PS4 Slim release date, news and rumors

PS4 Slim release date, news and rumors

By Jon Porter

PS4 Slim release date, news and rumors

We might have known about the PlayStation Neo for some time now thanks to a series of leaks as well as a direct confirmation from Sony’s Andrew House, but more recently details have emerged about a second new piece of PlayStation hardware, the PS4 Slim.

Whereas the Neo is expected to offer 4K output and more beefy internals, the PS4 Slim is expected to be a much more traditional slim console upgrade like those seen by all previous PlayStations.

We would have previously said that this was shaping up to be a pretty standard console upgrade were it not for the recent arrival of the Xbox One S, a slim version of the Xbox One that adds an Ultra HD Blu-ray player, HDR, and 4K upscaling to the console.

A post-Xbox One S world

But that’s not all, a recent analysis performed by the folks at Digital Foundry has shown that the souped up internals of the console lead to some helpful boosts in game framerates.

It’s not a massive leap, but in several cases Microsoft’s new hardware is much better at keeping to each game’s frame-cap than its predecessor.

With the Xbox One S, …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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