I bought a portable Seagate external (2TB), put the 2TB in the PS4, and then put the PS4 HDD into the external housing. So for like $80 I got a 2 TB drive for my PS4 and a 500 gb external drive.

Why isn't this 1 TB instead? It only costs a few dollars more to up it to 1 TB, so they'd still do well at 399. Microsoft did this, and it seems to work very well for them.

It just threw me off.....sadly I never got a response to my question eitehr lol

Some new information. Thanks to GAF for the translation:

New power supply ADP-200ER replaced ADP-240CR and is 80g lighter.
New BD drive.
New 8Gb GDDR5 chips (Samsung K4G80325FB-HC03)
New main board SAC-001 replaced SAB-001 and has 60mm less width.
The APU CXD90037G remains the same.

Following chips existed at previous models are now missing:
- Fujitsu USB 3.0-SATA bridge
- Marvell Ethernet LSI
- Genesys Logic USB 3.0 hub controller LSI

The secondary processor CXD90036G has direct connection to all of them (the guy speculates Sony may have eliminated USB3.0 - SATA conversion).

HDMI transmitter is MN864729 by Panasonic.

Boot system LSI is changed to A00-C0L2 (there seems to be some new patent regarding system control)

Blu-ray drive control subboard is now missing and controller LSI R9J04G011FP1 & motor driver BD7764MUV are now on mainboard.
Cooling fan remains the same (KSB0912HE).

Heatsink's base is changed from aluminum to steel.
The heatpipe existed at heatsink's base remains, but one existed at aluminum fins is now missing.

They already announced a 1tb model. I know your not a Sony fan, but it's everywhere.

"The new models, numbered C UH-1215A and CUH-1215B, are variations of the same model, with the difference essentially being the hard drive size. While the CUH-1215A variant has a 500GB HDD, the CUH-1215B version has a 1TB hard drive."

Source: IGN

Protendo said: super6646 said: Why isn't this 1 TB instead? It only costs a few dollars more to up it to 1 TB, so they'd still do well at 399. Microsoft did this, and it seems to work very well for them. They already announced a 1tb model. I know your not a Sony fan, but it's everywhere. "The new models, numbered C UH-1215A and CUH-1215B, are variations of the same model, with the difference essentially being the hard drive size. While the CUH-1215A variant has a 500GB HDD, the CUH-1215B version has a 1TB hard drive." Source: IGN Look like one of the big features is noise reduction: I don't know if any of you noitced by mand did they shrink the motherboard.

Those are in Europe, not NA. Its still only 500 GB in NA.

I think the are being smart and are waiting for the COD or Star Wars bundle to release the 1TB version. That way it makes a bigger impact. I'm going to go with COD as they want to get COD customers to switch over, why not tempt them with a nice 1TB version, the first in the US?

This sounds like they found ways to reduce the price of the PS4.... by designing it to be cheaper.

Yep. They're clearly sitting on a price drop and are just waiting for the perfect time to do it.

@GribbleGrunger
That is the right way to do a price cut.... by designing things cheaper, instead of haveing it eat into profits on each units sold.

(ontop of that they better it, less power/noise & better buttons)

Its good, its going to benefit buyers once they do a price cut.

Does anyone know how this new model compairs to the Xbox One? with power usage/noise/heat ?