Playstation 4 - First Impression (Specifications/DualShock 4 Pics/Summary)

Snapshoot of the Live Playstation - 2013 Meeting

Some minutes ago, Sony has presented Playstation 4 in an official presentation giving us a small taste of what the new console's capabilities will be, leaving other crucial information such as what it will actually look like, its official release date and its price for the upcoming E3 exhibition in June in Las Vegas.

Sony wanted to focus, not only to the gaming experience regarding high processing power and graphics but also on many other relative factors and a huge variety of services that players will experience that will be way more than its predecessor had to offer. In these services are the ability to live broadcast your gameplay or to interact, help, and take control over your friend's game right the moment when it happens. For the creation of PS4, Sony has discussed with many game designers in order to understand their needs and to achieve the maximum desired result. 

In tonight's event, that Sony live streamed and that they watched it over than 3.5 millions of people online, these are some of the new features that were presented and we are going to see on the upcoming console:

- Processor thats based on the x86 architecture

- 8GB GDDR5 RAM

- DualShock 5

- Low power consume

- A second custom chip that is responsible for taking up other tasks such as downloads/video uploads/browsing while you play the game at the same time

- Games are being downloaded in the background

- New graphic environment

- You can watch ur friends live as they play their game and comment, participate in chat while you can also at anytime take control and help your friends.

- You can share your gaming footage instantly and with just one button over the Playstaion Network or on other devices as well such as smartphones, tablets etc...

- There is also the capability of broadcasting live as you play

- The PS3 titles will not be compatible on the PS4 system but Sony is working on some alternative solutions.

DualShock 4

DualShock 4. The new gamepad of PS4 comes to confirm the rumors the had been leaked the last few days. Its partially redesigned and it has:

- a touchpad on the front side

- a "share" button on the back side

- a headphones port

- and a light bar that in combination with a 3D camera it can detect the pad in the three dimensional space and tranfer the movements in the game

Interactive online help

The "Social Gaming" is what makes PS4 to stick out of the crowd of the next-gen consoles. Sony in collaboration with Facebook and Ustream are making a network of gamers in which they can share gaming footage just by pressing the "share" button on the DualShock 4. In other words you can broadcast or upload your game in search for help or comments.

PS Vita also plays a vital role in the future of PS4 having the capability to play the games of playstaion 4 by the streaming network of Gaikai, the company that Sony bought last June.

Alongside these new console's specifications we watched representatives of the largest video game companies such as Square Enix, Ubisoft, Activision, Blizzard, Quantic Dreams and Capcom, representing demos and footage of the game that the PS4 is going to host. Those games were Final Fantasy, WatchDogs, Halo, Diablo III (so the rumors were true), Knack, Second Son and Driveclub.

Summarising, with the arrival of PS4 we are going to experience the gaming as we never did before. The gaming experience will reach a totally new level that till today we could only imagine and watch in sci-fi movies, it will bring the gamers even closer with the network sharing community, and it will give them all those things that the companies wanted for so many years but the past's technolgy did not let them. 

Source: Playstation Meeting - 2013