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PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PLAY

Keynote (Dominic Mallinson) - Inside PlayStation 4: Building the Best Place to Play - by Dominic Mallinson, VP, Research & Development, Sony Computer Entertainment America

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Keynote presentation, Inside PlayStation 4: Building the Best Place to Play, by Dominic Mallinson, VP, Research & Development, Sony Computer Entertainment America, at the AMD Developer Summit (APU13), Nov. 11-13, 2013.

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PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PLAY

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WHAT IS THIS TALK ABOUT?

PS4 Product Development Strategy

It’s not about bits and bytes

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ABOUT ME

Dominic Mallinson, Vice President US R&D

Sony Computer Entertainment America

…. and passionate gamer !

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LEADING THE INDUSTRY… THE RETAIL YEARS

PlayStation lead the broad adoption of optical disc media formats

PlayStation ‒ The original PlayStation lead the revolution from cartridge to CD-ROM

PlayStation 2 ‒ With life to date worldwide sales exceeding 150M units we helped put DVD on the map

PlayStation 3 ‒ Arguably won the HD disc format wars in favor of Blu-ray

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PS1/PS2 PRODUCT FOCUS : THE INTERSECTION OF GAMES AND TECHNOLOGY

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AND THEN CAME PS3

Cost and complexity rose sharply…

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PLAYSTATION BRAND IDENTITY

PUSH THE BOUNDARIES OF PLAY

BELIEF

Great play gives people the power

to be extraordinary

BEHAVIOR

Masters of magic: irreverent champions of

great play

OFFER

The best place to play, always extraordinary

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PS4 PRINCIPLES

SIMPLE CONSUMER ORIENTED FUNCTIONALITY EASE OF USE

IMMEDIATE

100%

PERSONALIZED

SOCIAL

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PS4 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

SUPERCHARGED PC ARCHITECTURE x86 CPU ENHANCED

PC GPU 8GB UNIFIED

MEMORY LOCAL STORAGE

HDD

8 core AMD “Jaguar” 4MB shared L2 cache

AMD Radeon based 18 Compute Units 1.84 TFLOPS

GDDR5 RAM 176 GB/s

500GB Hard drive Blu-ray @ 6X CAV

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DUALSHOCK 4

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IN CONCLUSION… COMING SOON

Availability North America : November 15th at $399 Europe : November 29th at €399 / £349 Japan : February 22nd 2014 at ¥39,980 Other regions : November/December 2013

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