Playstation 4 Announcement In February 20th Conference

While the picture above is just for illustrative purposes and is in no way the actual look of the PS4, the February 20th PS4 announcement date is very real. Sony is holding a press conference in New York on this date and it is to announce their new console which rumors say is slated for an October 2013 release! While not much information is available there are a lot of rumors circulating and here is a list of some of them.

PS4 Specs: 

CPU: 4x Dual-Core AMD64 "Bulldozer"

Storage: 2.5 inch SATA HDD (160 GB) hard drive (in Developer Console, not likely for the retail version)


Memory: 8GB DDR5 RAM


Graphics: AMD R10xx with 2.2GB of VRAM


HDMI: 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p


Game Media: 8x Blu-ray BD-ROM (54-128GB of data) at 36MB/s


Primary Media: Blu-ray 8x, DVD, Compact Disc, Download


Backward Compatibility: Unlikely, maybe for PSN purchases


I/O Ports: 4x USB 3.0, 2x Ethernet; Audio Output: HDMI & Optical, 2.0, 5.1 & 7.1 channels

Rumors also speculate that the controller will have a sort of touch pad, and that the PS4 will be CLOUD integrated. While all these things seem to be fine and dandy it is still being said that the system will not be backwards compatible and not only that but you will not be able to play used games on it or lend your games to your friends. Apparently they will be registered to your system and will not play in others. I have voiced my disagreement with this policy as video game companies tend to produce big piles of crap every once in a while and expect us to pay full price for them with no hope for a refund. A good example of this is Duke Nukem which was $10 about 2 months after it was released because it was a seriously bad game, now add to that the fact that there are some gamers out there (myself included) that play a game and finish them quickly and want to resell so they can buy another title or just make their money back for a relatively short game like "Dishonored" we wont be able to do that now, it's going to be $60 every time you want a game. Check stores like Wal-Mart, Gamestop and BestBuy for older games and then find that same game in the PSN you'll see it's actually more expensive in the PSN about 99% of the time and they want to go digital with games. In other words there wont be a reason to purchase a hard copy because it will still have no monetary value like it does now when we resell it to other people or stores. The PS4 is also expected to have an initial price of $400 no word on the GB of the system yet.

I would like to remind you all that these are rumors so far, but I am looking forward to February the 20th to confirm or dispel these rumors. What are your thoughts on this? Would you buy a PS4 under these conditions?