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Turkish on 17 May 2015
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BMaker11 said:
Turkish said:
It all depends on whether there are enough 4K households. Consoles never target the elite, they are mainstream products. Wouldn't make sense to make the product a lot more expensive for 4K when only a few % of their users can enjoy it.

That said, if next gen starts in 2019/2020, the consoles will have the equivalent of mid to high end gpu's of 2017/2018. So if in 2-3 years there are $200-250 cards that can easily take on 4K at 30fps, it's prolly what the PS5 will be able to do.

I guess there's gonna be a fair bit of 1440p/other weird resolutions too.

Gonna have to disagree here. Sony made PS3 more expensive by pushing blu-ray, and only a small percentage, at the time, had HD tvs. And, despite how everyone will say "PS3 had a terrible launch", at the same point in its lifespan, for the entirety of its lifespan to boot, it sold faster than 360 (it's a fair point to make since whenever XBOne numbers come up "selling faster than 360" comes up. No, I'm not trying to derail the thread into PS4vXB1, I was using a comparable statistic). 

The strategy is to force the technology into people's households and make it mainstream, which then reduces prices, which then makes them even more mainstream. PS3 was out for a year, and blu ray players dropped from $1200 to $500, HD tvs subsequently became mainstream, thanks in part to HD gaming in general, so a lot more investment went into them, thus dropping prices on those very quickly as well. 

Make the content available and desirable, and people will eat it up. 


Agreed, but PS3 was different, they had a format war to win. 4K isn't something they solely developed nor own. Besides I think they'll make PS4 4K bluray compatible soon.