![]() I hate to break this to PS4 enthusiasts, but as big of an upgrade as that is – and it really is – it's still nowhere near enough power to drive modern games at 4k. It's a giant leap towards consoles being more like PCs, and another sign that the golden age of x86 is really and truly here. I have to wonder if this is partially due to the intense performance pressure of VR, but whatever the reason, I applaud Sony for taking this step. This is old hat for PCs, but to release a new, faster model that is perfectly backwards compatible is almost unprecedented in the console world. In PC enthusiast parlance, you might say Sony just slotted in a new video card, a faster CPU, and slightly higher speed RAM. So far, the rumoured console has gone under the moniker PS4K or PS4.5, but a new report from gaming site GiantBomb suggests that the codename for the console is "NEO," and it even provides hardware specs for the PlayStation 4's improved CPU, GPU, and higher bandwidth memory. Sony may be tight-lipped for now, but it's looking increasingly likely that the company will release an updated version of the PlayStation 4 later this year. It is all but announced that Sony will be upgrading the PS4 this year, no more than three years after it was first introduced … just like you would upgrade a PC. We can see it coming true in the solid GPU and idle power improvements in Skylake, riding the inevitable wave of x86 becoming the dominant kind of (non mobile, anyway) gaming for the forseeable future.Īnd then, the bombshell. ![]() That's why the future of PC gaming is looking brighter every day. The golden age of x86 gaming is well upon us. ![]() cheap commodity 512GB or 1TB hard drives (not SSDs).Intel Atom class (aka slow) AMD 8-core x86 CPU.The Xbox One and PS4 are effectively plain old PCs, built on: ![]() I've been happy with my 2016 HTPC, but the situation has changed, largely because of something I mentioned in passing back in November: ![]()
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