PS4 release date, news and features

PlayStation 4 is headed for a November release 

 

The PlayStation 4 will go for selling later this season and it'll be less expensive than the Console One - $399 in the U.S., £349 in the U.K. and €399 - in comparison to $499 and £429.

These costs information were exposed along - at lengthy last - with the look of the PS4 system itself, at Sony's E3 2013 media meeting.

Sony says the PS4 was developed with an overarching concept of a "frictionless and seamless" activity playing encounter.

We've known that the PS4 will monitor both the operator in a gamer's side, as well as their encounter, since the console's release in Feb. But during his GDC discuss Norden exposed some exciting methods that this technological innovation will be applied in activities.
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For example, the old multi-player divided display, divvying up tv property when two or more gamers go at it, will be assisted by this monitoring technical. If a player gets up and goes right or remaining, his area of the display will instantly be changed.

We discovered a whole lot more when Sony models provided its E3 demonstration, so study on for all you need to know about the new PlayStation...

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PS4 release date

The official PS4 release date was announced at Gamescom 2013. The PS4 will go on sale on November 15 in the US, followed by the UK on November 29.

PS4's new look

The PS4 itself was proven off for initially at E3 and it's dark, just like the Console One. However, it has an angular style and seems to be designed of a identical nasty to the unique PS3 Thin device.

It looks as though it's thinner than the Console One but we're not completely offered away by the style. What do you think?

PS4 price

Sony declared the PS4 price at E3 - it'll price $399 in the US, £349 in the UK and €399 in European countries when it goes for selling in Nov. That's a whole $100 less expensive than the Console One.

That price, it must be said, does not consist of the PlayStation Photographic camera, whereas the Console One will deliver with the second edition of Xbox xbox 360 kinect.

PS4 used games/online check-in

The PS4 will offer unlimited accessibility pre-owned activities. So when you buy a headings, you are free to then business it in at retail store, offer it to another person, offer it to a buddy or keep it. Microsof company originally designed to limit these aspects with the Console One, but important backlash from the game playing group pressured it to backtrack and feature-match the PS4.

PS4's free features

Microsoft is popular for securing many of its Console Stay functions (Sky Go etc) behind the paywall of its Console Stay Silver service, while Sony models mostly allows capabilities to run for 100 % free. This is set to follow the PS4, after Sony models verified that functions such as celebration talk, perform free-to-play activities like Planetside 2, or online applications like Blockbuster online will all be totally able to accessibility even if you don't have a PlayStation Plus registration.xxxxx

Collaboration with PlayStation Vita

The PS4 will release with the capability to flow activities straight to your PS Vita. In exactly the same way as the Wii U allows you to change off your TV and stay in the hand on the product operator, the PS4 will easily deliver your activities to the Vita.

There will be identical synergy between "all Sony models devices" which indicates Xperia gadgets and pills, Bravia TVs and BD gamers.

At the end of This summer, Sony models exposed that the PS Vita will actually be able to management PS4 activities themselves, offering that designers prepare that performance into their activities.

This is a powerful sign that Wii U-like game enjoying, using the Vita as a second display, is on the way.

PS4 specs

AMD's technological innovation is coursing through this new body blood vessels, and Sony models lately informed us that it considers the PS4 to be the most highly effective game playing system every created. Sony models exposed the program operates on a single-chip customized processor processor and uses eight x86-64 AMD Jaguar CPU cores, with a next-gen AMD Radeon centered design motor energizing the way.

So it's very much a PC-based program then, which is very good information for designers who will discover it much simpler to rule activities for the next gen games consoles and for PCs. However, that CPU is hardly next-gen - it may have been intensely customized for this program but the AMD Jaguar system is certainly not the quickest of its type - indeed it's more slowly than Intel's quickest by purchases of scale.

However, with less redundancies than a PC has, the PS4 will certainly be able to create use of every individual Watts of energy it attracts. And the activities we've seen so far certainly look amazing.

The "highly improved PC GPU" is another AMD aspect - something along the collections of a Radeon 7850 cards - and functions 18 GCN models. That may audio a like a lot of techy mumbo large but what it basically indicates is that the GPU functions 18 handling groups, each packaging up to 64 cores. That provides a lot of similar handling energy, and will thus manage many of the PS4's hard perform. It strikes 1.84 TFLOPS of handling energy, a excellent amount more than the Console One.

