| Bryank75 said: I've heard a lot of people say over the last week or so that "if there is a PS4.5, that they are out of console gaming". My question is: Why is that so bad? You'll get to keep your games and have them enhanced each time a new iteration is released and all the peripherals e.g. controllers, VR, racing wheels etc. will no doubt be compatible. It will lead to companies focusing on making new games and not wasting resources on HD / remasters and give people a long window to upgrade. It also rewards people who already had the previous model through scrapage or trade-in value. I think it is pretty exciting to possibly have more power available to give a better experience an a higher end option for PS enthusiasts. |
Well, as a PC owner and upgrader, nothing...though, Sony could've saved me a shitload of time and money by just doing this in the first place and releasing all their games on PC.
However, the argument for ages, has always been that static hardware allows developers not to spend time on worrying about different hardware sets when it comes to creating engines, and getting the most out of those engines etc.. Doing this, now makes developers have to think about multiple hardware sets, which in turn makes them have to spend extra time working on ok when there's this much ram, cut out this, when the CPU is this fast, cut out that, etc... you follow? It just makes development a longer process or, it's the same length of time, but devs aren't spending as much time on content, they're spending it on a scaling engine.
From a plug n play, console perspective, I don't see this as a great move by Sony.
