Sony have to keep updating consoles to get the best price on fabrication of chips. It never stands still. I'm sure late next year or into 2019 there will be another revision based on a better fabrication process again. Hopefully at some point the standard ps4 will be abandoned or made into a hybrid console and the pro will become the standard level ps4 with the ps5 as the advanced more powerful model.

That's really disappointing to hear. The Chinese production tolerances seem to be pretty big then. Assuming it wasn't just dust causing the load and sound you mentioned. The type of game seems to make a huge difference as well, hence why the OP did the comparison the way he did.

I can't get passed "more quiet". The new PS4 Pro model is "quieter" than the previous model.

The dust inside the console was just enough in a few places to be able to see it was on the plastic with a finger swipe, so really clean. I was quite surprised when hearing the other console models. Everything I had read and most of what I had seen on YouTube led me to believe the 1000 would be jet engine and the 1100 quieter and the 1200 whisper quiet. Ended up being the opposite though. They all were in the open and were in clean spaces, so I would have to assume that wasn't a problem. On every console I played UC4 and BO3, except for the one 1200, I played Doom and it was insanely loud and annoying. My 1200 spins up quite a bit with Doom, but nowhere near that bad.

My buddies 1200 fan acts just like mine. Speeds up and drops at the same times on the same games. His is just quieter. Both our consoles have plenty of room to stay cool as well. Really seems like there can be major variations between PS4 consoles. We both bought our slim PS3 at the exact same time and same store back then, and mine has always been dead silent, while his was slightly noticeable most of the time. There is definitely a larger difference between our PS4's though. What I really wonder is why my fan started to whine after months of use, while my buddy says his did it from day 1. I'd also like to know why the whine is basically gone now that my console stands vertically.

Some games it is very quiet, but on average it is a little noisy. I'm not sensitive to sound in general either, and not many sounds easily annoy me. It doesn't bother me anymore now that the whine is gone and I do still feel lucky overall. Seeing and hearing some of the horror stories about loud consoles over the years, I've been really lucky and don't mind the PS4 being a touch loud overall. I would be more than happy to see a larger PS5 if it ends up very quiet.

Thats actually a big differnce.

But its messured at 20cm from it, most people sit like 1,5m from their TV's not 20cm close to it, so the "real" experiance would still be alot more quiet Less noisy than this.

It makes sense in danish... doesnt work in english tho :p

Here in Germany more and more media are reporting the new model to run substantially more silent and cool. Shrunken chip sizes, due to improved production techniques seem to be the obvious reason...which gladly goes hand in hand with lowered power consumption.

Yeah its quite strange that there is a day and nigh difference for certain games, like in Nier Automata which is total quiet, except if you get to the desert while its storming. Its mostly for certain 60fps games.

I don't get bothered by fan noise, so even when sometimes PS4Pro gets noisy I don't care much, it hardly harass my playing enjoyment.

It seems like my English isn't the worst on VGC.