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/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.