See, guys. Here are the F-A-C-T-S. GaFFers are all engineers too.If this is real, this is how it'd work.
It'd have the disk drive, as you can see in the photo. Then it'll have the mobo with the APU and the RAM and all that jazz.
Then it'd come with no HDD, asking you to buy an external one, support for which comes with a SW update that arrives preinstalled on it. Plus, the power supply will be external.
Lastly, it'd be a fanless design, as there is no room for the fan in there. As a result it'd run extremely hot and throttle itself way more than it needs to. In order to combat this, the system reserve that's already in the PS4 SDK stays there as those CPU cores are turned off to cut down on heat.
So yeah, it's fake.
Way too small for actually working.
that was more then 1 year difference
But what about the PS2 slim, that worked.
Guys can you really not tell what this is? Thought it would be pretty clear to all involved.
HD-DVD add-on for PS4.
The PSOne was introduced six years after the original model released, PS2 slim was introduced five years after the release of the PS2. The PS3 Slim, though introduced three years after the release of the original PS3, was not nearly as small in comparison to its sibling as the previous slimmed down playstations. It took another three years for the superslim PS3 to hit markets.
You should expect the same rate of shrinkage for the PS4.
Almost exactly five and a half to be specific.
Four years and seven months.
Lets wait for the leaked pictures form the Chinese factories, although that won't happen until APU goes down to 20nm.
Now that was an awesome thread. People lost their minds in it.
Eh, this is obviously fake (standing view and lying down view don't match up), but it's a different situation. Sony used off the shelf parts in the PS4. It will be much easier for them to cut costs and shrink the console than the PS3. And as you point out in your post, the turnaround to a slim model is getting smaller and smaller every gen.
which would mean that the device is pretty much only a bit wider than the DVD slot, the drive taking up pretty much 90% of the space within the corpus.
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Must be real.
Not this soon.
the disk slot on the side looks like a dumb idea.
- "but what if that's actually the front?!"
well, then we'd be looking at a sideways slanted parallelogram in our TV setup, which looks dumb.
the slot / buttons would be on top, when the console is mounted vertically, which sounds plausible.
HOWEVER:
the size comparisons are weird, if not completely wrong. The PS4's disc slot is pretty much half of it's inner corpus width. (as can be seen here:
so by looking at the size comparison and superimposing the width of a DVD slot onto both devices, we'd get this:
which would mean that the device is pretty much only a bit wider than the DVD slot, the drive taking up pretty much 90% of the space within the corpus.
which is in dramatic contrast to the "slot to device" ratio on the first pic in the OP
(you could also go the math route and take PS4 measurements, "PS4 slim measurements" and see that the size comparison wouldn't work out, but the graphical way seems to get the point across a bit better.
If this size comparison to the original PS4 didn't exist, this would be somewhat plausible, because the device wouldn't sacrifice as much width, but just slim down in height - the fakers just went overboard here, sadly.
People were using math & measurements to prove that a blu ray drive couldn't possibly fit in the slim PS3 in the other thread too.
the "leak" is probably fake, but reasons like "Confidential" or "it's too small" aren't good reasons.
The fact that this says "CONFIDENTIAL" in all caps right in the file name should be ringing alarm bells in people's head.
Regardless of whether it is actually fake or not, I work at a major oil company and they do tag everything with 'confidential' in a similar way as shown. Even powerpoint slides would be tagged at the bottom.Because confidential files are tagged with "confidential" word, as we all know from movies.
The PSOne was introduced six years after the original model released, PS2 slim was introduced five years after the release of the PS2. The PS3 Slim, though introduced three years after the release of the original PS3, was not nearly as small in comparison to its sibling as the previous slimmed down playstations. It took another three years for the superslim PS3 to hit markets.
You should expect the same rate of shrinkage for the PS4.