Generational leap? The ps platform just then becomes a PC, that's not a step forward it's a step back. We ALREADY HAVE a PC market, why create another? The whole steam box idea fizzled pretty quick didn't it. 

Why do so many of you WANT the console market to die? If you can't see how this will really really hurt future console releases, adoption rates will slow not increase.

Incremental upgrades work in the phone market because generally they are just phones and web browsers, people upgrade on subsidized contracts, people upgrade because their phone cracked or fell in the toliet. Not cuz they need 10fps extra out of angry birds.

Consoles are successful because they give you a good cheap way to get around 5 years of gaming parity close to the leading edge of gaming WITHOUT spending any more money. Take that away, besides SONY First party exclusives , there is ZERO reason not to just PC game instead,  where your totally in control of your components, cost and upgrade cycle.

If money was their primary concern they would go mobile. 

Are they following the route of Mobile Phones now?

Care to name an entertainment company that is publicly traded, where the board needs to answer to share holders, where profit isn't their primary concern? It is literally the objective of these corporations to make as much money as possible with the knowledge base and assets the corporation has. You should also note that every major publisher (at least the ones I can think of) have made mobile games to varying degrees of success. When I was making mobile games, we aimed for 1 of every 3 games we released to make actually profit, mostly because the development cost was much lower, and if you luck out and make something that becomes a hit, you're rolling in it for a while. It's not the easy license to print money that many people make it out to be. It's a lot harder to consistently make huge profits in mobile games than it is in console video games.

It's Sony, they always have to fuck it up somehow.

Really? Counter example: The Wii.

The wii was easily the most difficult console to develop for last generation. Really. The developer tools were atrocious. The dev kits were hard to use. Optimizing for the hardware was far more difficult than it needed to be, and Nintendo's certification process was disturbingly tedious. It sucked making Wii games. Yet that console had more shovelware than the PS3 and X360 combined. Why? Because there were 100 million potential customers out there that might be looking to spend $30 on a video game if you make it cheap enough and interesting looking enough.

My point is, people are willing to deal with horse shit if they think they can make money off of it as a result.

It's no me that cares aout 399 price point. I was going to buy a 4K UHD playback capable version anyway.

It's the majority of users that join when the slim hits at a lower price point. And sure, they can buy a second hand base model, or go for another cheaper option not willing to buy the inferior version or a used console. Why is it so hard to understand how and why a console generation works the way it does. Going back to 399 will slow things down considerably and will cause the actual generation cycle to become a lot longer, while games won't really progress and stick to targeting the far more numerous base model. We're just past the point where games have lost their shackles for supporting last gen, with this new model they will never move beyond the base model.

Instead of new graphics engines and much more imortant other innovations in 2019, we'll now get stuck with base ps4 specs until much later. This articale already states that the NEO can't have extra feautures, better AI, more enemies, bigger levels, better procedural generation, all the things that really count. Just a minor graphical bump while the base model dictates what games can do.

Codename NEO... who is The One...

Ohhh, I see what you did there Sony.

I don't like this one bit. I'd like to be very cautious to this idea. I just wonder if all the PS4 games are capable of scaling up performance and graphics. With all this hardware enhancing, it makes me think that they're having in mind some kind of software/hardware that's demanding.

On the positive side, this might mean that the original PS4 will get a price reduction eventually.

The main problem with it being 14nm is that AMD only produces the Jaguar cores in the 28nm process, and I doubt they're willing to bring Jaguar to 14nm having Puma around. And they can't use both processes together with one APU.

That said, the fastest Jaguar processor was the 2.05GHz Athlon 5350. Has AMD made a faster version of the CPU? Is the leak incorrect and Neo uses Puma cores? And if the leak is incorrect in that part, what else can be wrong/false?

All I know is that I aint complaining, I'm just going to buy it.