The PS4 will also use GPU estimate functions to take benefits of the GPU's raw energy - it'll be used for common calculations projects as well as creating activities bright.

Memory

The PS4 will deliver packaging 8GB of GDDR5 storage. That's some super-fast things right there and should allow extremely quick performance.

Indeed, Sony models has exposed that you will be able to energy down the PS4 mid-game and then change it on again in a few moments and choose up right where you remaining off. That's the kind of running energy that this storage allows.

PlayStation 4 Eye

What's really getting though is the growth of the PlayStation Photographic camera, a recently designed camera program that uses two high-sensitivity cameras prepared with wide-angle contacts and 85-degree angled position opinions.

Sony said the cameras (amounting to 1280 x 800 pixels) can cut out the picture of a gamer from the qualifications or distinguish between gamers in the qualifications and forefront, improving action easily. There's also discuss of signing in using face identification and using speech and body system motions to perform activities "more naturally."

If you want to know how these specifications collection up against what we know so far about the Console One (clue: PS4 is more powerful) - examine out our evaluation of PS4 and Console One specifications.

PlayStation 4 Specifications

• CPU: low power x86-64 AMD "Jaguar", 8 cores
• GPU: 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD Radeon™ Graphics Core Next engine
• Memory: GDDR5 8GB
• Hard Disk Drive: Built –in
• Optical Drive (Read only): BD 6xCAV, DVD 8xCAV
• I/O: Super-Speed USB (USB 3.0), AUX
• Communication: Ethernet, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth® 2.1 (EDR)
• AV output: HDMI, Analog-AV out, Digital Output (optical)

DualShock 4 specifications:

• External Dimensions: Approx. 162mm x 52mm x 98mm
• Weight: Approx. 210g (tentative)
• Buttons: PS button, SHARE button, OPTIONS button, Directional buttons (Up/Down/Left/Right), Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square), R1/L1/R2/L2/R3/L3, Right stick, Left stick, Touch Pad Button, Touch Pad 2 Point Touch Pad, Click Mechanism, Capacitive Type
• Other Features: Light Bar, Vibration, Built-in Mono Speaker
• Ports: USB (Micro B), Extention Port, Stereo Headset Jack
• Wireless communication: Bluetooth® Ver2.1+EDR

PS4 camera specifications

• External Dimension: Approx. 186mm x 27mm x 27mm
• Weight: Approx. 183g
• Video Pixel: (Maximum) 1280 x 800 pixel x 2
• Video Frame Rate: 1280x800 pixel @ 60fps, 640x400 pixel @ 120fps, 320x192 pixel @ 240fps
• Video Format: RAW, YUV (uncompressed)
• Lens: Dual Lenses, F value/F2.0 fixed focus
• Field-of-View: 85 degrees
• Microphone: 4 Channel Microphone Array
• Connection Type: PS4 dedicated connector (AUX connector)
• Cable Length: Approx. 2m (tentative)

PS4 pre-orders

So far, you can pro-order your console at ShopTo, GAME and ASDA.

DualShock 4 gamepad

If you have an eye for information you may have observed that the PS4's DualShock 4 operator has no Begin or Choose control buttons. It has an Choice key instead, as well as the much bandied-about Discuss key on the back.

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The analog stays have been stiffened up to be more accurate, and the operator also functions a product new three-axis gyroscopic movement indicator with three-axis accelerometer which should be excellent for getting you engrossed in the activities. The photographic camera consistently paths all four remotes with accurate precision. Spinning monitoring is offered by the inner elements.

The operator has a two-point Vita-like touch pad on the top side with a 1920x900 quality, and a responsive simply clicking audio allowing you to know you've pushed it. The mild bar on the top side will shine different colors based on whether you're gamer 1, 2, 3 or 4 and will be monitored by the new PS Eye photographic camera. The operator also has an Xbox-style ear phones port and a mono presenter within it.

Video-watchers take note

This new PS4 operator won't unintentionally move on when you set it down. Norden said this was one of the greatest problems his group observed about the PS3's DualShock. The PS4's operator has activates developed not to press when set down. What's more, Norden even said he would been losing remotes without missing only one structure.

