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PS4 Slim Seemingly Confirmed With New Video [UPDATE]

The aesthetically questionable PS4 redesign appears to be real.

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Update: Eurogamer has taken down its video, citing "legal advice." You can still see a picture of the system below.

Original Story: Following its somewhat bizarre leak over the weekend, the legitimacy of the so-called PS4 Slim has now been confirmed.

Image credit: Eurogamer
Image credit: Eurogamer

Eurogamer reports that it's visited the home of the person who claimed to have purchased the console through Gumtree (think UK's version of Craigslist) and verified the remodeled PS4 is real. Not only that, but it's shared a video of the console booting up.

The site also shared a new photo of the system, which you can see below.

Numerous photos of the system appeared online through NeoGAF on Sunday. They purported to show a redesigned PS4 that is noticeably smaller than the existing model. It features rounded corners and PlayStation symbols on the bottom.

This initially seemed dubious, but credence was lent to the rumor when the Wall Street Journal reported that two new PS4 consoles will be revealed in September. Previously, we believed only one new system--the more powerful PS4 Neo that Sony has already confirmed--would be revealed during an event in early September. Citing anonymous sources, the WSJ said the two new systems were part of an attempt to "maintain demand" for the PS4. An earlier report suggested both Neo and a slimmed-down PS4 would be revealed around the same time in September.

While the idea of announcing two new systems at the same time might sound odd, Microsoft did just that at E3. The first of those systems, the Xbox One S, launched earlier this month, with the more powerful Project Scorpio set to launch next year. The Xbox One S features a small increase in power to allow for HDR support, although this can translate into better performance for some Xbox One games. Whether the new PS4 Slim will also feature improved hardware--or will instead simply be a redesigned version of the system--remains to be seen.

We'll have more on the story as it develops. Sony's upcoming PlayStation event, where it's expected to announce the new consoles, is scheduled for September 7 at 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT.

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Sony and Microsoft literally swapped spots on this subject. The original Xbox One was made fun of for looking like a vcr. The Xbox One slim releases and everybody likes/doesn't mind the look of it. The original PS4 looks amazing and now this slim model looks like crap and is made fun of. IF this slim model is the real deal that is.

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@WhoIsTheDrizzle: X1S looks like a smaller sized VCR. The PS4S is very stylish.

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@CrusaderForever: Dude

Blind hate really.

The OG PS4 looks awesome. Compare this to that, this looks like an early 2000's dvd player, and one made out of cheaper plastic too.

Also, X1 Slim looks really good. Dont hate on it just because the new PS4 Slim doesnt look good. The X1 S looks classic, yet sturdy and looks sleek asf.

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@CrusaderForever: LOL, the PS4 S looks like a bathroom scale or an AppleTV made with the cheapest plastic they could find.

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@dlCHIEF58: Screw the looks, it's still more powerful than that paper weight called a Xbox One I have in my living room xD Cry more...please.

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@CrusaderForever: Well there always is a minority that think the ps4 slim is stylish. Most will disagree.

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@CrusaderForever: No, it isn't. The PS4 original looks great. This thing looks like a half made sandwich. The XBOX One S looks awesome.

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Must admit that is fucking disgusting.

PS3 slim basically saved us from having to look at the PS3 breadbin monstocity.

This is a bit like Brad Pitt having a kid and it looking like Jabba the Hutt.

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the slim is a step back in design, though it would have been mighty challenging to top the original ps4 model as it is the best looking console in history. very thankful i have an original launch unit.

i assume they have already inspected the inards to determine there isn't a new gpu in there? this would debunk the theory of the slim also being the neo :D

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They're really cutting corners with the new design, it doesn't look as sharp as the original.

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@Shadowdanc3r: HAHAHAHAHA. Good one

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Eh, original PS4 looks so much better. This looks a bit like a bathroom weight scale.

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@wayneextremity: And I thought I was the only one who saw that.

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it looks alot better than the regular ps4

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@alaannn: You need your eyes checked then as this looks as cheap as hell.

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@alaannn: both are ugly to me....and its funny people keep saying the ONE looks like a VCR when truth be told the PS4 looks like one of the massive VCR's from the 70's.....

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IMO, the OG PS4 and the X1S are both better looking. The OG PS4 with the two textures and sharp edges had a space-age monolith type thing going on. This is just kind of "plastic box"

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@xantufrog: This looks like an old Emerson DVD player.

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@rasterror: An AppleTV that has had a belt sander run over the surface.

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@dlCHIEF58: Dude I'm done. Hahaha!

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Well it's better looking then a XBOX 1 VCR from the 1990's.

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@Terminator95: "than" and my "VCR from the 90's" is whisper quiet and not hot unlike the PS4.

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@Terminator95: kinda funny.....i had a VCR from the 70's that had the slopped face of the old PS4.......

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@Terminator95: Dafuq you smoking? The PS4 slim looks like a George Foreman grill.

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@rasterror: Looks like a food scale.

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@rasterror: That was the original PS3.

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@Terminator95: Its not lol

Xbox One doesnt look like anything special but it has its 'vents with a shiny cover' kind of a look. Regular PS4 looked nicer than the Xbox One but, this new one really looks like a cheaper build, almost like a toy. Doesnt look nice from any angle imo

Why does Sony always make their gen2 consoles like this? Same thing with the Gen2 PS3.

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@wayneextremity: Gen 2 PS3 slim was the best looking console ever made.

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@Terminator95: No, it really isn't. It looks like a piece of wood. It looks like all they did was saw the top off the regular version.

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@bfeinberg: The only reason for this is to compete with Xbox S. But well all know the BIG Fight will be

Neo vs Scorpio in 2017.

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@Terminator95: It's really not gonna be much of a fight. The Scorpio will trounce the Neo, I'm speaking from a multiplatform personal experience.

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@chiefwiggum16: it has to have good games to do that.....time and time again a better console spec wise has come out and the older consoles with better games beat it in to the ground.....OG Xbox was better then PS2.....PS2 still out sold it.....

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@smokerob79: The xbox does have good games and now 360 games added as well. Now every single game will look and run better on the scorpio than the neo. I normally go to my ps4 for multi platform single players games because I want the ebst console version. But rest assured that will change when the scorpio is out.

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@chiefwiggum16: On a technical level, sure. If a new console released 14 months after Neo and wasn't more powerful, that'd be sad.

Like a graphics card you buy today vs. what's available over a year later.

The question is: will it matter?

With the already 2:1 disparity in installed user base between PS4 and XB1, and the 'no generations'/'no exclusives' nature of Scorpio, there's no "reboot" or generation transition.

What you get with Scorpio is akin to a powerful Steambox - running the Xbox version of Windows 10 RT - in the living room, running XB1 games at higher fidelity and the Play Anywhere versions of Windows 10 games at similar 'Very High' presets.

It's not some miraculous generation change or paradigm shift, and 15 months off it's arriving a little late to its own party.

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@runstalker: that comparison does not work.....steam boxes never worked right the new console should run the game without problems.....

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@smokerob79: Functionality/compatibility wasn't the point of the Steambox analogy.

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@runstalker: Sorry, but if the tide can easily change between XBOX and PS4 in the last generation to this generation, it can easily swing back the other way with the Scorpio... and it is still a reboot or change if you are going from one system to the other.

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