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An air of mystery surrounded Sony’s announcement of its Playstation 4 at an event in New York as the new console wasn’t shown, a release date not given and no price was revealed.
During the two-hour event, Sony showed off what the new device will do but, bizarrely, not what it looks like. Presenters played games that were projected on screens, but the consoles themselves were hidden.
“I don’t know that the box is going to be something that’s going to have a dramatic impact on people’s feelings about the game. It will be a colour and a size fairly comparable to previous consoles,” said Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, the US-based arm of PlayStation.
Sony claimed that the new model is like a ‘supercharged PC’. It has an eight-core processor to juggle more complex tasks simultaneously, enhanced graphics, the ability to play games as they are being downloaded and a new controller.
The PS4 will eventually face strong competition from Microsoft’s yet-to-be-unveiled revamped Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii U.
