PlayStation Neo: Sony to announce updated, high-end version PS4 as well as slimmed-down version, report claims

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class="breadcrumbs clearfix"><li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161105223616/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style"><span property="name">Lifestyle</span></a></li><li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161105223616/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech"><span property="name">Tech</span></a></li><li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem"><a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161105223616/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming"><span property="name">Gaming</span></a></li></ol> <h1 itemprop="headline" class=" ">PlayStation Neo: Sony to announce updated, high-end version PS4 as well as slimmed-down version, report claims</h1> <div class="intro"> <p class="p1">The slimmer console is likely to become the new standard – while the Neo is Sony’s 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class="counter">15/39</span>  </h2>  <p>Ford EEBL Emergency Electronic Brake Lights is demonstrated during the first demonstrations of the UK Autodrive Project at HORIBA MIRA Proving Ground in Nuneaton, Warwickshire</p>  <p class="credits">PA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="16"> <h2> <span class="counter">16/39</span>  </h2>  <p>Chris Burbridge, Autonomous Driving Software Engineer for Tata Motors European Technical Centre, demonstrates the car manufacturer's GLOSA V2X functionality, which is connected to the traffic lights and shares information with the driver, during the first demonstrations of the UK Autodrive Project at HORIBA MIRA Proving Ground in Nuneaton, Warwickshire</p>  <p class="credits">PA wire</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="17"> <h2> <span class="counter">17/39</span>  </h2>  <p>Full-scale model of 'Kibo' on display at the Space Dome exhibition hall of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Tsukuba Space Center, in Tsukuba, north-east of Tokyo, Japan</p>  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At this biennial event, the participating companies exhibit their latest service robotic technologies and components</p>  <p class="credits">Getty</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="20"> <h2> <span class="counter">20/39</span>  </h2>  <p>The robot developed by Seed Solutions sings and dances to music during the Japan Robot Week 2016 at Tokyo Big Sight</p>  <p class="credits">Getty</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="21"> <h2> <span class="counter">21/39</span>  </h2>  <p>Government and industry are working together on a robot-like autopilot system that could eliminate the need for a second human pilot in the cockpit</p>  <p class="credits">AP</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="22"> <h2> <span class="counter">22/39</span>  </h2>  <p>Aurora Flight Sciences' technicians work on an Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automantion System (ALIAS) device in the firm's Centaur aircraft at Manassas Airport in Manassas, Va. </p>  <p class="credits">AP</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="23"> <h2> <span class="counter">23/39</span>  Flight Simulator </h2>  <p>Stefan Schwart and Udo Klingenberg preparing a self-built flight simulator to land at Hong Kong airport, from Rostock, Germany </p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="24"> <h2> <span class="counter">24/39</span>  Flight Simulator </h2>  <p>In recent months, computer specialists of the project MV-IT systems have built a Boeing 737-800 cockpit and reconstructed part of the cabin with 15 seats.  The simulator will be officially opened on October 19, 2016 and able to 'land' at over 20,000 airfields in different weather conditions and at all times and seasons</p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="25"> <h2> <span class="counter">25/39</span>  PlayStation VR </h2>  <p>The launch of PlayStation VR at the GAME Digital Westfield White City midnight launch</p>  <p class="credits">GAME Digital</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="26"> <h2> <span class="counter">26/39</span>  PlayStation VR 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class="counter">30/39</span>  New payment system by Alibaba </h2>  <p>People try Alibaba's new payment system, VR Pay, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China</p>  <p class="credits">Reuters</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="31"> <h2> <span class="counter">31/39</span>  Samsung Note 7 returns </h2>  <p>Customers return their Samsung Note 7 mobile phones</p>  <p class="credits">Reuters</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="32"> <h2> <span class="counter">32/39</span>  Samsung Note 7 returns </h2>  <p>Customers return their Samsung Note 7 mobile phones at a dealership in Seoul, South Korea</p>  <p class="credits">Getty</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="33"> <h2> <span class="counter">33/39</span>  Samsung Note 7 returns </h2>  <p>An employee checks exchanged Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 7 at company's headquarters in Seoul, South Korea</p>  <p class="credits">Reuters</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="34"> <h2> <span class="counter">34/39</span>  LUTZ Pathfinder pods </h2>  <p>Technicians look at data as a driverless pod is tested in Milton Keynes, Britain</p>  <p class="credits">Reuters</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="35"> <h2> <span class="counter">35/39</span>  LUTZ Pathfinder pods </h2>  <p>A journalist operates a driverless pod during testing in Milton Keynes, Britain</p>  <p class="credits">Reuters</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="36"> <h2> <span class="counter">36/39</span>  LUTZ Pathfinder pods </h2>  <p>The driverless pod during testing in Milton Keynes, Britain</p>  <p class="credits">Reuters</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="37"> <h2> <span class="counter">37/39</span>  CYBATHLON Championship for Athletes with Disabilities </h2>  <p>A team of five researchers and two paraplegic pilots will be representing the Chair in Brain-Machine Interface (CNBI) laboratory and will compete at the first Cybathlon event, the Championship for Athletes with Disabilities, in Zurich</p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="38"> <h2> <span class="counter">38/39</span>  CYBATHLON Championship for Athletes with Disabilities </h2>  <p>Eric Anselmo wearing an electrode skull cap as he trains with team members for the brain-computer interface (BCI) race competition of the first Cybathlon event in St-Sulpice near Lausanne, Switzerland</p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="39"> <h2> <span class="counter">39/39</span>  CYBATHLON Championship for Athletes with Disabilities </h2>  <p>During the brain-computer interface (BCI) race, paraplegic pilots control their avatars in a computer game through special brain-to-computer interfaces</p>  <p class="credits">EPA</p> </li> </ul><div class="ad-mpu mpu5-container"> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div> <p class="p1">Together, Sony hopes that the two consoles will allow it to keep interest from hardcore and more casual gamers. It also brings the console range in line with the Xbox, after Microsoft released the slimmer Xbox One S and is rumoured to be working on a more powerful console for release in the future.</p> <div class="inline-block inline-block-related-single inline-block-left" data-nid="/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/playstation-4-new-neo-slim-45-leak-pictures-release-date-rumours-a7203326.html"><a href="/web/20161105223616/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/playstation-4-new-neo-slim-45-leak-pictures-release-date-rumours-a7203326.html"><img src="/web/20161105223616im_/http://www.independent.co.uk/s3/files/styles/readmore_card/public/thumbnails/image/2016/08/22/09/ps4slim1.jpg"/><div class="content"> <div class="context-capsule">Read more</div> <h2>PlayStation 4 ‘Slim’ apparently leaked by accident</h2> </div> </a></div> <p class="p1">Sony said in June that it was planning to launch the high-end PlayStation 4 – codenamed Neo, but not necessarily to be released under that name – as a way of keeping up interest in the console. The company has said that the new console will be high-end – including a faster process, improved graphics and support for 4K – but that it will sit alongside the standard PS4 and all games will continue to work on both.</p> <p class="p1">But it hadn’t mentioned the slimmer console, which was revealed in a Wall Street Journal article and has since been seen in pictures on an auction site. 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