The new PlayStation 4 console will synchronize with iOS and Android devices to be able to turn the screen of the iPhone, an iPad or any other Android mobile or tablet, into a second screen of the game.
During the presentation event of the new platform, not the console, since its arrival will not take place until the end of this year, thinking about the Christmas campaign, Sony showed for more than two hours the new possibilities that the PS4, name with which the new promise has already been officially baptized.
Among the multitude of novelties discussed, the fact that the new PS4 embraces second screens to improve the gaming experience is especially noteworthy. The new controller DualShockOne of the few details that was revealed about the new hardware, it does not have an additional screen as it happens with the current Wii U Nintendo. In return, add a new touch surface as a touch pad that will allow us to move and scroll through the console interface. It also adds certain light bars in order to be able to identify the player. From Sony they consider that we already have enough large-screen devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and they have worked in this regard so that we can take advantage of them in the gaming experience.
In this way, the PlayStation 4 will allow synchronization with devicesiOS and Android so that we can use the screen of these Smartphone or tablets as secondary. In this way, we can use them to show additional information related to the game we are playing, or to continue the game on this device while the main screen of the room is used by other members of the family to view other content. According to Sony, “players will be able to download a PlayStation App that will run on the iPhone, iPad the device Android, to be used during the game.
Obviously your PlayStation Vita handheld console is also included in this ecosystem of the entertainment world and will work closely with the new PS4. Users will be able to play the same game on both devices, alternating one or the other screen as it suits them.
It is an aspect that I have long missed on current platforms. The possibility of playing one level of a game with your portable console, while moving daily. When you get home, you want to follow the game on your large screen, with the most appropriate controls, and without having to physically connect the portable console to the television.
But the main action will continue to be performed by the console PS4. In fact, Sony revealed that both the CPU and the GPU will have hardware belonging to AMD, with frankly advanced graphics as if it were the super configuration of a desktop PC. Predictably thePS4 will have the family of graphs AMD Radeon 7900 Series, the most powerful that we can see in PC computers to achieve the most realistic graphics in gaming environments.
