More Powerful PS4 Neo Will Launch This Year - Report

Anyone remembers Mega CD and 32X for Genesis?...

Microsoft is launching their Neo competitor this year with the XBO S, which received a nice performance boost along with its redesign.

Scorpio will release in 2017 (if everything goes as planned) and Sony will still be on the Neo cycle. But Sony isn't sitting out and letting Microsoft totally rule the generational leap. The PS5 will be launched in 2018-2019 to compete.

Nintendo is keeping its trailing end of performance in launching the NX in 2017. People will compare it to Scorpio and that's not the audience NX is focused on. It'll be interesting to see where the NX's performance lies between PS4 Neo and Scorpio. Or if it's going to fall further behind by being more comparable to PS4/XBO.

The fact that Sony is downplaying this whole upgraded console thing pretty much solidifies that its going to be minimal upgrade at best. Perhaps upscaled to 4K or perhaps bigger and faster hardrives. I, for one, would love and upgraded controller with a longer battery life.

@ Why -- why are we ending this generation so early when the PS4 is selling like bonkers and even the Xbone is selling faster than the 360 did? What the hell is wrong with you kids these days? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?!

If the Neo launches in 2016, there's a big chance that the spec rumors were true, and that this thing will be a joke when Scorpio launches in 2017 (well, this entire business model is a joke itself, removing the last major "pro" consoles had over PCs). The only other alternative is that the Neo is a beast under the hood but will cost too much and bust after the initial hype. Those are my thoughts anyway, I am curious how all this will play out in the end.

I can't wait until PlayStation 9, but that will be in 2078 =(

@redknightoh5:

That's not really true. The PS4 has already hit it's limits from a graphical perspective. The Neo will help to stabilize games that are dipping in FPS making the image lag a bit. I am pretty happy with the original PS4, but I am not opposed to buying an upgraded version. I believe the Xbox 360 and PS3 also went through some hardware upgrades in newer models. It would be a good thing to do away with generations of consoles and instead just upgrade the hardware once in a while. Who wants to buy games they already brought with remasters or have to have multiple consoles hooked up?

I don't believe that. "Several sources" is basically no sources at all. Name the sources and then we'll talk.

Well, the most powerful console ever made is pretty much a PC. I don't think Microsoft thinks consoles are something to stay, their mentality is instead shifted towards unified systems and platforms.

We're witnessing the beginning of the end of the console era.

I'm fairly certain that a console lifespan of only 4 years will be the end of the console era.

I think Playstation 4 Neo was made for better VR experience. Also, it will fight against Xbox One S. The upcoming console of PS (maybe PS5) will be against Xbox Scorpio for sure.

@ihatesony: you seem like a really pathetic person

@ihatesony: lol... hate sony, much? You forgot your villainous cackle, whilst twiddling your fingers together

@ihatesony: Where's the troll flag button? Enjoy your intentional beat down replies

@ihatesony: wake up dude !!!

@ihatesonyHave you looked at sales figures lately? So then who, really, needs to play catch up?

Besides, anyone paying attention knows that MS isn't out to win console wars anymore. You have to think of Xbox as a platform service now, not simply as yet another games console. It's just another device to help push Windows 10 and Xbox Live.

Ultimately, Scorpio is their Windows 10 set top box. Their Steambox. The Xbox One was intended to be this vessel, but it simply lacked the muscle to stay long term, as Microsoft's Windows 10/UWP strategy evolved.

Now they'll have their vessel for that UWP roadmap. It's all about countering loss on hardware with profit on software and service platforms, placing a Windows 10/store entity in the living room for general consumers lacking the know-how or interest to assemble a HTPC Win 10 solution.

Despite the battle cry for 'end of generations' and 'Play Anywhere' this is decidedly a plan to expand the walled garden of Xbox Live, Windows 10, UWP, and associated platform services.

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The Scorpio will be a new steam machine like "video game console" with a PC architecture. Microsoft id making new move trying to get a chunk of the pc gamers market dominated by steam, origin, gog and etc with its UWP strategy or the well know Xbox Play Anywhere since the Win10 is more like a service than a SO...

These new "PC-Like" consoles are just the manufactures way of taking cut of the advantage and lure of PC gaming, without, all the while, never achieving its pinnacle. Still, they will be nice for 1st party exclusives.

For some reason I have no interest in VR, but I have yet to try any VR devices out yet as a disclaimer.

I have interest actually cause my Gaming PC is doing horribly at 2.4 TFLOPS and I don't feel like it's the right time to upgrade when there is newer consoles coming with upgraded specs though I'm not totally sold into this idea of mid-cycle upgrade yet cause the newer consoles are supposed to perform better out of the box just like any gaming PCs or at least we expect a downloadable batches for older games.

I have no interest in a PS4.5 I rather get the far better Scorpio I'm OK with the over rated PS4 I already own