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potato_hamster on 25 April 2016
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Intrinsic said:
zero129 said:

Thing is i dont have a problem with it. Like i said as a PC gamer im used to upgrades. However my PS owning friends are not. It also doesnt seem like such an overreaction when so many of them are saying they will never trust Sony again. Like i said before maybe its just talk cos they feel stung and really will buy the PS4k at some point or the PS5. But i do believe Sony always had an image of consoles that lasts. That image is now damaged one way or another.

I don't know what to say about that. to each their own I guess. 

I don't see what's wrong with Sony console lasting image here. It's not like the Neo is here to kill support for the PS4. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Sony making a PS4 capabale of playing UHD Blu-rays. Nothing wrong with them making the same box capabale of upscaling normal PS4 games to output at 4k. Nothing wrong with that same box improving performance slightly for games when connected to a 1080p box. 

And I don't understand people that have an issue with this. 

It's like saying I hate Sony for selling me a 1080p TV 3yrs ago and now releasing a 4k TV. or I hate MS for selling me an XB1 controller then releasing the elite controller. 

the way I see this is that if you or anyone has a 4k TV, want a 4k Blu-ray player. want to at least maybe be able to have u standard games upscaled to support 4k displays..... You will be all over this. 

It's not an "upgrade". it's an " option" for those that are into this. 

If you bought a 1080p TV 3 years ago under the impression that when tv shows and movies were going to be converted to a 1080p format by teams that were pouring all of their effort into making that 1080p experience the best possible for the next 6-8 years, and then Sony  turned around and told all of the people making that content that they're going to have to make all content 4K compatible too, you'd probably be concerned that the 1080p content you recieve from that point onwards wouldn't be done to the same degree of quality it otherwise would be.

And of course, this would be justified, as you and I both know that budgets for the conversion team aren't going to increase, so now they team has  less time to do the same work they were doing before since they now have to do this other work on top of it. Aside from that, even assuming they will be given a bigger budget and more man power, the program you use for processing and playing this 1080p content now has to be modified to support 4K content as well, this means that this program uses more of your system's resources as it has to constantly check which video conversion program it had to run in the background. This means that fundamentally, even if the same care is taken to ensure the 1080p content looks as good as possible, the quality will go down as the system now can't process the 1080p video at the same rate it's used to.

So unlike you, I would understand if buying a television was the exact same thing as buying a game console. But it isn't, so stop making such terrible analogies.