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{{Infobox console|title = PlayStation 4|logo = PS4.png|developer = [[:Sony]]|type = [[:Category:Consoles|Home video game console]]|generation = [[File:PS4.pngCategory:Eighth-generation_video_game_consoles|Eighth generation]]|release = 2013|thumbpredecessor = [[PlayStation 3 emulators|PlayStation 43]]|emulated = {{~}}}}The '''PlayStation 4''' (PS4) is an eighth-generation console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment on November 15, 2013 and retailed for $399.99 ($432.54 in 20132018 money). It has a semi-custom 8-core AMD x86-64 Jaguar CPU at 1.6 GHz, whereas one of the cores is utilised separately only for low-power, background tasks. The CPU is shared on an APU chip with a semi-custom AMD GCN Radeon GPU. They are supported by 8 GB of GDDR5 RAM at 2.75 GHz, while 256 MB of DDR3 RAM is used only for background tasks. Notably, it is the first PlayStation console to use the [[wikipedia:X86x86|x86]] architecture, making it easier to program for than the [[PlayStation 3 emulators|PlayStation 3]] while also having the same architecture as PCs.

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|[[Orbital]]|Windows, macOS, Linux|[https://github.com/AlexAltea/orbital Git]|{{✓}} <!--|{{✗}} -->|} ===Emulation issuesPotential Roadblocks===Even though Due to the PS4 has an 's x86 CPU like normal PCsarchitecture and FreeBSD-based operating system, that doesn't mean it'll emulators for the device will by and large be easy to emulate as very unconventional. Despite the x86 's instruction set is being '''huge'''.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://weben.archivewikipedia.org/web/20130517194502/http://www.ngemu.com/forumswiki/showthread.php?t=132032 x86_instruction_listings | title= Why is XBOX emulation premature?x86 instruction listings | Wikipedia}}</ref> However, nearly all a trait that would typically lead to years of x86 instructions are well documented (though some other specifics aren't) so development time by emulators, it opens the ability for pre-existing hypervisors to do the heavy lifting, eliminating the possibility is thereneed for a recompiler. Another thing There is that there is currently also, as of writing this, little to no documentation on the GPU (a modified Radeon 7970M with disabled stream processors) used in the PS4's APU. While the console has been hacked, efforts are as of now preliminary and not it will require a complete re-implementation by emulator developers. End-users may wish to preform a preliminary dump of the point of being able to run backups or pirated games - please don't even ask about PoC emulators until it's hacked. All that said, don't expect any functional required files from their PS4 emulators for a very long time, like 10 yearsusing the [https://phi.nz/orbital/tools/dumper/ Orbital Dumper]