DanielVT Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 (edited) How Powerful Is Sony’s PlayStation 4 Hardware? by Ben Reeves http://www.gameinfor...4-hardware.aspx Development of Sony’s PlayStation 4 started five years ago. The publishers wanted system to be powerful, but also wanted to evolve the systems UI as well to allow users to navigate their content more easily. What are the detailed specs? During Sony’s PS4 reveal event, lead system architect Mark Cerny took the stage to talk about the new consoles hardware. According to Cerny, the PS4 features a supercharged PC architecture with a x86 architecture CPU, an enhanced PC GPU, and 8GB of GDDR5 system memory as well as a local hard drive. This all means that the PS4 can make nearly two teraflops of computations a second. What does this really mean? It means that games look really good. We saw a demo of Epic’s new Unreal 4 engine, which looks far superior than any game running on today’s systems. What are some of the cool features this hardware allows? The new PS4 controller features a low power button. If you hit that the system enters a low power mode and pauses the game. Hit the button again and you jump back into the action. Another cool features is that a secondary custom ship allows you to update games in the background, upload gameplay video of your game, or even start playing a downloaded game before its finished downloading. This all sounds pretty great right now, and we can’t wait to see how some games will take advantage of this new hardware. Edited February 21, 2013 by DanielVT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navep9 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 I thought it was cool how the the conference went straight to the specs. Most people werent expecting that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambers35 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 This is something that excites me It's a huge step up from the PS3, especially from a development point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielVT Posted February 21, 2013 Author Share Posted February 21, 2013 I thought it was cool how the the conference went straight to the specs. Most people werent expecting that. It's like Sony was saying, "Microsoft, your move.....yeah, you can't compete." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1973456 Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 (edited) It's like Sony was saying, "Microsoft, your move.....yeah, you can't compete." They can,nothing is stopping them and I agree with Navep it was a nice touch. But can they do it at an affordable price? Like Sony wants with the PS4 not going for more than 500$ We'll have to wait and see. Edited February 21, 2013 by Ramonalicious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielVT Posted February 21, 2013 Author Share Posted February 21, 2013 They can,nothing is stopping them and I agree with Navep it was a nice touch. But can they do it at an affordable price? Like Sony wants with the PS4 not going for more than 500$ We'll have to wait and see. Starting price for the lower-end PS4 (HDD wise) will be $399 , at least that is my guess, and I feel very confident about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridwaano Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 that controller !! want that :> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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