That bottleneck tho.

If it doesn't fracture the gaming community, I have no issue with upgraded consoles.

Sorry guys, having a boosted (clock-wise) CPU and GPU is not enough to warrant calling the thing a "separate platform to develop for." All of the architectural quirks remain the same. I could see the added cost and effort being an order of magnitude less than a PC port as you are only adding one SKU with very, very similar hardware, rather than thousands of possible combinations with quite different hardware. 

This to me seems more like an Iphone 6/6s situation. There really isn't that much inhibiting vertical integration here like with multiplats. 

This is also different from the 3DS in that the games are console games with console level budgets (and the costs of developing for different hardware don't scale proportionally with budget) and the 3DS games were majorly single-platform exclusives. 

 I get it, I just think that iPhone users knew next year there would be a 5, then, 6, then 7. 

I've had my ps4 since launch but some customers just bought there's with no ps5 in site, and they are probably going to feel it the most. 

 When I say the market being confused, I'm seeing the PSVR driving a lot of new customers possibly more non gamers like during the wii years to the ps4. If there are two skus on the market at psvr launch and that affect psvr performance it could be an issue for new customers. I'm not saying I'm going to be confused, but I'm sure you've been down to your local Walmart and overheard a salesperson or some customer questions.

 Just remember sonys been going over the psvr manuals to reduce confusion about how to set it up. You and me might not be confused by two skus but to others, that's another story.

I like the idea but I really want to buy a PS4 this week xD, I'm conflicted on waiting until October or just getting the PS4 now.

You sound like you are a game developer, which very likely you aren't.

We can't say if it will be easy or hard for the developers because we simple don't know. It makes sense to say that it will be similar, but in reality, 99% of the users here don't know anything about programing on the PS4 and even less on this new NEO version if it ends up being real.

Buy a second hand one and then trade it in.

Either buy a used one (would make sure is one of the newer models) or just buy one and hope for a trade in option like I am XD

I'm on the same boat, I was planning to get a PS4 maybe next month or so but with all these recent rumors I think I should hold. 

This is faulty logic. Firstly, the Xbox 360 and PS3 emulators are not fully developed nor near-fully accurate.

We have no idea what new hardware specifications (if any) it takes to do that. Secondly, the CPU bottleneck on PC doesn't exist as it does with consoles. If we used CPU's as weak as the Jaguar line to emulate 360 and PS3 games we might notice performance variations between the two emulators, in fact I would be very surprised if they didn't exist considering the uniqueness of the cell vs. the pretty standard PPC in the 360. When you have highly clocked i5's and i7's running these games the bottlenecks dissapear as they can brute force their way through emulation of the key features of the cell. I would also like to note that until the emulator developers decided to use DX12, the PS3 emulator was lagging behind the 360 emulator in performance. Now it is ahead of the curve. Sony doesn't have an API (out of lack of necessity) that is meant for translating between architectures in a general level like this. 

Those are just few reasons why we can't use this logic. There probably are more reasons that I haven't thought of. Having said that, I wouldn't say that PS3 emulation on PS4 is impossible, just a lot more work for what might not be so great results. I don't see Sony taking the risk unless they are sure they'll be able to make a good emulator. 

Exactly my point. Why would they spend any extra effort on a NEO version?
40 million ps4 vs a million ps4 NEO that can run the game as is.

Developers aim for parity, same features, same assets accross consoles, hence XBox One and ps4 versions only really differ in resolution and stability, and the WiiU is ignored. And that's where they can actually make extra money by releasing on platforms with a different user base. There is no extra money for putting extra effort in the NEO version. (Unless they're going to charge for NEO hi-res texture pack DLC etc)
So in the XBox One / PS4 case, perhaps now we get 1080p NEO, 900p ps4, 720p XBox One. That would be the easiest path. Or maybe a pointless 1440p NEO version, ugly upscaled to 4K, yet with the same assets and lod not meant for 4K. Although likely there will be no difference at all, same 1080p version, except with frame pacing issues instead of frame rate drops.

PC development is very different. That's coding to a standard API and it's upto the user to figure out how to get a stable performance. The developers simply give you a recommended spec and the rest is up to you.

No matter what devs do, there is still the extra QA costs for testing and certifying on 2 hardware specs, who is going to pay for that. Who is going to ensure patches are synchronized and won't make online games temporarily incompatible. Or too bad, fixes will simply take twice as long now.