The 10 Biggest Takeaways from PlayStation E3 2016
One of the biggest surprises at last week’s e3 events in Los Angeles, Microsoft officially revealing their Xbox Scorpio console and Sony reluctantly declining to focus on future hardware – instead revealing a slew of impressive titles without release dates.
Last month, reports surfaced that the mid-generation upgrade could arrive this September, and while Sony didn’t reveal a release window, they announced it would cost greater than $349.99 – more than the current PS4 console. Now, according to Richard Leadbette of Eurogamer, sources have told him that the new Neo 4K console will indeed launch before the end of the year.
President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Andrew House, revealed he was surprised by the move of Microsoft beating them to punch of announcing a holiday 2017 release. However, with no premiere of Neo from Sony, the company is planning to rollout the console before the end of the year, which will give it a 12th month head start to their rival.
PS4 | PS4K Neo | Xbox One | Project Scorpio | |
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CPU | Eight Jaguar cores clocked at 1.6GHz | Eight Jaguar cores clocked at 2.1GHz | Eight Jaguar cores clocked at 1.75GHz | Eight cores, speculation: up-clocked Jaguar or equivalent |
GPU | 18 Radeon GCN compute units at 800MHz | 36 improved GCN compute units at 911MHz | 12 GCN compute units at 853MHz | Speculation: 56/60 GCN compute units at 800-850MHz |
Memory | 8GB GDDR5 at 176GB/s | 8GB GDDR5 at 218GB/s | 8GB DDR3 at 68GB/s and 32MB ESRAM at max 218GB/s | Over 320GB/s bandwidth – speculation: 12GB of GDDR5 |
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