WEBVTT - TechStuff Looks at the PS4 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.480 Get in touch with technology with tech stuff from how 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:14.080 Stuff Looks dot Com, Game on, Ladies and gentlemen, and 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:18.400 welcome to tech Stuff. I'm johnsan Strickland, Gamer extraordinaire, and 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.680 I'm Lauren Vocal Bam. I'm I'm gaming adjacent. Okay, that's fair. Uh, 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.639 And today we wanted to talk about something that was 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:30.320 announced on February, something that there was a lot of 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:35.080 anticipation built around this Sony's next PlayStation, which will be 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:40.200 the PlayStation four. Right, there was the code name Orbis Orbis, 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.560 which went well with the Vita Orbis Vita. You start 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.479 getting into this, that's really clever. But no, No, the 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.200 official name is the PS four. They decided to stick 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.159 with that. I mean, when you've established a brand, it 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.600 makes sense to kind of uh maintain that and not 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.440 leap away from it, right, especially yeah, if you're not 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.400 doing any I mean it's certainly this looks like it's 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.640 going to be a huge advancement, advancement over the PS three, 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.920 but not in such a wacky direction that it would 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.880 require an entirely new name. Yeah. Yeah, In fact, I 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.240 read this is so funny to me before we get 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.280 into this, I remember reading something one of the articles 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.160 I read started off with, you know, the games for 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.280 the p S three and for Xbox three sixty you're 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.040 still going on strong, So you might gamers might wonder, 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.280 why do we even need a new console? And like, really, 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.480 do you know any gamers? And every gamer I know 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.440 is like, give me new console. Yeah. Basically, I mean, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.200 you know, it's it's having the newest, fastest, shiniest hardware 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.680 and software is basically what the gaming industry is built on. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.640 Now that being said, there are some things about the 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.800 specifications about the PS four that that confused me a 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.080 little bit, because you've got to keep in mind Sony 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.240 originally said that the idea for the p S three 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.280 was for it to have a ten year lifespan, and 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.600 and to be fair, I'm sure how long seven seven years? 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.960 But then, to be fair, I think that just like 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.000 the PS two before it, we won't see development for 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.720 the PS three completely stop once the PS four launches. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:15.280 I'm sure there'll be some overlap there um. But uh, 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.200 you know, if you have that same thought process with 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.440 the PS four, and I'm not saying Sony does, I 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.880 don't know what Sony's long term strategy is. You're not psychic. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.840 You don't have a mental connection. I don't have a 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.520 phone number that I can call and get confirmation on. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.880 But you know, we don't know how long the lifespan 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.280 for the PS four is planned to be. Within Sony, 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.720 I'm imagining it's going to be similar. That's supposed to 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.320 be ten years. But with that in mind, some of 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.359 the decisions they made with their specifications confused me a bit. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.600 So first we should probably talk a little bit. Yeah, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.239 let's do that thing that you said. So one of 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:56.639 the big announcements was that they're switching their microprocessor architecture. Uh. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.880 You may remember the PlayStation three. One of the big 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.920 big things about it was that was had had this 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.720 cell microprocessor architecture that's Sony developed, and tell us what 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.079 that is. So it's it's essentially, without getting into all 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.040 the details, it's essentially a supercomputer in a console format. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.839 It's a microprocessor where you've got this cell structure that 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.919 allows you to tap into a lot of computing power 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.359 and it's in this particular architecture that allows that to happen. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:31.320 But it's so different from other microprocessor architectures that developing 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.240 software for this, you know, essentially games some software we're 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.360 talking about, But developing games for this platform was a 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.560 bit of a challenge because you had to learn how 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.760 to how to do it. Yeah, you had to learn, 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.040 like how do I tap into this massive resource? And 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.240 we saw the same thing with other console platforms, right, 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.680 you know when it first launches, the games that come 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.960 out are good, but they're not They don't blow your 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.360 mind necessarily, Like if you were if you were able 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.920 to jump ahead in time five years and see the 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.160 average game on the market five years from launch, you'd think, Wow, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:09.320 you're not even touching the potential that this game console has. Yeah. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.080 That was particularly true with the PlayStation three because the 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.560 architecture was so different from the other UH consoles and 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.960 computers on the market that it was a barrier to 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.520 entry for a lot of game developers, and certainly they 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.800 had to pour money and time to learn how to 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.159 do this. So the question came up, do we develop 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.960 from the PlayStation UH spending that kind of time and 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:32.920 resources that we need in order to create a game, 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:34.600 or do we or do we stick with something that 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.000 we knew? Yeah, I mean it's hard to hard to 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.560 answer that question because you could just say just stick 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.320 with what you know, and that way you save money. