Following rumours of a Gold PS4 last week, Sony has today officially announced that the PS4 will be actually getting two new colours: Gold and Silver. Both colours will be come with a 500 GB hard drive and matching DualShock 4 wireless controllers.
Sony and Guerrilla Games have announced a Horizon: Zero Dawn PS4 bundle to coincide with the release of the game. The PS4 bundle will come with a 1 TB PS4 Slim Console, a DualShock 4 Controller, and Horizon Zero Dawn on Blu-ray disc, and will be available from 1st March 2017.
Sony has revealed new sales figures for the PS4, which sold over 6.2 million units over the holiday season. As of 1st January 2017, the PS4 has sold over 53 million units worldwide. As for games, over 50 million copies, both digital and physical, have been sold for the system worldwide.
Back in May, Sony revealed that PS4 sales had exceed 40 million units worldwide. Now, just before the end of the year, Sony has revealed that the PS4 has sold more than 50 million units worldwide – thats 10 million consoles in 6 month. The new PS4 Slim and the release of PlayStation VR in October, followed by the release of PS4 Pro in November have likely helped revitalise console sales.
Sony and Naughty Dog has announced a Limited Edition Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End PS4 bundle, which comes with a Uncharted branded Grey Blue 1 TB PS4 console, a physical copy of the game and a matching DualShock 4 controller. If you’ve already got a PS4, you can also get the DualShock 4 controller separately.
The PS4 has octa-core CPU (that’s 8 cores), but until now, Developers have only been able to access six of the eight cores, as two were reserved for the operating system. However, this has now changed as Sony recentlt unlocked the 7th core for developers to use.
Sony and Activision has announced a Call of Duty: Black Ops III Limited Edition PS4 console, that will be available on 6th November 2015, when the game launches. The system features the Call of Duty: Black Ops III ember orange logo on a Jet Black chassis, complete with coloured power and eject buttons, as well as three emblems from the game.
Sony has announced a new PS4 bundle containing the remastered Uncharted games coming out later this year. The Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection PS4 Bundle will include a 500GB PS4 and the first three, critically-acclaimed Uncharted games for PS4. The bundle will be available from October 9th 2015, and will feature the single-player campaigns for Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.
Sony has officially unveiled the 1TB PS4 we reported about earlier this month. The new model will be known as the Ultimate Player 1TB Edition, and will be available in Europe and PAL territories from July 15th 2015. The new model offers twice the storage capacity of the current model, so you’ll be able to download more games and DLC.
Sony’s PS4 was expected to launch in China on January 11th 2015, after a 14-year ban on foreign game consoles was lifted in September 2014. However, Sony has delayed the launch with just days to go, citing “various factors”.
