Less than week after Watch Dogs stole the show at Sony’s Playstation 4 event Ubisoft has revealed the box art for the fall game. And the most interesting part of this is that it shows that the game is indeed coming for current generation systems as well as the Playstation 4 and next Xbox.
No release date has been given for Watch Dogs, but it should release in the fall.
For those of you that followed us during our live tweet of Sony’s Playstation 4 announcement we thank you greatly and now that the system is officially real we can begin getting into the guts of the matter.
Sony went into greater detail about the interior workings of the Playstation 4, more than I thought they would and under the hood it is a very, very impressive piece of hardware. So much so that I may have to change my price prediction and match up with the $429 and $529, two-sku rumors flying about.
What Sony announced is swimming around their new monster console:
-AMD 8-core 64-bit X86 Jaguar (not Atari) CPU
-Radeon GPU with 1.84 TFLOPS of processing for graphics, etc.
-6X Blu-Ray drive and 8X DVD drive
-8GB unified GDDR5 RAM
-802.11 Wi-Fi
-USB 3.0
-Bluetooth 4.1
-HDMI, optical out and analog AV
Sony was very forthcoming in saying that they wanted this console to be developer friendly. It is widely known that a lot of developers had problems working with the Cell processor in the PS3 so Sony has done them a great service by making the Playstation 4 more PC-like.
With the Sony Playstation event coming up on Wednesday where the Playstation 4 is expected to be unveiled the rumor bin is in full overdrive. The newest one comes from The Wall Street Journal that reports that Sony will offer streaming games over their new system.
‘The new technology, to be unveiled Wednesday along with the new console, will allow users to play games delivered over the Internet, these people said. The streaming service, they added, is designed to use current PlayStation 3 titles on the new console; the new device is also expected to play new games stored on optical discs.”
This rumor should probably be filed under the section “completely likely to happen”. Sony spent $380 million dollars last year purchasing the streaming service Gaikai and I am pretty sure it wasn’t just to have no use of it.