Sony hardware we may still be clamouring for more details. We should see graphics demos and the controller, but the interface, name, specs and the console design, may remain under wraps until E3 in June. Thankfully, now that we're now in the run-up to the reveal event a lot of very credible and precise information is available; so we can get a pretty good idea of how powerful the PS4 is going to be. There are still big questions left unanswered though, and we have no idea how much information Sony will be unveiling tomorrow.
Sony recently put out a video, which sets the 20th of February as the date for some kind of huge announcement. Watch it below from Sony's official YouTube channel.Nothing is stated explictly, but from the tone of the video we're certain that this will be the PS4 unveiling, Leaving E3 open to publishers to show off their games, and for Sony to talk prices and precise release dates.
Sony recently put out a video, which sets the 20th of February as the date for some kind of huge announcement. Watch it below from Sony's official YouTube channel.Nothing is stated explictly, but from the tone of the video we're certain that this will be the PS4 unveiling, Leaving E3 open to publishers to show off their games, and for Sony to talk prices and precise release dates.
Specifications:
It's been widely-known for some time that the PS4 will be based around AMD technology, both for its CPU and GPU elements. A fact that's been discussed for some time. Given how much money Sony sunk into its Cell processor for the PS3 – to little apparent benefit – it makes sense for the company to switch to an off-the-shelf design for this generation.
AMD has proved itself most capable at producing decent processors at a reasonable price of late, it's also shown that its can combine CPU and graphics elements on the same chip – essential for producing a console at a low price. Its PC graphics parts have long impressed us too. There's little doubt then that AMD should make a good hardware partner for PS4.
AMD has proved itself most capable at producing decent processors at a reasonable price of late, it's also shown that its can combine CPU and graphics elements on the same chip – essential for producing a console at a low price. Its PC graphics parts have long impressed us too. There's little doubt then that AMD should make a good hardware partner for PS4.
The PS4 is widely understood to have just 4GB of memory, however all that memory is a single lump of super-fast GDDR5, making it easy to access and develop games upon. This is different from the Xbox 720's more complicated memory architecture, which looks to be 8GB of slower memory with a small fast cache. The former looks better for graphics performance, while the latter might be superior for running multiple apps at once.
Blu-ray is a must for PS4, the PS3 came a little too early for Sony to comfortably include the hardware, but it still pushed ahead with it at great cost. These days, Blu-ray is one of the defining parts of the PlayStation brand and we can't see it being dropped.
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