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PS4 Accessories
Most gamers don’t realize just how big the accessory business is. It’s a far more lucrative section of the industry than most gamers give it credit for. Accessories encompass anything unrelated to games, be it extra controllers, steering wheels, memory cards, dance pads, and much more. In a broader sense, accessories could also include anything gaming related, such as gaming chairs, etc.

Accessories have been big business for many years. Going back to the Nintendo years, one of the most notable accessories was the Power Glove, still one of the most noteworthy accessories we’ve seen to this day. Joysticks, rapid-fire and programmable controllers, and steering wheels were also quite popular. Another prominent accessory of the time was the light gun, followed by the SNES’s Super Scope.

Sony's Turn to Accessorize

As we came into the Sony era, the multi-tap became one of the most popular accessories, allowing gamers to play multiplayer games with more of their friends than ever before. As TV’s continued to improve, high quality cables like the S-Video cable also became popular. And the PS2 being the first DVD player that many people owned, the DVD remote was also a popular pick up.

It wasn’t until late in the PS2’s life when we really saw accessory/game bundles start to pick up again. With the popular Guitar Hero ushering in a new era of gameplay and accessories, music games attempted to outdo each other with the quality of their bundled and stand alone accessories. We saw Singstar come with a microphone, Rock Band come with guitars and an entire drum set, and DJ Hero come with its own turntable.

Motion Controls Take Flight

The other prominent accessory of the era was the EyeToy camera. The EyeToy came bundled with a collection of short games, all of which were controlled entirely via the player’s body movements. Later games also incorporated EyeToy support into their repertoire, some just to take pictures and add the player’s image into the game, others for actual gameplay or mini-games.

In fact it was the EyeToy accessory that first ushered in the current gaming fascination with motion-based controls, which we’re sure to see carry over to the PS4. We can guess that for the first time, third party developers will be rushing to get their own motion controls out to market to compete directly with Sony. We may also see more and more games come bundled with their own unique accessories. How about a golf game that comes equipped with a motion based golf club or putter (watch where you swing that thing!!)? Or a role playing game that comes equipped with its own sword and shield for you to swing around?

PS4 Accessories Unplugged

This section will be devoted to everything accessory related. We’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest accessory releases, review some of the more prominent PS4 accessories, and make sure you’re playing your PS4 games the way they were meant to be played. In the meantime, we’ll discuss everything PS3-accessory related in this section, most notably the upcoming release of the PlayStation Move motion control accessory.

If you’d like to see us add any features to this section or preview or review any accessory, let us know in the comments below, or by contacting us using via the Contact Us page.

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Comments

I want it to charge

Sat, 04/13/2013 - 14:42 — Anonymous

I want it to charge accessories while powered down.

The price

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 10:55 — Anonymous

if it is priced that high no one will get it. it will be around 400

love sony

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 16:08 — Anonymous

i have a sony phone ps1 2 3 and hope to get4

yup

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 09:19 — Anonymous

who doesn't love sony (Microsoft Sucks big time)

me 2

Sat, 02/23/2013 - 21:33 — Anonymous

ya budyy sony fo life microsoft sucks and so does xbox

Mic

Tue, 02/12/2013 - 23:05 — Anonymous

I think that the ps4 should come with a mic just like the Xbox 360 dose anyone else feel this way or is it only me?

mic nah

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 09:17 — Anonymous

nah but Xbox 360 1 sucks and i'd buy 1 anyway. With a mi Sony would have 2 rise prices so if u want mic buy 1

Not really

Fri, 02/15/2013 - 23:10 — Anonymous

The Xbox one's are pretty cheap though, only the 20$ brand. Most people, like me, would just rather buy a high quality mic of their choosing, unless, this mic has some special features, then I don't think it is necessary.

yomama

Fri, 02/08/2013 - 19:32 — Anonymous

you can probably buy the old games on playstation stor

Yeah buddy

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 15:39 — Anonymous

I won't get it if it is over 450

PS4 Price

Wed, 01/02/2013 - 01:44 — Anonymous

will be around $2000 to $ 2500

not even close

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 00:46 — Anonymous

lmfao!! wont b over 800

Would be funny

Fri, 11/30/2012 - 01:17 — Anonymous

Have a FIFA edition ps4 build the ps4 inside a real soccer ball and kick it around the house while u play. Haha, now that's thinking outside the box.

ps4

Tue, 10/16/2012 - 17:42 — Anonymous

Make a power sute (like power glove) but u feel the game and so the 3D glasses can look at the suit as ur game that yiur playing . We be come the fighter or shooter ect. Just like the six aixx

Make a power sute (like power

Tue, 10/16/2012 - 17:41 — Anonymous

Make a power sute (like power glove) but u feel the game and so the 3D glasses can look at the suit as ur game that yiur playing . We be come the fighter or shooter ect. Just like the six aixx

250?

