The new generation of consoles from Sony and Microsoft next: what to expect from the PS4 and XboxNext?

Information from official and unofficial sources about the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft!

According to published leaks Sony and Microsoft We chose different vector for its development. Microsoft greater focus on the direction of multimedia entertainment center with maximum functionality. In recent years they have managed to turn Xbox 360 in the media center for the whole family, thanks to casual project Kinect, A paid subscription to the popular video service and lose that position, they are not going to. Strengthening the direction of casual games will Kinect 2.0, And the company intends to attract new platform players F2P market. New Xbox wants to become the main media center in the living room, competing for customers with Apple and Steambox.
It is planned to complete multitasking functionality, which assures you that you can put the game on pause, play the movie back to the dashboard, chat with friends or writePost to Facebook, to return to the game and continue it to its original place.In addition, it is necessary to wait for an exclusive release HD versions of movies and TV series, as well as more online broadcasts of major events hitovik com. Micro-transactions, taking into account the expansion of the market F2P, it takes a central place in the ecosystem. Payment credit cards will replace the final points. Sony Conversely it concentrates more on the games, offering video downloads Youtube during the game, as well as functional, which is not enough to PS3Including Party-chat, a new interface and more socialization, such as guides and ratings.

New Xbox and PS4 come almost simultaneously in the period from 15 November to 20 December this year. When PS4At the beginning of an early start to happen in September and October in Japan.Europe can get or not to get into an early start - it will depend on the number of available consoles to Launch and readiness of local divisions. Most likely, both consoles will be released in Europe at the end of December or January-February next year.

So how Microsoft with a special love watching Apple and its steps, the new Xbox by analogy with the new iPad could get the title New Xbox or simply Xbox. In the case of PS4Despite not superstitious love for this number on the territory of the Asian countries, the prefix number will keep 4 in the title. Or go the way of the above, retaining only references to the brand.

Most likely, both consoles will be supplied with different variants of equipment similar to the Wii U and previous systems. Larger hard drives, optional accessories, such as headsets or second joystick or an external periphery (Kinect 2.0/Eyetoy) Sold separately. Sony It is by all means try as early as possible to start the service streaming games GaikaiTo provide a library of games PS4 hits with PS3. That is, the game will streamers of clouds, not processed locally.
This is indirectly confirmed by the desire to develop Sony subscription services. It is possible that PS4 It can be sold for as low as $ 99 with a monthly subscription for a period of three years. Subscription will naturally include access to Gaikai and a specific set of games or all the entire back-catalog (all games PS1. PS2. PS3. PSP and Vita). As an alternative to the regular version consoles will cost from 399 to 599 dollars depending on the configuration and the availability of a subscription. The prefix of the Microsoft It will cost the same $ 399 in minimum configuration.

According to the leaks, Sony's new controller will be the size of a DualShock with touch panel in place of buttons Select, Start and PS. Similar technology is used on the rear panel Vita. New Eyetoy c two cameras (for a deeper motion capture, including fingers and eye movements) and a resolution of 1280x720 pixels (720p) will be used not only in games, but also to enter into the system andvideo chats. Kinect 2.0 from Microsoft will offer roughly the same set of features + reading movements of the trunk and legs. Outwardly, and both console will be a little glossy hitovik of whom are close in size to Wii U. New Xbox It will have a new wireless communication system, so the old Xbox360 controllers work with it will not. Also rumored to pad the new Xbox will be slightly smaller than the pad from Xbox 360 - Microsoft is trying to once again appeal to the Asian market.

Permanent connection may be one of the main problems New Xbox. It is clear that Microsoft strongly pressured publishers dissatisfied secondary sales of games, as well as myself Microsoft is not averse to earn money by selling activation codes. The murder of the secondary market may damage the company's position in large networks, such as Gamestop.And not all users will be satisfied with the fact that they can not change or sell the purchased game tied to the profile, and set-top box.In addition, the decision finally finish off the physical media. And, of course, raises questions about the life of the game after turning off the server.However, this kind of leak is most likely a greater test of public opinion than the final decision. Sony is not planning a permanent connection of its consoles, but Gaikai, vysokoskrotnogo naturally require constant Internet connection.

Of course the main theme of the confrontation will be the technical capabilities of the new consoles, they will determine how the game will look like in the next 5 years.

Numerous rumors suggest that the next generation of Sony and Microsoft to change supplier of computing solutions in favor of AMD.Many sources even manage to describe one and the same chip with different words. He is known to 8-core, consists of 4 units, it is based on X86 architecture and operates at a frequency of 1.6 GHz.All evidence points to the Bulldozer, a top of the line home processor AMD FX, whose success can hardly be called as such.If your not the most successful architecture, it can not boast of high-grade 8-cores (only 4mya) and stopped at the level of the performance average performance from Intel.But if home solution can work comfortably at a frequency of about 4 GHz, the console her understated to 1.6 GHz.This is due to the extremely passionate temper and immoderate appetite that system in a small box quite critical. But, of course, that part of the resources on the PC goes to the left of the operating system processes, so the right is not meaningful to compare.

