PlayStation Orbis (PS4)

by RealGunner Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:29 pm

A tipster has told Kotaku that the PlayStation 4 is named "Orbis,"

the Orbis will ship during holiday 2013, according to the tipster. This person says Sony has sent "select developers" Orbis dev kits since the beginning of the year. "Improved" iterations of these kits were reportedly dispatched earlier this month, with "finalized beta units" headed to developers at the end of 2012.

The site is reporting that developers are being told to plan for an AMD x64 CPU and AMD Southern Islands GPU, the latter of which is capable of running Orbis titles at a resolution of 4096x2160 and 3D games at 1080p. It has been previously suggested that the next-generation PlayStation would be powered by AMD technology.

GameSpot

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Sounds fantastic.

by BarrileteCosmico Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:38 pm

The PS4 should be released before the Xbox4, I remember Sony lost a lot of business because of the delay in the release of the PS3, when the PS2 was the most popular system in terms of volume sold.

by the xcx Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:31 pm

The name sucks lets be clear on that..but the hardware Sony is putting to PS4 is Goat.

by lenear1030 Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:22 pm

my ps3 just died two weeks ago too :facepalm:

i doubt that game developers have pushed anywhere close to the max of the current generation systems, but i guess they just have to keep coming out with new ones for the hell of it...

by RealGunner Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:42 pm

AMD x64 CPU

holy shit, its gonna be something special

by TalkingReckless Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:09 pm

i thought sony has said it many times that they won't be releasing another console for another few years....

they might bump up a few specs next year but a new one won't be coming until atleast '14.... and if the specs are to be believed they are talking about 4k resolution which sony just announced for their top end projectors and blue ray players and won't be released till december.

by che Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:54 pm

nice to see console hardware catching up with technology from 2 years ago

PlayStation Orbis (PS4) Yao-ming-meme

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:06 pm

RealGunner wrote:AMD x64 CPU

holy shit, its gonna be something special

Not really, those specs will be 3 years old time 2013 comes around.

And imalegend it was always going to released soon, one thing console hardware is terribly out of date most phones have more RAM ffs and also they cant let Microsoft or Nintendo have new hardware and keep pushing the PS3.

It's just stupid.

by LeSwagg James Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:18 pm

Can you tech savy people explain how much more powerful the X64 is than the PS3?

If it will be 3 years old in 2013 what's the point? Why not release the latest shit from 2013?

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:56 pm

Swagg wrote:Can you tech savy people explain how much more powerful the X64 is than the PS3?

If it will be 3 years old in 2013 what's the point? Why not release the latest shit from 2013?

Well it was made in 2010 compared to the specs of PS3 which was specifically made from the ground up and designed for the PS3, but it was made in 2006.

So it will still be a crap tonne more powerful as iam sure the new Xbox will but quite frankly id expect and up to date machine when he gets released.......

Console cycles are long enough but to release 3 year old hardware on top of that is silly imo and i dont expect it.

These are rumours for a reason and i expect the specs to to be using something closer to this year than 2010 if iam honest.

by Mr Nick09 Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:59 pm

It's also a name loaded with meaning. The word "Orbis" itself, from Latin, means circle, or ring, or even orbit. Not terribly helpful. Combine it with the name of Sony's new handheld system, though, and you have the common term Orbis Vita (or, in strict Latin, Orbis Vitae). Which means "The circle of life". Could the Vita be playing a very important role in the development and use of the next PlayStation home console? Maybe!

by RealGunner Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:59 pm

Atleast they are using AMD lol

by Mr Nick09 Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:02 pm

My worry is not so much for the console but for the developer since the cost of producing games went up so much in the last generation. As long as development costs are not excessive, and the console is easy to develop for then i'm not really worried about the technical specs.

by Guest Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:15 pm

seems pretty shitty to me, whats with the outdated tech specs.........

by LeSwagg James Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:36 am

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:
Swagg wrote:Can you tech savy people explain how much more powerful the X64 is than the PS3?

If it will be 3 years old in 2013 what's the point? Why not release the latest shit from 2013?

Well it was made in 2010 compared to the specs of PS3 which was specifically made from the ground up and designed for the PS3, but it was made in 2006.

