AMD processor, which serves as a hardware base for PlayStation 4, contains eight cores, but game developers are still allowed to use only six of them, since two rezervuvalysya for system requirements. Similarly, work was organized nuclei and Xbox One, but this year Microsoft unblocked seventh nucleus. Looks, that Sony has decided to follow the example of rival.
Official statements on this Japanese electronics giant has not yet made, but the rapid availability of additional core points to the emergence of the Internet list of changes in the future upgrade package software development tools (Software Development Kit) for PS4.
Theoretically, such a measure should improve performance console, however, As the experience of Xbox One, in some cases the possibility of using "extra" CPU computing resources harms functionality. In the console Microsoft is expressed in disconnected mode control with contactless controller Kinect, but on the compromise game developers have to go for PS4, it is not clear.