The main difference from previous generations will be architecture X86, which is a constant point of support for home PC for many years. This is a critical change in the promise of a positive trend. First, if the two systems will have similar processors, the development and porting multiplatform projects will only get easier and PC developers will have another reason to look to the side consoles.

Second, backwards compatibility, more accurately, its absence. And if Sony can afford this step because of the service GaikaiThen Microsoft lose a strategically important position for which they fought the last 8 years.

It is unlikely that the Redmond giant will refuse the entire library of games Xbox 360Because of their cloud service is not yet ready. Therefore, there is every chance that the new Xbox processor will again be on the basis of the decisions of IBM.Rather generation Power7 / 7 +, which can boast the presence of 8 to 16 symmetrical cores and capable of operating at frequencies up to 4 GHz.Then the developers of the Xbox 360 will not have to relearn almost under the new system, and Microsoft will be able to ensure backward compatibility with the previous console.

The main intrigue is the patent Microsoft, even dating 2010, which the company described the kind of home entertainment devices, consisting of two blocks.The first - a game, is responsible for handling the games, the second - consists of a single processor on the ARM architecture, and memory allocated to the needs of the operating system, video output and so on.A key feature is the ability to aprgreyd second unit, with each new revision of the console, Microsoft will be able to expand the level of hardvarnogo multimedia possibilities of the system, whether support for 4K resolution, or new standards. Gaming hardware with the touch is not required.

With great probability, in this generation Sony refuses Service Nvidia, and go to the camp of AMD. Evil tongues say again on similar solutions for the new Playstation and Xbox. The truth is somewhere nearby.

It is necessary to dispel the rumor that the graphical solution for the New Xbox will be based on the generation of Radeon 6xxx.AMD itself does not make chips, and lay upon the shoulders of the contract manufacturer TSMC responsibility for translating the old solutions to new tech. the process nobody will.Most likely, both consoles will have generations of chips Southern Islands (Radeon 7xxx), and some fundamental differences do not have to wait.Talk about a direct analogy with the solutions for the PC is too early, but apparently they get too low frequency (800 MHz), support for DirectX 11.1 (once again an end to the direct compatibility with the PS3), and will be at the level of low or middle-end cards, and not top-end Radeon 7950/7970, which due to its power consumption and temperature conditionssimply not suitable for consoles. Do not look for some revolutionary or cutting-edge technology from AMD. Announcement of Northern Islands (Radeon 8xxx) is postponed till the end of 2013. More details will be announcing the consoles.

If Microsoft somehow be used on the basis of outdated hcp 6 series, the advantages of consoles from Sony become more apparent.In this case, the PS4 will be the first and only system to support a new generation of honest 1080p in 3D and 4K format, which, however, is still in its raw state and in need of a special method of connection, but requests to memory and performance will increase significantly.

For the first time, Sony immediately gave all the tools developed in the West, in contrast to PlayStation 3And software that created the first in Japan and then adapted to the west, so the higher the probability that the game development will take place at times easier than at the start of PS3.

After 7 years after the first promises, FullHD gaming gets to home consoles in the normal way.

And what Nvidia? Their chips are more advantageous to look for the next-generation consoles: they are cooler and consume less power.But after the termination of the contract with Sony on the new console, they really have something to say. Last week PC agitated public release of the new top-end video card series GeForce.The heart of this monster will chip GK110, which was initially created under the GeForce GTX680, but because of the complexity of the production run in recent months on the computer map Tesla K20X.By the way, K20X has registered as part of the most powerful supercomputer Titan, which is working for the benefit of mankind.The code name for a new graphics card also Titan, and it is more powerful than the GTX680 by 50% and the amount of video memory is increased to 6 GB.Its output is scheduled for February 20, that is, immediately after the announcement by Sony, and the first Review will be released in a few days. Apparently after the loss of the console market, the company decided to concentrate all its efforts on highlighting the graphic superiority of the home PC systems.

The weak point of any platform is the amount of RAM. In this regard, the Sony and Microsoft are totally different point of view. And closer to the exit system, the rumors are becoming more specific.

Both consoles will have a unified memory, that is, it will be common for the CPU / GPU as the Xbox 360 and Wii U. However, the type and amount will be completely different.

According to rumors the new PlayStation will get a 4 GB fast GDDR5 memory, its frequency is unknown, but they must be at a high level to ensure proper performance of the graphics core.Among the few drawbacks is worth noting the increased power consumption, about 40W that the calculated level of consumption of 200W takes the lion's share of power to the GPU and the CPU.

