After much resistance, I am on board with the Neo

[Normchacho]

potato_hamster said:

Bandorr said:
If the games work on my ps4 - I won't have a problem.
I don't understand the mentality of "but I will be mad I don't have the best version" or any version of that.

That would mean constantly having the best TV, phone, car, computer, clothes, shoes, jewelry etc. That would just be a nightmare.

Did you buy your PS4 expecting to be able to play the latest console games until 2019-2020, if not later?
Probably.

Did you buy your PS4 expecting to never have to worry about how well a new game will run on your PS4? That you would never have to worry whether your version of the PS4 got a "lazy port"?
Probably.

My point being, your expectations of what the console will provide for you over the next few years now unexpectedly will no longer meet reality. Base PS4 owners will have legitimate concerns how well games will run on their PS4 and how long their console will be supported from the point the Neo is released onwards. In fact they might have decided to buy a PS4 over a PC to specifically avoid those concerns, and that is frustrating.

It's a bit of a bait and switch.

1. You'll be able to play all of the latest console games. Since all games have to work with both versions of the PS4. The report makes that pretty clear.

 

2. They won't be ports at all. They'll be different configurations of the same code. Plus, the normal PS4 will have a much larger userbase and the better optimized the normal version is, the better it will run on the Neo.

 

If you own a PS4 and don't care about the upgrades the Neo offers. Literally nothing about your PS4 experience changes. You're making assumptions that go against the information we currently have.