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.719 But but you're not catering to the PlayStation audience. And 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.359 there's there's a sizeable one which actually, Jonathan and I 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.720 a full disclosure, are not necessarily a part of I 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.800 do not own a PS three, Jonathan, you do. I 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.560 own a PS three, and I have two whole games 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:01.280 for it. Those two games are Here's a War two, 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.880 uh and Uncharted two. Those are my two games. Yeah, 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.599 I own a p S three, but I own it 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.880 mainly as a Blu ray player, right right, Yeah, I 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.240 had a PS two and I and I went over 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.159 to Xbox three sixty and I never bothered picking up 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.560 a PS three. Right now. That's not to say that 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.440 the PlayStation is a bad console, certainly not now. It's 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.040 it's really I mean, it really does that sell architecture. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.800 If you knew how to take advantage of it, you 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.400 could do incredible things. In fact, potentially you could run 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.000 a game that's far more sophisticated than you could on 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.360 an Xbox three sixty because the hardware and the three 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.120 sixty uh, if you're talking about pure processing power did 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.120 not quite match up to the PlayStation. The problem was 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.359 that very few game developers out there really knew how 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.040 to take advantage of that hardware. So that brings us 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:52.279 to the new PS for architecture. They've actually gone to 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.000 the X eight six sixty four a m D Jaguar 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.360 eight core CPU, and this is more in line with 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.960 what you would find in a PC, so it's something 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.520 that developers are already familiar with, right sure. And and 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.320 this is a semi custom thing that they're doing with 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.080 a m D. It's it's got all the Chinese stuff, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.159 you know, eight eight gigabytes of RAM. Yeah, that's that's huge. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.440 Eight gigabytes of RAM is huge for gaming. That's very 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.000 that was one of the most exciting announcements. Yeah. It's 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.080 it's got a graphics engine that's going to be running 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:30.560 one point eight for Tara flop. Yeah, that's that's that's 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.960 a lot of floating operations per second. Yeah, and that's uh. 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.880 It's got a a GPU Graphics Pressing Setting Unit RADION 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.960 GPU that's located on the same die as the CPU, 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.160 and that's kind of important because the CPU and GPU 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.360 by being close together, means that data transfers can happen 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.640 very quickly. They don't have to travel across a chip. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.680 That kind of sounds crazy when you think about it. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.960 That you know, we're talking super speeds already, but in gaming, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.240 any sort of latency is a problem. Latency, Yeah, And 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.080 and gamers have no patience for that. I mean, whenever 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.760 I have to like look at a pause screen or 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.080 a load screen for even a quarter of a second, 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.640 I'm instantly irritated. Right. And and if you were to 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.640 do something like play a game and you press the 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.080 jump button but your character doesn't jump until an instant later, 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.160 that's that's horrible, right, That's that's like the kind of 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.960 latency that drives gamers crazy. And we'll get into more 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:31.800 latency issues in a second, but go ahead. I'm sorry. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.480 I was gonna say. What they have was gonna have 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.040 an onboard hard drive, so it's going to be important. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:37.760 We're not sure what size that's hard drives are going 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.240 to be yet, they have they talked about it. I 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.440 haven't mentioned, but we do imagine. I mean, I imagine 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.880 they have to be pretty big, because it sounds to 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.920 me like a lot of the movement on Sony's part 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.560 is to the cloud and to pull games from the 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.400 cloud onto your console, which means that you would not 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.800 necessarily go and buy a disk. You might buy it 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.600 directly off the network and store it natively on your machine, 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.920 which means the hard drive needs to be sizeable to 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:05.960 accommodate that. I think a lot of it. I think 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.600 they're also planning on playing a lot with all of 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.160 that ram um, because they're they're talking about doing a 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.680 lot of things that yeah, just just are going to 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.480 be instantaneous and so stored all in the right in 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.080 the random axis memory. Sure. And then they're also supports 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.400 the USB three point oh, which is nice because that's 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.800 the that's of course a faster protocol than the two 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.520 point oh that most of us are still stuck with. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.280 I know, I don't have a computer yet that has 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.839 the USB three point capability. Yeah. Yeah, all of this 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.920 is so so interesting to me because these specs are 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:40.200 for a really decently mid grade gaming computer and which 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.400 would cost you a couple of thousand dollars. Yeah. Yeah. 