransom note of how I would picture such a thing. And don't tell me to swap the right stick with the buttons or you'll get a slap.
How each company approaches the online side of things next gen will be interesting. I noticed today that bf3stats lists the online player base for the 3 platforms over the course of 2012:I think that charging for PSN would be a tremendous misstep. They've got a golden goose with Playstation Plus and they should continue down that road.
I'm not sure if similar data is available for other big online games, but that was a surprise to me. I know that BF3 has timed (2 week) exclusives on DLC for PS3, but that seems like a relatively minor thing to me. I would be interested to see what the actual sales were like across the two consoles. I can't help but wonder if maybe the fact that Sony online is free was the difference in terms of online player base here, so any changes on that front next gen from either manufacturer should be interesting.http://bf3stats.com/ said:In 2012 we recorded over 11.1 million players playing Battlefield 3.
3.3 million of them were watched on BF3Stats.com.
The strongest platform with over 4.4 million players recorded is PS3. Followed by XBOX360 with 3.6 million players and PC with 3.1 million players.
But interested in BF3Stats.com were mostly PC players with over 1.8 million players stored in our database(PS3: 880k, XBOX360: 620k).
Our database contains currently over 51 million history entries. About 15 entries per player.
About 30k dynamic stats graphics were rendered over 800 million times since start of BF3Stats.
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This is a terrible thing you've created.
I feel like if Sony made any drastic changes to the DualShock, it would just tarnish it. It's so synonymous to PlayStation, ya know?
The jaguar chip at CES was so small. I wonder whether we will get jaguar or steamroller.
I know, but we've heard things about it being a 'radical departure'
This happened last time they tried that:
How each company approaches the online side of things next gen will be interesting. I noticed today that bf3stats lists the online player base for the 3 platforms over the course of 2012:
I'm not sure if similar data is available for other big online games, but that was a surprise to me. I know that BF3 has timed (2 week) exclusives on DLC for PS3, but that seems like a relatively minor thing to me. I would be interested to see what the actual sales were like across the two consoles. I can't help but wonder if maybe the fact that Sony online is free was the difference in terms of online player base here, so any changes on that front next gen from either manufacturer should be interesting.
I'd love to see Sony's take on corn. I'm tired of looking at this:
I'm thinking it'll be Jaguar. I've heard a lot of good things about efficiency in Jaguar and they'll be able to get higher clocks out of it in a console since they're not going to be aiming for 10 watts or something insanely small like most Jaguar chips.
Everything is permitted. I'm over the Dualshock.I feel like if Sony made any drastic changes to the DualShock, it would just tarnish it. It's so synonymous to PlayStation, ya know?