New PS4 model incoming… but it’s not the PS4 slim yet.
Straight from the intertubes comes the news of a new series of PS4, models CUH-11xxA (the current models are CUH-10xxA).
The US FCC (Federal Communications Commission) just certified the new model yesterday, bringing attention to Sony’s new PS4 to the eyes of the people in the US… but it’s not completely new, as this PS4 hardware revision had been certified in Indonesia two weeks ago (model CUH-1106A).
Today’s model certified by the FCC is CUH-1115A (a peculiar number since the US region code for the PS4 should be 01, not 15). Gaming site Dualshockers investigated the certificates’ documentation, and report that the only main difference seems to be in the Wifi component, in particular the Wifi Antenna.
| Code (Suffix) | Country |
| 00 | Japan |
| 01 | North America |
| 02 | Australia / New Zealand |
| 03 | U.K. / Ireland |
| 04 | Europe / Middle East / Africa |
| 05 | South Korea |
| 06 | Singapore / Malaysia |
| 07 | Taiwan |
| 08 | Russia / India |
| 09 | China |
| 10 | ? |
| 11 | Mexico |
| 12 | Hong Kong |
DualShockers say the Planar Inverted-F antenna (PIFA) is being replaced by an Inverted F Antenna (IFA). Google and a few papers on the net tell me PIFA is better than IFA on pretty much every metric, so I’m assuming the decision to change here is driven by cost, not by the quality of the Wifi signal. What I can say, as a user, is that my current PS4’s Wifi is definitely not as good as that of the PS3, so I’m not sure using a worse component is going to help with that… then again if I was a hardware expert I would… oh, well, I’m not so I’ll shut up, but feel free to let me know in the comments what that change could mean in terms of Wi-fi efficiency.
Besides the Wifi component being replaced, there doesn’t seem to be much change in this upcoming PS4 model. A PS4 slim would see a change in the major version number (CUH20-XXA) rather than the minor version, so I wouldn’t expect any major change in the design or functionality of this CUH-11xxA revision.
The PS4 Dev wiki has close to no information on the device yet, but its history tells me I could have written this article 10 days ago.
Source Dualshockers, thanks @gamesonic for the tip
That is good to know as I have not bought one yet. I will wait for any more info as to which one is better before purchasing.
The other documents will be released on 11/25/2014 (180 days after submission 05/29/2014), so then we will know for sure what preproduction motherboard was used in testing. It would be nice if users reported back what system version was on it, or post pictures of the insides of the final retail models sold.
In my opinion, the PS3’s wifi is horrible as it is only Wireless b/g which has a very limited range and limited speed. The PS4 at least has wireless N. I still prefer Wired for my network connections. Lately Sony’s servers seem really slow when downloading content.
Now if they upgraded the Wireless to AC, that would be a step in the right direction.
I think the current PS4 is small compared to other consoles. They could probably only make it smaller if they used an external power supply which I prefer. Some people don’t like external power supplies but I prefer them as if they blow, it’s an easy replacement and you don’t have to send the console in for repair.
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They are already making a new model? Why? What’s the point? Isn’t the PS4 1000 model good enough?
The new wifi component would be less expensive, which means the PS4 would cost less for Sony to make. That’s all.
Sony is always down grading their hardware, granite online gaming over WiFi without dedicated servers only hurts Gaming anyway(keep your bad latency to single-player!) but it’s very sad and scary to see…what’s next no DDR5? boooooo
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