PS4.XX. There will be NO PS5

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Nem said:

Quite honestly... this is the gaming industry, not the technology industry. I know Sony has lost sight of that, but there is a reason why the last generation lasted that long. We DON'T need the latest technology constantly.

As much as Sony wants, i don't think what they are aiming to do will work with the market. It will be too confusing for the average consumer and the hardcore consumer will feel gouged.

So... i think they are trying to hand the market back to Microsoft and Nintendo. You can either buy a system that is outdated and whose games don't run so well after 3 years... or you can buy an xbox or nintendo console whose games are optimised for it for 5 or more years.
Consumers aren't stupid. I am pretty sure that Japan and europe won't accept this. US is easier to fool, but even so... its MS home turf.

 

Also, this doesn't make it easy for developers and publishers at all. They will have to develop and bug test multiple versions of their software.  Also, if it runs crap in say the regular PS4, word will come out and their game's audience is actually shrunk to only PS4K userbase. This is bad in all fronts.

Never read something so out of touch.

Even if you don't want to hear it, technology and gaming are intertwined. So much that gaming pushes technology as much as technology pushes gaming. So many advcances in technology thanks to gaming and the other way around. There was no moment in the entire gaming history that game developers didn't demand stronger and more cutting edge technology. It's more apparent in this generation than ever that developers are frustrated and incapable of dealing with the underpowered hardware they have to work with. They can't get their games to run properly and have to even stoop to silly lies like "it's more cinematic".

Sony is on a roll and sellinmg PS4s like crazy. There is not a single thing to suggest that they will suddenly sell less because they introduce a better product. I mean other than whiney minority gamers. Gamers will be happy, Sony will be happy, developers will be happy. No one is going to stop producing software for a 40 million sold hardware. Gamers will not switch over to MS or Nintendo just because their console manufacturer of choice is giving them the option to have an even better experience. There is simply no logic behind that argument.

BTW a lot of PS4 games already run like crap and it's not going to get better, with or without PS4k. Console gamers don't care now and they won't care in the future. Where do you expect them to go when they're not satisfied anymore with the old PS4? Stop playing games altogether? Switch to a platform that is even weaker? Yeah, that makes total sense.