Showing posts with label Playstation 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Playstation 4. Show all posts

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Few interesting tidbits from Edge PS4 issue


  • The PS4 developer summit right after E3 2012 was called....'The Science Fair'
  • The DualShock 4 controller doesn't automatically press the triggers when you sit it down (rejoice!)


  • Drive Club is not a simulator or an arcade, they say it is a realistic approach to racing games.
  • Gyroscope in the Dualshock 4 made a big this time around. Original specs wouldn't have made the controller that much of an improvement when it come to motion sensing accuracy and latency. But Evolution Studios convinced the Sony engineers back in Japan to increase the frequency of the gyroscope so that it is accurate enough to be a be used a steering wheel controller without feeling tacked on.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

PS4 speculated hardware overview




According to the recent leaked information, the PS4 will be using AMD's A10 APU. What is interesting is that how much the chip design resembles to that of smartphones. You are not only getting CPU and GPU on a single dye, but also very very power efficient compared to what is used on current consoles.

Also this unification will also mean the CPU and GPU can work in tandem without sharing a bridge like Xbox 360 does. Which would mean the GPU can times offload complex geometry calculations to the CPU and the CPU similarly can leverage processing power of the GPU when it is not used, example during load times both the CPU and GPU will work together for incredible load times. While a reasonable 8GB SSD can be used for essential system functions and can speed up the system even more.

Good times indeed :)