Information on PS4/ORBIS controller design

[Minimur12]

so i saw this on CVG

PlayStation will bring an end to a sixteen-year tradition of DualShock controllers with the release of the PlayStation 4, CVG has learned.

All PlayStation controllers have undergone extensive prototyping A senior games studio source working on an upcoming Sony game says the new system's controller has undergone numerous iterations, few of which resemble the DualShock build that has become synonymous with PlayStation.
Experiments within Sony's R&D department are thought to have been extensive. Versions of the new PS4 pad include biometric sensors on the grips and an LCD touch screen, the development source claimed.
http://wololo.net/2012/09/23/sony-think ... nt-piracy/

The new console - codenamed Orbis - will be revealed in a matter of weeks, not months.

The biometric tech, in particular, is something games studios such as Valve are interested in due to its function as a heart beat sensor.


i found this online , these are just key copy&paste of the news topici saw




heres the news topic;
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/38 ... n-for-ps4/

opinions???
have to admit though, the heartbeat sensor would be good for action games and horror

just realised that its in the wrong section, i go to vita general by habit XD
please move

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[Tonakai]

Interesting - thanks for the information here. With regards to my opinion? Well, I'm rather skeptical in all honesty. I know and love the Dualshock design, and although I'm happy with giving other controllers a go; it seems rather needless to abandon it to me.

I do however rather like the idea of the bio-metric systems being put into place, but I'm not entirely sure whether or not it'll be of that much use.

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[Minimur12]

I remember there being a blog post on it having to track your fingerprint, so you can loginwith that rather than email&pass
and the heartbeat would be pretty cool with games like horror, the music changes depending on your stress level


but whenever i go round my friends and play on his XBOX im like...
AHHH different controller!!! lol

and a well spotted thing by a /talk user (cant remember his name sorry)
but ORBIS in latin means CIRCLE
and VITA in latin means LIFE

(CIRCLE OF LIFE?)
so the VITA could play a core part in the PS4/ORBIS

[Acid_Snake]

- moved to PS3 -> General

[jayfelice]

Won't be buying, I don't need some stupid Console tracking my DNA. That should be considered illegal in my opinion, but with how **** up things are in society I'm sure that most Countries won't see a problem with it.

[tinostar91]

Personaly I think that even if it will be good piece of metal it will have more apps than games, something that happens on everything, it will be much better in many other things but not in the way for which it was created, have a look at phones, consoles, tv and all about that, it has a load of features but it fails at things for which it was done (like tvs with internet browsers, webcams, real time 3d conversion but with terrible colours, 2-cored phones with 512 mb of ram and 8 gb internal memory where you have problems to get signal even if you are right at transmitter and with almost not-working mic etc.)

[St33lDr4g0n]

Yikes, a controller that tracks your DNA?

C'mon Sony, we just wanna play some video games

[Acid_Snake]

Yikes, a controller that tracks your DNA?

C'mon Sony, we just wanna play some video games

it was Nintendo who started with this "inn0vati0n" trend, so it's them to blame that other companies are coming up with dumb inventions

[heyitsfalcon]

Yikes, a controller that tracks your DNA?

C'mon Sony, we just wanna play some video games

it was Nintendo who started with this "inn0vati0n" trend, so it's them to blame that other companies are coming up with dumb inventions

I don't know, I think Nintendo has gone pretty far in the ways of innovation, not so much the DNA tracking, but they have set the bar for the other consoles to meet and try and overcome. So in a way, we may never have had the advances in gaming without Nintendo's creative team.

[Acid_Snake]

I don't know, I think Nintendo has gone pretty far in the ways of innovation, not so much the DNA tracking, but they have set the bar for the other consoles to meet and try and overcome. So in a way, we may never have had the advances in gaming without Nintendo's creative team.

they only innovated the wii controller, everything else is cheap (in terms of innovation), already-known, technology