Imagine if you went to the launch of the new Beyonce album and she showed you the cover, played a couple of drum loops, and let you hear some recordings of her mumbling. "Is that it?" you'd ask. "Yes!" she'd reply. "It'll be finished in eight months and it'll be awesome!"The PS4 launch was a bit like that. We saw controllers, we saw games and we saw specs, but we didn't actually see the PS4 during the two-hour event. Maybe it's so horribly ugly they've locked it in a cupboard, or so pretty that if you look directly at it your eyes melt.Or maybe they just haven't finished it yet. So what do we know? Lots! Michelle Fitzimmons has the facts: "The console owns an eight core, x86-64 AMD Jaguar CPU," she writes. "It houses 8GB of GDDR5 unified high-speed memory, and a 'highly advanced' PC GPU with 'remarkable longterm potential.'PS4 release date, news and featuresThat processor, also made by AMD and referred to as a 'next-generation Radeon based graphics engine' in the press release, boasts 18 compute units that together produce 1.84 TFLOPS of processing power. We'll also see Blu-ray and DVD support in the PS4, along with HDMI, Analog-AV, and optical digital output."There's a new controller too, the DualShock 4. As Michael Rougeau reports, "The PS4 DualShock 4 controller features two sticks, four triggers, a directional pad, plus triangle, cross, circle, and square buttons, just like a classic PlayStation controller. But it also has a tou
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