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Sony stayed strangely quiet about its upcoming hardware plans back at June’s E3, using the convention to focus on PS4 software instead. That silence seems set to come to an end tomorrow, though, as Sony prepares some major hardware announcements for its PlayStation Meeting event in New York City.

We’ll be there live, ready to liveblog all the news of Sony’s upcoming gaming plans. For now, though, here’s what we expect to hear (and what we don’t expect to hear) when we sit down in the PlayStation Theater tomorrow.

PS4 Slim

The console that Sony won’t admit exists. (credit: NeoGAF)

At this point, the redesigned PlayStation 4 has to be among the worst-kept secrets in video game industry history. It has been weeks now since word of the system first leaked out via British auction sites; the info was then quickly confirmed by a Eurogamer reporter who actually saw one in person. Since then, there has been copious additional confirmation that the new, slimmed down system is real. That includes an extensive review and video from Let’s Play Video Games and even a full teardown showing the system’s redesigned innards.