Sony touts social and cloud features Today’s PlayStation Meeting 2013 event at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom was, as expected, all about the future of Sony’s home console franchise. While the company did make the long-overdue Playstation 4 official, it somehow managed to wrap up the two-hour event â€" during which it outlined the console’s specs, detailed key features and showcased a raft of games â€" without giving attendees a glimpse of the actual console. To be honest, though, what it can do matters more than the way it looks. So what exactly can it do? If you have been following all the recent rumors surrounding the console, chances are you already know most of the things worth knowing about the PlayStation 3’s successor. In any case, here is a quick rundown of some of the most noteworthy things to have come out of the event: The PlayStation 4, unlike its Cell processor-toting predecessor, packs a “single-chip custom processor†with eight x86-64 AMD Jaguar CPU cores and 1.84 TFLOPS next-gen AMD Radeon-based GPU. Other specs include: 8GB GDDR5 memory, HDD, Blu-ray drive, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, HDMI, analog AV-out, optical S/PDIF audio output A re-imagined “DualShock 4†controller with a six-axis sensor, “Share†button, Vita-like touchpad, vibration, light bar with three color LEDs, micro USB, mono speaker, stereo headset and 1000mah battery. The PlayStation 4 has been designed keeping in mind the modern gamerâ€
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