PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a video game console from Sony Computer Entertainment. Announced as the successor to PlayStation 3 during a press conference on February 20, 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, and will be launched on November 29, 2013, in Europe and Australia.[11][12] It will compete with Nintendo's Wii U and Microsoft's Xbox One, as part of the eighth generation of video game consoles.
Moving away from the complicated Cell architecture of PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 will feature a simpler AMD processor, in hopes of attracting a broader range of developers and support for the system. Sony intends more focus on social gameplay, incorporating a "share" button on the new controller and enabling a view of in-game play streamed live from friends. The console enables interactivity with other services and devices through the following methods: Gaikai, a cloud-based gaming service that will offer streaming video game content;[13] PlayStation App, designed to enhance gameplay by utilizing smartphones and tablets as a second screen; and PlayStation Vita's design for playing a majority of PlayStation 4 games through wireless Remote Play.
Today in History
1777 | The Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, a precursor to the Constitution of the United States. |
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1926 | The National Broadcasting Co. debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. |
1939 | The cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C. |
1940 | The first 75,000 men were called to armed forces duty under peacetime conscription. |
1959 | A farmer, his wife and two of their children were found murdered in their home in Holcomb, Kansas – a crime that was the subject of Truman Capote's non-fiction novel "In Cold Blood." |
1984 | An infant who had received a baboon's heart to replace her own congenitally deformed one died at a California medical center three weeks after the transplant. |
1985 | Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland. |
1988 | The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. |
1993 | A judge in Mineola, N.Y., sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher, who shot and wounded Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo. |
2002 | Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China's Communist Party leader. |
2007 | Baseball home run king Barry Bonds was indicted on charges related to grand jury testimony during which he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs. (Bonds was later convicted of obstruction of justice; his lawyers are appealing.) |
2011 |
Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City, evicting hundreds of protesters and then demolishing the tent city. |