Next-gen PlayStation “Orbis” expected in 2013

http://www.slashgear.com/next-gen-playst...-29220516/

It’s not clear if Sony intends to reveal a new PlayStation at E3 this year, but new details have emerged regarding the console, including what it could potentially be called. Kotaku has learned that the current working codename for the next PlayStation is “Orbis”. The console is also being planned for a 2013 release during the holiday season.



The Latin name “Orbis” means “circle”, or “ring”. Combined with Sony’s portable PlayStation Vita, you could be looking at a Latin play on words: “circle of life.” Specs for the console aren’t finalized, but Sony is said to be working with an AMD x64 CPU and an AMD Southern Islands GPU right now. The Orbis’ GPU will be capable of displaying a 4096×2160 resolution, and playing 3D games at 1080p.

Kotaku also reports that “select developers” have been courted to work on the console, receiving development kits at the start of the year. Finalised beta versions of the console will be sent out towards the end of this year. That will give developers time to work on any games planned to launch with the console during the holiday season in 2013.

Finally, it’s revealed that Orbis will not be backwards compatible with PS3 games, just like the PS3 removed the ability to play PS2 games. Sony are also working on an “anti-used games” system. Games will be available on both Blu-ray Discs and the PlayStation Network, and once you purchase/download and fire up the game, you’ll be required to “lock” it to your PlayStation account. If you were to try and trade the game or sell it second-hand, the new buyer would be limited in gameplay, and be required to unlock/purchase the full game again.

Ha.

Sony secretly catering to MapleStory players.

SAAAAAAAAAAA-MBOENYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

fucking anti-resell thing though, that's LOW.

Playstation "Death."


If you know anything about Chinese, Japanese and Korean superstitions, you'd get it (or if you read that article on Kotaku).

Seriously, this crusade against used games sales needs to be put to a fucking stop. They should just go after Gamestop already and get it over with, instead of making us consumers suffer for it.

Agreed. That whole "locking" crap is obnoxious and stands as a big obstacle with the way gamers play games a lot of the time (especially with old consoles/games).

I thought about posting this a couple days ago but decided against it, it pissed me off too much. This is going to be the first console I crack if I actually decide to purchase it (which I probably won't). And I've owned a PSP since launch. No back compat is an even bigger issue than the used games thing, to me, and simply cracking the console wouldn't fix that.

Finally, it’s revealed that Orbis will not be backwards compatible with PS3 games, just like the PS3 removed the ability to play PS2 games. Sony are also working on an “anti-used games” system. Games will be available on both Blu-ray Discs and the PlayStation Network, and once you purchase/download and fire up the game, you’ll be required to “lock” it to your PlayStation account. If you were to try and trade the game or sell it second-hand, the new buyer would be limited in gameplay, and be required to unlock/purchase the full game again.

I don't even know what Sony is trying to do anymore...

Planned 2013 release date=2016.

I really want to support Sony, but they're making it so hard... This is just failure. I hope they get rid of the pre-owned games idea. Also, I think I won't be released until mid 2014 late 2014. 2013 is just around the corner.

pomegranate like this is why I stick to gaming on the PC.

pomegranate like this is why I stick to gaming on the PC.

I notice you got a steam account there. You realize you can't sell/buy second hand games on steam either right?

I notice you got a steam account there. You realize you can't sell/buy second hand games on steam either right?

But Steam isn't a rip-off at least.

A lot of rumours say Microsoft are also planning to do a similar thing in regards to pre-owned games. I hope both turn out to be false really. Or if they are true i hope the Wii U is powerful enough to get cross platform games.

>Limited Gameplay for 2nd hand consoles.
They just want to get money for that.
Even friends that trade games to play "together" will be affected. That's 2 for the idea of 1.
>not backwards-compatible
And them good PS3 games get retro.
>Orbis Vita
doesn't even mean Circle of Life, but rather Circuli de Vita (Or in the current vocables, Oribs Vitae). To be exact, there are multiplire vocables that mean Circle, as example Animus, which also means Ghost.
Orbis has the sense of a circle surrounding something, AKA Earth is in a "Orbis".

>Orbis Vita set.
Why I say that PSVita will be combined with PSOrbis?
I belive Sony tried to patent the "2nd picture controller" (AKA Wii U).
I see it coming. Just the wordplay is... urgh.

I belive Sony tried to patent the "2nd picture controller" (AKA Wii U).

They can't patent something Nintendo already has a patent on. o.o

I notice you got a steam account there. You realize you can't sell/buy second hand games on steam either right?

At least steam has a business model that I can support though. Wherever you can log in, you can download your game.

Disappointed in all of this anti-used game-locked to one console stuff going on. Can think of many things wrong with that system of doing things, but little to no benefits of it, to us as customers anyway.

Heh, I expect this to end up like the PS3, PSP and Vita: really nice hardware that will be plague by typical Sony decisions that can basically be translated to hating their customers.

They can't patent something Nintendo already has a patent on. o.o

They tried.
I read that somewhere, and it even had a "concept pic" which showed what looks like a ps3, and a psvita/psp, and some connection text and blablabla.
They actually tried.