That touch pad on the DualShock 4 will be able of two multiple information. The mild on the operator will shine red, red, natural or light red mild, based on whether you're gamer one, two, three or four.

The Share button

The PS4's elements encoder always information the last several moments of action without using any extra sources from the experience. By pushing the Discuss key you can then publish or preserve your game perform, display your buddies or keep it just for your own entertainment.

Colours

The PS4's DualShock 4 operator will be available from release in Dark, Red and Blue.

DualShock 4 lightbar

The DualShock 4 operator, you will see, has a Move-like radiant mild bar. This creates it possible for the PlayStation Photographic camera to monitor the controller's place. This, it has been exposed, is a lasting fitting and cannot be converted off, so if you don't like controller-sourced feelings illumination, think about getting a third celebration pad.

PS4 Streaming

PS4 loading allows you flow out stay game play to your buddies. This is all designed into the components and does not need to be reinforced by designers. Customers can respond to it clip by writing feedback immediately. You can do this to buddies, or community.

PS4 customer interface

The XrossMediaBar (XMB) customer interface of PlayStations previous has been absolutely cast off in the PS4, with Sony models instead selecting to style a new OS that looks a lot more like that of the Console 360 than the PS3.

Will the PS4 be 4K capable?

In a talk with Kotaku, Sony models has exposed that the PlayStation 4 will be able to play-back 4K/Ultra HD movie. However, it will not elegant to 4K or perform activities at 4K quality.

Sony has also verified that it will definitely release a 4K film assistance on the PS4 and is looking at methods it can get around the 100GB downloading needed.

Backwards compatibility

The PS4 will definitely not provide local assistance for PS3 activities. However, there will at some factor be a assistance on the Sony models Enjoyment System that provides server-side emulation and loading of activities from PS One oldies right through to PS3 Jewelry Versions.

PlayStation Move

Sony has verified that PlayStation Shift will perform a big aspect in the PS4 environment. However, it has not yet been exposed whether the PS4 will release together with a new PS Eye photographic camera and new Shift remotes or whether the peripheral devices are remaining the same with all the improvements made console-side.

By monitoring the mild bar on the DualShock 4 pad and connecting it with encounters in the picture, the experience can recognize which gamer experience is linked with which activity character. By using face identification the experience can affiliate a experience with a PSN information.

• High sensitivity, dual color cameras. Two cameras here.
• 1280x 800 12 bits/pixel, 60hz
• Higher frame rates at lower resolutions
• Wide angles – diagonal field of view is 85 degrees
• 3 axis acceeletromter, tilt sensor
• Wide baseline 4 microphone array
• Dedicated port, exclusive SCE connector
• Game-loop sync can be changed, depending on framerate of game

PS4 Blu-ray drive

Not only will the PS4's 64-bit x86 structure and 8GB of GDDR5 storage strike its forerunner out of the h2o, its Blu-ray generate will be three periods quicker.

"If you're arriving from the PS3 you're probably quite used to the frustration of having to divided storage arhchitecture, you can't quite use all of it, the rates of speed are really insane on some of it - we don't have that with PS4," said Norden.

He included that this would provide designers "crazy great bandwidth".

PS4 Immediate On

The PS4 will be one cold system if Sony models is to be considered. It will have an immediate on/off function enabling your to closed down during a activity title and then begin up from the begining in a few moments and continue where you remaining off. The periods of patiently waiting 60 a few moments as your system plenty up are about to end.

What's more, Frank Norden has pressured that Sony models has three tenets of PS4 design: easy, public and immediate. Players will be able to begin enjoying headings before they've even completed installing.

And with one key discussing, Norden says the objective is to create it so easy customers will "do it without considering it."

PS4 launch titles

A number of games have been revealed for the PS4. They Are: Deep Down (Capcom), Destiny (Bungie), Diablo III (Blizzard), Driveclub (Evolution Studios), Final Fantasy (Square Enix), Infamous: Second Son (Sucker Punch), Killzone: Shadow Fall (Guerilla Games), Knack (Sony), The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED), Watch Dogs (Ubisoft).

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PS4 review

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