The PS4 Slim Is Out In The Wild, Reported September 7th Reveal [UPDATED]

Update [23/08]: Looks like there’s a new DualShock 4 revision as well, with the standout new feature being the addition of a player facing lightbar in the touchpad. Here for more.


Updates [22/08]: The Wall Steet Journal have spoke to “people familiar with the matter” and confirmed a “a new PlayStation 4 standard model” will be revealed at the forthcoming PlayStation meeting happening in New York on September 7th.

In addition to having visited the original source of the leak in person and seen the console boot up, Eurogamer have also heard the console will be officially revealed at the New York bash, and will be on sale very shortly afterwards in September. No price was given but they understand it will be cheaper than the current PS4.

Here is the console beside it’s older brother, courtesy of @shortmaneighty2.

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The original post follows.


Rumours of a PS4 Slim have been circulating for a while, and now that rumour has been given a firm push as an advert has appeared on Gumtree with someone trying to sell the yet unannounced console for £295. The hard drive is the standard 500GB. Of course this could be an elaborate fake. After all who could forget the furore over that fake NX controller that many were convinced was real.

If this is fake then someone is pretty good at Photoshop and using a 3D printer. If real then Sony may have lost a shipment somewhere.

It may be that Sony will be revealing the PS4 Slim at the September 7th PlayStation Meeting along with the Neo, but if this is real then a release will follow soon after.

Source: Gumtree/NeoGAF

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  1. Why put it on Gumtree??.. 2 weeks ago someone paid £900 for a copy of No Mans Sky on eBay so surely he would of put it on there for more money?.. Also I’ve never known a controller packed like that or a black cable with a white tie around it.

  2. The darker images taken with the white PS4 look more legit.
    The other images with the lighter carpet seem fake and more importantly seem like a different console all together, the edges are too rounded and flush compared to the comparison shots.

  3. No optical out… 8-(

    • Shit, I knew something was missing. Hopefully if real it’s tucked away in between the rim, about where the power socket is.

    • Most new systems use for HDMI for audio, some of the new Dolby standards (I forget which) aren’t even supported on optical, so dropping it isn’t such a bad thing.

      • It is a bad thing if they’ve dropped it. Tons of surround sound systems/home theatre systems use optical cable still. Even a range of surround sound headsets use the port.

      • There’s a couple of Dolby standards that aren’t supported over optical cables. Digital Plus and TrueHD. The two standards that are only optional for Blu-ray players and do 7.1 sound. I guess there’s Atmos as well now too.

        But if your equipment doesn’t support those, there’s always the standard 5.1 option to fall back on, which does work over optical cables. (And also DTS works as well, but not the newer versions of that)

        Take the optical output away, and you’re left with HDMI. Which isn’t an option for a lot of older equipment. Or you can pass the sound over HDMI to the TV, and then hope you’ve got an optical output on the TV.

        Only problem there is, some TVs (oddly seems to be newer ones, I think) struggle to output 5.1 sound through their optical outputs. My older LG TV does it fine, while I know someone who thought a nice new Sony TV would be a good idea. And it fails to pass through surround sound properly. So romantic nights in front of the TV with him involve a lot more pissing about trying to get it all to work.

        Also, if you want to play anything that involves some degree of accurate timing (your guitar games or whatever), you don’t want to be putting the sound anywhere near HDMI. Even after fiddling with TV settings.

      • Dropping it is definitely a bad thing As most audiophiles have expensive receivers (€700+ and up for just the receiver, no speakers) and do not want to invest in new stuff. Good audio equipment might miss new codecs but folks tend to keep stuff like that for 20 to 30 years. Sony must consider people like me a niche group and leave me behind.

      • I’m in no rush to pick up a slim so my current A/V amp will do for now but i wonder if the Neo will be the same or if optical is just removed to make the slim cheaper.

  4. It’s difficult to tell from the pics how much of a size reduction it is but it looks quite sleek. I wonder how the Neo will compare in size.

    • I ran the images through Photoshop. Using the ruler tool I measured the difference between the PS4 Orig and the slim in order to calculate the size of the slim.

      I estimate the dimensions to be 260 x 40 x 260mm vs PS4 orig which is 275 × 53 × 305mm (width × height × length). That would make it 40% smaller by volume.

      • Good work! That’s the same reduction as the XBox One S right?

      • Yeah, although the 40% reduction on S is including the absence of a power brick if I recall correctly.

      • Nice bit of comparitive analysis work there, now we just wait for the official word and see if anything else has changed besides the size. As mentioned above presumably the optical port has just been relocated.

  5. Here’s a YouTube video not just proving of real but the DS4 has changed to. Not by much but lighter has changed a bit with nice colour line across the top. Thanks shopto for pointing me in this direction link here https://youtu.be/MHhKPhx6hAs

    • The link has now been closed by user

  6. Really don’t like the look of this. I think the PS4 was already a good looking console.

    This just looks cheap…

    Shame because the slim transitions before, I’ve thought, have refined and made the design better (super slim PS3 accepted though… That was hideous)

  7. What’s going on with those super spaced out USB ports?

  8. Looks like the hard drive is located at the back if it’s still replaceable…

  9. Calling bull on the dualshock controller,Sony knew they had problems with the dodgy thumbsticks splitting.This would be the first thing to change surely?

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