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.200 And then you've got Bluetooth two point one that I 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.760 thought was interesting because we're up to Bluetooth four now. 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.120 But but but then it all depends on what you 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.000 need the Bluetooth to do. Right, If it's something where 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.680 it's just the the communication between the controller and the 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.400 base unit then doesn't necessarily need Bluetooth four point oh, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:07.079 which is really more about low power features that wouldn't 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.880 necessarily be a good match with the Bluetooth two point 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.160 one protocols. I mean, you don't necessarily need that. If 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.640 you're if your controller is working above that threshold, low 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.040 power doesn't really matter. Um. On top of that, it's 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:25.200 gonna have gigabit Ethernet, no big surprise. There also supports WiFi. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.760 Uh that blue ray and DVD YEP, blue ray and 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.560 DVD player, So that way, that's that's not going away, 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.040 which is good. I'm sure that makes all the movie 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.960 studio is happy because producing blue rays is still one 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.120 of those very profitable markets. And then you have HD 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.080 m I out as as well as analog video digital 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.599 optical audio hypothetically some I have four K output for 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.640 a photo and video viewing right games. See, I was 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.920 really surprised about the four K not being used for 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.520 video games. I just think that if you're building out 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.920 a concert old that needs to have a relevant lifespan 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.960 of ten years and four case something that's right around 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.839 the corner, then really I don't why wouldn't you build 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.719 the four K capability for the video games as well 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.520 as for the photos and the videos. I'm sure it's 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.880 more complicated than that, but I mean, yeah, I can 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.319 only see it was some kind of programming related issue 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.559 that they perhaps didn't think that game studios would be 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.560 able to get into it, or could have been. Yeah, 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.079 that must have been, or it may have been that 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.880 it would have required games to be so large, has 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.120 to be larger than what the console could easily because 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.719 I mean, four K that's a lot of information. You're 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.800 really talking about a ton of it. But I went 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:40.400 to CE I saw four K TVs everywhere you can. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.160 It seems like the big buzz word. Yeah, you couldn't 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.679 throw a rock without hitting one, and uh, don't do 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.480 that because those are expensive. We're talking like tens of 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.160 thousands of dollars in some cases. So I'm important in 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.920 thanks to Clinton. Yeah you're welcome, and that's a little 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.679 Ghostbusters documentary moment there um. But yeah, that was that 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.400 was something that I found confused using was if it's 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.600 really forward thinking, huh, I can't believe I use that phrase. Uh, 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.319 game system, then it needs to it needs to have 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.520 these future proofing aspects in it. Another element that the 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:18.640 PS four has is the PlayStation four Eye Camera, which 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.120 is kind of basically a connect Yeah, I'm sure Sony 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.559 would hate us to say that, but it kind of is. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:29.000 It's sorry, sorry, it's a base units. It's there around 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:33.480 your television. It's got stereoscopic cameras in it to two cameras. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.439 It's kind of this bar shape and it works with 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.760 both the PlayStation Move controller which is still compatible which 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.000 for yeah, and it's of course it's already out for 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.760 the PS three, but it will work with the PS four, 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.120 not like the dual Shock three controller. But anyway, yeah, 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.880 because because the dual Shock four controller that they are 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.160 premiering with the PS four is going to be motion capable, right, 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.400 so it will also work with this eye camera. Uh, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.480 it's going to be able to The eye camera will 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:06.040 capture up to eighty pixel video at thirty frames per second. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.320 So it's got an eighty five degree diagonal viewing angle, 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.600 which means that you know, it's going to capture most 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:15.520 of the room that's pointed toward. It has four integrated microphones, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.280 which is important because those microphones, what does it allows 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.760 me to pick up voice commands, but cancel out other 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:25.320 noise so it doesn't mistake something for a voice command 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.200 when it should be. Right. Yeah, my my connection does 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.120 that more or less continually, so that can be fun. Right. