On Wednesday Feb. 20, Sony finally gave the world its first glimpse of the PlayStation 4 video game console. The company revealed the controller, some trailers and an array of Cloud-based streaming capabilities. Since it also indulged in more than a half-hour of vague corporate-speak, however, it didn't allow itself enough time for other details, such as price or date of launch (Holiday 2013 was all we got).
That didn't change Thursday morning, but Sony did release a few more PlayStation 4 details to the press, including some hard specs and an official controller image.
Read about the first set of PS4 details we learned about here, including streaming and social media integration, the controller's new features, backwards compatibility and more.
As for why Sony didn't show the PS4's main console body, Sony's Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida said that originally Sony planned to do the opposite: It meant to show the console while saving the controller for later.
"As far as the DualShock 4 is concerned we wanted to do the live demo," he said. "And we were like, yeah, we have to show the controller, because it's awkward not to show the controller when someone is doing a demo. And also the feature that the DualShock 4 has, the share button, is a very key idea behind the design of the PS4 ... We really wanted to explain what we've done with the DualShock 4, but as far as the system itself we have to keep something new for later. Otherwise you'd get bored."
Here are the first official specs related to the technology powering the PS4:
There were a slew of games announced Wednesday night, too. Here are a few of the trailers shown off:
Killzone: Shadow Fall
Knack
Deep Down:
Watch Dogs:
