What is the reason behind the PS4K?

[SvennoJ]

anthony64641 said:
My theory is that, they want to have the extra power needed for the Playstation VR built in that way, it will lower the overall cost of buying the vr system. If I'm not mistaken the vr comes with a separate device to help with graphics so correct? They seem to be very serious about vr so makes sense that they want it to success as much as possible so if you can just get a ps4k and the vr only. Might reduce price

Not correct. The extra device splits the hdmi signal into video for the headset and video for the tv. The tv screen is either a scaled representation of what the headset user sees or a separate screen for asynchronous multiplayer. Besides that there is some extra audio hardware in there to generate the simulated 3D positional audio.

The extra box does not help with graphics, nor does the frame rate doubling. The actual frame rate isn't doubled, frame positioning is doubled from 60fps to 120fps to decrease the latency when turning you head. This is done on the ps4.

Yet it does make sense to put that bit of hardware in the ps4 and add an extra HDMI port to save costs on selling a VR bundle.