| Normchacho said: 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. |
For now. Who knows how long this will hold up. When I bought my PS4 at launch I expected to be playing the latest and greatest games at a reasonable, playable level from the developers I love until at least 2019-2020. As of now I can no longer be confident in that expectation.
| Normchacho said: 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. |
I'm a console video game developer. I've made PS4 games. I have used the PS4's development tools. Please tell why you think it will work this way when I have actually developed multi-platform PS4 and Xbox One games and likely have a far better idea of how this will actually work in practice. I assure you that there will be more work doing what most people call "porting" than simply changing the settings of the compiler and calling it a day. Modifications will have to be made to ensure both games run optimally on both versions of the console. Both versions will have to be tested equally and seperately, effectively doubling QA work. It's not a matter of just changing some configurations - if it was porting games from one platform to any other platform with similar specs would be a joke. I do not care how it works on PC, console video game development is fundamentally different, and it isn't changing overnight just because Sony introduced a higher spec console.
| Normchacho said: 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. |
What do you mean nothing changes about my PS4 experiences? You're making assumptions that my experience will remain the same! I guarantee you the PS4 Neo will do one of two things: a) increase the cost of making PS4 games (not happening) or b) force developers to do the extra work in their existing budget, which means the PS4 build of the game as a whole suffers. This is extra work for developers and someone or something has to pay for that work. If developers can't charge customers, and make more money off of it, then the game will suffer.
