In the early hours of yesterday during the PlayStation Meeting 2013, which was broadcast live from New York to the entire world from 00 hours in Luanda, the Playstation 4 was finally announced, thus ending the many rumors about this new console and the replacing with facts. Although the Playstation 4 itself was not shown it was a dawn full of news, so many aliases that it was difficult for us to choose what to inform you. If we were to put in this article all the details of this meeting and all the details revealed to the press since then, we would have an authentic book, so since this event we have been surfing the internet and forums outside to find out what players around the world most wanted to know and in the end these were the most frequently asked questions:
What are the specifications of the 4 Playstation?
Regarding hardware PS4 is certainly better than any console currently on the market. It is capable of competing with any computer of today, although unfortunately it has not already been outdated by the latest high-end computers. The specs of the 4 Playstation:
| Main Processor | Processor customized with single chip; AMD x86-64 central processor with eight low-power 'Jaguar' cores; AMD's Radeon technology graphics processor with performance of 1,84 teraFLOPS (trillions of floating-point operations, which is a graphics processing unit) |
| Memory | 8 GB GDDR5, with 176 GB flow per second |
| Hard drive | Not revealed yet |
| Disc player | Blu-ray speed 6x; 8x speed DVD |
| Doors | USB 3.0; AUX (for the PlayStation 4 Eye camera) |
| Communication | Ethernet (wired); IEEE 802.11 b / g / n (wireless); Bluetooth 2.1 (with EDR, wireless) |
| Audio and video outputs | HDMI Analog Digital Optical (Sound) |
Yeah, but what does that mean? What is the capacity of the console?
As the table above shows, Playstation 4 has a custom chip, an eight-core 'Jaguar' x86-64 CPU from AMD (ie 64-bit PC architecture) and a graphics processor from Radeon technology, also from AMD, capable of reaching 1,84 teraFLOPS. Swapping for kids this means that the Playstation 4 is able to perform eight times more the number of operations that the PlayStation 3 is capable (230,4 gigaFLOPS).
If we compare the graphics capability of PS4 with that of a PC, we can say that it has a graphics engine equivalent to a slightly improved 7850 HD. This is a fairly good graphics card, but it is far from the latest, alias AMD has at least 4 other graphics cards better than this one.
With PS4 Sony clearly opened up a war against "loading" which is demonstrated by the memory capacity, neither more nor less than 8Gb. This may seem little compared to a PC but if we buy with the Wii U that has 2 Gb, with the Xbox 360 that has 0,5 Gb and the PS3 that has 0,25 Gb we can see how fast this console will be.
When does the Playstation 4 come out?
According to Sony the PS4 will be released "at holiday time" or somewhere in the week of Thanksgiving until Christmas Day. However traditionally the consoles are released in November so we can probably see it being released at that time.
How much will it cost?
Unfortunately Sony has not revealed the price yet, leaving it to the E3 fair, which will be in June, to reveal.
What will be the main features of the Playstation 4?
Being a new generation console one of the points that we can expect is of course greatly improved graphics. As I mentioned, Sony opened a war against "loading" and made this the fastest console ever made, but it didn't stop there. A feature has been added where we can leave the console in hibernation mode, that is “half off” and return to our game at any time. It will also be possible to make downloads of any kind while playing. In addition, it will not be necessary for the download to reach 100 percent to start playing, it will be enough to have a small part of the download done and the game can be started.
PlayStation 4 will have a button on your new control to share experiences, you can upload photos and videos to Facebook and make live broadcasts of our games on Ustream. Our friends will be able to comment, give tips and even help us with items to play it or else controlling our character and passing that part where we are trapped.
Can I play Playstation 3 games on Playstation 4?
Yes and no. According to Sony, PS4 will not be compatible (on a hardware level) with PS3 games, that is, DVDs and games that have been “downloaded” to PS3 will not run on PS4. However Sony intends to offer games from past generations (ie PS, PS2 and PS3) through a cloud system. In this service, the PlayStation Cloud, games will be on demand over the internet.
As I mentioned before the amount of information that has been revealed since yesterday morning was so huge that we will have to fill volumes and volumes here on the site. Yes we will have to do it because much remains to be developed, much less pertinent information has yet to be revealed and a lot about the new generation of the gaming console was for informing you, so we will continue to inform you in the coming days, while the other information of this announcement are developed and gain more content.
In the meantime, here is the video of the PlayStation Meeting 2013, although much more has been revealed in the meantime these two and a half hours can tell you most of what is currently known from PS4.
