New PS4 Model incoming, will have a 1TB Hard Drive, lower power consumption
Website Dualshockers found documents from the FCC that reveal a new hardware revision of the PS4 is in the works, with 2 new models announced.
New PS4 Models CUH-12XXA and CUH-12XXB
The new PS4 Models, named CUH-12XXA and CUH-12XXB will ship with 500GB and 1TB hard drives respectively. Former models have identifiers with patterns CUH-10XX and CUH-11XX.
a 1TB drive would be a welcome addition to the PS4, although you can already easily extend your PS4’s hard drive today. And for those who are into cool mods, the upcoming Niko Data Bank looks pretty nice.
The FCC documents also indicate that the new PS4s will ship with a new power unit, lowering power consumption from 250W to 230W. Arstechnica note that playing on a CPU intensive game on the current model can draw up to 150W (that’s 15 times more than your typical android TV box which uses 10W at most), and suggest that the new power supply could help lower these numbers.
Last but not least, it appears that the new PS4 will be lighter than the current model, at 2.5Kg instead of 2.8Kg.
Is this the PS4 Slim?
The tiny changes here, in particular the weight loss, should not lure you: this is not the PS4 Slim, and a release Date for the PS4 slim has yet to be announced. Typically, a “slim” revision of the hardware would mean a more dramatic change in the model numbers: we would expect the major model number to get an increase, i.e. CUH-20XX instead of CUH-12XX
This is the second minor revision for the PS4 hardware since the console launched. The previous one was revealed exactly a year ago, in June 2014. At that time, model numbers bumped from CUH-10XX to CUH-11XX, and the only update was for the wifi antenna.
source Dualshockers, thanks to GaryOPA!
It’s always good to see lower power consumption since it should generate less heat and thereby make the console more durable.
I really noticed a big difference swapping. out the default hdd for a solid state hard drive. It’s a shame they cost a fortune for anything over 200gb though.
How is this not on NeoGAF yet?
neogaf is ***.
I wasn’t aware that Niko made gaming accessories.
Typo, maybe?
Yes, NIKO Does Make A lot Of Accessories….
Does bowling with cousin Roman count?
Yes, it is a typo. It’s supposed to be spelled NYKO, not NIKO.
I thought Garyopa was a gateway shill/nintendo 3ds troll on gba temp forums. Regardless, cool news, made me a bit mad I bought ps4 recently but the changes are nothing major yet.
Won’t lower power consumption make the ps4 less powerful when playing games?
No you just save some money with less power consumption = lower electricity bill
Also less heat
I think the slim will be announced around the time 16nm APU’s from AMD will be coming out. They will also stack their VRAM. AMD is calling is High Bandwidth Memory. This will significantly reduce the footprint of the VRAM. I’m predicting the power draw will be around 30% less. The PS4 slim might end up looking like the PS2 slim.