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potato_hamster on 25 April 2016
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Train wreck said:
potato_hamster said:

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.

How about this.  Sony will be the first console maker to successfully implement a tiered system for consoles now and going forward.  No amount of disagreeing opinions from online forums  will change that as Sony has built enough good will with customers...and potential customers worldwide, to make it work.

Have they really? We're only 10 years removed from the debacle that was the launch of the PS3, and Sony still hasn't fully recovered from the hit that launch game them. Sure they have made a point of listening to their customers and making decisions with their fans in mind. But, this is not one of them. This is how you erase good will real quick.

Because I'm a pretty big Sony fan, and if this Neo is released and my base PS4 games begin to suffer in any capacity from the release of the PS4 Neo and the PS5, I will be 100% done with them, and pretty much abandon console gaming from that point onwards. This is from someone that has literally spent over $10,000 in Sony consoles, Sony  accessories and games for Sony console since the introduction of the first playstation. This pisses me off to my core. I am actually having a hard time coming with something short of outright illegal anti-consumer tactics that would push me to drop Sony more quickly and I am at a loss. I've cancelled all of my preordered for all PS4 games that I had pending, and will not be buying any PS4 games until more details are known. I'll probably cancel my PS VR preorder as well.

If they want to take all of the perks of console gaming out of console gaming and make it more like PC gaming, then I'll just go back to PC gaming. I am not putting up with this crap and I don't have to. If this rolls out the way I think about, this is literally going to be a text-book example of how to ruin your fan base and kill the momentum of your product in one move.