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

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Swordmasterman said:

KBG29 said:
It is funny to see so many people fighting this. The future of home computers is going to be yearly updated PlayStation's, Xbox's, Steam Machine's, and possibly Nintendo NX's if they do it right.

This is great for everyone. It is exactly like the smartphone business. The real platform is the OS and the Network. The hardware just continues to grow alongside those two much more important aspects.

Everything about this is great for the consumers. This will allow generations to last for a decade. People will be able to purchase a better kit at their own pace, and they will always be sure that their software and services will be supported on every new itteration, and on their home, and mobile platforms.

This model moving to the console business could signal the rebirth of handheld gaming. If Nintendo can make the NX a phone/hanheld hybrid and itterate on it every year, then that is a god send for gamers that want a real gaming experience on the go. If Sony can lanuch a real PlayStation Phone with yearly updates to keep up or ahead of Apple/Samsung, again, that is gold.

Having consoles improve year after year, and always at on the leading egde of tech, will put momentum behind gaming like we have never see. With the addition of non gaming software and services, PlayStation and Xbox, can replace the PC in 99% of households. The only eople that will have tradional component swap PC's in the next decade will be the most hardcore gamers, and gadget geeks. The rest will be web browsing, watching TV, shopping, gaming, and going on VR adventures on Playtation and Xbox like pre-packed, and perfected systems that do it all.

Lets see, how much time is Final Fantasy XV, and The Division ?, i think that Both are atleast in production since 2012 (Final Fantasy XV, was Re-made, is not like FFXIII Versus, was), and both will release in 2016 (FFXV, i hope that will), so is 4 Years of Production, you mean that we need 4 Upgrades, for Each Console, this would mean 12 Versions of Consoles for developers to work, if you take away Nintendo, is 8 Versions, Plus the PC Version, this would raise the Development Cost, and the Time for the Development, and more Machines would come up, Developers would never finish a game if they plan to support them all.

 

And a Bad idea does not became a good idea if you continue to spread it around, this is nearly the same thing that Microsoft, did at Launch (and look where they are today), and something like the Developer of the Last Devil May Cry, that gave the Middle finger to the Fans of the franchise.

That's not the way it is going to work. First not every year will see increase to the GPU/CPU. That kind of thing can only happen once there is a shift to a smaller fab process, and once that process is established enough not to cause an issue in the supply chain. Second, devs are never going to optimize to specific platorms agian, that is just the nature of where we are now. No one is optimizing or even coming close to optimizing PS4 and XBO, they are building games to higher level coding instead of utilizing the low level coding that used to be common in consoles. 

Since devs are building games to more common libraries already, building games that scale based on CPU/GPU/RAM is quite simple, and getting those games to run on a scaled platform comes at almost no extra work. So basically devs have to make a Universal Windows App and a Universal PlayStation App, using Sony and Microsoft's API and the game will run on any device. This adds almost not time to development, but puts the game out to a much greater userbase.