[Rumor] PS4 is codenamed Orbis and it also hates used games

3/28/12 3:00pm

The codename for the next PS4 is Orbis and it looks like we might be playing one 18 months from now. Rumored to be coming during the 2013 holiday season, the CPU is an AMD x64 chipset, and matches previous things we have heard about the system. There is also talk about the GPU being AMD’s new “Southern Islands” line of high-end cards, capable of displaying games in a resolution of 4096x2160.

Some developers began receiving dev kits as early as this January and a more improved version was shipped out after GDC. This should be enough lead time for companies to build some launch titles for holiday 2013. Here is the thing though; they had better have some launch titles as this system is forgoing any sort of backwards compatibility. And like the rumored Durango, Sony is aiming at the used game market in an attempt to remove it completely. The source claims that

“new games for the system will be available one of two ways, either on a Blu-Ray disc or as a PSN download (yes, even full retail titles). If you buy the disc, it must be locked to a single PSN account, after which you can play the game, save the whole thing to your HDD, or peg it as "downloaded" in your account history and be free to download it at a later date… Don't think you can simply buy the disc and stay offline, though; like many PC games these days, you'll need to have a PSN account and be online to even get the thing started.”

There would be some sort of system that would let you unlock a game from a piece of hardware, but the source was unclear as to how it would be implemented. That seems like it would hurt big box retailers and potentially destroy GameStop in the long-run. Call me reluctant, but the premise that used games might begin to disappear in the next 2-3 years seems pretty dicey. What do you guys think?

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» Source: http://kotaku.com/5896996/the-next-playstation-is-called-orbis-sources-say-here-are-the-details
» Tagged In: #AMD, #Durango, #Gamestop, #GPU, #Orbis, #PlayStation 4, #PS4, #PSN, #Rumor, #sean hinz

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g1 DISCUSSIONS

Lipnox88

March 29, 2012 - 9:44am

fail. BC is a must

P.Suzuki

March 28, 2012 - 11:56pm

No backwards compatability? Well, I am not buying one then. The only reason why I got my PS3 despite there being nothing really out for it that I would want to play, was because I could still play my PS2 games on it just fine.

This is a major reason why I may never get a PSV either; all the games I liked for my PSP are on UMD disks, and the Vita is not backwards compatable with them. Good going Sony; you have lost another customer.

maotenshi

March 29, 2012 - 12:25am

As another thing to run off of your comment with, they now make disc games seem pointless by the wording in their comment to make disc pointless in buying, cause you can just download it.

Last time I checked, we got discs so we could have a physical copy we could share with others.

digitaldavenyc

March 28, 2012 - 9:45pm

Well this is why people crack video games. I personally have not done this on my console's even though it's within my technical ability because, after I am done with a game I can sell it and I do on some level want to support the developers being a developer myself. But, Your telling me if I want to take a game that I purchased legally and bring to a friends to play there instead, Sony won't allow this? Fair enough, then I'm cracking all your games then because your business ethics are so screwed up I will not support your product any further then I am physically able to.