potato_hamster said:
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.
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Because in reality it rewards no one.
Because in reality developers will always develop in the most affordable way possible - for the lowest common demoninator, which means either the PS4 or the PS4.5 do no get the attention they actually deserve without driving up development costs, and you cant possibly expect developers to spend more money when there is little to no chance that extra effort will lead to more sales. Developers will also suddenly have to program online play to account for the hardware differences. Which means 99% if ganes will probably not take advantage of the additional performance for anything other than things like load times.
Because in reality it means that everyone that bought a PS4 expecting developers to give that console their best efforts for the next 5-7 years suddenly cannot count on that any more.
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This simply is not true. The increased development costs and "lack of focus" or "lack of effort" due to having to make games in two PS4 versions are totally insignificant.
Where did you get the idea that online play in particular would require any special consideration just because there were two PS4s?
Already the extra resources needed to port between Xbox and PS4 in this gen are very minor, they are that small (<5% of dev costs). Because the two machines are quite similar. And obviously a PS4 and PS4K would be extremely similar. The extra effort needed to make two PS4 versions wouldn't be even 1%.
