The PlayStation 4 is a video game console and will be the fourth video game console produced by Sony and successor of PlayStation 3 as a part of the PlayStation series. In January 2013, Sony introduced a website teasing a major announcement, slated for 20 February. The announcement event, known as the PlayStation Meeting 2013, took place at the Hammerstein Ballroom at Manhattan Center Studios in New York featuring the unveiling of details about the console. It was a little disappointing as they didn't display the actual console, and didn't reveal the price too. PS4 will be launched in Q4 of 2013. Let's take a look at it's specifications!
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Boasting 8 GB of GDDR5 System Memory, PS4 houses a next generation AMD Radeon GPU containing a unified array of 18 compute units, which collectively generate 1.84 Teraflops/s of processing power that can freely be applied to graphics, simulation tasks, or some mixture of the two. It has a custom-designed single-chip x86 8 core CPU also developed by AMD. It is code-named "Jaguar". A Hard Disk (Size unannounced) is included. The read-only optical drive will read Blu-Ray discs at 6x and DVDs at 8x. It also has a USB 3.0 slot, Bluetooth 2.1 and can be connected output screen via HDMI and analog AV-out. For those of who found the above gibberish, the PS4 packs state of the art hardware, the type which would be a ginormous leap in the area of gaming consoles. The console will be able to produce graphics like never seen before, bringing an array of new titles in the range.
The DualShock 4 will be PS4's controller.It is quite similar to DualShock 3, with several new features. It sports an integrated capacitive touch pad, headset jack, share button and LED player identifier. In addition to helping track a player for motion-based controls, the built-in LED can also be used to represent in-game elements, like a player's overall health!
The PlayStation 4 Eye has been revealed as having a 1280 X 800 pixel camera capable of capturing video at 60 frames per second! Which is significantly over Kinect's 640 X 480, 39 frames per second camera. It can also be used to automatically detect players.
It's Microsoft's move now to respond with the next generation Xbox but we can finally say that the next generation of consoles is coming!
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