Thirteen days ago we wrote about rumours regarding what was called a PlayStation 4.5 or PS4K. Since then the rumour mill has kept on turning, and today we have got some interesting new details to share.
A NeoGaf user called OsirisBlack claims to have been part of a briefing with Sony where they shared some more details regarding the new hardware. This is what they talked about:
• Price is currently $399.99, but they're considering a better CPU which will raise the price to $499.99.
• There is currently no plan for any type of trade-in program for current PS4 users, but that could change.
• The GPU is supposed to be twice as powerful as the standard PS4 and much faster. They didn't say exactly how fast, but that is was running at a higher clock speed while being much smaller than the original.
• It will have a 4K Blu-ray player, and upscale games that are not natively 4K.
• There was talk of some sort of VR lounge for the media player app which is supposed to be getting a substantial upgrade.
• Some developers already have development kits for the PS4K and are making games that will directly target and take advantage of the higher specs of the PS4K. These games will in fact also work on the PS4, but with considerable sacrifices in terms of performance.
• Current games would not be getting any type of performance upgrades by being played on the system if not patched in by the developers.
• They also have a list of launch games that will take advantage of the PS4K where the differences are "significant ":
- For PS VR: Eve: Valkyrie, Robinson: The Journey and Gran Turismo Sport.
- For "PS4K": Deep Down, and GOW4 (They used an abbreviation, but this has to be God of War 4).
There were more games on the list, but OsirisBlack couldn't remember all of them.
A lot of this matches up with what we've heard from our own sources, but with a few exception and inclusions. We were told that the console will have more USB ports and a new design. We've also heard that the upscaling games to 4k part has yet to be finalised. That the new PS4 was going to be the lead platform for Grand Turismo Sport was also news to us, but consider us interested.