Sony announces Playstation 4 (PS4) but does not show it

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Sony announced the new Playstation 4 yesterday in a show that provided us with information about what we can expect the company to deliver. Before we take a look at what that is, I’d like to point out that Sony did not show the Playstation 4 console during the show or reveal a final price. While that is certainly disappointing, Sony at least revealed information about the PS4 system architecture.

Sony moved away from the Cell cpu architecture of the Playstation 3 to the x86 architecture with an 8 core cpu. The most likely reason for that move is to drop production costs and maybe also to make it easier to bring PC games to the system (and PS4 games to PC).

What this also means, and this is without doubt a negative, is that PS3 games won’t run on Sony’s Playstation 4 on launch. That’s a big issue for current generation Playstation users who want to keep playing their large collection of games on the new system. While they could simply keep the PS3 and switch between both systems, it may not always a viable solution.

Sony’s PS4 console will have 8 Gigabytes of GDDR 5 RAM, local hard drive space (no mentioning of how many Gigabytes), and a 3D camera. Sony did not reveal many technical information about the gpu (graphics processing unit), only that it almost reaches 2 Teraflops of computational performance. Information about other hardware related features, if a disc drive is used, the connectivity features, how much power it consumes, have not been revealed during the announcement.

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At least they showed the DualShock 4 controller, the source of your image is incorrect.

See Official images here (sign in) :
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.555266397831314.127011.185469781477646&type=1

"Featuring a light bar, touch pad, enhanced rumble, share button and a 3.5mm headphone jack"
 

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Earth said:
At least they showed the DualShock 4 controller, the source of your image is incorrect.

See Official images here (sign in) :
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.555266397831314.127011.185469781477646&type=1

"Featuring a light bar, touch pad, enhanced rumble, share button and a 3.5mm headphone jack"

That facebook link doesnt work

Official image is this one,which is pretty much the same as in the article with maybe a few small cosmetic changes.

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Yeah, I figured when I tried in Incognito mode, must have custom view settings or a Like required.

As a PS3 owner, what do you think of the DS4 controller?
 

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I like the design and the suspending of game sessions and resuming by using the power button.The share option which you can supposedly hand the controller to someone else and they can continue your game where you left off.I dont really fully understand how it is described though.I am really more interested in the console and the game play and graphics more than anything.I would like to know the price also.

I also wonder what they have done to prevent loading your own OS on it.It has been fairly easy with the last system.
 
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