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hey everyone I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com so make sure you come back in a few days and we're gonna have a newly updated video now unlike last generation there's only one model of the ps4 for sale and it goes for four hundred dollars and that's a hundred dollars cheaper than the Xbox one now the whole console itself is smaller than you might think it's actually considerably smaller than the Xbox one it's got a nice glossy and matte finish and it's a pretty slick looking piece of hardware it's got a very sort of specific angular simple design there's two USB 3.0 ports up front next to the slot-loading blu-ray disc drive and the power and eject buttons are up front there touch-sensitive it's kind of nice around back is fairly simple there's an optical audio out an HDMI and Ethernet port and an auxiliary port for the optional PlayStation camera and that does not come in the box now under the hood of the PlayStation 4 we've got 8 gigabytes of ddr4 ram and eight cords CPU and a raid on next engine GPU so all those numbers aside this is basically on par with what you might get in a mid to high-end gaming PC so here is the DualShock for the new controller for PlayStation 4 it's really awesome it's a great evolution from where the DualShock 3 was up front you see obviously it's dominated by this touchpad which actually clicks it's its own button it's kind of like a trackpad which you might find on a laptop now start and select have been replaced by share and options and there's actually a speaker on the front of the controller as well and it sounds a lot better than what you might remember with the Wii Remote but again it's one little speaker on a controller thankfully you can turn it off the analog sticks have a refacing as well they're no longer those like really slippery dome sort of coverings now they're embossed they have some some some rubberized coating here really a comfortable controller around back you can see the the l1 r1 and all those buttons and the triggers have been redesigned and the triggers are so much better than before now they kind of flip out a little bit much easier to pull and then of course around back is the LED color light and if you're using the PlayStation camera this is how the PlayStation will know which player you are and then you also you got the micro USB charging port at the bottom one more thing there is a headset jack you can plug in like a voice headset to chat online and then there's another port that I don't know what it's gonna do yet so we'll have to wait and see so if you look behind me here is the PlayStation 4 interface and again we're going to update this when the day one patch comes out it might change the way it looks a little bit but here's where your access all the PlayStation 4's functionality the PlayStation Network and the store are really woven into this interface a lot different from last time the cross media bar is no longer they're calling this the dynamic menu it blends everything together and an easy-to-use presentation all right so what about the games right everyone wants to know about the games graphically speaking ps4 games look great there's no doubt about it but don't expect the same wow factor that happened last generation if you remember we were going from sd to HD that's not the case this time around the jump is way bigger back then this time around not so much the games look great but it's not as jaw-dropping as it was from like PlayStation 2 to PlayStation 3 for instance there's a lot more information in there a full review so make sure you go and read that I talked about how the Xbox one and ps4 stack up and what the future holds for each system again don't forget we're gonna update this video very soon so be sure to keep checking back right here at CNN I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com and this has been the Sony PlayStation 4