Sun, 06/17/2012 - 07:22 — Anonymous

it'll be at least $700 on release, hopefully no more than $750

250

Sat, 10/27/2012 - 22:58 — Anonymous

Most people want the system $400-$500 many people won't buy it at all

I think 400-500 is a

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 01:40 — Anonymous

I think 400-500 is a reasonable price with all these CPUs and things they are using being made cheaper these days. But you gotta remember sony have A LOT of losses to cover and we will see this in the PS4's final price. And for those of you who are all like "if its over 400 i aint buying it" well don't then. Sony deserves dedicated followers. I am so passionate about gaming and my ps consoles that ill gladly pay 899 for the console

Re: 250?

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 16:18 — Anonymous

It's highly unlikely PS4 will be $750.
Even high end CPUs and GPUs (or in the rumoured specs for PS4 an APU) cost a fraction of what they retail for.
When hardware goes into a store, before the shop's or websites have tacked on their margins and when AMD or Intel makes a big profit these units cost a significant fraction of what the stores/sites sell them for.

People on this site and in many other places on the net have been coming to the wrong conclusions over the cost of parts to Sony.
Sony doesn't buy the parts for their consoles at retail price.

They won't be paying $200 to $300 for their GPU, even if they used high end units, they'd likely pay half that, even a top end APU like the A8-3870k costs $109.99 on Amazon US right now, AMD probably sells them to Amazon for half that.

If Sony wants to use the same quad core processor, tack on a better GPU component, they can probably make a console that costs them no more than about $470 and then either chose to make a loss on hardware to sell for a more reasonable cost to consumers (knock the price of the console down to $400, maybe $450) or start making a profit early of $30 per unit at retail cost of $500, they'd be making $300,000,000 on their first 10,000,000 units and that's on a console that could easily produce full native 1080p graphics, with high to ultra level PC graphics settings and frame rates above 30 FPS with a lot of action on screen.

$700 is highly unlikely and if that does end up being the retail cost Sony will be making either a profit of about $200 or the console will be close to the best high end PC currently possible, it'd also have to be pretty massive as the thing would generate way too much heat otherwise.

ps4 price

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:59 — Anonymous

they have to put that price to at lease $250

how much

Sun, 06/10/2012 - 21:15 — Anonymous

Hopefuly this dosent cost a lot of money cause that would suck @.@

prepay ?

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 12:38 — Anonymous

is it able to prepay Ps4 ? cuz i really want this one, i missed the PS3, so now its time to get the latest new ;) just like i got the IPhone 4, before 4s. but contact me at ; my E-mail adress : steamuseonly@hotmail.com

if i get hacked, i'll hack the hacker!!!

ps4

Sat, 04/14/2012 - 16:23 — Anonymous

im literallly turned on by this!

Not that much

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 15:41 — Anonymous

That is too much you don't want it to cost a bazillion dollars do you?

ps4

Fri, 03/30/2012 - 01:38 — Anonymous

so its time for us to give up our play station3s well lets do this 4 sony like they say out with the old and in with the new.

Wat about PS Vita game cards

Fri, 03/23/2012 - 14:11 — Anonymous

that would be epic

Compatibility would be an issue.

Sun, 10/28/2012 - 15:34 — Anonymous

Do you mean you want the PS4 to be able to play Vita games?

If that's what you mean I hate to say that probably won't be a feature of PS4, mainly because compatibility in the hardware of PS4 won't allow for that too happen.

Backwards compatibility with PS2 games will likely be limited if we get it.
If the rumours of Sony making micro-cell modules (with 1 PPE and 3/4 SPEs) that can bolt onto an AMD APU (like Kaveri) are true then compatibility with PS3 games shouldn't be the issue alot of people think it will be.

Another issue with Vita games would be the native resolutions being so far below HD that upscaling them would make them look dreadful on a 1080p screen.

I could see Sony making a larger version of Vita, with a screen that's similar in size to a Wii U tablet and maybe enable more cross platform content, perhaps releasing versions of proper HD vita games on the PS4, possibly allowing users that own the Vita version to download or stream the PS4 version at a small charge from PSN to PS4, but actually plugging the video game cartridge into the PS4 and playing straight from the PS4 onto a large HD TV probably won't be possible.

The idea would probably appeal to a lot of Vita owners that plan on getting a PS4, but it's a matter of how the Vita's CPU processes game code probably being vastly different from PS4's CPU.

