Monday, February 16, 2015

Playstation 4: Hardware Review



The Playstation 4, also known as PS4, is a home video game console from Sony Entertainment. The Playstation 4 was launched on 15 November 2013 in North America, and 29 November 2013 in Europe and Australia. It competes with Nintendo's Wii  and Microsoft's Xbox One, as one of the eighth generation of video game consoles.
Moving away from the more complex Cell architecture of its predecessor, the PlayStation 4 features an AMD x86-64 Accelerated Processing Unit, in hopes of attracting a broader range of developers and support for the system. The PlayStation 4's GPU can perform 1.843 teraflops with the storage size of 500G and display of HDMI. Sony calls the PlayStation 4 "the world's most powerful console". The introductory price for this console was approximately 400$. 
My personal experience with Playstation consoles starts from way back when there was playstation 2. I have bought the Playstations since then and currently has the newest Playstation 4. In comparison to Xbox One, I could not find any particular field that is better than the other. However, I bought PS4 over Xbox One because I was used to using the Sony's Playstation platform and PS4 has more games available than the Xbox. Other than that the graphics look really similar and Xbox seemed to have a slight more speedy games when comparing two identical games in two different consoles.  
I also thought that both consoles tend to be more of a home computer than just a home game console because newer versions give us so many computer functions such as internet browser, Netflix, Online chatting, and others. 

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