Report: Sony's PS4 Orbis Dev Kit Runs on Modified AMD A10
There are reports that Sony has begun shipping a new version of its Orbis PS4 development kit.
Initial information suggests that the hardware runs on AMD's Trinity APUs. Apparently, the updated kit is delivered in a common case housing the modified A10 processor. A third and final version of the development kit is expected to be available in January.
There were no details about the APU itself, but VG247 mentioned that the systems come with either 8 GB or 16 GB of system memory. The final console will get a Blu-ray drive and a standard 256 GB of storage, which, if correct, would clearly point toward a solid state drive. The direction Sony is taking appears to be clearly toward a much more affordable console at launch. The PS3, which was priced at $599 for the 60 GB version at launch in 2006, had an estimated production cost of more than $900 at the time.
There was no information on a potential availability. However, a demonstration at E3 2013 and a released just in time for Christmas 2013 seem very likely at this time.
The dev kits always have more RAM than the final product.
I welcome the PS4 as I loves me some Playstation gameplay, to h3ll with Microshaft RexBox!
The dev kits always have more RAM than the final product.
That statement is not entirely false, don't you guys remember when the iphone 5 BOM came out? the memory jump from 16 to 32 GB was around 10-12 USD and yet they charge you over 100 USD when buying it?
The same model goes for almost any industry. Other than creating an artificial gap between devices, there isn't a real reason of why should 16/32 additional GB of storage be hundreds of dollars more expensive.
The 256GB SSD sounds less probable. If they can buy in bulk for $100 each and their goal is to make it a lot cheaper than PS3 then 128GB is a good bet. If they sell it at cost you're looking at a $250 to $300 PS4.
Its interesting that it runs on a A10 apu though, would that make it to the final ps4 though? I dont see how the A10 could drive games at 1080p native resolution which is what the ps4 should be doing?
How old are you? I thought gaming fanboy-ism stopped once you were old enough/employed to buy all the consoles you want to play games on.
Well, considering that the PS3 and 360 can play (some) games at 1080p and they have crap for hardware (by today's standards), I think they'll be OK.
Play at 1080p? hahaha.
having an A10 or even a modified version would be much more of an advantage over the current gen consoles how ever Im willing to go out on a limb and say if they choose to include 4k video and such then they are more then likely going to have some form of a hybrid crossfire setup .. mind you this is still development hardware so this could change yet again but with about a year to go im betting they are under pressure to get the right price / performance and hardware combination .. what they should really do for consoles is allow for upgrading of the GPU / CPU like they do with pc's
720p at 60fps is probably sufficient for people playing on a TV and I hope they go with 720p@60 instead of 1080p@30.
because we all known the ps4 will be running full blown win8......
Well these are all still rumors and there's no mention of what type of GPU will be in there. Although I know the AMD Trinity has a built-in GPU, but that means they will also be able to do "crossfire" or some type of multi-gpu scaling.
And I think they will be aiming for 1080p@30fps instead of 720p@60fps. For some reason developers don't think that consumers can see 60fps.
By the time these so called "Next-Generation" consoles come out, PC users will already be four generations in technology ahead.
Pfft... consoles.
The upgrading could work well if they designed the console to run all the games at low, and then offered like a "Medium" upgrade and a "High" upgrade and stuff. I don't think letting you put in any discrete GPU would work so well due to incompatibility and drivers.
You're kidding right??? We're talking RAM, not storage. The iPhone 5 has 1GB of RAM and 16/32/64GB of Storage. You're confusing Ram (memory) with storage.