Sony Has The arrival of the Playstation 4 Officially confirmed. The company is not investing as much as happened with the Playstation 3. This HAS Masuro Kato, CFO of the company, Explained to investors, says Japanese newspaper Nikkei. "It is no longer conceivable to make a huge initial investment to do as the PS3," says Kato.
The PlayStation 3 was an extremely expensive project for Sony, Partly due to investments in a Completely new type of processor. That gamble HAS ensured thats the PlayStation division of the company in the red bone was.
Sony said EARLIER just for the Next Generation Portable have learned lessons from the PlayStation 3, Sony and Consumer Both All which proved very expensive. Sony says is Already working on the PS4, but can not say what the plans are and When The console is Launched. This is expected to take Several years.

SCEI has officially chosen IBM’s currently in development POWER7 architecture for its PlayStation 4 system (stated in an article on ps3clan.nl^[4]), currently scheduled for a 2012 worldwide release. IBM shall debut POWER7 for the server market in the summer of 2010. The PlayStation 4 shall use a cost effective version of the architecture custom designed for Sony’s specific needs.

The only information FGNOnline currently has available regarding specifications and performance is that the PS4 implementation of the chip shall use 6-8 cores, 24-32MB shared L3 Cache, Quad threading per core, and a double precision performance approaching 200GFLOPS. The CELL chip which powers the PS3 is capable of 15 double precision GFLOPS. This would give the PS4 a performance leap of over 10 fold over its predecessor.

Interestingly, the primary reason IBM cancelled development on the CELL based PoweXcell 8i is because of SCEI’s change of stance. The company wanted to move away from the exotic architecture employed for the PS3 to a more traditional architecture favoured by third party developers. As displayed by its choice of processors, the server based POWER7 and the TBDR based PowerVR 6, SCEI once again has sights set for performance leadership in the next round

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The PlayStation 4 or PS4 will be the Eighth generation video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment and manufactured by Sony Corporation Sony Electronics division. The console will be the successor to the PlayStation 3 and (according to PSW^[1]) it will be twice as powerful with a similar size to the Wii. According to rumors, Sony desires to put the PS4 on the market by 2011, E3 2011 at Sony Conference. although no announcement has been made. In April 2011, Sony allegedly confirmed that the Playstation 4 will be released in Japan on May 16, 2012 and released in the US on October 23, 2012.

Concept art for the console has been produced by graphic designer, Tai Chiem^[2]. As displayed, the futuristic look of the eighth generation console consists of a spherical screen and a 'knell touch screen panel

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