Updated: PlayStation Neo release date, news and rumors: all the latest on Sony’s PS4.5

By Andrew Hayward

PS4.5 NEO: What we know about PS4K

PlayStation Neo will be unveiled on September 7. That’s our best guess at least, according to the dozens of reports we’ve seen and the invitation to a “Future of PlayStation” event we found sitting in our inbox. Whether you want to call it the PlayStation 4.5, the PlayStation Neo, or simply the PS4.5, we fully expect to see it less than one week’s time.

So what is this new console and, more importantly, why is Sony trying to fix something that isn’t broken?The PlayStation Neo is a PS4 hardware refresh, but it goes so much further than the ‘slim’ versions of Sony’s previous three consoles (for that you might want to check out the rumored PS4 Slim).

Instead of just slimming down the hardware and putting it in a redesigned box, the Neo is reportedly updating the PlayStation platform to support 4K output and enable smoother playback of virtual reality content.

Now, whether this means games will run at a no-holds-barred native 4K, or whether it’ll be some sort of upscaling trickery remains to be seen, but we know for sure that the hardware is going to support 4K resolutions in some fashion.