Welcome to the PlayStation 4 Wiki

After years of speculation, Sony officially unveiled its next-generation console during a PlayStation 4 Reveal event held in New York on February 20, 2013. At E3 2013, the PlayStation 4 Console Design was shown for the first time. Officially abbreviated as PS4, the PlayStation 4 was released on November 15 in the US and Canada and November 29th, 2013 in Europe and Australia/NZ.[n]

The PlayStation 4 retails for $399 in the US, €399 in Europe, £349 GBP in the UK, and $549 AUD in Australia. Due to high import charges the PS4 costs a jaw-dropping $1800 US in Brazil which is an all time high.

Included in the price of the console is a DualShock 4 controller, a 500GB hard drive, a Mono-headset for voice chat, a micro USB connection cable to charge the DualShock 4 (not included if bought seperately), a power cable for the console, and one HDMI cable.

PlayStation 4 has no used game restrictions or restrictions on lending and renting games.

Smartphones and tablets can download the PlayStation App to access all of their online info, and can also be used as second screens for the PlayStation 4, as can the PlayStation Vita.

Sony will also debut a cloud-based gaming service called Gaikai in 2014 for save games,DLC, PS3 Games, and Vita Streaming.

Mark Cerny, lead system architect on the PlayStation 4, said that the system had been under development for the last five years, and that its goal was to free developers from technological barriers; making it a console "by game creators for game creators."

The console's architecture is "like a PC, but supercharged." It uses an 8-core 64-bit x86 "Jaguar" CPU, 8GB of unified GDDR5 RAM compared to the standard DDR3 used in most computer hardware, a 500GB user removable and upgradable local hard drive, and APU technology, which is typically reserved for "top of the line, high end graphics cards."