Taiwan’s Newspaper Claims Sony is Working on a “Thinner” PS4

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Well, Sony has always revised their consoles every year. Typically we get XXX-10XX at launch, then XXX-11XX the next year, followed by XXX-12XX, and so on until the XXX-20XX arrives which would have a different external design.

Perhapps, they are going to speed things up thanks to using more standard hardwre. There are so many options. PS4 Pro Slim, PS4 Slim Slim, PS4 Digital Edition (No BD Drive), PS4 Laptop/Tablet, even PS4 Handheld or Phone.

We are at a point where consoles should be updated yearly, and be available across a number of form factors. Then it should be up to the consumer, whether they want a $149.99 Digital only low end model, or a $999.99 every bell and whistle possible model. Do they want to upgrade yearly, every five years, maybe 10 years. Do they want to have just a portable unit that they can use as a replacement to their Smartphone, and also dock to the TV for lower spec gaming, or do they want to have a Phone, a Laptop, and a high end console, with a unified OS, for the best experience wherever they are?

The console business should be continuing to grow and expand, and Sony out of the three should be pushing the hardest. They are a hardware manufacturer, and PS4 is their only current product that is actually Sony through and through. They should be pushing for their own unified OS and storefront across all of their hardware.

Hopefully this turns out to be true. I would love a PS4 Pro with PSVR built in and UHD, then I could put last years in the bedroom. Then I would also like a PS4 Tablet, for browing the web or watching TV while my boyfriend plays NBA 2K. Most of all though, I would be doing backflips if a PS4 Phone was coming in the same design mindset as the Vita. Give me a Vita with L2/R2/L3/R4, and full access to PS4 software and services, and I would finally be able to shut up about hardware for the first time in 4 years.