Microsoft in unique position to disrupt Sony's console reign

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WoodenPints said:
Devs will just release the one version for PS4 and say well it runs on PS4.5 so that is fine. Only a few real big games and Son'y 1st party will bother full upgrading games to the PS4.5 specs.

Sony requires games to run at a minimum res of 1080p natively on PS4.5. So unless the game runs at 1080p natively on PS4 then devs can't just release the one version. Really what SOny wants is for devs to move to PS4.5 development with a downgrade for the game to work on PS4. I expect Devs to do what they do for PC games where there are settings that can be changed to allow games to run on lower powered PCs. Indeed Bioware should not be bitching about this at all because they started life as a PC game developer and so they well know the need to design a game to be able to be played on a variety of hardware of different processing power.

However PS4.5 is a risk for Sony. No one was actually calling for an upgraded PS4, so Sony is fixing a problem that didn't exist. Perhaps they were afraid of what NX would do if it ended up being 20-30% more powerful than PS4. But I don't think they should have been worried.