Andrew House, President and Group CEO Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., holds up a Playstation 4 at the Sony Playstation E3 2013 press conference. (Photo : Getty Images/Eric Thayer)
A new leak of the PlayStation 4 Neo revealed details that it will be thicker and heavier compared to the regular one. The price of the upcoming console was also revealed in the leak.
According to the official forums of A9VG, a Foxconn employee revealed a sketch of the upcoming console. The sketch showed a console that looked like a mix between the current PlayStation 4 and the old PlayStation 2.
The sketch gave some design elements that might make it a better upgrade. Making it slightly thicker and heavier can give it an advantage due to console's improved graphics and processing power. Consoles that have more power will need a bigger case to fit everything in.
According to another post on the official forums of A9VG, the poster also revealed that the PS4 Neo will weigh about 10 pounds. It was reported recently that it will have a size increase in design. It was also reported that it will have 4.19 teraflops of power, which needs a lot of space for it to breathe.
The increase of the upcoming console's size will also make its suggested retail price higher. The standard PS4 console was priced $399 when it entered the market. The upcoming console is reported to have a price of $450.
The Chinese company Foxconn is the one responsible for manufacturing a lot of electronics. Some of the projects they did were the PS3 and the standard PS4. They also manufactured different Apple products and much more.
A similar Foxconn sketch of the upcoming PlayStation 4 Slim was released recently, but it was deleted right away. It turned out that the sketch was actually very close to the leaked model, which was revealed very recently.
In other PS4 Neo related news, its leaked specifications from an official document were recently revealed by WCCFTech. The publication clarified that there is a chance that the final version of the upcoming console will have slightly higher specifications. Its CPU will be a Jaguar, 8 cores with 2.1 Ghz, a GPU that can compute units at 911 Mhz, and a RAM that will have 8 GB GDR5 at 218 GB/s.
It was reported at first that it would launch sometime next year. New multiple sources report that it will be released this year, possibly before Thanksgiving.
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