Intrinsic said:
Well, that is if and only if Sony keeps the current PS4 as a "slim" option and sells it along side the Neo. I domt think that's what will happen tho. I think the Neo will actually be smaller than the current PS4. I also think Sony will phase out the current PS4. They probably have certain manufacturing commitments tied to the current PS4 so we may still see them around for a bit. But those contracts will not be renewed with focus shifting exclusively to the Neo manufacturing. It's just all round cheaper having One SKU in the market. Once the PS4 quotas are met, all there will be is the PS4 neo. I think people haven't really thought about what a 16nm fab process allows. Currently on a 28nm process the PS4 SOC has a footprint of around 350mm2. technically, going to a 16nm process should mean you can basically make 3-4 times more chips on the same wafer if the SOC were an exact like or like shrink. But we know they GPU has been doubled. Overall, the SOC is more powerful, but it will still come in at less than 350mm2. Barring initial fabrication defects (which are usually higher at the start of any new fab process) the PS4 SOC will ultimately be costing Sony less down the road. All that is saying is that I don't think dropping to $299 sometime next year is "drastic" per say. But hey, I thought by now the PS4 would be retailing for $299 so that about tells you how good my predictions are. |
You could be right. It's nice to have some of the technical info. I suppose it depends on how much more the Neo would cost to produce than a Slim. If the productions cost between are very little then they could be thinking to only have one model on the market. Then it depends how are Sony looking at it. Maybe the Neo will be priced higher purely to capitalise on the PS4s success but they still will want to a have lower priced console in the market to compete with the X1 so they might have 2 different models, standard and 4k capable.
