How did those demos play without the PS4?

**Syphon_Filter** · 03-01-2013

It just came up on my mind. As we saw in the Sonys event those playable demos of Driveclub, Killzone: Shadowfall, and Knack. The person who was holding the controller was aiming down. Does that mean the PS4 was hidden there? Because those demos werent recorded or were trailers. So, what do you guys thing? Was the PS4 there? Were they installed on HDD or something make them playable without the console

**Ixion** · 03-01-2013

Dev kit.

**coolguy** · 03-01-2013

The demos where runing on developers kits basically a ps4 in a pc tower..

**Lefein** · 03-01-2013

Console secret from actual historic Japan.

**Syphon_Filter** · 03-01-2013

Originally Posted by Ixion

Dev kit.

Ohh ok. So, thats mean they gave them a temporarily system to use I got it.

**Syphon_Filter** · 03-01-2013

Originally Posted by coolguy

The demos where runing on developers kits basically a ps4 in a pc tower..

Yeah, I understood now thanks.

**Sufi** · 03-01-2013

No, it's not a temporary system...it's literally a PC that has similar specs as the PS4 would have. I'm thinking when you say temporary system...that it is an unfinished PS4.

If not, disregard this post.

**Syphon_Filter** · 03-01-2013

Originally Posted by Sufi

No, it's not a temporary system...it's literally a PC that has similar specs as the PS4 would have. I'm thinking when you say temporary system...that it is an unfinished PS4.

If not, disregard this post.

Yeah, you are correct. I meant by temporary unfinished PS4 that just can play those games to show to the people.

**radgamer420** · 03-01-2013

Originally Posted by Syphon_Filter

It just came up on my mind. As we saw in the Sonys event those playable demos of Driveclub, Killzone: Shadowfall, and Knack. The person who was holding the controller was aiming down. Does that mean the PS4 was hidden there? Because those demos werent recorded or were trailers. So, what do you guys thing? Was the PS4 there? Were they installed on HDD or something make them playable without the console

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE

**Syphon_Filter** · 03-01-2013

Originally Posted by radgamer420

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE

Very interesting!

**TAZ427** · 03-01-2013

Originally Posted by Syphon_Filter

Yeah, you are correct. I meant by temporary unfinished PS4 that just can play those games to show to the people.

That's not a very good way to describe it. As was mentioned it is a Development platform, it's a Alpha/Beta version of the PS4. It is made to as close to the specifications as they can to what they intend to be the production. It is not built on a PC chassis, but would have the same architecture as the final PS4. They probably don't have an early APU, but they would integrate the GDDR5, GPU and CPU all on a board with early sample HW (later the GPU and CPU would be integrated inside one chip - two die's one chip in what's known as a Multi-Chip Module MCM.)

It has two benefits.

#1) It gives the developers something to test their code on as they develop their games, there will be new dev kits that come out when they finalize there design as well. The biggest differences from the retail game console would be more things like Debugging Emulation support.

#2) It gives the developers time to provide good feedback as to what is working well for them and what's not. This feedback is most likely what led Sony to up the GDDR5 to 8GB

It's much more than 'Just can play those games to show to the people'.

**MonkeyClaw** · 03-01-2013

Pretty sure it was probably running on one of these:

**Sufi** · 03-01-2013

Screw the console, I want that.

**MonkeyClaw** · 03-01-2013

Originally Posted by Sufi

Screw the console, I want that.

Become a developer for Sony and it can be yours!

**Sufi** · 03-01-2013

Damnit, that's too hard!

**MonkeyClaw** · 03-01-2013

Originally Posted by Sufi

Damnit, that's too hard!

You could always pull a SuperDaE, but I have a feeling Sony is a little more locked down on getting dev kits!

**Sufi** · 03-01-2013

Yea I bet it's embarrassing since some employees probably knew him.

lol funny sig btw.

**Bio** · 03-02-2013

What happened to the possibility that it's just a real PS4 that is simply hidden from view?

After all, it's gotta be done or near-completed with E3 coming up.

**Lethal_NFS** · 03-02-2013

Originally Posted by Bio

What happened to the possibility that it's just a real PS4 that is simply hidden from view?

After all, it's gotta be done or near-completed with E3 coming up.

It would be unlikely as they would want to make sure there were no hiccups during this conference. And especially seeing how the announcement of the 8gb of RAM was a surprise to the developers.

**ps3freak18** · 03-02-2013

With unicorn's blood and pixie dust.

**Syphon_Filter** · 03-02-2013

Originally Posted by TAZ427

That's not a very good way to describe it. As was mentioned it is a Development platform, it's a Alpha/Beta version of the PS4. It is made to as close to the specifications as they can to what they intend to be the production. It is not built on a PC chassis, but would have the same architecture as the final PS4. They probably don't have an early APU, but they would integrate the GDDR5, GPU and CPU all on a board with early sample HW (later the GPU and CPU would be integrated inside one chip - two die's one chip in what's known as a Multi-Chip Module MCM.)

It has two benefits.

#1) It gives the developers something to test their code on as they develop their games, there will be new dev kits that come out when they finalize there design as well. The biggest differences from the retail game console would be more things like Debugging Emulation support.

#2) It gives the developers time to provide good feedback as to what is working well for them and what's not. This feedback is most likely what led Sony to up the GDDR5 to 8GB

It's much more than 'Just can play those games to show to the people'.

You have got it all right friend and good details

. Iam not at describing about these things as don't have enough knowledge lol.

@MonkeyClaw

Pretty sure it was probably running on one of these:
I would say yeah.

**LfCpS3** · 03-02-2013

It is basically running on a PS4 devkit or a PC equivalent of a PS4.

Either-way, expect the console to be a bit more powerful ( especially with the 8 gb ram increase and the possible CPU/GPU rumoured changes) and with the finale spec PS4 they will be able to optimise games a lot easier without worrying about changes/ early tech, expect even better graphics within a year or even on release!!