| Normchacho said: Thanks for the insight. This was quite illuminating. |
You're welcome. There just seems to be a lot of misinformation being spread around as if what is happening now is this great big new industry breaking thing. Where as in truth its always been there just never on consoles. But to even make multiplatform games possible, for any dev to make a game for PC and consoles; this very same thing happens every single time.
Granted scaling up requires more optimization and testing, it's why we have console centric publishers gimoing on a PC version cause of the new infinate optimization requirements on that platform. It's why the FF15 PC version is releasing after the console versions. Why Batman sucks on the PC....etc. But that doesn't apply here cause for the most part scaling up within the PS4 models still has the devs working not only in the exact same dev environment but using the exact same APIs. And there are already fixed guidelines on what should be done and shouldnt be done.
Let's take FF15 again for instance. When the game hits beta, it becomes all about optimization. If their target is 1080p@30fps then they would work on getting it up to that. In its broken state, by default the PS4n will run it with ease at 1080p@30fps just from simply bruteforcing the code. At that point, they don't have to lay a finger on the PS4n version. They will focus on getting the PS4 base version up to scratch casue all improvements made on the PS4b code will naturally carry over. If anything, having a stable version of the same code running on PS4n hardware will allow them quicker start fixing generalized bugs and play testing while still optimizing the code for the other versions cause again, bugs fixed carries over.
There is so much more to all this but I notice a lot seem to be freaking out for no real reason other than we got fucked in the ass caaue we are early adopters. And to them I will say, if having the best possible running "console" version of your games mattrs that much, take your current PS4 and sell it for $200 to someone that just wants a PS4, add another $200 to that a buy the PS4n. This is actually a smart way of dropping the price of the PS4 without really dropping the price.
And I called all this out last year when I said this is where the future of console gaming was going. To me it just made sense. Guess Sony agrees.
