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Sony officially unveils the PlayStation 4; set to launch for Holiday 2013 in the USA

At today’s PlayStation Event 2013, Sony thankfully did what everyone expected and revealed the next iteration of the PlayStation, titled the PlayStation 4.

Andrew House, President and Group CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment officially announced the PS4, saying, “Our vision for the future is consumer-centric, developer-inspired, and characterized by an unwavering commitment to phenomenal play experiences.”

“Today we are revealing the genesis of an expanding ‘idea’ about the future of play – an idea with enough potential to satisfy the insatiable appetites of our creative community of developers and gamers,” he continued.

The PS4 will sport a x86 CPU, an enhanced PC GPU, and will come with 8GB of unified memory. It will continue to use an additional hard drive to store content much like the PS3. Check the bottom of this post for the real tech specs, if you’re into that type of thing.

The PlayStation 4 will leverage recently-acquired Gaikai’s cloud technology to deliver an upgraded PlayStation Network, connecting you with games, demos, and social interactions with friends. When it came to streaming games, Gaikai’s David Perry summed up the new PS4 experience: “Try it for free, share it if you like it, only pay for games you fall in love with.”

The PS4 allows for games to be suspended, much like current functionality on the PS Vita, and its new DualShock 4 — complete with a “Share” button — will allow you not only to suspend the game you’re playing, but to stream current gameplay to friends or upload clips of gameplay to services like Facebook at the same time. The DualShock 4 looks much like the DualShock 3, apart from the added “Share” button and a touchpad that looks like it’s practically been ripped from the back of a PS Vita.

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The PlayStation 4 will make use of the PS Vita as a second screen, streaming PS4 games straight to the PS Vita for remote play. Perry stated that Sony’s long-term goal is to make almost every PS4 title compatible with PS Vita remote play over wi-fi networks. PS Vita is the ultimate companion device for PS4, enabling gamers to pull their games from their beautiful HDTVs to PS Vita’s… 5-inch screen,” Perry said.

Sony Australia has yet to confirm if we’ll see the PlayStation 4 in Australia and New Zealand for “Holiday 2013”, as Americans will. Pricing details have not yet been confirmed, though EB Games Australia appears to have put a placeholder price of $899 on the console.

You can head over to our LiveBlog post to rewatch the PlayStation Meeting 2013 and read our comments as they were transmitted in real-time.

Full PlayStation 4 specs

Main Processor:
Single-chip custom processor
CPU : x86-64 AMD “Jaguar”, 8 cores
GPU : 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon based graphics engine

I/O:
Super-Speed USB (USB 3.0)
AUX
IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
Communication Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)
Bluetooth® 2.1 (EDR)

AV output:
HDMI
Analog-AV out
Digital Output (optical)

Memory:
GDDR5 8GB

Hard Disk Drive:
Built-in

Optical Drive (read only):
BD 6xCAV
DVD 8xCAV

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