The much anticipated Sony PlayStation 4 has been announced today. It has backings of big gaming companies. The presentation showed a lot of information on the games and the DualShock 4 controller except for the console itself.

There is no pricing and the availability is just Holiday 2013 (I presume it is towards the end of the year). However, looking at the video of the games, I think they look awesome.

Technical Specification

Here is the Technical Specs of the Sony PS4 if you are interested.

• Single-chip custom processor, with eight x86-64 AMD Jaguar CPU cores and 1.84 TFLOPS next-gen AMD Radeon based graphics engine
• 8GB GDDR5 memory
• Built-in hard drive
• 6x Blu-Ray and 8x DVD drive
• USB 3.0 and auxiliary ports
• Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.1
• HDMI, analog AV-out, and optical S/PDIF audio output
• DualShock 4 controller, with two-point capacitive touchpad, three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer, vibration, light bar with three color LEDs, mono speaker, micro USB port, stereo headset port, extension port, 1000mAh battery
• PlayStation 4 Eye camera, with two 1280 x 800 cameras, f/2.0 fixed focus lenses, 85-degree field of view, 30cm minimum focusing distance, four-channel microphone array

Click Here to Check Out the Press Release (with specs)(in PDF format)

From the information that I have read, Sony focused a lot on social sharing and connectivity. And with Sony Eye, I see that as a direct competition with Xbox 360.

From the blog post of The Verge, the PS3 games is not backward compatible with the PS4 console

Unfortunately, while the new console will in fact not be backwards-compatible with current PlayStation 3 titles, the much-anticipated streaming solution for PS3 titles isn’t here. However, Perry did say that the company was “exploring” the ability for PS3 titles to eventually be available on almost any device.

Nevertheless, PS4 do have some great games to start with.

Games

From the video, I think the games look awesome. Here are some titles: –

• Killzone: Shadow Fall
• Deep Down
• Watch Dogs
• Driveclub

Click here to check out the games for Sony PlayStation 4 (PS4)

Another interesting thing about the Sony PS4 is that Sony is going to launch a Sony PlayStation app for Android and iOS later to complement as a second screen for the console.

Anything that I missed? Or yes, how does Sony PlayStation 4 looks like? I guess everyone will be curious to know. We do not have the answer (yet).

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