Sony Computer Entertainment has Wednesday night in New York, the PlayStation 4 has been officially announced, but the console itself is not shown. The PS4 will have a x86-based soc and 8GB of gddr5 ram. Furthermore, the DualShock 4 controller has a touchpad, and it supports the 3d-camera tracking.
Since Sony announced that on February 20, future of PlayStation would let you see, it was already assumed that it was going to be the announcement of the PlayStation 4. Just after midnight Dutch time proved that to be wrong, and announced that the Japanese company is the fourth PlayStation console. The console itself was, however, not yet shown. However, let Sony release the console at the end of this year in the shops.
The PlayStation 4 console has a specially for the console developed soc with eight cores based on the x86 architecture. The combined cpu/gpu would be outside a bandwidth of 170GBp/s and has a computational speed of 2 teraflops. The system has 8GB of gddr5 ram.
With the new console means a new controller. The DualShock 4 controller that Sony during the event showed looked very much like the prototype of which, last week, images emerged. The most striking feature of the controller is that there is a touchscreen on the front and that there will be PlayStation Move features are built-in. This will be followed by a provided 3d-camera. Also includes the controller, a headset connector, just under the touchscreen at the front.
Via the powerbutton on the DualShock 4 controller and the console in sleep mode, thanks to a resume function. A second custom chip in the PS4 allows for downloading updates in the background, also in the sleep mode, while Sony also promises that gamers some games can play while the rest of the content is still being downloaded from the internet.
With the Share button can be seen which games friends are playing, while also own spelbelevingen looking back can be, can be edited and others can be controlled. Furthermore, there are, according to Sony via additional apps to make links between the PS4 and various portable devices, including tablets and smartphones. Further, it is possible to send live images to send on the fly while friends from among others Facebook, live commentary. It would even be possible to become friends via the internet the controls of a game about to take. Further PS4 games locally streamed to the Vita. Sony would in time all PS4 games suitable for want to make, making the Vita the client, and the PS4 the role of server.
Such as last weekend uitlekte can the PS4 also streaming games to play. That will initially go to PlayStation 3 titles, but later also PS1 and PS2 games. The games can be thanks to a for the PlayStation 4 enhanced service provided by the Sony acquired cloudgamingbedrijf Gaikai, to the console and streamed. The name of this service, PlayStation Cloud, came Tuesday to the outside, because it was known that Gaikai various domain names registered around that name. It is, however, whether this possibility is already at the launch is available. Also will the PS4 not PlayStation 3 titles from a disc, or native, to be able to play.