The PS4 is good for much much more than just PlayStation VR, but if the headset is something that’s important to you then you might want to wait until after E3 2016, when Sony is expected to officially reveal the future of the PS4. Sony’s PlayStation 4 is without doubt the front-runner in today’s battle of the consoles. At the last count it had shipped well over 36 million PS4s around the world, with the competing Xbox One from Microsoft has only been able to shift around 20 million consoles.
We can pretty much call this generation of the console war as over - Microsoft has stopped reporting on its own console sales.
But with stellar showings at E3 2015 and Games com 2015 Microsoft is doing everything it can to create a bit of a renaissance this year.
Though 2016 sees Sony looking to deliver on the platform exclusive promises that we didn’t see last year.And our Nathan Drake looks set to drop one of the most eagerly awaited titles of 2016.he new PS4 hardware update, however, has been pretty low-key and is currently only available in 500GB trim. The current 1TB consoles out in the wild are all still running the older CUH-1100 series hardware - something to keep an eye out for if you’re looking to pick up a new PlayStation 4 this year. The actual motherboard itself is smaller and there are fewer memory chips arrayed around the AMD APU at the PS4’s heart. That doesn’t mean there’s any less GDDR5 memory in the new CUH-1200 series consoles, Sony has simply used higher density Samsung 8Gb chips so it doesn’t need to use as many of the 4Gb memory chips it previously used.
Sony has also used a re-designed Blu-ray drive inside it. Which probably goes to explain why you get less drive/disc noise from the new unit too.
The drive spins down a lot quicker and doesn’t seem to have the same aural note as the original device.