New Sony Playstation 4 Unveiled: Pictures & Videos

Sony officially announced the PlayStation 4 at a press event Wednesday, the latest generation of its popular console.

“The living room is no longer the center of the PlayStation universe, the gamer is,” Andrew House, Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment said at the event. “We believe that PlayStation 4 represents a shift from thinking of a box or console.”

Features

The new generation console comes with an X86 processor, an enhanced PC GPU, and 8GB high-speed unified memory. The console also comes with a touchpad, share button, an updated DualShock controller and a headphone jack directly on the controller. It also comes with a light bar on the back of the controller for identification of players, as well as a 3D camera on the console that is meant for tracking the controllers connected to the console. The console has dedicated, always-on video compression, making it easy to share video clips of your gameplay on-the-fly with friends.