And divulged abosolutely nothing useful. But they say 2013!
Oh and some other stuff that may or may not be a surprise:
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Main Processor Single-chip custom processor
CPU : x86-64 AMD “Jaguar”, 8 cores
GPU : 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon™ based graphics engine
Memory GDDR5 8GB
Hard Disk Drive Built-in
Optical Drive
(read only)
BD 6xCAV
DVD 8xCAV
I/O Super-Speed USB (USB 3.0) 、AUX
Communication Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T)
IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth® 2.1 (EDR)
AV output HDMI
Analog-AV out
Digital Output (optical)
The PS4 system architecture is distinguished by its high performance and ease of
development. PS4 is centered around a powerful custom chip that contains eight x86-64 cores and a state of the art graphics processor.
The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has been enhanced in a number of ways, principally to allow for easier use of the GPU for general purpose computing (GPGPU) such as physics simulation. The GPU contains a unified array of 18 compute units, which collectively generate 1.84 Teraflops of processing power that can freely be applied to graphics, simulation tasks, or some mixture of the two.
PS4 is equipped with 8 GB of unified system memory, easing game creation and increasing the richness of content achievable on the platform. GDDR5 is used for this memory, giving the system 176 GB/second of bandwidth and providing a further boost to graphics performance.
So it looks like OpenCL is going to be the defacto standard in physics for the next little while, since all 3 consoles (WiiU, PS4 and XboxNext(?)) use AMD GPGPU functionality.
Not that Physix from team green is bad, just that being closed and useless finally bites them in the arse!
Also apparently the whole SONY IS KILLING THE USED GAMES MARKET is bunk and they've said they arn't doing it...Yeah well duhhh, you basically would have stopped anybody who plays sports games to never ever buy it otherwise!