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Tonight’s the night. After a long, long wait, Sony will take to the New York stage tonight to lift the lid on two brand new PlayStation consoles. Well, we say brand new. The PS4 Slim, amazingly, is already available in the UK, despite having not been officially acknowledged. Expect that …
Read More »iPhone 7 and PS4 Neo reveals to take place on same day
September 7th looks like a day to keep clear if you’re one to follow tech announcements. Apple has sent out invitations for a San Francisco event on that date, at which it will almost certainly reveal the next iteration of its revolutionary iPhone series, and possibly a new Apple Watch. …
Read More »Further reports confirm upcoming PS4 Slim announcement
Sony has cut production of the existing PS4 ahead of the official announcement of the PS4 Slim and the PS4 Neo, reports have suggested. The Wall Street Journal confirms that the PS4 Slim – which was leaked over the weekend – is very much real. It also says that the …
Read More »Microsoft sees a future without console generations
Xbox One and PS4 will be the last of their kind, Xbox’s US marketing boss Aaron Greenberg has predicted. Next year’s arrival of the iterative Xbox Scorpio and PS4 Neo upgrades – as well as Microsoft’s growing unification of the Xbox and Windows space – all point to a shift …
Read More »PS4 Neo could ‘fundamentally change’ No Man’s Sky
No Man’s Sky’s foundation in procedural generation means that Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 4 Neo could substantially change the game beyond surface-level improvements, developer Hello Games has proposed. Hello CEO Sean Murray told theDaily Starthat because No Man’s Sky is procedurally generated, rather than handcrafted, more powerful hardware doesn’t just mean …
Read More »Yoshida asserts that all PS VR games will work on standard PS4s
Sony Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has again dismissed the idea that PS4 Neo will be needed to get the best out of PlayStation VR. All the PSVR (and future) titles will be playable on (normal) PS4,” Yoshida said at ACGHK 2016 this week, as reported by PSU. We believe that …
Read More »PS4 Neo WILL launch this year, report claims
Well this is a surprise – one report has claimed that PS4 Neo WILL be released in 2016, despite its E3 no-show. Eurogamer reports that several sources have indicated that Neo launches this year”, regardless of the machine’s total absence from E3. The site also questions if 4K will be …
Read More »PS4 Neo is purely about keeping users on-side, House explains
4K? VR? The actual motivation behind Sony’s PS4 Neo may actually be more straightforward than you think. That’s according to PlayStation boss Andrew House, at least, who has told The Guardian that the main thinking behind the upgrade is simply to keep people engaged with the PS4 platform for longer …
Read More »House ‘surprised’ by Scorpio announcement, explains Neo no-show
PlayStation boss Andrew House has questioned the wisdom of Microsoft’s decision to bring the Xbox Scorpio to its E3 conference some year and a half before release. I was surprised by the step of announcing something over a year ahead of time,” he told The Guardian. The dynamics of the …
Read More »Xbox Scorpio means ‘Sony’s technological advantage has gone’
Microsoft’s Xbox Scorpio console will enjoy a significant performance advantage over Sony’s PS4 Neo. That’s according to Digital Foundry, which says that Neo is now too far down the line for Sony to possibly hope to try and change its plans and stop the new Xbox outperforming its machine by …
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