PlayStation 4 Specifications

CPU: low power x86-64 AMD "Jaguar", 8 cores

GPU: 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD Radeon™ Graphics Core Next 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, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth® 2.1 (EDR)

AV output: HDMI, Analog-AV out, Digital Output (optical)

DualShock 4 specifications:

External Dimensions: Approx. 162mm x 52mm x 98mm

Weight: Approx. 210g (tentative)

Buttons: PS button, SHARE button, OPTIONS button, Directional buttons (Up/Down/Left/Right), Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square), R1/L1/R2/L2/R3/L3, Right stick, Left stick, Touch Pad Button, Touch Pad 2 Point Touch Pad, Click Mechanism, Capacitive Type

Other Features: Light Bar, Vibration, Built-in Mono Speaker

Ports: USB (Micro B), Extention Port, Stereo Headset Jack

Wireless communication: Bluetooth® Ver2.1+EDR

PS4 camera specifications

External Dimension: Approx. 186mm x 27mm x 27mm

Weight: Approx. 183g

Video Pixel: (Maximum) 1280 x 800 pixel x 2

Video Frame Rate: 1280x800 pixel @ 60fps, 640x400 pixel @ 120fps, 320x192 pixel @ 240fps

Video Format: RAW, YUV (uncompressed)

Lens: Dual Lenses, F value/F2.0 fixed focus

PlayStation 4 Eye

What's really grabbing though is the development of the PlayStation 4 Eye, a newly developed camera system that utilizes two high-sensitivity camera equipped with wide-angle lenses and 85-degree diagonal angle views.

Sony said the cameras (amounting to 1280 x 800 pixels) can cut out the image of a player from the background or differentiate between players in the background and foreground, enhancing game play handily. There's also mention of logging in using facial recognition and using voice and body movements to play games "more intuitively 

 PS4 specs

AMD's technology is coursing through this new system's veins. Sony revealed the system runs on a single-chip custom processor and utilises eight x86-64 AMD Jaguar CPU cores, with a next-gen AMD Radeon based graphics engine powering the way.

So it's very much a PC-based system then, which is great news for developers who will find it much easier to code games for the next gen consoles and for PCs. However, that CPU is hardly next-gen - it may have been modified for this system but the AMD Jaguar platform is by no means the fastest of its kind - indeed it's slower than Intel's fastest by orders of magnitude.