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Want to See the Future?
Want to See the Future?
Date: 2013-02-28
This announcement brought excitement to gamers all around the world as it has been nearly 7 years since the Playstation 3's release. A long wait for a device that has been estimated to have sold more than 77 million consoles since January 2013.
Being shown off with a new controller design, which has new features including a touchpad, a headphone jack and what I can assume is a more curvy shape.
When the hardware specifications provided by Sony are examined one can see exactly how immense the changes are. The Playstation 4 console will ship with predominantly PC hardware for the first time since its inception and this will include:
- 8 Core Procssor
- 1.82 TFLOPS GPU
- 8GB of GDDR5 RAM
- USB 3.0
For those who don't know the aforementioned '1.82 TFLOPS' means, that is the Graphics Processing Unit, capable of processing up to 2 trillion operations per second.
These hardware upgrades will allow the Playstation 4 to run almost seamlessly, no waiting for games to load, no waiting ages for booting up. Sony even stated that the user would be able to play a game whilst downloading it, allowing those with ultra-high speed Internet connections to feasibly play any game on the Playstation Online store without waiting.
The world has evolved so much in such a small period of time, making this truly an exciting time to be living in.