So it will still be a crap tonne more powerful as iam sure the new Xbox will but quite frankly id expect and up to date machine when he gets released.......

Console cycles are long enough but to release 3 year old hardware on top of that is silly imo and i dont expect it.

These are rumours for a reason and i expect the specs to to be using something closer to this year than 2010 if iam honest.

Oh I see.. The specs should be no more than a year old from the release date in my opinion

by TalkingReckless Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:14 am

Crimson wrote:seems pretty shitty to me, whats with the outdated tech specs.........

i think they are going for better resolutions this time...they might put 4k resolution in it.

if you guys don't know what 4k resolution is try this youtube on orignal....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0m1XmvBey8

majority of people will see alot of lagg.... 4k Resolution is used in RedOne Cameras

and most likely they will have a cross platform gaming like Wii-U does atm with the Vita...portable and console

and recently Sony filled for a kinect type patent, so they will be going towards full motion gaming too, no more PS move

by Rebaño Sagrado Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:17 am

nice sig !

by Sushi Master Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:56 am

PC gaming is stagnating because of consoles Sad

. That hardware is so frakking old. I only have to replace my video card every 3 years now instead of every year like it was before :vagi:

I guess I'm spoilt or something, but games nowadays just don't have that "whoa" factor anymore. I want photorealistic graphics and 100 thousand man battles.

by •MilanDevil• Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:01 am

imalegend wrote:
Crimson wrote:seems pretty shitty to me, whats with the outdated tech specs.........

i think they are going for better resolutions this time...they might put 4k resolution in it.

if you guys don't know what 4k resolution is try this youtube on orignal....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0m1XmvBey8

majority of people will see alot of lagg.... 4k Resolution is used in RedOne Cameras

and most likely they will have a cross platform gaming like Wii-U does atm with the Vita...portable and console

and recently Sony filled for a kinect type patent, so they will be going towards full motion gaming too, no more PS move

Did not lag once and looked awesome.

by che Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:16 pm

lol 4k resolution my ass... consoles have massive overheating issues as it is, good luck having your graphics card not catch fire when processing textures in a resolution that huge

by nichabr Thu Mar 29, 2012 4:39 pm

i highly doubt this is true esspecially since gamespot is turning into the gaming website equivalent of goal.com...when i hear sony announce it then its ok but not gamespot.

by RealGunner Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:04 pm

thats actually true ^

Ign havnt said much and i trust them the most.

by goonbrain Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:18 pm

If the games cant fully utilize the provided specs, then why complain about the 'old' specs? scratch

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:40 pm

Because smart phones are more powerful than the current generation of consoles lol.......

Theres an urgent need from a developing stand point for new consoles......

I dont know about the Spec's but when the console comes out be it Playstation or Xbox the specs shouldnt be a year older than when the console releases.

For example if it comes out in 2013 the GFX card being used should be one from this year in the very least.

Like Nichabr said i dont trust anything until i see confirmed specs i would be very suprised if they use specs from 2010.

by Bellabong Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:17 pm

The source is Kotaku who are pretty reliable and you can pretty much consider the name finalized. Unless Sony are being master trolls by making http://orbis.scedev.net/ available but not http://ps4.scedev.net/

Only thing I really care about are the Xbox specs because that's what's going to be ported to PC. (One of the reasons for Xbox's existence, it was the DirectX box)

As for people complaining about the specs - console specs are always inferior to Mid-High end PC's of the time of their release. It's why they're so cheap. (In case people don't know, the GPU will be based on the ATI/AMD's being rolled out now, the HD7xxx series which would easily handle todays game engines at Quad HD) Hell I'm pretty sure my 275GTX could run todays console ports at 4k (unplayable fps though since thats essentially an x16 workload) and as for RAM/VRAM. While the VRAM is the most annoying feature of the current gen, limiting texture map sizes drastically, you don't need that much RAM on a console anyway...

AMD x64 could mean anything. The only info you can get from that is that it's a 64bit processor from AMD. Congratulations, you could've guessed that after Sony pulled out of the Cell project 4-5 years ago.

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