«PlayStation 2». A games developer coming before the end of the year

«PlayStation 2». A games developer coming before the end of the year

«Sony» company decided that the time has come to announce the electronic gaming machine «PlayStation 2» after 7 years a «PlayStation 3» and sold more than 70 million units in the world. The company said the device and all the companies which will be supported by a special conference in the US city of New York «» Wednesday evening, reviewing the new controller. The company confirmed that the device will be available in the market before the end of this year. It is expected to reveal more details in «entertainment» E3 Electronics Show in June next, especially the final device design.

The announcement comes in a proactive step to announce Microsoft for its forthcoming device experts predict coming in almost the same period, and after the launch of a «u» Nintendo Nintendo Wii Wii U in the end of last year, which did not have the success expected. This, and will continue to support Sony» «hardware «PlayStation 3» for an additional period after the sale of more than 70 million, with the promise of many game development companies to continue supporting your «PlayStation 3» for years to come.

* New features

* Features a «PlayStation 2» by highly developed technical specifications that will allow to make games more realistic and enjoyable, and support for playing games through CDs or through cloud services, and download games from the Internet even after you turn off the device and charging control after the tool connected to the device and stop work completely. New control tool, its name is "4 forks functions» DualShock 4, a similar design tool control device «PlayStation 3», but adds a touch-sensitive area in the middle to resemble a" PlayStation Vita» mobile, with the ability to click on them to interact with games. And the device will recognize the style games player plays out or their choice of Internet, it proposes a new downloadable games, and resemble proposals shop «Amazon».

The tool also contains the flare in the front area of the baseboard to allow cameras to follow their high resolution and interacting with the game world. You can connect headphones to the remote control tool, providing another outlet to add extensions, the ability to charge the battery Compact through socket "micro USB (can be shipped with the device, even if switched off), plus deliver a built-in headset into the controller. The company also added a special button allows the user to download recordings for another 15 seconds played out to the Internet and share with friends without stopping the game. The user can stop the machine at any moment and the game at any other time desired from the same place that stopped him from playing. The device will use a dual-sensor cameras looking website tool control and can determine depth, and interaction with them accordingly, and contains 4 high sensitive microphones for voice interaction with hardware and games.

And contains additional slide to perform operations in the background without the player feels, like uploading videos to the Internet and download files from the Internet, and others. This, and does not need «PlayStation 2» to connect to the Internet to function as rumors swirled, but «Sony» information on whether the machine can run games from different geographical areas, as is the case with your «PlayStation 3».

* Technical specifications

* Technical analysts that the graphics capabilities of your «PlayStation 2» (1.84 Teraflop Teraflop, 1.84 trillion calculations per second per client) is the strongest by 4 and a half times compared to the capabilities of the graphics device «PlayStation 2» (400 ghighaflob, 400 thousand million calculations per second), more than 7 times compared with graphics device «Xbox 360» (240 ghighaflob).

The new device uses a Wizard works with 8 nuclei x86 technology, 64-bit, 8 GB shared memory (compared to 512 to main memory and graphics processor in your «PlayStation 3», i.e. the new larger device memory by 16 times, which is a very important element of electronic games) can transfer data at a rate of 175 GB per second, with 18 units of specialized graphics mathematical, using DVDs Blu-ray» that can store a very large volume of data. This, the company will provide a solid compact disk, but did not announce its storage capacity, yet. The device supports networks of «Bluetooth» and «and», and «socket USB 3.0» high speed, exit «HDMI» HD screens and another for regular TVs, a producer of audio technology, Optical S/PDIF. The device can download games from the Internet even after you stop working. This device will support technical, 4K to display an HD picture, but for video only, not for electronic games.

Since the device uses a technology different from that used in a «PlayStation 3», players will be able to drive games «PlayStation 3» on the new device, but will be able to enjoy those games through the service «ghaikay» GaiKai cloud purchased «Sony» summer last year for us $ 380 million, and start playing before the download is finished, plus the ability to play games» PlayStation 2 computers and 1» also through this service later.

* Support game companies

* Reacted positive games development companies, especially the technology of «x86» are used in personal computers, to support the device easily and without complicated software such as what happened with your «PlayStation 3» and the concomitant need to learn a new programming style and exclusive hardware development tools and hardware versions competition or personal computers. She welcomed the many companies developing games with 8 GB of memory, it is very important for them.

«Sony» confirmed that it is possible to use a mobile gaming device «PlayStation» PlayStation Vita Vita additional screen to play and interact with the game world in which new creative ways. The company will be mobile application allows the user to interact with the store and games in many ways.

The company reviewed the Conference 11 future game, such as Watch Dog and Knack, Driveclub and Diablo III and Destiny and Infamous: Second Son and Killzone: Shadow Fall and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with the support of 148 games development company famous, such as Electronic Arts and Bungie and Quantic Dreams, Sega and Square Enix and Ubisoft and Activision, Tecmo, Konami and Capcom and Namco and Ascii and Nippon, Bethesda and LucasArts, Disney, Take-Two and Telltale and Rovio.