The Playstation 4 will come with a DualShock 3 style controller. The difference is that it is rumoured to have a touch pad similar to the PSVita, which can detect two-point multi touch. This new controller will also feature vibration, have improved tilt correction and RGB LED lights. One other new feature which was predicted [Read More]
A report has gone up on a Japanese website which seems to state that Sony have shelved their plans for their next generation of home consoles. If (!) this translation can be trusted, it seems that Sony might be tuning the PlayStation 3 and putting their faith in their handhelds rather than producing a PlayStation [Read More]
What GPU will the new ps4 have? The ps3 had an RSX in it which was comparable to a 8800 geforce card. The ps4 could have something like a modified nvidia 480 gtx. This is currently the most powerful card in the computer market with the exception of the ATI 5970. If it takes 2 [Read More]
For comparison the PS3 uses a cell based processor with 1 PPE (Power processing element) @ 3.2 GHz which is dual thread i.e. capable of processing 2 streams of instructions at a time and 8 SPEs (Synergistic Processing Elements) @ 3.2GHz of which 1 is disabled for yield purposes and 1 is reserved for security [Read More]
Proposed and currently being developed by Professor Venkatesan Renugopalakrishnan, PCD would greatly increase storage over Holographic Versatile Disc(HVD) optical disc systems. It involves coating an ordinary DVD with a special light-sensitive protein produced from the genetic alteration of a microbe. In theory it promises storage up to 50TB. Research with NEC in 2006 prmoised production [Read More]