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Into Console War: Ps4 comes out at Christmas to 399 €, the first round goes to Sony vs. Microsoft - The best games for Ps4 and Xbox OneUp Into announcement of the final price of the machine, the line-up of games altogether had not impressed. If in fact the performance of Xbox One was muscular (13 new exclusive) that Sony has not been less quality but overall is weaker. As expected Sony has staked everything on the gameplay experience on a range of international titles and less testosterones. Many titles indie, independent games, a breath of fresh air for an industry that has struggled to invent new interactive experiences. Among the most interesting titles are to be reported as transistor Supergiant Games, creators of Bastion, Do not ‘Starve a strange survival game full of science and magic, or as Octodad: Dadliest Catch where the protagonist is a kind of mushy octopus.

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    The digs at Microsft
    The event at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena was also an opp ortunity to take some liberties with Microsoft rivals. To meet the policies of Xbox One of used and free online (http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/license), Sony said to support trade in used video games and do not in any way require the connection internet. However there was little information on the most anticipated feature, that of cloud gaming. Andrew House, the head of Sony Playstation said that the start date will be 2014. But the project is still very smoky.

    The cloud gaming
    Cloud gaming means playing streaming, connecting to the internet entrusting to an external server hardware to run the games. The software are on the “cloud”. The promise is to bring games that require hardware and computing power on less powerful devices such as mobile phones, tablets and mobile devices. Sony aims a lot on the technology that would allow among other things you can use on Ps4 the “old” Ps3 games. O enable features such as “remot e play” the feature that allows you to play streaming on the screens of Ps Vita via Wi-fi maintaining the same quality of play of the Ps4. The big picture seems to be that of a cloud platform Playstation license plate, a playful cloud can offer gaming experiences for mobile phones, tablets and computers. A service in the service of consumer electronics. To give consistency, however, on a project as ambitious will have a spread of broadband and investment in each country. Serve rather Gaikai server on the territory. Video games in fact unlike other content such as streaming movies or music require “response time” fast, one hundredth of a second delay for example in a shooter substantially affects the game experience.

    The form factor of Ps4
    Last question was related to the design, the shape of the new Ps4 (in February had been presented only the controller). The new console is black, from afar vaguely resembles the Xbox One but le ss boxy, less VCR. Some might also like. But no one among those present, has a miracle.

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