Some of the new details about this new system are awesome to me, some of them not so much, and some of them are just weird.
Sony's Playstation 4 will boast several new hardware specs, such as 8GB of memory, an AMD Radeon graphics processor, and an 8-core AMD "Jaguar" x86-84 to power the machine. I'm not exactly an expert on hardware, but these all sound like some purty fancy stuff!
Along with hardware, Sony announced a new way to play games with friends. This is what I found to be so strange. Apparently with the new Playstation 4, you will be able to virtually "hand" off the controller to a friend, from any distance. You have the ability to allow friends to pick up and play a game you are playing from across the world. This seems very strange to me, but who knows? It could be the next big thing in gaming.
Other new things announced included the new DualShock controller and the PS4 Eye. The controller looks similar to its ancestors, but has several new toys built in including a touch-sensitive sensor and a "share" button that allows you to post things such as game plays or screenshots from the Playstation to the internet with the click of a button. The PS4 Eye is similar to the Xbox 360's Kinect system, but with more FPS and 1280x800 pixel sensor (Kinect only has 640x480 and 30 FPS). Here are a few pictures as well as a link to an IGN article about the PS4's announcement:
The new "DualShock 4" controller for the PS4
The PS4 "Eye"
IGN's article about the PS4 here.
That certainly blows the rumored specs for Microsoft's new console out of the water.
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