com/consoles-hardware/playstation-4/consoles/products/sony-playstation-4-console-white-500gb/10114375-10118544. In other scenarios, designers may tap some of PS4's additional power in a straightforward manner, to boost frame rate or output at a higher resolution, whereas games from Sony's own first-party studios that take full advantage of the hardware "will probably look significantly better than anything on the Xbox One.

This places the console in a low-power state while allowing users to immediately resume their game or app once the console is awoken. Layden stated that Sony has no plans to "bifurcate the market", only that gamers playing on the Neo will "have the same experience, but one will be delivered at a higher resolution, with an enhanced graphical experience, but everything else is going to be exactly as you'd expect". Shortly following the launch, it became apparent that some games released on multiple platforms were available in higher resolutions on the PS4 as opposed to other video game consoles.Numerous industry professionals have acknowledged the PlayStation 4's performance advantage over the Xbox One. The console does not require an Internet connection for usage, although more functionality is available when connected. Saying "PlayStation" initiates voice control, and "All Commands" displays a list of possible commands. The PlayStation 4 Pro (codenamed Neo, model number CUH-7000) [38] was announced on September 7, 2016, and launched worldwide on November 10, 2016.

At the same time, Sony unveiled an updated version of the original PS4 model with a smaller form factor.

This familiarity is designed to make it easier and less expensive for game studios to develop games for the PS4. According to a report from Bloomberg News in January 2022, Sony had been poised to discontinue the PlayStation 4 at the end of 2021 in favor of the PlayStation 5, but due to the ongoing semiconductor shortage that made it difficult for Sony to keep up with PlayStation 5 demand, the company instead planned to continue PlayStation 4 production. In response to concerns surrounding the possibility of DRM measures to hinder the resale of used games (and in particular, the initial DRM policies of Xbox One, which did contain such restrictions), Jack Tretton explicitly stated during Sony's E3 press conference that there would be "no restrictions" on the resale and trading of PS4 games on physical media, while software product development head Scott Rohde specified that Sony was planning to disallow online passes as well, going on to say that the policies were designed to be "consumer-friendly, extremely retailer-friendly, and extremely publisher-friendly". Custom music and video files can still be played from USB drives and DLNA servers using the Media Player app.