Developers starting to receive PlayStation 4 Development Kits?

<p>Whilst reports earlier this year stated that Sony plans to support the PlayStation 3 until at least 2015&comma; sources close to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vg247&period;com&sol;2012&sol;11&sol;01&sol;ps4&lowbar;details&lowbar;playstation&lowbar;4&sol;">VG24&sol;7<&sol;a> have reported that Sony is beginning to share details of the PlayStation 4 with partners which are key to the company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to these reports&comma; the PlayStation 4 has been code-named&colon; Orbis and it is currently in second refresh with the third due to be shipped to developers in January&period; This &&num;8216&semi;January model&&num;8217&semi; of the Orbis is supposedly close to the final specs before being provided next Summer&comma; which could indicate a E3 reveal of the new console to the public&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sources believe the console will be powered by AMD&&num;8217&semi;s A10 APU as dev kits feature either 8GB or 16GB of RAM&comma; a Blue-Ray drive and 256GB hard disk drive among what has become industry standard of Ethernet&comma; HDMI and Wi-Fi functionality also featured on the new console&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ll keep you updated on the &&num;8220&semi;Orbis&&num;8221&semi; when we hear more&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;news&sol;playstation-4-dev-kits-shipping-to-developers-report-6399367">&lbrack;SOURCE&colon; Gamespot&rsqb;<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;