PS4 slim anybody?

Link to speculation!!

looks fake to me.

And pointless as the P4 is small and compact as it is .

To be honest this is the most stupid idea Sony have ever come up with,so the rumour or fact to be honest is this is going to be announced on September 7th and go on sale on the 14th.

Now how on earth are retailers going to order and get that stocked in such a short period of time,and who on earth in there right mind is going to by the Slim over the Neo whenever they announce that.

I think Sony Marketing is really really poor and the only reason i think the Neo was not mentioned at E3 was because of Microsoft and there Scorpio reveal.

Well if it's not fake then I think it is pointless as the PS4 is already small enough and looks great.

Especially if the Neo comes out 6 weeks later ,according to reports this is going to be announced on 6th Sep and released on the 14th........How ? do retailers get there orders and stock in within 1 week........Impossible unless they have already set up shipments to all the retailers already in anticipation of this date.

If the current one tanks, may do.
Must be now cheaper to manufacture the slim ps4 if this true! They are hardly big compared to traditional pc gaming rig.

In reply to a post by time2die:

Especially if the Neo comes out 6 weeks later ,according to reports this is going to be announced on 6th Sep and released on the 14th........How ? do retailers get there orders and stock in within 1 week........Impossible unless they have already set up shipments to all the retailers already in anticipation of this date.

likely they stock it before then but just be under NDA.

I still don't understand why they can't make the slim to start with.

I just don't get it with the Playstation slim as i have already said the playstation 4 is nice and small and compact in the first place,i understand the brick like Xbox One slimmed down version ,but even that with the announcement of the Scorpio a year later is another strange decision in my book .

In reply to a post by ConorMK:

I still don't understand why they can't make the slim to start with.

Softly, softly, tweaky monkey.

Could it be that they are releasing a console equivalent to the XBOX S, so maybe 4k playback and a boost for VR..then a new console next year to counter the Scorpio. That would make sense.

Maybe, but whatever came next year would not then be a huge leap over the so called Neo, so would people pay the extra? If the Neo really is capable of GTX970 type visuals, but with more RAM and compute/engines, blah blah blah, what would they need to do to better it in any worthwhile manner?

Interesting times next year I think, but either way a Neo is the way forward for me, although I might live to regret it!?!

Scrap my theory. Didn't realize Eurogamer had confirmed the PS4 slim posted in this thread is legit.

So we are having 2 new playstations. Don't see the need for the slim but I expect it is cheaper for Sony to produce.

bear in mind the scorpio's quoted performance levels are quite far ahead for both cpu and gpu over the neo, for that reason I can see sony releasing something again before the end of 2018. The console hardware situation is getting messy (and expensive).

Scorpio is predicted to be around 600-700usd to buy.

Given the successful sales microsoft had of the 360 slim, it would not surprise me one bit if it was found out microsoft deliberately bundled a external power brick with the original xbox one (as well as the weak spec), so they could sell a new console easily to all the existing xbox one owners after 2-3 years.

Sony won't wait until 2018 to compete with the Scorpio as that would be stupid,i think the Scorpio personally is the reason the Neo has not been talked about and there has been no confirmed release date,i think they upgraded the Neo specs if I'm honest.

And if this is the confirmed retail price they have gone and blown it

well they cannot use the same cpu as the scorpio if they release this year as amd are not releasing the architecture until 2017.

Why would anyone buy the slim for more money than the standard ps?

That would be a stupid price point, good luck Sony! and how much more would a Neo be?

Well it makes me feel I did the right thing picking up a PS4 when I did.

In reply to a post by time2die:

And if this is the confirmed retail price they have gone and blown it

I find that difficult to believe TBH

In reply to a post by astateoftrance:

Scrap my theory. Didn't realize Eurogamer had confirmed the PS4 slim posted in this thread is legit

Me neither, thanks for that.

Could just be a RRP that is never used but even then it is way off, I would think around £200 would be more like it. Got my PS4 for £239.99 with UC4 on Amazon Prime day.

Also the PS4 was only £350 at launch if I remember correctly.

Edited by astateoftrance (Thu 25-Aug-16 12:27:48)

£349 actually........Get it right Trance