I like this rumor, and I think it is highly likely. As pointed out in the article, the difference in cost between a 2.5" 500GB and 1TB HDD is not much; for a massive OEM buyer like Sony, I would guess around ~$10 per drive. Sony has already said that, even on day one, they were breaking even or making a small profit on each PS4 sold (a huge turnaround from the $300+ loss per console with PS3). We can safely assume that at this point, with manufacturing costs always going down & millions of 28-nm AMD APUs coming out of TSMC for both Sony and Microsoft, that Sony is probably making a much bigger profit per system now.

What I see making the most business sense is for them to launch the "new" 1TB SKU for $399 and retire the 500GB SKU. Sony knows how important that $399 number was to their initial (and continuing) success, and I think they would realize it's better to add more value to that number that either a) drop the 500GB SKU in price (even $50 would elminate all the profit I bet) and do a 1TB SKU at $399, or b) launch the 1TB SKU at higher than the 500GB model and become greedy. I think a November lunch, just in time for Black Friday, would be perfect. No reason to increase the value in Sep./Oct. as Destiny will sell plenty of PS4s all by itself. But when people start shopping for Christmas, a 1TB PS4 at $399 sitting next to a 500GB Xbox One at $399 just makes it that much easier to pick Sony.

1 TB bundled with GTA5 remake. "Do it"

Awesome. If its true i will get it,

If true and priced correctly, then this can help the PS4 in the long run for both sales and consumer value, as 500GB nowadays is considered "small" due to the increasing size and data of video games, which is mostly noticable in Triple-A games.

I feel its way too soon. BUT if it is priced well then people will buy it.

I think Sony releasing cheaper models with LESS harddrive space is more likely to promote more sales during the Holidays.

Oh... But, but, I bought one with 500 GB, that is not fair =/

This early adopter says, just put in a cheap 1TB for the price of less than a game. It's what this early adopter did, subsequently erning a 500gb spare drive :)

What keeps you from swapping it out for a bigger one?

The Brazilian´s economy =/

I meant the impact on storage capacity due to the installations, not the time it takes.