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5 unusual facts about Playstation 4


Australia Tax

A recent example of "Australia Tax" is the proposed retail price for the Sony PlayStation 4, which will be charged at $549 AUD (roughly $499 USD), in comparison to US price of $399 USD, while no tangible enhancements have been made apparent to justify the increase in price.

GDDR5

On February 20, 2013, it was announced that the PlayStation 4 will utilize 16x4 Gbit (i.e. 16x512 MiB) GDDR5 memory chips for 8 GiB of GDDR5 @ 176 GB/s (CK 1.375 GHz and WCK 2.75 GHz) as combined system and graphics RAM for use with its AMD-powered APU.

Mercenary Kings

Mercenary Kings is an upcoming side-scrolling shoot 'em up game developed and published by Tribute Games. The game, created by the team behind Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game, was funded by Kickstarter and will be released for Windows and PlayStation 4 in 2014.

Scivelation

Scivelation (previously known as Salvation) is a third-person shooter being developed by Ukrainian developer Black Wing Foundation for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

Shadow of the Beast

A re-imagined version of Shadow of the Beast was revealed at Gamescom 2013, developed by Heavy Spectrum Entertainment Labs and will be published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation 4.


Redbox

On June 10, 2013, Sony made the official announcement at E3 that Redbox Instant will be available on the Playstation 4 console.


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Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class

CLA 45 AMG became available in the PlayStation 4 video game titled Driveclub.

PlayStation 4 system software

The PlayStation 4 runs "Orbis OS", which is based on a branch of FreeBSD.

PlayStation 4 technical specifications

The PlayStation 4 uses a semi-custom accelerated processing unit (APU) developed by AMD in cooperation with Sony and is manufactured on the TSMC 28 nm process node.