You don't announce these kind of things for the west at TGS, Sony won't have a presser at Gamescom, and PGS will be too late (mere days before November).
E3 seems the most logical actually.
You don't announce these kind of things for the west at TGS, Sony won't have a presser at Gamescom, and PGS will be too late (mere days before November).
E3 seems the most logical actually.
-> Immediate price reduction to $299 for 500Gb PS4+TLOU.
-> Batman Bundle (500Gb) re-priced at $299 (possibly $349) launching June 23rd.
-> $299 1Tb model announced for November.
-> $349 1Tb bundles of Battlefront announced
You don't announce these kind of things for the west at TGS, Sony won't have a presser at Gamescom, and PGS will be too late (mere days before November).
E3 seems the most logical actually.
-> Immediate price reduction to $299 for 500Gb PS4+TLOU.
-> Batman Bundle (500Gb) re-priced at $299 (possibly $349) launching June 23rd.
-> $299 1Tb model announced for November.
-> $349 1Tb bundles of Battlefront announced
i dropped a 1TB SSHD into mine day one.. think it was around $100
i can see 1TB lasting me the life of this console since i dont tend to hoard games
Wonder if it's worth waiting for this on the off chance it's quieter.
$349 - 500GB, TLOU bundle, standard unit.
$399 - 1TB, "special" bundle (your Assassin's Creeds, your Far Crys), elite unit.
You do realise the scale that they manufacture these consoles on? Even a small increase in component costs has a massive knock on effect in their margins.
mehgatonI could see them lowering the 500GB model to $349 and bringing in the 1TB model at $399.
Would be a megaton.
Fucking wizardry.They can always go smaller and still keep power supply and bluray player internal.
So, a few days ago I bought my PS4. TLoU bundle at 360$, nice deal. However, I am holding opening it (my Xbox One's Witcher III copy helps me with the wait) waiting for this type of leaks. If Sony announces a worthy new model I will return mine.
Problem is, I only have until the 14th of June to return it (yup, one day before the conference).
I need this to leak fast
So, a few days ago I bought my PS4. TLoU bundle at 360$, nice deal. However, I am holding opening it (my Xbox One's Witcher III copy helps me with the wait) waiting for this type of leaks. If Sony announces a worthy new model I will return mine.
Problem is, I only have until the 14th of June to return it (yup, one day before the conference).
I need this to leak fast
Right now the plan is $399 with a $399 PS4, but I also see a $349 possibility, as indicated in my post.Do you really think Batman is going to be sold for 299 with a PS4?
I'm with the camp that nothing will be announced at E3 but return it to be on the safe side. Just buy it again if the new model comes out.
This way you're covered.
I'm guessing $299 for the 500GB sku and $399 for the 1TB sku. There will be two skus from now on onced released, a lower price of entry to boost sales, and a larger capacity sku for increased profitability.
That would be a huge blunder on Sony's part. Majority of console software sale is physical, and that number increases with casual players. Not to mention a BD-drive costing only $20 max. It would cripple the PS4 severely for little profit gain.
I would've been all for this a year or two ago, but after learning about the problem UK PS4 owners have had with their accounts being hacked, Sony not refunding them, having accounts blocked and therefore losing all purchases...I'm a lot more positive towards physical ownership.Really hope it comes without a bluray drive. Would buy this day 1 and get rid of my launch ps4
Not to mention that it'll divide the owners/userbase.
I doubt Sony's that crazy.
I don't think we'll be getting a dieshrink this year, AMD ran into some problems and is projecting 2016 to be the year it will happen now
either mine or your system is faulty then. becasue mine is super quiet. and super cool running. PS3 got much louder, and the 360 may as well have been a jet engine.
Man, I thought I game a lot but those of you who need 2TB is just insane to me. Do you just keep every single game installed all the time? I typically have 4-6 AAA games (about 200GB) and a butt load of indies, 5GB of music and I still have 100GB left on my launch unit.
Perhaps, I am just blessed to have no data cap from my service provider. I can d/l anything I might have deleted in about 15 minutes if I feel the need to play again, but honestly, after I platinum a game and finish the DLC, I just see no reason to even keep it around.
Said back up HDDs are from the same manufacturer of the drives inside the PS4. Samsung.
Samsung does the QA on their own drives before shipping them out. I don't think Samsung is selective on the amount of QA they give to their drives be it in PS4's or their own off-the-shelf units. It's still the same company regardless.
More space is one thing, but they need faster drives too. I put in an SSHD and it's significantly better in some games. Cheap too.
There's a basic fact illustrated nicely by Dark's post here which a lot of people are forgetting: We're all insane! lolIt's really not as bad as I expected.
I installed a 2tb drive in my system and have installed 32 retail discs, all of the PS+ games, and a boatload of additional digital only titles and still have 900gb free. I purposely installed every possible game in order to see how much space it would actually require and, well, there it is.
Try playing TLOU, Killzone or infamous first light for at least 20 min. The amount of stress put to the unit varies greatly from title to title. I went through 4 brand new ones. 1x 10xx model and 3x 11xx model. All went beyond 50dB in these games. It's not about playing a disc based game. While the disc spins during installation it stops completely when it's done. This is purely related to fan noise.
I'm guessing $299 for the 500GB sku and $399 for the 1TB sku. There will be two skus from now on onced released, a lower price of entry to boost sales, and a larger capacity sku for increased profitability.
I would've been all for this a year or two ago, but after learning about the problem UK PS4 owners have had with their accounts being hacked, Sony not refunding them, having accounts blocked and therefore losing all purchases...I'm a lot more positive towards physical ownership.
Lower power consumption - are we expecting an APU shrink, or just the newer lower power GDDR5 chips? Or something else?
I'm guessing the PS4 Slim will arrive next year that has fewer/denser, lower power GDDR5 chips and the APU shrunk to 16/14nm FinFET. I could be way off though.
It looks like just the larger hard drive.