New development regarding Sony’s next generation console was made today. According to VG247, developers are being shipped new versions of the Orbis or as its more commonly known – the PS4 dev kit.
The PS4 dev kit supposedly will have four revisions, the first one was essentially a graphics card while the version shipping to developers now is a “modified PC”. The other two revisions will be more refined, with the third one being much closer to the final spec. It will be making its debut in January. The final one will be arriving in the developer’s hands sometime “next summer”.
Sony is also inviting some US developers to their offices to explain what the machine can do along with informing them of the hardware. According to VG247′s sources the devices is being touted as the Orbis instead of the much expect Playstation 4 or PS4.
The PS4 dev kit contains an AMD A10 APU, an APU if you didn’t know is a chip with both the CPU and GPU combined. Sony wanted to create hardware which was capable of running 1080p res games at 60fps in 3D. The Orbis will also have either 8GB or 16GB of RAM along with Blu-ray and a standard 256gb storage device although it wasn’t specified if it will be a HDD or a SSD. The PS4 will also have the standard input and output connectors including HDMI, Ethernet and WiFi. The hardware currently is not being made in Sony’s home country of Japan (China maybe?).
The UI is also revamped and will allow users to navigate all around the system mid-game by just pressing the PS button. The PS4 will also be able to download updates in the background and will always be in standby mode, the automatic updates although can be turned off.
The announcement according to the source will be made at an event before E3 2013.
What do you think the PS4 or Orbis will look like? Something like the recently announced PS3 Super Slim or a brand new design? Let us know in the comments below.