What if the PS4k wasn't the Pro, and is still in development?

[EricHiggin]

Pemalite said:

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.

Your correct, and I was aware of this, but that was taken into account when i wrote this. Even if the "4k" games go from drawing 160 watts to 180, which would be a fair increase, plus variable mass storage power req's, and VR, then a 275 watt PSU would still be enough. If you compare power consumption levels of previous consoles to their rated max wattage, Pro's PSU does seem oversized, and not by just a few watts. To say its crappy quality and needed to be larger doesn't really make sense either in comparison to all of the other PS4 consoles and their PSU's. 

I'm not trying to convince myself, or anyone, of anything. I've just been noticing all of these things and this possibility seemed to connect the dots to some degree and I wondered what others thought about it or what insights they may have.