Is the outrage towards PS4K proof that console gamers care more about performance and visuals than they're willing to admit?

[HoloDust]

Soundwave said:
The graphics will be more than "slightly" better. 1.8 TFLOP vs. 4+ TFLOPS is a monster upgrade.

What's inevitably going to happen is one dev will make a game that really pushes the graphics on PS4.5 and then other developers will have to follow suit to be competitive, and then you're going to see more and more games made specifically for the 4.5 model first and foremost with the vanilla PS4 getting the inferior sub-par version.

It certainly not something to scoff at, but I would hardly call it a monster upgrade - it's something like Very High to Medium settings difference on PC (browsing through Anandtech Bench for various cards), which is not marginal, but not next gen level difference.

As for sub-par version - I don't know, are most (if not all) 3rd party multiplatfrom games on PS4 marked as sub-par now? Given how most (if not all) look much better on PCs with 4+ TFLOPs GPUs, you can actually call them inferior...so I'm not sure why it's any different if PS4K comes into play, except that it's another PS console and not PC.