Kotaku - Sources: Sony Is Working On A ‘PS4.5’

[potato_hamster]

Soundwave said:

potato_hamster said:

I understand that. I'm actually talking about this from a developer perspective. The same number of people are still going to buy your game whether or not they have a PS4 or a PS4.5.

So whatever console manufacturer that goes this route has two choices -  make support optional, and no one will bother because its extra work for no real extra gain in terms of sales and profits. Or, make support mandatory and drive up development costs, while maintaining the same number of sales.

 It'll just look nicer on their PS4.5. That doesn't put any additional dollars in the developers pockets, leaving no incentive to support such an initiative.

Well lets say COD developer decides not to have 4K support. But Battelfield does. Lots of people are going to switch to the 4K Battlefield as the flagship military FPS. 

Stuff like that will force devs hands. You can sit still, but the competetion is always hungry. 

Maybe. If Battlefield has 4K support and is a turd of a game in every other way, no one is going to care about 4K support.

Also the only people that would switch would be people that A) own 4K TVs and B) own PS4.5s. Last I checked the market penetration of 4K TVs was extremely low.  It was 1% of TV sales in 2014, and might only be as high as 7-8% of sales today. That's a pretty niche market.

Now by 2020, 4K tvs are supposed to represent 50% of TVs purchased, so it would make more sense then. But that's PS5 territory, not PS4.