If you're eagerly awaiting news of the revamped PlayStation 4, you don't have long to hold on anymore, as Sony will be announcing the new system on September 7, 3PM Eastern Time in New York. Currently titled "Playstation meeting," the event will detail upcoming plans for Sony's PlayStation division, which will include the long overdue Playstation 4K.
The system, often called Neo, is something that's been known about in various circles for months, but Sony has yet to make much of a splash about it. We know it will be capable of supporting 4K resolutions, for streaming 4K media to your (presumably) 4k capable TV.
Games however will run on both machines, but the newer model will technically have quite a chunk more power. The original PS4 comes with 8GB of GDDR5, the same as the 4K variant, but the latter will offer a higher bandwidth thanks to improved clock speeds and architecture.
The graphics core will be made up of 36 compute units running at 911MHz, vs the standard PS4's 18 units at 800MHz. The processor has been overclocked too, with all eight cores now running at 2.1GHz instead of 1.6GHz.
This should improve graphical performance by a serious measure, and should improve frame rates in lots of games. They'll continue to run on both platforms, but much like PCs with differing hardware, the newer system will look better than the one that went before.
All of this is information we still await Sony to announce officially, but that will likely happen in just a few weeks' time.
Not long to wait now.
