7 years! Sony PS4 foreign media unpacking evaluation Summary

Sony's fourth generation PlayStation is officially on sale. As early as the release, a number of media (Joystiq, Ars Technica, Polygon) have been in advance to the retail version of PS4, together to see the 7-year separation of the next generation of hosts, what makes people surprised ...

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Compared with the first edition of PS3 7 years ago, PS4 is very hale. PS4 both front and side adopt the "split in" design elements, and the side of the irregular form, so that the main engine contour and technology sense is very strong, catering to its living room multimedia center positioning.

Believe that many players feel PS4 and predecessors of the thin version of PS2 is similar, especially in the middle of the host side of the dark blue Line (after the meeting will become a status display lamp). The fuselage shell most uses the abrasive material, gives the person to feel thick. As embellishment, the fuselage on the right side of the upper part of the use of a bright spot material, two material collision, for the machine added a texture.

Overall, Sony's design was not disappointing.

The host's power key and the optical drive key are hidden in front of the front of the bright bezel (tactile type), of course, the front of the raphe is not only used as decoration, hidden the optical drive entrance and two USB connectors. Along the raphe to the back, you can see a power interface, audio fiber output, network cable inlet, HDMI, and a specially made PS Camera data interface.

Joystiq on the PS4 look good, but if you want to count this mainframe one of the biggest drawback is that the plastic shell makes people feel too fragile (Apple spoiled by the consequences?) , of course, for a product that has been stationed at home for a long time, it is a crime of war.

Handle, PS4 's DualShock 4 is much better than the previous generation. It can be said that every aspect has different degrees of progress. Polygon thinks this is the best handle Sony has ever made and fixes all DualShock 3 problems.

First from the feel of the progress, this time Sony increased the DS 4 handle length, the current evaluation is unanimously praised the DS4 grip, and the handle back with a layer of rubber material, so that the whole handle of the overall feel beyond the front.

As for the actual improvement of the game, is the DS4 of the trigger (L2, R2), believe that the use of DS3 players will understand the trigger loose feel, in the DS4 will be gone forever.

On spec, the DS 4 feature is also richer, it adds a touchpad, built-in dual motors, built-in standalone speakers, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a mysterious data/charge interface, and a light-emitting beacon for communication with PS Camera. In addition, Sony has added gyroscopes and improved accelerometers to DS4.

As with PS3, long press the PS button on the handle to wake up, hibernate system, of course, this PS4 can automatically download updates in hibernation and remote purchase of the game.

After the boot first saw is called PlayStation Dynamic menu system interface, give people the first feeling and PS3 on the XMB similar. There is nothing to say at the moment, many of the features are still locked before PS4 tomorrow, but the whole UI is a neat, beautiful feeling, and the icons are large enough to PS4 the new system's UI more information than the slightly monotonous XMB interface.

And the PS4 system is one of the most different places, is a piece of information on the bottom of the screen wall, here is the whole PS4 system core part, it collected all the game-related information. It's like a PlayStation unique social network, Rolle all the things about your friends, what games they play, what cool screenshots, videos, trophies and so on.

Sony's intention to do so is also very obvious, is to let the players affect each other, so as to foster a better game, buy the scene.

Conversely, as a player, you can always share your game with PSN, Facebook, and Twitter, just by pressing the Share button on the handle.

In addition, the built-in 500GB hard disk space is about 400GB, and PS4 pre-installed a game occupied by about 30 to 50GB (depending on the type of game), Ars Technica installed 8 games after the use of 204GB capacity.

For users who rely on downloading digital games, it means that you have to consider a larger capacity of the hard disk, to remind you that the current PS4 temporarily does not support external hard disk.

PS4 's hard drive can only be described as "barely enough" when it comes to the 399 dollar initial price.