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Atari founder drags PS4; fails miserably;Epic praises PS4!
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Outspoken Atari founder Nolan Bushnell believes Microsoft will triumph over Sony in the upcoming console wars that will pit the Xbox 720 (Next) against the Playstation 4.
"I personally believe Microsoft is in a superior position, and the reason is Sony, whenever they change consoles, the software tools that they have are lame," Bushnell told GameTrailers.
"A lot of times in the past they were in Japanese; not well documented and getting the software development community up to speed. The American software community just says 'Oh boy, what a pain'. And a lot of people don't realize how strong the software community is at making the hardware platform sing and dance."
Bushnell also noted that the Japanese-based company "really needs to get [its] act together [to fix] its god awful" online infrastructure.(it's free though)
"Microsoft, because of their strong software tools, will end up with much better products sooner and easier, in my estimation," Bushnell opined.
"And with that, I think will be an advantage. And also don't forget, Microsoft actually has so much money to defend this. Plus, they have a good infrastructure with the [Xbox Live Arcade], with their online world."(that you have to pay for)
Ouch.
It probably should be noted that Sony recently emphasized just how much the PS4 was dev friendly.
Indeed, Mark Cerny - lead system architect of Sony's Playstation 4 (PS4) - says the Japanese-based corporation adopted a "very developer-centric approach" to the next-gen console.
"The biggest thing was that we didn't want the hardware to be a puzzle that programmers would be needing to solve to make quality titles," Cerny explained.
As such, Cerny began to poll PlayStation 3 developers as early as 2008, asking them what they would like to see in a theoretical next-generation console.
As TG Daily previously reported, the PS4 is powered by an AMD CPU and GPU. According to reports, the console boasts 8 x86-64 CPU cores, while the GPU is based on the next-gen Radeon graphics engine, capable of 1.84 teraflops of performance power. Because it is an APU, both the CPU and GPU reside on the same physical die, sharing 8GB of GDDR5 memory.
The console is also packaged with a redesigned controller that features a touchpad on the front, a share button, a headphone jack, a light bar for player identification and tech to sense a player's depth and 3D position.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-ent...Zco85g8ZVpp.99
Yasss at ha
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informed godly reasons and great news for nextbox. 
Atari waking from the dead that was videogame crash of 1983 and telling Microsoft they're doing a great job.
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Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein stated support for Sony’s PlayStation 4 console in an interview with CVG. Understandable so far, but then out comes this comment: “The kind of stuff that Sony announced it’s doing, the level of convenience and things like that shows it’s making a really perfect gaming PC.” Well, then.
Rein focuses specifically on the console’s 8GB of GDDR5 RAM as a trump card, and notes the limitations set by 32-bit operating systems. “I think it’s a very smart move on Sony’s behalf to build this sort of enhanced PC architecture and then put so much in it,” he says. “When you think about Windows, even Windows for most people is tied to about 2GB of addressable memory space. This really opens up beyond what most PCs can do, because most PCs are running a 32-bit version of Windows. It’s like giving you the world’s best PC.”
Though Rein is correct in observing how much memory 32-bit programs can play with, things get fuzzy when it comes to how many gamers still use a 32-bit system. A look at the Steam Hardware Survey shows over half of Steam’s entire userbase has the 64-bit version of Windows 7 installed, with a majority using at least 4GB of RAM. Really, memory isn’t an end-all magic bullet for hardware, and instead of “the world’s best PC,” I see the PS4 a step up for console gaming, and a better counterpart to PCs as opposed to a rivalrous enemy.
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http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/04/04/ep...ystation-4-pc/
Can't wait for Epic Games to jump ship.
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