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PS4 Release Date – Sony Playstation 4 Launch on Nov 3?

Sony has already revealed its PlayStation 4 details which includes its price as well though it has left us guessing on the other crucial aspect, that of its launch date. However, there is the teaser ad Sony has come up with perhaps to give us an inkling to what we have been seeking the most giving us a hint of Sony PS4 release date.

The ad though carries the image of a solar eclipse while also carrying the words ‘When Worlds Collide’ only with nothing else to tell us what it is all about.

Now if Sony wants us to calculate when is such a celestial event set to occur, astronomers have said the earliest the world is to witness a solar eclipse is on November 3. Couple this to an earlier announcement by Sony that its PS 4 will be launched towards the end of the year and we might have already come across the release date of PS4.

Also, if that is indeed when the PS 4 makes it to the store shelves then it will get to have the early advantage over Microsoft who’s Xbox One is also slated for a year end release. The PS 4 is also priced a full $100 less than the Xbox One, priced as it is at $400 against the Xbox One’s $500. Also, if the OS 4 is released that early, it will enable Sony to clear off the first batch of the gaming consoles before getting a fresh lot to offer the holiday shopping crowd. Providing a twist though is a recent revelation by Toys R Us which is claiming the PS 4 will be released on December 13 compared to a November 29 release date for Xbox One. We got to wait a few more months to get to know which of the two new gen gaming consoles will be arriving first.

PS 4 Release Date – E3 Event reveals Playstation 4 Price, Launch Date by Sony

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The long-awaited PlayStation 4 (PS4) release date is going to be on December 31^st bearing a price tag of $399, which is about $100 less than Microsoft’s Xbox One launched last month. Amazon launched pre-orders for the console just minutes after Sony announced the PS4 at the June 10^th Electronic Entertainment Expo, the gaming industry’s yearly trade exhibition.

Sony revealed that PS4 will support used games without restrictions. Users won’t require round-the-clock Internet connection to play games. A collection of new games from the portable PlayStation Vita and the PS3 console were revealed as well. The Vita will get over 80 new titles in 2014, including new editions of God of War, Dead Nation and Final Fantasy. YouTube, Skype and Netflix are also expected for Vita.

Among the new game titles for PS4, Sony announced 12 brand new IP’s that will participate in the new platform. The company gave a glimpse into a few games, including The Order 1886, Killzone Shadowfall, Knack and Second Son. All the new titles are expected this year except for Second Son that will come in 2014.

Regarding games for PS3, the event featured a preview of a good number of games, including Last of Us, Puppeteer, Beyond Two Souls and Gran Turismo6. The GTA 5, with a GTA-branded headset and a package of episodes, is expected to bring an “epic experience” on PS3, as Sony CEO Jack Tretton put it.

The peripherals of PS4 include a Wireless Controller and a PS4 Camera, which will come for $59. They exude a simple yet elegant design with a slim and light form factor. The angled front and back portions of the jet-black console allows easy access to disc slot and power button in both the horizontal and vertical position, and also conceals cables.

How will the PS4, with its cost advantage over Xbox One, perform?

PS4 Release date – Sony Playstation 4 to be unveiled at Gamescom event

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For PlayStation fans who are still pondering over the release date of the PlayStation 4, the good news is that Sony is likely to announce the date at the Gamescom event in August. The story comes from a German site called PC Games, which cites reports from sources close to Sony.

Gamescom, an annual gaming event held in Germany, is known to attract a crowd of 270,000 or more every year. The European gaming event is similar to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) that took place in the U.S. on June 11^th. Sony revealed much of the gaming aspects of its PS4 at the E3 event. It has always given importance to the Gamescom event as well, meaning that it has reserved some big announcement for the Gamescom event – it could be the release date of PS4.

When Sony announced the PS4, it gave a vague “Holiday 2013” release period for the device. That has left many guessing and rumoring various schedules. The most recent rumor points to a November 13^th release in European markets, based on a leaked market-launch timetable of a German retailer.

While announcing the PS4, back in February, Sony unveiled games like Mark Cerny’s Knack and Killzone: Shadow Fall for its PS4. The PS4 platform will likely support Indie games. At the E3 event, Sony flaunted a new IP – The Order 1886. However, many are still waiting to hear about Guerrilla Games, Media Molecule, Naughty Dog and similar first party studios. Well, Gamescom will likely provide information on these and more.

The Gamescom event will take place from August 21^st to 25^th, and Sony’s announcement is expected on August 21^st, the media day. It is also expected to have surprises for European gamers. SCEE’s Jim Ryan has already said that PS4 will get 20 new games within the first year of its release.

Playstation 4 vs Xbox One – Release Date, Features of Sony PS 4 and MS Gaming Console

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The heart of PS4 and Xbox One are indeed similar, running on AMD x86 octa-core CPUs. While Sony did not show its next generation console during its February announcement, Microsoft revealed a lot of information with demos at the May launch event. It must also be mentioned that, the PS4 reveal had much to do with games, whereas the Xbox one reveal touted more about the non-gaming features.

Harking back to the predecessors of the new consoles, Sony’s original PlayStation debuted in 1994, while Microsoft’s original Xbox made its entry in 2000, after Sony released its PS2. Despite the late entry, the Xbox gained a substantial market share in the world of video gaming, and has been a hot rival of the PlayStation.

Coming to the next gen consoles, gamers have been pondering whether Xbox One has enough to offer in the gaming department. Doubts arose after the initial glance at the launch event, which seemed to convey that Xbox One’s entertainment features are as good as its gaming features. In contrast, PS4 seems to be all about gaming.

Both consoles have not changed their controllers radically, but tried to upgrade them with subtle innovations and slight modifications. Sony and Microsoft have unveiled motion sensing technologies as well. While the former has yet to reveal more about its PlayStation 4 Eye, the latter did a good job demonstrating its Kinect, which can sense detailed movements of the gamer and even detect one’s heartbeat.

Sony is planning to show more of PS4 at the 2013 E3 event, where Microsoft will detail its gaming department. It is expected to release the console in November, coinciding with the Xbox One release. With two similar consoles launching in November with similar pricing and software line-ups, how will gamers make their purchase decision?

Sony PlayStation 4 Release Date – PS 4 Rumored to Come With Speech Recognition Feature

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We might have already been provided with a glimpse of the upcoming PlayStation 4 though unfortunately, much of it is still shrouded in secrecy and will be only revealed on its release date. Sony had just partially revealed the PlayStation 4 during the PlayStation Meeting 2013 conference held in New York a few months ago.

Unfortunately, not much has happened in the last few months to provide us with the complete details of the next gen gaming console from Sony. And in such a situation, its only rumors and speculation that we have to rely on, which often does help in arriving at a clearer picture.

Take for instance the recent revelation about the PlayStation 4 that it will come integrated with a speech recognition system. Of course this isn’t confirmed as yet and there are no documentations to prove it either, except that Sony has put up a job ad with the intent of hiring a ‘Speech Recognition Engineering Intern’. Qualities that Sony is looking for in the right candidate include expertise in several fields which include ‘noise reduction, speech detection, grammar processing and such along with ‘speech enhance and processing of noise speech with human voice in the background’, among others. In what way Sony intends to put to use the human voice recognition feature in the gaming console is anybody’s guess though.

Other areas where Sony is expected to shed some more light include a probable launch window of the PlayStation 4, if not a specific launch date itself. Towards this, analysts believe it could be October before we could end up with the real thing in flesh. But then, there are also some who would also like us to believe the launch of the PlayStation 4 will suffer some delays, in some markets at least.