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Sony today published a teardown video of its upcoming PlayStation 4, prying apart the new game console to show fans how the machine fits together.
The video (below), first provided to Wired(Opens in a new window), features Sony engineering director Yasuhiro Ootori, who gingerly removes the PS4 from its box and takes it apart piece by piece with the twist of a few screws.
“You don’t see any screws from any of the sides,” Ootori says, in Japanese. “The only place where you would see the screws is on the rear side, and even those screws are hidden beneath seals.
In news that likely won’t thrill the teardown experts at iFixit, Ootori said two of those seals are to “discourage the opening of the PS4 ($799.95 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window). If someone dismantles this, you’ll be able to tell.”
Still, Ootori managed to remove the lower outer cover without incident, lifting it to reveal the fan, heat sink, optical disk drive, and the power supply.
That power supply is incorporated into the body of the PS4, since “it wouldn’t be very convenient for our customers if there was a separate power supply unit,” Ootori said.
He goes on to remove the antenna, which supports Bluetooth, the optical disk drive, and the hard disk drive, which slides out smoothly after removing one screw.
“It’s a 500GB drive, and can be exchanged for any commercially available drive with a larger capacity,” he said.
Ootori also removed the motherboard, which sports an x86 CPU core. “In order to put that into this motherboard, we have used our exclusive design, which is specialized for the game console
this is the CPU/GPU one-chip integration processor,” he said.
He also pointed out the GDDR5 memory, which Sony adopted since the PS4’s GPU needs a lot of bandwidth (176 Gbps for the PS4). “We have this exclusive secondary processor in order to continue this network processing with low power consumption, even in standby mode,” he continued.
There’s also a Wi-Fi antenna, USB 3.0 connector, AUX connector for the PlayStation camera, gigabit Ethernet for network devices, HDMI connector for A/V devices, and optical audio output to connect audio components and amplifiers.
“When you put all of these together, you have the PlayStation 4,” he concluded.
Sony, meanwhile, also released its list of the entertainment apps that will be available for the PS4 at launch. For more, check out PCMag Live from today(Opens in a new window), which discusses the new console.
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