5 Changes You Need To Know About The New PS4 Model

2. The New PS4 Is Lighter

You never know when you're going to have to throw your PlayStation 4 boombox-style onto your shoulder and take it down to the nearest pop-up PS4 LAN party (ok, so virtually no PS4 games support LAN, but people still game together in the same room these days, right?). Subsequently, you want the assurance that you're not going to be encumbered by it. And that's where the CUH-12xx comes in, 0.3 grams or 0.66 lbs lighter than the launch model. While this may not sound like much, if there's one thing we learned from Skyrim, it's that even the most miniscule amount of excess weight can stop you dead in your tracks, with no possibility of moving. Yes, in Skyrim that 0.3 grams could dictate whether you making it safely across the wintry wasteland, or whether you get rooted to the spot as wolves feast on your hapless encumbered self. While the stakes of excess weight aren't quite so high in reality, the lighter weight of the new model does show that Sony has been working to streamline the PS4 design; specifically it has a lighter power supply, a simpler Blu-ray drive and better component arrangement.