After much resistance, I am on board with the Neo

[dharh]

AgentZorn said:
Wont be too bothered by the Neo so long as Sony does not make any exclusives for it. Though it turns out that all that talk about about the power of the PS4 was a bunch of hot air.

It was powerful compared previous gen (just not as large a jump as previously seen perhaps) and compared to the other consoles this gen.  However, that was almost 3 years ago.  Technology is always moving forward, fast, and these days with more and more things vying for your attention (cell phones, tablets, cheap but powerful PCs, other consoles, etc) consoles need to always be moving forward too.  The idea that a console can essentially static for 7-10 years is over, frankly I think console being static for even 5-6 years is pushing it.  

I didn't used to think this a couple years ago, but as this gen unfolds I can see it pretty clearly now.  Dedicated Gaming Handhelds are at risk of being relegated to and ever smaller niche market (relative to the entire mobile gaming market) thanks to phone and tablet gaming.  Dedicated Gaming Consoles are also at risk of being relegated the same way.  Despite the PS4 success this gen, is shaping to being signifigantly smaller than the previous.  The ease of gaming on all these cheap platforms, the massiveness of Steam, give many people pause to continue buying into a dedicated console.

I used to always buy all the consoles every gen because each had compelling exclusives that I just had to play, now that is no longer the case.  First I dropped Nintendo, then I almost didn't buy the XBONE (I later bought one under pressure from friends), now I am pretty sure I won't be buying a Nintendo console ever again (unless they fundamentally change how they do things) and am probably not going to buy whatever MS decides to respond with when the PS4 Neo comes out.

People who are afraid of the PS4 Neo causing developers to make inferior ports for the PS4 need to remember how PCs work.  I can buy a game for my PC that it its best runs a certain way with certain graphic settings that might be below the best the game can offer.  While someone else can buy the exact same game, with the exact same code, that can run the game at it's highest settings.  This is because fundamentally the architecture of my PC is the same as their PC.

Fundamentally the architecture of the PS4 Neo will be the same as the PS4.  Which means their will be _no_ ports.  Zero updating and I will be able to pop my Fallout 4 disc into a PS4 Neo and it will play.  Now of course the developers of the game will want to create a patch that makes Fallout 4 run better on the PS4 Neo (IE closer to how it can run on the PC).

Once the PS4 Neo is out and new games are coming out that meet SONY's requirements, it will be as trvial as it is now on PC to release PS4 games that are able to automatically detect which version the PS4 they are running on and change the graphic settings accordingly.  Just like some PC games do now.