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.959 And it also is going to work with facial recognition 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.800 software so that you can log into your account based 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.640 upon your mug. That's super creepy. Excellent. But that leads 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.680 us into the duel Shock for a controller. Yeah, they're 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.560 they're premarying the duel Shock three, like we just said, 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.800 is not going to be supported for the PS four 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.199 because they're so excited about this duel Shock for it's 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.440 going to have a touch panel, right, So the touch 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.480 panel on the duel Shock four, it's a it's a 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.720 touch screen interface. It if you're looking at the controller 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.240 like from a top down view, and you know the 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.679 thumbsticks are pointing towards your eyeballs, This is towards the 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:10.400 top of this particular controller, and and those touch screen 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.480 commands will allow you to do special things in the games, 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.760 but that that will all depend upon how the game 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:20.079 developers incorporate the touch screen interface, right. I haven't I 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.480 haven't heard any specific things about any game developers planning 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.679 on using it, but I'm sure that they will come 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.959 up with delightful ways to do that. It's going to 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.560 have a new share button, which we will talk about 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.120 in a moment um, a light bar to interact with 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.160 the eye yep. So that way you can use kind 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:38.760 of it's kind of like using your dual Schuck for 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.280 like a PlayStation move controller. Uh. It also it's going 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.160 to have a headphone jack so you can there's it's 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.160 got a speaker in it so it will play sound 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.199 effects out of the actual controllers. So you plug the 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:54.520 headphone jack in. That allows you to have the headset miked. Yeah, 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.760 you can be miked, and you can also hear special 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:02.080 sound effects that come straight through the controller to your ears. Uh. 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.559 And uh, it's also got a camera on it. It 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.800 can sense the depth in front of it. Wow. I 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.920 actually hadn't read about that. That is yeah, okay, yeah, 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.360 well I guess I guess that goes with the with 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.840 the move related with the I relate exactly. It's it's 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.319 to get as much information as possible so that when 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.000 I mean really the idea is just to give all 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.760 of these specs out to developers so that they can 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:28.320 find interesting ways to incorporate these abilities into the games. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.760 So I could say, yes, it's so you can blah 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:33.720 blah blah, but I really don't know because I don't 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.920 know what how game developers are going to take advantage 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.600 of this. Yes, we we are not game developers. You 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.240 can charge it even when you're PS four is on 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.720 standby mode. Yeah, it's It's battery is a is a 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.080 latium ion that is non removable, which is just like 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.040 the dual Shock three, but unlike the Duel Shock three, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.480 if you don't have like the dual Shock three, you 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.800 had to have the PS three on an active mode 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.400 to charge it. This one you can be in standby 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.200 mode and you can still charge. Also, you'll be able 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.920 to charge it through mic USB. Uh. And it has 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.400 enhanced rumble. Enhanced rumble. Yeah, I don't know what that 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:10.160 means unless it just means it. Yes, maybe it's like 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.200 the I T Crowd where they felt that the rumble 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.200 in the Duel Shock three was a little a little 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.200 ready and it needed to be boosted. I can't quote 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.040 any more of that episode. No, there's probably nothing else 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.880 in that. But it's fantastic. It is. It's a terrific documentary. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.360 You guys should check it out. Yeah. Uh So, anyway, 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.560 these are the basic spects of the PS four. It's 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:36.120 really just part of their their presentation, which by the way, 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.400 was a two hour presentation. Yeah. I got there about 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:41.560 an hour and a half of it. I mean it 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.480 was actually it was actually fascinating. I really enjoyed how 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.720 excited and and nerdy and wonderfully awkward a lot of 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.400 the people on stage where I and I say that 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.400 very genuinely. I thought it was very charming. Yeah. And 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.160 and also I should point out before we take a 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.880 quick break that it was interesting and totally understandable that 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:05.280 Sony decided to do a standalone press event to announce this. Uh. 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.880 It was interesting in the sense that they didn't go 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.720 with something like E three or the Game Developers Conference, 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.200 and it meant that they had the stage all to themselves. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.600 They were not competing with any other companies, so they 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.600 didn't have to worry about the fact that as soon 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.760 as this press conference is over, everyone's going to rush 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:21.400 out and go across the hall to get to the 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.880 Microsoft conference with to show conference. So that was a 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.360 big advantage. It was kind of interesting to see the 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.320 stuff they did not do. Uh. They said that it 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.040 was a way for them to draw out the announcement 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:38.080 over the course of Uh so, for example, they didn't 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:42.040 actually show the console. They showed off the controller, the 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.000 dual Shock four hounch Yeah, but but we haven't actually 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.000 seen the box yet and and that's you know, and 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.320 to be fair, I would say that that probably the 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.320 least important things surrounding a new console is what it 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:55.960 looks like. I mean, I mean, it's it's nice, you know, 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.200 especially as as a journalist in a web journalist, I 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.680 understand the irritation of not having a shiny picture of 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.000 something that you can show around right right and it 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.560 and it raises suspicions. It always does, Like if you 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.639 don't actually have a product to show, then people are like, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.639 are you do you really have something you're going to 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.040 launch in holiday season? Or you just reink in our chain? 