ROME: An Italian gaming site, Multiplayer it, claims to have the first images of a slim redesign of Sony’s PlayStation 4, codenamed “Monolith.” The images are taken of a Macbook Pro and appear to be press images, but whether or not the images are real or just an elaborate hoax are anyone’s guess for right now.
Multiplayer.it’s post doesn’t name its source at all and admits that the authenticity of the images is still very much in the air. It’s hard to imagine that they could be real, though, given that the PlayStation 4 is just over a year old and hasn’t even hit its first price drop.
Redesigning consoles to be slimmer and cheaper to manufacture is common practice, but almost never this early in the cycle: Sony released the PlayStation 2’s slim model four years after the launch of the PS2; it released the PlayStation 3’s first slim model three years after the launch of the PS3, then an even slimmer model another three years after that.
It’s a nice-looking revision for sure, taking an incredibly economic console already and shrinking it down to a seemingly impossible degree, and the level of detail is fantastic — adding hardware buttons, a move Sony has pulled before in its revisions — but it’s hard to believe this is anything more than a really good Photoshop until we hear it directly from Sony.
