PS4 Dev Kit Specs Leak, Details Internal Tech, Controller, And More

Can't wait for this!

Can't wait for Xbox 720's specs to outshine it.

AGAIN.

You cannot wait for something that never happened? There was a reason PS3 costs 600.00 at launch...

Highly sceptical of the touch pad. would have worked great in a game like Okami, but I think most devs will struggle to make a game BETTER by including the funcionality. The problem with an under-used feature is that you still pay for it every time you buy a controller.

Much like the "motion controls" of the sixaxis.

What ever happened to a simple controller? I love the dualshock, why does everything seem to need a gimmick? Makes me so angry i could spit.

I like the idea of two people signing in on one console. It is annoying as hell to be a guest in certain games and waste several hours having fun with friends but then have to grind out the same stuff again on your own console seems tad bit redundant.

I'm skeptical that they can do all this, especially the fancy Orbis controller, and stay under the essential $400 price point.

CONSOLES are ALWAYS (traditionally) sold at a loss. They sell the actual console at a loss and attempt to make up for that loss by overpricing peripherals and software licenses.

Pretty common knowledge. Hence why the big 3 are always trying to push out those AAA in-house titles.

I still doubt, even at a loss, that they could put a reasonable price point on a console with the features listed above.

Why not? AMD CPUs/GPUs and memory are relatively cheap now. Even if the system costs $1000 and they sell each at a $600 loss, they will make that money back easily with advertisements and 3rd party licensing. ESPECIALLY advertisements .

Look at my youtube: bigtruckseriesreview

I just crossed 2 Million views and almost have 1000 subscribers. I am making $500 a MONTH on Youtube and for what? For some stupid company I will NEVER support or buy products from to run advertisements on my Youtube videos?

2013...the year of the next gen hype. Very exciting stuff. Cant wait!!

160GB HDD. Screw off, Sony. Unless that's a solid state drive, you're just being stupid, now. And make the Vita a compatible controller.

Plenty for a dev kit, but if they want to puch PSN purchases, you're absolutley right. I'm still surviving on my 80GB that came with my PS3, but I've had to groom it for intalled games & downloaded demos a number of times.

So they are essentially using an AMD A10 APU with the key difference being the APU having high speed graphics memory available to it unlike the PC version. This is a smart and budget friendly design choice. The APU's biggest weakness in the PC is lack of access to dedicated high speed memory. Making a new console is about the only chance to fix that. I feel the memory amounts are overkill while the HDD specs are to small. A unified 2GB of high speed RAM and a 500GB HDD would be more ideal.

I agree, why so skimpy on HD space? It's super cheap, 250 GB should be bare minimum, and even then that's still being stingy.

If those specs are right, I don't think this could be an A10 APU. The A10 series uses "Piledriver" compute modules, which are the 2nd generation of "Bulldozer" modules. Also, while there are no current models of A10 APUs that feature 4 modules, there are 4 module "Zambezi" processors that use Bulldozer modules, which have been around since 2011. Those do not have a graphics processor on the chip.

My guess is that they went with a discrete solution for the GPU. In the end, I don't think it really matters. While enthusiasts have a "more is better" attitude towards these sorts of things, I think companies like Sony have pretty clear performance goals when they make these things.

A Bulldozer CPU? Really?? REALLY???? They couldn't pay the extra $10 for the ideal version? They would be much better off going with a Quad Core Phenom II, heck, a Piledriver would've at least been ideal. But a Bulldozer with 8 half-asses cores?? sigh... Well I guess they have to save whatever money they can at this point.

A Bulldozer CPU? Really?? REALLY???? They couldn't pay the extra $10 for the ideal version? They would be much better off going with a Quad Core Phenom II, heck, a Piledriver would've at least been ideal. But a Bulldozer with 8 half-asses cores?? sigh... Well I guess they have to save whatever money they can at this point.

First of all, the "CONSOLE WARS" are DEAD.

there are no more "console wars".

console wars implied that the systems were competing for our money in a cutthroat competition i.e. Sega vs. Nintendo vs. NEC vs. Atari of the 90's where most of the competition was going to DIE.

What we have now are corporations controlling gaming and timing every single release in cahoots with Gamestop - so they can suck every single dime out of our pockets.

It goes like this:

#1 Callofbootyblackcocks5 is hyped by everyone.
#2 You MUST pre-order CallOfbootyBlackCock5 by depositing money in Gamestop so you can get special equipment like an LED strapon or two maps that shoulda been included in the first place.
#3 Gamestop deposits your money in the bank and earns interest for a month or 2 before callofbootyblackcocks5 is released. (that's millions of dollars in interest).
#4 You line up like a SHEEP to buy callofbootyblackcocks5
#5 You play the game and beat it in 5 hours.

#6 after you beat the singleplayer, you play the crap multiplayer which is roughly the same as the multiplayer you played in callofbootyblackcocks4, but now you have more remote controlled *****s.

#7 The hype behind callofbootyblackcocks6 starts.
#8 in the mean time, please buy Gaylo5 and GodofWhores4.

love it! but i buy those games more for the multi player and only pre order close to release

I don't understand specs as well as I'd like to. I know this is good, but how good is it? And what about comparing this to the wii u?

This is a dev-kit. They're several times more powerful than the console they're used to develop for... The computer I'm typing this on, which was purchased early last year for less than $1000, outshines it in every way.

It's interesting. I was convinced that there wasn't even a PS4 Dev Kit yet. Maybe Razorfist was wrong. Then again his rant about Obsidian was hilariously ill-informed.

seconded. I'm really not all that tech-savvy either.

How would this compare to (rumors) reports of the new box's specs? regarding cpu and speed and graphics etc ? any idea mate?

They're apparently about similar. But again these are dev kit specs, not final specs. The dev kits are usually much more powerful.

A touch screen on the back. If I didnt have a case on my vita I end up hitting buttons all the time, but that because. The vita is flush on it backside so my fingers touch rear touchscreen