Sony PlayStation 4 to Feature Massively Boosted Storage Sub-System

From X-bit Labs: Sony revealed additional details about its PlayStation 4 game console at the Game Developers Conference. One of the major improvements of the PS4 will be its storage sub-system, which will include faster Blu-ray disc drive as well as very hard capacity hard disk drive. Both will improve overall user experience by speeding up game installations and launches.

The PlayStation 4's Blu-ray disc drive is three times as fast as the PlayStation 3's, according to Engadget web-site. Keeping in mind that the PS3 is equipped with 2x BD drive capable of reading Blu-ray discs at up to 9MB/s speed. The three times faster solution is a 6x BD drive that can read discs at up to 27MB/s, which should be enough not only for modern games, but also for next-generation 4K video discs, assuming that they are Blu-ray or compatible with the drive (or use the same 405nm wavelength as BD).

Today’s PlayStation 3 systems are available with 160GB, 250GB, 320GB and 500GB hard disk drives. They PlayStation 4 is projected to feature “a very large hard drive in every console”, revealed Chris Norton, a senior staff engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment America, reports IGN web-site. Since the PS4 consoles will likely continue to use 2.5” hard drives, it is possible to expect 500GB, 750GB or 1TB HDDs in the PS4 simply because there are no standard drives in such form-factor with higher capacity now and Sony is unlikely to use the forthcoming drives based on newer platters in the consumer electronics device.

Other hardware related improvements that the engineer mentioned are all-digital buttons and sticks on the DualShock 4 controller, ability to charge the controller while the console is off as well as a mono headset in every PlayStation 4 box.

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