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According to a tweet last week from inFAMOUS: Second Son’s developer, Sucker Punch, it seemed as though they were suggesting that pre-loading could be a feature that would be making its way onto the PlayStation 4 in the near future. However since Sony did not confirm anything, we had to take it as speculation.

However a Sony rep has since confirmed with the folks at Polygon that pre-loading is a feature that could be making its way onto the PS4 soon, although they declined to mention as to whether the feature would be part of the April update or if it would be released later. Instead the rep chose to say that the feature was under consideration, meaning that there’s no guarantee that it will arrive. (more…)

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Sony’s upcoming console, the PS4, which has already had its pre-orders sold out shortly after it went live, does seem as though it is set to be a winner in its own right by the time it arrives on store shelves, virtual or otherwise. Do expect this holiday season to be a frenzied one for sure, as the crowds do anticipate a rather strong showing by the PS4 as well as its rival, the Xbox One. Well, we have uncovered one new thing about the Sony PS4 today – it will apparently limit game developers to just 4.5GB of its 8GB GDDR5 memory total, at least according to internal development documents that Sony showed off.

Why is this so, you ask? Well, a total of 3.5GB has been set aside for the PS4 operating system, similar to how the Xbox One has decided to cordon off 3GB of its system memory for the operating system itself. Apart from that, it seems that 1GB of “flexible memory” has been made available to game developers from the PS4 OS itself, where it could be used to help boost elements of the game in some way or another.

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Sony’s PS4 will come with a camera that you must purchase if you want to use it.

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Are you all stoked up concerning Sony’s upcoming console, which will be the next generation PlayStation 4, or PS4 for short? Well, if you are, the nice people over at Sony have revealed that the Sony PS4 will come with a very large hard drive, definitely surpassing what we see in today’s PS3 models, as it adopts a “play-as-you-download” feature which would surely result in the need for a whole lot more storage space. Not only that, folks living in countries where it is rather difficult to get a decent and stable Internet connection would probably see far lower adoption rates of the upcoming PS4 for obvious reasons, due to the waiting and load times that has shifted from disc-based loading all the way to the speed of your Internet.

At the Game Developers Conference, Sony dropped hints on the hard drive size, but stopped short of giving out an exact capacity. This was done via Chris Norden, a senior staff engineer at Sony’s strategy team, who mentioned, “There’s also going to be a very large hard drive in every console.”

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The next cycle of home console gaming (the high end side of things, of course, as Nintendo had already rolled out their Nintendo Wii U from last year onwards which frankly, was rather disappointing in terms of specifications as well as performance, once again leaning on the strength of Nintendo’s library and relatively low price point to pull it through the next round of next-gen console gaming) is set to arrive, with Sony throwing down the gauntlet with an announcement of their PlayStation 4, or PS4 for short.

The PS3 has aged gracefully over the past few years of course, but it is time for the old to go, and the new to come. According to Andrew House, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, “The living room is no longer the center of the PlayStation universe, the gamer is. We believe that PlayStation 4 represents a shift from thinking of a box or console.”

PlayStation 4′s lead system architect Mark Cerny has mentioned that Sony, being a company that does not rest on their laurels, have already begun to work on the PS4 shortly after the release of the PlayStation 3, with the ultimate purpose of creating a console for developers, and by developers. You will find a completely updated user interface in addition to a bunch of new features that range from an updated controller to social features which cannot be found on other consoles – or at least, Sony hopes so.

There will be a new and updated DualShock 4 controller, and the PS4 will carry an X86 processor, packed with an enhanced PC GPU, and 8GB of high-speed unified memory. The new DualShock 4 controller sports a touchpad (hmmm, a page from Nintendo’s book?), a share button, and a headphone jack. There is also a light bar located on the back of the controller that will help you identify different players, while a 3D camera on the console is capable of tracking controllers connected to the console.

When can you pick up a PS4? Sony cited a “holiday 2013″ date, so now would be a good time to start saving up for one when the time arrives.

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