Sony PlayStation event: Pro model at $399 set for Nov. 10

Finally, Sony acknowledged the existence of the insanely leaked PlayStation 4 Slim, but won’t be calling it as such, rather it’s the new “slimmer PS4“.

Sony just unveiled the PlayStation 4 which brings in some extra power for 4k and HDR gaming.

PS4 Lead Systems Architect Mark Cerny took the stage at the PlayStation Meeting in NY to show off what a few games will look like on the PS4 Pro. The CPU portion of the SoC will be similar to the original Playstation 4, so it’ll get a slightly higher clocked 8-core processor featuring the Jaguar architecture. The PS4 Pro will have a 1TB hard drive as standard.

Now the good news for all of this is that HDR technology, while new and fluctuating, is generally easier to integrate into a TV than 4K technology is. Patches will also be available for many third party games.

Now, onto the Playstation Neo, which is officially called the Playstation 4 Pro. Firstly, PS4 Pro has a USB port on the back. All game discs work on both the PS4 and PS4 Pro. Everything inside the new PS4 is the same as the old, so it’s still just as powerful, only smaller.

Microsoft said Scorpio will be able to put games onto 4K.

Sony has returned to the creative breadth and commercial success of the early days of PlayStation, he added.

PlayStation 4 Pro supports 4K streaming.

The company announced during its recent PlayStation Meeting that the smaller version of the PlayStation 4 will retail for $299 Dollars. Youtube will also support the PS4 Pro with an app.

The new console will also feature high-dynamic range colour, or HDR, gaming.

Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration is due out for PlayStation 4 on October 11.

The new console, out November 10 for $399 (£349) was confirmed at tonight’s big “PlayStation Meeting” in NY.

Coming off the Apple keynote, the Sony event is a big bore. It’s way to slow paced.

PlayStation’s mid-life console upgrade sports 4K support and a hefty hardware upgrade. Its actually grainy at times because of bandwidth and load. Interestingly, he insisted that the new hardware is, “not meant to blur the lines between console generations”.