A PS4, along with a controller costs $300, and each Uncharted game is priced at approximately $30; the addition of the extras and Uncharted 4’s beta trial jack up the total cost to well above $400. Sony had to have some extra aces up its sleeves and the 7 activated core is one of them. PlayStation is a home video game console developed and distributed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Previously, developers only had access to the game console’s six cores, leaving the other two to run the operating system. Except aliens and zombies.
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It does not come as a surprise that sales have gone up for the PlayStation 4 after Sony chose to drop the price on their world renowned console and they released the figures for all Japan, Europe and the United States just before entering the holiday season.
This is good news for the PlayStation 4 to rival Xbox One and PC on this front, since these platforms are already equipped to stream on the PC and television, respectively. The company compared the purchases of a sample of 2,365 people for the month of October with data of one thousand people who shopped on Black Friday. Xbox only boasts with the same features on the outside.
Sony launched the unit in the market in November, 2013 and reached the tremendous figure within November 22, 2015, in exactly two years.
This news might sound a bit confusing and technical, so let’s back up a bit. The main problem is that they had to give up some really unique features such as the voice command in order to make that happen.
“Neither version of Just Cause 3 is able to sustain a locked 30fps, but it is indeed the Xbox One release that offers a noticeably lower level of in-game fluidity”, the site explained.
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Now imagine how the guys from Microsoft felt when they figured out that, even with all the sacrifices that they have made, the PlayStation was still running games better than they were. There’s a general law of computing, known as Amdahl’s law, that describes how much theoretical performance can be gained by adding additional CPU cores. It looks like game developers will have to share this core with these tasks.
