"PS 4" is new for players What is new, summary of new features and specifications

At last, Sony's latest game hard released "Sony PlayStation 4 (PS 4)" announced today, but at the recital time I tried to summarize the part "What is the new thing?" Besides the spec up which was not easy to understand.

◆ "SHARE" button shoot gameplay movies · screenshots on the net with one shot


On PS4, how long the game play continues to be recorded, it is possible to upload the play movie and screenshot of the last few minutes on the net just by pressing the "SHARE" button of the controller, with comments attached at the moment with Facebook You can post on it.


This is accomplished by linking the Facebook account and Sony Entertainment Network account.


For players it may be about "ummm", but GIGAZINE's 10th anniversary commemorative book "GIGAZINE Language to the future"As mentioned earlier, even though the use of game play videos and screenshots was once for review purposes, even if it was a legitimate quotation, or even if you got permission beforehand, the game maker's Since the legal department and the lawyer office sent a request for deletion due to "copyright infringement", "If quotation of movies so much can not be accepted even in one second or even two seconds, if it is impossible Let's have a case judgment in the court. " I was very much looking forward to what kind of thing it would actually be like because that situation was quickly overturned.

◆ Streaming Live Repeatable with "Ustream" etc.


In the release sentence of PS 4 is written "It is possible to live relay game play easily to friends through internet relay service such as Ustream", thinking from the expression "etc.", of course, " Nico student "also comes into the category in the future? It is expected. In addition to posting comments on the relayed video, it is also possible to provide items that will restore the physical strength of the character to those who are playing the game through the network, special weapons, etc. to aid in progress It seems that it is not limited to simple streaming. This kind of game broadcasting is now carried out here and there as usual, but since the game animation itself was originally "target for deletion of haste" anywhere in the first place before a while ago, it is exactly the past two or three The environment has undergone a drastic change in about a year. This is also a nice thing.

◆ PS Vita · Sumaho (iPhone / Android) · Tablet makes second screen of remote play


By connecting to PS 4 via Wi-Fi, it will be possible to play PS 4's game from PS Vita, but not only that but it will install a special application "PlayStation App" on iPhone / iPad / Android-equipped smartphone · tablet By doing so, you can make it the second screen of PS4. This is not a sort of thing like checking a map of an adventure game as a separate screen, you can purchase a game of PS 4 from the outside and download it to PS 4 of your home, and even a game play of friends playing on PS 4 You can also do things like viewing from the destination.

Actually playing PS 4 from PS Vita


◆ Ability to interrupt the game at any time in suspend mode


The state of the system is temporarily saved by the suspend mode that makes the PS4 stand by in the power saving state. There is no such thing as waiting for every one.


Furthermore, even in the standby state, it is possible to download a special game and update the game, and there is no need to wait for all of the large capacity files to be downloaded, so the game can be started immediately as it is divided and downloaded. Moreover, it is also possible to activate a browser while playing a game on PS 4, it seems that it is becoming one of the basic concept of PS 4 to make everything "immediately" possible .

◆ Download and pre-predict games and movies you want and want to see in advance


In the same way as Google or Facebook gives a history of user operations and actions, analyzes, what each one is interested in - Showing the most suitable one, PS 4 also analyzes the play trend of players and " The game preferred by the player is probably "Corre" so that by downloading it in advance in advance, in the future it will bring the waiting time of download as close as possible to zero. Perhaps it is based on the viewing of game information of friends on the menu screen of PS 4, appreciation of game play, etc which becomes the basis of this information.

◆ Enable playing old games by cloud


It is also possible to use the flat-rate music distribution service "Music Unlimited" provided by Sony and the video preliminary video distribution service "Video Unlimited", and furthermore by the technology of Gaikai Inc., cloud service unique to "Playstation" will be realized with PS 4 As one example, "It is possible to make some trials of the product version of the game title in the PS Store". Not only that, this cloud service "As we will make it possible for users to enjoy many of the rich PS3 titles as high as 3000 since its release through this service," as stated in the release, It will be possible to play past masterpiece games etc on PS4.

Sony has summarized the above as five keywords,

Ease of use (Simple)
Crisp (Immediate)
Fusion with social (Social)
Cooperation with various devices / services (Integrated)
Optimization of user experience (Personalized)

I am doing. in short"Game with haste anytime and anywhereAs long as I can think of everything I should do to make it possible to do "! about it.

So, it is not yet announced what kind of appearance it is, but a part of spec is known and it is as follows.


· Main Processor
Single-chip custom processor
CPU: x86-64 AMD "Jaguar", 8 cores (For high-performance processors with AMD's Jaguar with CPU core of 8 dedicated x86-64 architecture and state-of-the-art GPUThis is detailed)
GPU: 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon based graphics engine (General purpose calculation processing (GPGPU) such as physical operation is also possible, the 18 compute units installed has computing capacity of 1.84 teraflops as a whole, Its ability can be freely assigned to graphic function, computing function, or both)

·memory
GDDR 5: 8 GB (GDDR 5 memory with a wide bandwidth of 176 GB / s is loaded with 8 GB, so game development is more efficient)

·hard disk
Built-in (It is unknown how much capacity is there, because it has a function to automatically determine the preference of the player in advance, it may be quite large capacity)

· Optical drive (read only)
BD 6 × speed CAV · DVD 8 × speed CAV

· I / O
Super-Speed ​​USB (USB 3.0) port, AUX port

·communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)
IEEE 802.11 b / g / n
Bluetooth 2.1 (EDR)

· AV output
HDMI output terminal
Analog AV output terminal
Optical digital output terminal

Speaking of the above specifications, the point that the CPU and the GPU are not independently developed, but adopt Intel's rival "AMD" company in its entirety. Recently I was fuzzy by Intel, and in the mobile field I was being pursued to Qualcomm etc, but if PS 4 got a huge, AMD is going to breathe back with that as well.

The release date is around the year-end shopping battle of 2013, the price is unknown at this time. How long will it cost me ....