PlayStation 4 Officially Announced: All You Need To Know

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Sony announced the PlayStation 4 — its next generation gaming console and the successor to the PlayStation 3, yesterday at their New York event.

The console packs some impressive hardware specs. An eight-core X86 AMD “Jaguar” CPU and a 1.84 Teraflop AMD Radeon graphics engine (with “18 compute units”) are what power the central processing on the PS4, There’s also 8GB of fast GDDR5 memory on-board.

The PS4 will have a hard drive but the size and if it will be easily interchanged with that of the PS3 is still unknown. Sony also promised that the PS4 will allow speedy background downloading, and games will even be playable as they’re being downloaded! Sony showed us what there’s figures meant with a demo of the systems graphics (video below).

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People raised questions concerning PlayStation 3 games working on the PlayStation 4 and Sony explained saying that PS4 supports not just PlayStation 3 backward-compatibility, but potentially PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 games via a PlayStation Cloud Service. They didn’t specify how or when it will be available.

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Although the console was not shown, its controller was. The new controller called DualShock 4, maintains the same familiar basic look as the older controller but has a touch pad above the two analogue sticks, much like the touch pad behind the PlayStation Vita.

It has a Micro USB port, Bluetooth 2.1, Sixaxis gyroscope/accelerometers, standard headphone/microphone jack and a share button that can be used to broadcast your game session to online friends, via services like Ustream.

Sony is gunning hard for the social crowd, with features such as the ability to upload gameplay clips to Facebook. The PS4 controller will also have a light-up bar that looks like a transplanted top of a Move wand which will make the controller motion-capable. The glowing light communicates with the PlayStation 4 Eye, a new dual-camera sensor bar that also supports Move controllers.

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The console has some new features like Remote Play, which will allow you to play PS4 games on your PS Vita. It sounds somewhat like what the Nintendo Wii U enables on the GamePad, except in this case they’ve translated the experience to a fully independent handheld device. They discussed the feature, but didn’t demo the technology at the event.

We’re waiting for Sony to announce the price of the PS4 and grace us with a picture. We’ll keep you updated as soon as we get more information.

In the meantime, what do you think about the ability to upload and share gameplay and the ability to play a game while it’s being downloaded? Please leave us a comment.

Victor Nneji

Tech Fanatic. Enrolled on a Computing for Business course at Aston University, Birmingham. Attended Dowen College Lagos. Nigerian. Follow me on twitter @Vicneji.

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