PlayStation 4.5 Recieves a Codename, Specs

<p>The news surrounding a potential upgrade to the PlayStation 4 console continues to swell&comma; and this time a new codename along with specifications have been leaked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Supposedly&comma; internal members of Sony have been referring to the upgraded Sony console as the NEO&period; If it is believed that the upgrade is to coincide with the launch of PSVR&comma; this codename makes sense &&num;8211&semi; remember that the virtual reality headset originally held the codename Project Morpheus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This updated account of the rumored console&comma; along with the believed specs&comma; comes via Giant Bomb who have received a document summarizing the details of the project&period; Since then&comma; Eurogamer has reported receipt of the very same document&period; See a breakdown of the specifications &lpar;as listed on IGN&rpar; for the PlayStation NEO below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Original PS4 CPU &&num;8211&semi; <&sol;strong>8 Jaguar Cores at 1&period;6 GHz<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>NEO CPU &&num;8211&semi; <&sol;strong>8 Jaguar Cores at 2&period;1 GHz<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Original PS4 GPU<&sol;strong> &&num;8211&semi; AMD GCN&comma; 18 CUs at 800 MHz<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>NEO GPU<&sol;strong> &&num;8211&semi; Improved AMD GCN&comma; 36 CUs at 911 MHz<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Original PS4 Memory &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> 8 GB GDDR5&comma; 176 GB&sol;s<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>NEO Memory &&num;8211&semi;<&sol;strong> 8 GB GDDR5&comma; 218 GB&sol;s<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The document received by Giant Bomb&comma; and now Eurogamer&comma; states that every PS4 game that ships in October and beyond must have to have a &&num;8220&semi;Base Mode&&num;8221&semi; and a &&num;8220&semi;NEO Mode&&num;8221&semi;&period; This should reassure owners of the base console&&num;8211&semi;games can still be played on an original PS4&comma; and so far no NEO-exclusive titles have been announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As mentioned in previous rumours&comma; the upgraded console will be able to output games at 4K&period; What&&num;8217&semi;s new is that the upgraded specs will lead to  &&num;8220&semi;increased and more stable frame rate and higher visual fidelity&comma; at least when those games run at 1080p on HDTVs&period;&&num;8221&semi; Giant Bomb notes that just because the NEO versions of games can run at 4K does not mean that the game will be developed natively for that resolution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The NEO will not serve to divide the community of PlayStation players&period; Other than upgrades to performance and visual fidelity&comma; the NEO will not present features that are exclusive to NEO owners&period; The PlayStation Store&comma; PSN ID&comma; and online play will all remain the same&period; No special features&comma; modes&comma; or unlockables will be given to those who own a PlayStation NEO&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With both Giant Bomb and Eurogamer having received these details about an upgraded PS4&comma; it seem rather likely that the PlayStation NEO is a possibility&period; The depth of the information also makes it hard to ignore the reality of an upgraded model to Sony&&num;8217&semi;s current-gen console&period; Let us know what you think&comma; and if you plan on purchasing the new console&comma; if all the rumblings turn out to be true&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ca&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2016&sol;04&sol;19&sol;rumor-playstation-45-codenamed-neo-specs-revealed">IGN<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;giantbomb&period;com&sol;articles&sol;sources-the-upgraded-playstation-4-is-codenamed-ne&sol;1100-5437&sol;">Giant Bomb<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;digitalfoundry-2016-sonys-plan-for-playstation-4k-neo-revealed">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;