| EricHiggin said:
One thing that seems a little bit odd about Pro is the power supply size. Most of the info on the net says the OG PS4's had a 230w-250w PSU, yet only pulled a max of 150w when gaming. PS4 (Slim) has a 165w PSU, yet only pulls a max of 90w when gaming. Pro has a 310w PSU, but only uses a max of 160w when gaming in "4k". Why overbuild the power supply so much so on the Pro, when clearly a smaller power supply would have worked? (Maybe the larger power supply was necessary if they decided to go with the rumored, more powerful version of the Neo instead...?) |
As a Power Supply begins to age, the maximum wattage it can output decreases, these devices are meant to last for many many many many many years... Plus a higher quality Power Supply allows for the Power Supply to better provide cleaner power, removing ripples, noise, spikes, drops etc' in delivery.
Plus the console has a range of peripherals, the USB ports need to provide a certain level of power as well, exacerbated when they are all occupied... And it needs to account for the variability in HDD power consumption.
Plus, not all games push a console to it's maximum wattage, there will likely be games in the future that push the console harder which results in power consumption that is significantly higher than when those wattage tests were undertaken.
Plus... Not all Power Supplys can actually output their rated wattage... Some are more efficient at a certain load and temperature. And Sony likely accounted for that as well.
I wouldn't try and form a conspiracy theory out of it all to lead yourself to believe Sony is building a Pro successor.
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