The real reasons behind mid-gen refreshes

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SvennoJ said:

Captain_Yuri said:

I'd say its 4k TVs more so than PC. If they really wanted to compete with PC, they would have stuck to 1080p and choose a cpu that could do 60fps instead of this consistent move to 4k.

PC hasn't been about 4k gaming at all. The aren't even that many 4k monitors and the ones that are 4k aren't even that good with a few exceptions. Yet both Ps4 Pro and Scorpio has been spewing out 4k left and right... And 1080p enhancements for the Pro has been more or less been optional. Even sony's own games such as UC4 and the Last of Us Remastered bearly even does anything to enhance those games...

4K is the new buzzword and much easier to show off improvements. It's also much easier to render games in a higher resolution than go from 30 to 60 fps. Nothing is stopping devs from doing that on pro and scorpio, yet screenshots still rule. And exactly because 4K monitors aren't that mainstream yet, consoles have the unique opportunity to one up PCs at this point in time, especially with HDR. In a straight comparison consoles will always lose to PC.

If you mean like price to price comparison, then of course. But still, I don't think they are competiting against PC. Even if we take away framerate, the enhancements isn't exactly there either at say 1080p and most certainly not at checkerboarding apart from resolution enhancements... The fact that Sony themselves are bearly even caring about visual enhancements at 1080p and more focused on just being able to checkerboard to 4k makes me doubt their main objective is to compete with PC and not 4k it up...

Oh and I am still waiting to see how Scorpio will handle enhancements before commenting on that.