Microsoft decided to go the other way. The new Xbox will get 8 GB of RAM, but the type DDR3.Unlike GDDR5, it has low power consumption and a higher peak bandwidth.To get rid of the bottleneck in the form of a slow tire, the console will receive a 32 megabyte superfast eSRAM memory, which should provide adequate capacity for the central processor at GDDR5.

If you casually look the part, the differences in memory form certain features of the new consoles.The brainchild of Sony's memory will boast more adapted to the needs of the GPU, it promises superiority in some problems and shader effects.On the other hand, the more memory the new Xbox will download more textures or higher resolution textures, as well as to be better able to cope with open spaces.

The sources said that the new Xbox to the needs of the operating system will allocate 3 gigabytes of RAM. Under what needs require such volumes is not yet clear. In the PS3 under OSes will take 500 megabytes.

Microsoft finally will use the Blu-Ray drive under the wheels for gaming, and the amount of hard disk drives in the system can grow up to 500GB.It is possible that will be offered a special version with fast SDD (both Wii U). Recording on flash memory becoming cheaper in the eyes, and wishing to reduce the time of downloads will be plenty of games.But the rate of have to sacrifice volume. Although the installation of the SSD PS3 significantly improved performance in games like Skyrim.

For the first time in the history of all three console may get a general supplier of key components for their systems, but the Wii U, which is the autumn will have a head start in the year is unlikely to be as similar as PS4 and NewXbox. All the Wii U system based on the principle of SoC (System on Chip), because the CPU and graphics core found on the same substrate.Engineers from IBM did not invent the wheel, and conditionally crossed 3 kernel from the original Wii, slightly changing the architecture and modifying frequency hitovik.kom.The AMD did a much more filigree work and have an extremely low power consumption for graphics performance.However, under the system of the game is reserved just 1GB of RAM. As a result, the whole system is turned slightly unbalanced. Many developers have already noted problems with the CPU.

The starting lineup will not be much different. Microsoft will try to prepare for the launch as many games, whether ports systems of the previous generation, or projects for XBLA. It is known that the development is 4 new franchise. It is possible that the main AAA exclusives company priberezhet until autumn. The Sony will go a proven way and release to start a few games of their series of exclusives. The rest all have to get out of a set of multi-platform.

- Sports lineup from EA
- Battlefield 4
- A new FPS franchise
- Destiny
- The first game from Respawn
- UFC 2014
- Assassins Creed IV
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare IV
- Watch Dogs
- GTA V
- New Games from Rare and other internal studios
- Need for Speed
- Dance Central 4 2 for Kinect
- Games XBLA

- Sports lineup from EA
- Battlefield 4
- Killzone 4
- The first game from Respawn
- UFC 2014
- Assassins Creed IV
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare IV
- Watch Dogs
- GTA V
- Wipeout
- Watch Dogs
- Need for Speed
- Games PSN

It is expected that the two companies announce their systems long before E3. On February 20 Sony Playstation Meeting. Microsoft within the GDC 2013 - March 27 this year. Games and the main features of systems will be demonstrated before E3 in late May.

Dualshock 4
- Specifications
- Backward compatibility through Gaikai
- One profile - a set of systems. (PS3 + PS4 + Vita)
- Cross game chat, LiveArea, Multitask, Standby
- Killzone 4
- Move 2.0 and Playstation Eye 3D
- A new game from Media Molecule (for Eye 3D)
- Service with tablets and smartphones
- Vita as a second controller
- Social services
- New race from Evolution
- Infamous 3
- Dark Souls 2

- Gran Turismo 6
- A new game from Santa Monica
- A new game from Ready at Dawn
- Killzone 4
- Announcement related to GTA V
- A new game from Naughty Dog
- MGS 5 The Phantom Pain
- Team Ico postpone Last Guardian on PS4
- The new project from Quantic Dream
- New Final Fantasy from Square
- Destiny
- Rainbow Six: Patriots
Resident Evil
- Assassins Creed IV
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare IV
Prince of Persia

- Specifications
- New features
- Prototype consoles and start
- Installation of different video
- Integration with Microsoft and the ecosystem services of Windows 8

- Announcement of a new trilogy Gears of War
- Watch Dogs
- The new project from Square Enix
- Homefront 2 from Crytek
- The new project from Crytek
- Rainbow Six: Patriots
Resident Evil
- Announcement related to GTA V
- MGS 5 The Phantom Pain
- Fable MMO
- Forza Motorsport 5
- New Final Fantasy from Square
- Destiny
- The race is on Lucid (Natives of Bizarre and Criterion)
- A lot of casual games Rare
- Assassins Creed IV
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare IV
- Dance Central 4 to Kinect 2
- The new numbering is not a game of Halo
Prince of Persia

- The new project from Rocksteady in the world "Silver Age Batman".
- Dragon Age 3
Mass Effect
- New Skylanders
- Star Wars 1313
- The new project from Epic Games