Digital Foundry hands on with PS4 Slim

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Sony's PlayStation 4 'slim' revision - codenamed CUH-2000 - follows in a fine tradition of excellent quality second-gen Sony hardware. The new console is significantly more power efficient, it generates less heat and it is palpably quieter. And as for its divisive looks? Let's just say that the photos seen thus far do not do this product justice. With one notable exception, there's no sense that Sony was fighting to bring this product in at a specific budget. You still feel like you're getting your money's worth: it looks and feels solid, and build quality is on par with the existing models.

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Overall, we've only had a very short amount of time with the revised PlayStation 4 so far and we're ager to hammer down the results once we have a system in the office, but the outlook is very promising. The console is smaller and more discrete, but this hasn't resulted in any kind of noticeable compromise to system performance. The key litmus test is this: given the choice between a brand new PS4 Slim and the existing CUH-1200 model, which one would I pick? Well, based on the couple of hours spent with the new hardware, it's a no-brainer - the new PS4 is a winner. Fundamentally, it addresses one of the weakest points of the current generation PlayStation 4 - the noise level: it appears to be significantly quieter in many scenarios. In fact, in the tests we ran using digital content (ie no BD drive noise), it's up there with the original Xbox One and marginally quieter than the Xbox One S. We'll update with more metrics once we have the hardware in hand, but right now, this tidy little unit looks like a really impressive revision.

[th]PlayStation 4 Max Power/Noise (Watts/Decibels)[/th] [th]CUH-1000 Peak Power (Watts)[/th] [th]CUH-1200 Peak Power (Watts)[/th] [th]CUH-2000 Peak Power (Watts)[/th] [th]CUH-1000 Noise (Decibels)[/th] [th]CUH-1200 Noise (Decibels)[/th] [th]CUH-2000 Noise (Decibels)[/th]

[th]PS4 Front-End (Online)[/th] 80.1 65.6 47.0 44.0 42.2 41.0 [th]Rocket League 4v4 on Mannsfield[/th] 130 100 63.0 63.7 51.2 43.2 [th]AC Unity Title Screen (disc spinning)[/th] 130 112 86 64.5 55.2 55.0 More in depth Digital Foundry: Hands-on with the CUH-2000 PS4 Slim • Eurogamer.net