PS4 Slim Seemingly Confirmed With New Video [UPDATE]

@dalger21The big difference, obviously, is timing. Microsoft introduced XB1 S a full 16 months before the Scorpio and gave it a halfway upgrade solution to try to ride out the long gap.

While Sony is putting the Slim (as the lower cost vanilla replacement) and PS4K (the higher spec, UHD Blu-ray/4K media unit) on the market simultaneously, 14 months ahead of Scorpio.

@dalger21: Simple, lower cost. Neither the Neo nor the Scorpio are designed or marketed to the average consumer but to the power users.

@dalger21: because sony will be phasing out the standard ps4 model anyways once the slim arrives. the whole point of the slim is to cut down manufacturing costs and make the product more profitable for them and cheaper for the consumer as well. either way, a slim will get released and is intended for new ps4 owners, not current ps4 owners who might want to upgrade.

@dalger21: You have to think like a soldier. PS4 S (though is not needed) is to combat X1s but this also buys Sony more time to up the ante and make Neo more powerful than Scorpio. Think about it...

@joshrmeyer: If it had been shot by ANYONE else, I'd call BS, because you could easily put the "PS4 Slim" there, plugged into power, and have a working standard PS4 off-camera that's actually hooked up to the TV. The fact that you can't see from screen to floor is shady. Like I said, the fact that it's Eurogamer is the only thing that lends it any credibility.

@gotrekfabian: "3D printed machine with the innards of a PS4". gotrekfabian, I think you're on the right track. Just think about this whole thing for a minute: an all new SONY (a Japanese multinational company) PS4 is revealed when someone buys one on a UK auction site?? A system that would have been designed in Japan and manufactured in China, ends up on the gray market in the UK?? That seems unlikely to me.

How hard would it now be for someone with a 3D printer and too much free time to make a case and stuff the innards of a current PS4 in it? And looking at the pics posted on various websites, it shows this new "PS4 Slim" with the PS logo facing right, NOT facing the front of the console... Hmm.

I smell a 2016 Piltdown Man.

Somewhere in the UK a person (or persons) is/are laughing their arses off, thinking "We pulled one off, and even the Wall Street Journal bought it"... :)