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.760 But uh, you know, I'm pretty sure Sony's on the 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.679 up and up on this. Yeah. But they had they 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.680 had live demos of the of the software, but just 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.359 just because they didn't have a shiny package to present, 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.320 and that could be that they're still finalizing the design 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.600 or maybe they don't have Maybe they had like a 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.600 working uh PS four, But it's not in the final case, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:36.760 you know. That's what they said. They said that they're 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.800 still working on it, and and I believe them. I 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:41.719 take people at their word. I'm okay with it too. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.240 I know a lot of people got up in arms 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:44.560 about it. But the more I thought about, the more 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.000 I was like, the only time I ever look at 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.480 my console is when I'm actually changing a disk out. 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.840 Otherwise I'm looking at the controller or the screen. I'm 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.760 not looking at the actual box. It's not like a 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.800 cell phone or something that you're interacting with. Contin Well, 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.800 let's take a quick break to thank our sponsor before 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.640 we continue on with the PS four and now back 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.760 to the show. Alright, So we talked about the specs. 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.080 Let's talk about some of the features besides, you know, 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.760 things that aren't aren't just about you know, the hardware, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.280 but some of the things that we can actually expect 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.760 from this PS four. A lot of that comes to 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.000 us courtesy of the cloud. Yeah. Yeah. They were talking 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.480 all kinds about about streaming games and pre little previews 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:31.840 and and fancy shiny things that smart browsing stuff. You know, 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.080 the kind of the concept that that this machine is 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.840 going to learn what kind of games you like. Yeah, 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.240 that that to me was really interesting the idea that 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.800 and they very briefly touched on this, so we don't 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.800 have all the info, but it did sound like the 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:50.480 PS four will start to learn about your preferences based 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.040 upon the way you use the PS four and that 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.399 it will start to prioritize things and maybe even uh 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:01.240 download stuff in advance for you because it already quote 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.680 unquote knows that you're going to like that and and 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.520 perhaps you know, won't you know? For for example, for me, 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.200 every time I get on my Xbox and ad for 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.520 for a Madden game, I'm like, why is it showing 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:13.960 this to me? I could not care about this. Any 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:18.119 less targeted advertising would be more effective. Absolutely, yes, that 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:19.600 is that is what I am say. If it had 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:24.440 my little Pony friendship is magic uh RPG that you'd 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.800 be all over right on top of it. Wow. I 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.120 have never seen someone want to kick me so much 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.399 in such a short amount of time. Uh yeah, and 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:38.439 they're they're partnering. Actually then partner they acquired a million dollars. 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.000 That's that's the kind of partnership holing money can buy. 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.480 Guy Kai and this is a service that's all about 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.520 streaming content and particularly about games. So there there was 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.639 some discussion about how the relationship between guy Kai and 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.320 Sony would would would develop with the PS four. One 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:02.520 of those things was all about the backwards compatibility issue, 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.560 because Sony has said the PS four is not backwards compatible. 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.520 You will not be able to play PS one, PS two, 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.639 or p S three games on the PS four with 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:17.000 the possible exception, and they only said possible that you 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.520 might be able to stream those games using a guy 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.920 Kai service on the line, so you would be able 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.640 to stream a version of a PS three game onto 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.240 your PS four. Yeah, they're they're they're talking about basically 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:32.920 um supporting or emulating games, and and that they're not 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.920 sure whether they They basically said that they have the 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:37.800 capacity and they don't know if they're going to do 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:40.200 it yet, right right, which which I thought was a 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:42.680 really interesting kick in the pans. Yeah, No, that's that's 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:46.560 a tough response, right. They said, it's possible, we just 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:48.840 don't know if we're going to do it, and if 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.119 they do it, we don't even know how that's going 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.359 to manifest. So for example, how like you would probably 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:57.639 end up having to purchase those games. Again, that's my 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.639