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Upgraded Specifications Of SONY PS4 NEO Made Public

Though the NEO will offer greater visual fidelity than the original PS4, Sony is taking measures not to split their user base in two.

 

Earlier this year, rumors began to fly that Sony would release an upgraded version of the PlayStation 4, a console often called the PS4.5 or the PS4K by fans and press, the  information on its specifications has finally made public by gaming website Giantbomb.

PS4K is referred to internally at Sony as NEO. It will feature an all but obvious faster clock speed (8 Jaguar cores at 2.1GHz versus the PS4's 1.6GHz), a beefier GPU (improved AMD GCN, 36 CUs at 911 MHz versus the PS4's AMD GCN, 18 CUs at 800 MHz), and higher bandwidth memory (8 GB GDDR5, 218 GB/s versus the PS4's 8 GB GDDR5, 176 GB/s). Though the hard drive will remain the same it seems unclear if this is the case in terms of capacity or connection speed.

Sony is taking provisions to make sure it does not leave existing PS4 users behind.

October onwards, every PS4 game will be shipped with both a 'Base Mode' which will run the currently available PS4 and a 'NEO Mode' for use on the new console. It further goes on to explain what NEO mode does.

The games which will run under NEO mode will be able to use the hardware upgrades (and an additional 512 MiB in the memory budget) to offer increased and more stable frame rate and higher visual fidelity, at least when those games run at 1080p on HDTVs.

The NEO will also support 4K image output, but games themselves are not required to be 4K native.

There are strict guidelines for developers to make sure there are no NEO-exclusive games, gameplay features or options exclusive to it.

There will be parity in terms of peripherals such as PS VR as well. No price has been obtained but it should retail for around $399 (around INR 20,000), this should put it in the range of INR 40,000 for India if we go by Sony's past pricing for the region.


TAGS: Sony India, PS4, US Market, Gaming Consoles

 
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