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everyone I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com for from Sony now unlike last generation there's only one model of the ps4 for sale and it goes for $400 and that's $100 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 in HDMI and Ethernet port and an auxilary 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 core 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clicks it's its own button it's kind of like a trackpad which you might find on a laptop now start and select have been replaced by share and options and there's actually a speaker on the front of the controller as well and it sounds a lot better than what you might remember with the Wii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 round 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 microUSB charging port so another cool thing about the DualShock 4 is the port on the bottom it's a headphone jack not only to be used for headset chat capabilities but you can actually take the game audio from your Playstation 4 and map it right through your controller with a regular set of headphones which is amazing and that's something I've been personally clamouring for for a while so it's a really sort of under discussed feature but really awesome nevertheless so one of the cool things about Playstation 4 and you also be able to do it on Xbox one as well is game sharing so PlayStation 4 allows you to record up to 15 minutes of your actual gameplay chop it up and then upload it you can also broadcast your gameplay session using twitch or Ustream and there's also a really big social presence on PlayStation 4 as well when you log in for the first time when you set up your PSN account you can actually attach that to your Facebook account and even use your profile photo across both platforms and a lot of other integration with with Facebook now when it comes to Twitter you can take screenshots from any of your gameplay and then upload those screenshots using the Twitter service so it's pretty cool you can't do as much with Twitter as you can Facebook but it's baked in and it'll probably expand over time so right now there's only a handful of day one apps that are available in the PlayStation Store there's Netflix Hulu Amazon and a couple others but that's going to expand over time as well and hopefully we'll catch up with what the PlayStation 3 currently offers but there's a nice selection out of the gate so odds are what you want will already be available alright 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 so there we have it this has been the Sony Playstation 4 read the full review check out all the little details about how the ps4 stacks up against the Xbox one and keep checking out that review because as this thing grows so will the review and we'll make sure we have all the bases covered for CNET I'm Jeff Bakalar thanks for watching