If it could work then it would be a good way to boost Vita game sales, giving sony another way to push their sales up and of course encourage the sales of Vita consoles to improve, so who knows.
Another good idea IMO would be for Sony to release a dual play version of Vita titles, with the Bluray and cartridge coming in the same case at a slight additional charge over the Vita release.
I'm sure devs would be happy to get a more cash from those sales, sony would have to be happy for the additional business.

Video cards is a different

Sat, 10/27/2012 - 23:00 — Anonymous

Video cards is a different word the real word is graphic(s)

This user didn't mean GPU, they meant:

Sun, 10/28/2012 - 15:47 — Anonymous

This user was talking about playing Vita games on the PS4.

There's no way the Vita's GPU could be a viable piece of hardware to use in a HD games console, not when it is significantly weaker than the PS3's RSX and Cell combo.
Several Vita graphics chips would be needed, probably stacked on a die to push the necessary performance to even meet low level 1080p PC equivalent settings.

PS vita outputs low AA 720x408 resolutions max.

Sony's probably going AMD HD 79**, to 8*** series, potentially with some 9*** series features as this would give them proper levels of AA, AF, particle and loads of other modern graphical effects at 720p+.
With games probably looking more filmlike at lower resolutions than 1080p.

The kind of hardware that's possible now in a PS3 sized package (or slightly larger, like an Alienware X51) can easily do the equivalent of ultra PC settings at 1080p 60FPS in a game like Crysis 3, Battlefield 3 or Black Ops 2, most console gamers would be pretty happy with that, but probably far more impressed by something that approaches Avatar levels of fidelity at 720p, which is what developers want to achieve.

when will it come out

Sat, 01/21/2012 - 23:33 — Anonymous

When will the ps4 comes out cause I can't wait LOL!!! I <3 sony

date

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 15:18 — Anonymous

on october 14 2012 at acout 5:00 on sunday

ps4

Tue, 11/29/2011 - 17:12 — Anonymous

bogeys

3D+Move

Fri, 11/25/2011 - 07:27 — Anonymous

3D will be Sony's focus.

A year ago, I would have laughed at this concept, but then just last week I saw Panasonic's VT30 3D demonstration and, as far as I can tell, the 3D you would expect of the technology is all there now.
It works.

James Cameron's Avatar in 3D was on it and I have to say, I almost fell over; every caveat that I had with 3D, was gone.

Next Generation Gaming Consoles that don't reach the capability to support 3D+1080P+60fps are going to suffer at the hands of Next Generation Game Consoles that do in a very acute way.

3D+Gaming+40-60" displays; that's where the future is.

I doubt Microsoft nor Sony like the idea of "Toys" being in the same sentence as Next Generation Gaming Consoles - which is why Microsoft "appear" to be releasing two distinct technologies.
Even kids don't like anyone calling their Xbox360 or their PS3, a "Toy".

ps4

Thu, 11/24/2011 - 20:41 — Anonymous

ps4 will be awesome

PUT A CD BURNER ON PS4

Sun, 11/13/2011 - 10:25 — Anonymous

PUT A CD BURNER ON PS4

ps4

Sat, 09/10/2011 - 15:12 — Anonymous

the ps4 will be awsome

=)

Wed, 09/07/2011 - 10:12 — Anonymous

I SERIOUSLY CANT WAIT UNTIL IT COMES OUT BEACAUSE I LOVVE SONY

yea

Thu, 11/24/2011 - 20:37 — Anonymous

i love sony too

HOW MUCH!?

Tue, 08/09/2011 - 18:55 — Anonymous

How much will it cost?

700 or 600

Thu, 11/24/2011 - 20:38 — Anonymous

i think it will cost around 600 or 700

maybe $1000.00 dollars

Tue, 10/25/2011 - 02:15 — Anonymous

maybe $1000.00 dollars

i dont think so

Thu, 11/24/2011 - 20:39 — Anonymous

i dont think it will cause 1000 dollars

$1000?

Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:42 — Anonymous

I bought 55" TV for $1000. I would rather to buy another TV for $1000 to watch two NFL games than waste $1000 on PS4

So far ps4 can goto hell

Sat, 10/27/2012 - 23:02 — Anonymous

So far ps4 can goto hell

PS4

Sun, 07/17/2011 - 00:03 — Anonymous

it would b awesome if the PS4 could play all games,moves etc.

ya

Mon, 01/30/2012 - 10:02 — Anonymous

that would be sick

PS4

Mon, 06/20/2011 - 16:03 — Anonymous

The Playstation 4 should be more advanced with the latest technology
built in! Not only compatible with previous games, But the whole era of
sony's accomplishments! Bring back the past and add it in with the future
consoles. Put the "Gamer into the Game"!