Sony PS4 Console in Development, AMD Building Graphics Tech?

i think the ir was added to the google tv remotes because of cost. ir for remotes is not any more useful than bluetooth. in fact ir is less useful because you need to point the remote at the device for it to work properly. it would be nice if the ps4 will make use of the ps3 controllers that everyone already has. and if it does, that would allow more time for the development of the actual console instead of some off the wall controller that will be canceled like the boomerang controller.

Wonder if they will allow it to use IR it seems they have completely switched to Bluetooth despite adding ir transmitters in their google tv remotes since they know it's still useful.

I prefer single cards, I just mentioned the 6990 because the card has top notch power.

As for drivers, I've never had trouble with nVidia or ATI drivers.

I'm thinking you don't work in an engineering field. Engineers will know best what they should use, but some crappy manager will end up making the decision based purely on cost. Outside of small start-ups, engineers usually are told what to do/build and don't get the final decision. It's gets extremely frustrating.

That said, I don't care if the PS4 cures cancer I'm still not buying it. Sony craps on its customers constantly and really doesn't care about the customer experience or what their customers ask for. I can only imagine all of the tracking of usage and personal data they will be collecting, you know cause of the piracy boogeyman and all. I've supported all of Sony's consoles up to the PS3 and I've had it with the way they treat paying customers. No Vita, no PS4. Screw you Sony.

I've been playing Skyrim on PC and I think that will be my platform of choice. I think Steam is a great compromise between securing their games and not screwing the people who have purchased games. It's not perfect, but at least I won't get a root kit or something similar, which is exactly what Sony would do (and has in the past with their music CDs...).

The 6990 is a dual GPU card, I doubt they would EVER use two GPUs and if they did it certainly wouldn't be something that actually costs money like a Cayman chip. If they really cared they would have worked with AMD to create a custom GPU based on the HD 7000's architecture.

As for on a PC... stay away from dual GPU cards, especially crossfire, AMD probably had the worst driver track-record in history in 2011. Even with a single 6970 I had problems up the wazoo.