It could be as early as next year if they choose to make it slightly smaller or just use cheaper cooling and make it lighter. There is going to be two big power reductions quite quickly, 20nm in 2014, and 14nm potentially in 2015 or 2016. Improvements from then on is going to take more time for significant change unless there is a big breakthrough.
Yep, there is even already a new revision of Super Slim coming out but going by model number, I'm guessing only change would be 28nm RSX which should drop power consumption by a small amount. Big change will be the 22nm Cell they have had in development for quite a while now but that is looking like that will be next year now. If the new PS3 coming out this year is 22nm Cell then that would be amazing, will make GT6 experience more enjoyable as less heat and fan noise will likely result from it.
It's the same design as the superslim though if I remember right. They probably won't even give it a new name.I read somewhere that there will be new PS3 Super Slim model line up, possibly revision of Super Slim with CECH4205x designation to replace the older CECH4000 series. The rumors said it contains smaller “nanometer architecture, less power consumption, and better cooling.” Another model CECH4200 is also said to be prepared for Japan and the 4025 will be for South Korea.
There's a high chance Sony will release them to coincide with GT6 Bundle release
It might perform better playing GT6 with lower heat and better cooling ( more stable and less freezing ) I read a lot on various forums that 4000 series Super Slim have been plagued with system instability playing CPU + GPU heavy resource utilization games.
On Microsoft's own website
PS4 at 14nm will probably take about 60-80w but even then they wouldn't use passive cooling.
A future revision for the 360, new one released is only a redesign with less functionality and slight difference in size.^I hope not.
Are you talking about the 360 they showed at E3 or a future revision for the 360? (Is the one at E3 only a redesign or is it a smaller version?)
I don't think so.
As of now that doesn't make any sense.
It would take a huge breakthrough to achieve it. Also after 14nm, it is going to be hard to keep up with Moore's law so it is unlikely they will go passive with cooling.
I guess that makes sense, OS of PS4 will be able to develop a richer feature set and over time will use less memory and games will get better over time, so hand in hand it should work well long term. Better than them doing the same thing as PS3 and not being able to implement new features like cross game chat due to too low allocation of memory in the first place. Still PS4 should hold a significant advantage in terms of power of console especially in graphics and physics calculations.
Interesting. That article also states that the PS4 might use two of its right cores for the OS, much like the XBOne. Quite interesting, really, because the primary reason given for the XBOne to do this was Kinect. This would also make me doubt whether the PS4 really is a lot more powerful than the XBOne. Hardware wise, it would put them on pretty equal footing once again.
And why would that be?
