Playstation Meeting 2016

[scarless landi]

Hey Guys,

Today Sony will be holding a live conference covering 2 of the new consoles. The Playstation Slim and the Playstation Neo. You can check out the stream below.

https://www.twitch.tv/playstation

Starting time: San Francisco: 12PM / New York: 3PM / London: 8PM / Berlin 9PM / Moscow: 10PM / Beijing: 3AM (September 8th) / Tokyo: 4AM (September 8th) / Sydney 5AM (September 8th).

[Peter]

Part of a sensational Wednesday night lineup:

6pm - Apple confrence
7pm - Sony conference
8pm - Bake Off
9pm - Cant Pay? We take it away!
10pm - Hells Kitchen


Absolute scenes.

[Let's Get Sweaty]

Confusion not only in the two posts above but also elsewhere about the start time. I think it was actually PlayStation Europe's blog that listed one time for BST and another for CET, even though both timezones are in sync.

[Peter]

Aw shit. It is 8pm.

[scarless landi]

It stats at 3:00 PM (EST) for me. Only downside is I am at work till 6. Just gonna have to catch it during my down time :p

I know this conference is for the new consoles. What are the chances we get a new game announcement or even Shenmue 3 news?

[Peter]

No Shenmue related news. But it's an hour and a half and they will need some sort of game reveal for the whole "first game on neo" speech.

There's a lot of excitement around this because unlike Sony, there have been little leaks. Even the name is still up for suggestion. For me personally I watch with hope, not expectation, but R* appearing, or any sort of RDR news will have me hit the roof. Possibly GTA 5 story DLC? God Of War is definitely out, but possibly Last of Us 2 announcement doing the rounds. Also could be a complete VR show depending on the route they take.

Guess we will have to just wait and see.

[BlueMue]

I wonder how much intel Sony provided to Yu Suzuki regarding the specs of the PS4 Neo so they could possible be working on improvements for the more powerful hardware right away. But with the limited budget I don't know how much they can do here.

The electronic markets here are sure as hell ready to clear the shelves for the Slim and Neo. There's an offer where you can get two PS4s for 398€. Doesn't make much sense for the buyers if you just want one for yourself but the price is unbeatable. Good thing I already sold my PS4 a 2 months ago.

[Peter]

Same. I sold mine a while back, but I am gonna need one for November so I am hoping the Neo will see a really short release date. But there's chatter of it being next year, and the slim will he heavily promoted along with VR to tide the wait.

[Peter]

PS4 PRO

[scarless landi]

Did they say its an attachment to the PS4?

[Peter]

They haven't even shown it off yet so not too sure.

[scarless landi]

Gah, Call of Duty..Just show us what the PS4 Pro looks like and a price

[scarless landi]

$400.00 usd and it comes out this November! Woot!!! Completely new console, not an attachment.

[Peter]

Not sold at all. A good price point I thought it would be a little more, but there gonna be a patch for the standard PS4 for HDR and they didn't release any proper specs so it could be a sort of "fake" 4K.

I will probably just go with the slim for now. I wasn't sold that at all. I dodnt see reason to go to all the effort to sell my 50" smart TV, buy a new 4K tv, then get the Pro. No sale Sony. Smart from a business standpoint, but notfor me.

And I will have my physics homework ready for Mr Cerny in 2 days.

[BlueMue]

That stream was... underwhelming. It's not that I expected anything wowing about it but it's baffling how bad they present the system itself. Lots of 4K HDR talk and lame gameplay footage and trailers and then oh we almost forgot to show you the console too. Well I can't blame them too much, it's not really a pretty thing.