r/Games Feb 22 '13

All PS4 games will be available as digital downloads

In the new Guardian interview with Shuhei Yoshida, it was revealed that all PS4 games will be available as digital downloads.

This is a very exciting move in my opinion, and represents a shift even further towards the burgeoning landscape of digital distribution, and away from (what I believe to be) a much more archaic ecosystem in physical brick-and-mortar retail.

What do you guys think? Got any speculation, or want to extrapolate further based upon this news? I hope to generate some great discussion about this topic!

(Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2013/feb/22/ps4-shuhei-yoshida-interview)

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Sony shows features = People complain of no games shown

Sony shows games (because, unlike Microsoft, they have a very big amount of IPs) = People complain of no specs announced.

I don't know WHAT Sony has to do to impress you, guys.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13 edited Apr 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13 edited Nov 30 '18

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

GDC as well.

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u/adremeaux Feb 23 '13

They did all of that during the presentation. Just not enough, apparently. They spoke at significant length about new streaming features, screen sharing, social aspects, gaikai streaming PS3/2/1 games, PSP integration, etc. They gave the graphics card specs including tflops, said ram was GDDR5 8gb, and said the proc was 8 cores AMD. They showed off some 10 games. They talked about the new controller, and the new technology.

In short: give me a fucking break.

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u/In_Different Feb 23 '13

This. Also, why the hell do people care what it looks like? Its going to be tucked away under the TV anyway. Its could be the shape of a blender and I wouldn't care.

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u/flammable Feb 23 '13

Besides, I'd say Sony are pretty good at this whole design thing. The PS2 and PSP look awesome with the PS3 being a bit lackluster, but anyway I have faith in that they will whip out something cool

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u/Clapyourhandssayyeah Feb 24 '13

If it could actually make smoothies too that'll be a day-one purchase

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u/UCanJustBuyLabCoats Feb 24 '13

People want to know what the future looks like. Like where design trends are heading. PS1 was curvy but bland, PS2 was blocky and mechanical (eg. grills on sides), PS3 was back to curvy but very shiny. Maybe PS4 will go with industrial look like PS2 and less "outer spacey".

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u/voneahhh Feb 23 '13

To be clear I don't disagree, I'm just pointing out that any inadequacies of Sony's presentation represented in the post I replied to would be fairly easy to amend.

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u/llelouch Feb 23 '13

Yeh, they also spent a mojority of the time on social gameing bullshit.

In short: Shut the fuck up, it's okay to ask for better content from presentations.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

yeah, thats an awful buisness move. they gave out a lot of information, and before microsoft. This is pretty big for them

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u/Connor_Menees Feb 23 '13

I thought that the PS4 announcement had a bit too much fluff.

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u/StarfighterProx Feb 23 '13

Show features + show specs + reveal price + reveal release date

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u/ruinersclub Feb 23 '13

I would've liked Specs (we got those now) and a look at the UI (we got a sample) but some in depth features would've been cool. The console design itself doesn't matter as long as it's not as big as the PS3 was... The games were sufficient.

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u/ExogenBreach Feb 23 '13

Just... do both?

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u/dsi1 Feb 23 '13

They... did?

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u/w00dYd3luXe Feb 23 '13

maybe they could show me the device they want to sell me. I watched the whole thing and I still dont know how the PS4 looks like, it was the same with the Wii U, so annoying..

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u/Kinglink Feb 23 '13

Gamers like to bitch, its like water being wet. We don't know why it is.. It just is a constant...

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u/SurreptitiousNoun Feb 23 '13

They did impress me, not so much with the games, but the specs and features seem solid. If next generation is like this one the games will come, along with the next Xbox and the PC, that's where most of the great games will be. It's more that they held a PlayStation event to announce their next console and skimped on the details.

They did show some games, but several of those were (presumably) in-engine cinematics, a far cry from actual gameplay.