As much as I want the Neo myself I do wonder why the timing of this now. Why is this a thing that they're doing this year rather than next? PS4 sales are absolutely steam rolling ahead and I can't imagine they were at all worried by Nintendo's NX, should it have come out this year. And Microsoft's next system is clearly further out than the Neo which I presume Sony would have some idea about.
It does feel like they've jumped the gun a bit, which is even weirder considering they're obviously going to be pushing PSVR this year, so to complicate the message like this about a new console seems strange. Wonder what prompted it. Were they just trying to get way ahead of Microsoft or what? Genuine Q, and yeah I know these decisions are all made years in advance usually, which makes it even stranger they'd do this and clash with the PSVR launch. Neo should have been something only even hinted at once PSVR was out the door, because unlike some, I know Neo isn't some remedy for PS4's apparent failing in regards to PSVR. It has little, if anything to do with PSVR.