Sony's E3 Press Conference: 10 Key Details And Games That Stood Out

By Reggie Fells /

9. PlayStation 4 Console Specifications

Allow me to get the important figure out of the way: the PlayStation 4 costs $399, ‚399, or £349... depending on the region which you call home. This is a significantly fairer launch retail price compared to it's predecessor, the PlayStation 3, and noticeably better than the $499, ‚499, and £429 American, European Union, and British figures, respectively, of the XBOX One. Also, unlike the previous generation of games, there will (as of now) not be any "premium" form of the consoles, such as the 60 GB & 20 GB versions of that the PlayStation 3 debuted with, or the Elite & Core versions that the XBOX 360 debuted with - there is one iteration of each console, and the price is set solid. The XBOX One's retail launch price is the same as the 360's Elite launch price, where as the PlayStation 4 is less expensive than all iterations of previous generation console launch prices, save for the XBOX 360 Core. Also, it's thankfully sleeker than the glossy "Fat" launch-time PlayStation 3.

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Matte Black? Sony has clearly learned to improve their aesthetics.

As far as the hardware goes, the XBOX One features graphical precision with an AMD 8 core APU. For processing power, it's boasting 2 Quad-Core Jaguar processors, with a storage capacity of a 500 GB HDD. Its memory comes in at an 8 GB DDR3 with 5 GB available to games. Now, on the PlayStation side of things, the specifications aren't as fleshed out yet - we expect Sony to elaborate on the guts of the system, as well as further elaboration on console-exclusive launch titles later in the week. With that being said, so far, one wouldn't be at fault to see the impression that Sony has more appeal at the moment, but there's more to each system other than physical appearance or specs: what you see on the screen is far more telling, meaning the visual interface also matters significantly.