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DM235 on 18 April 2016
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sabvre42 said:
DM235 said:

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.  I don't believe the Nintendo NX rumours, since launching a much more powerful console would make it much more expensive than the PS4 / XBox One, and with them having a 60+ million install base, the NX would be dead on arrival.  Sony makes next to nothing from the console sale, so unless you start buying 2 of each game (one for each of your consoles), Sony would just lose money.  You have a good point about VR, as a more powerful console would help it against the Rift and the Vive, but in my opinion that is still not worth it.

It honestly costs sony nothing, and instead costs the developer time. However, as almost all games coming to PS4 also come to PC -- it does not cost them much. They simply take some of the enhanced PC features and add it to the baseline PS4 version, up the resolution/framerate and call it a day.

It costs Sony money to develop / test / certify new hardware.  Although I don't know what that amout is, I am assuming it is a lot more than "nothing".  I totally agree that if they did this, and developers took advantage of it, that these enhanced games would be better.  But I don't see how this would help them sell more games.  They are already beating Xbox and Wii U, and I don't hear people saying that they're holding out on buying a PS4 until it gets more powerful.  The people that really care about framerate and resolution already have PCs that can run those games in 1440p or even 4K.