Cerny: Converting a game to Pro is just 0.2 or 0.3% of overall efforts

[WC4Life]

potato_hamster said:

WC4Life said:
I remember when the Neo leaks happened, there was some rabid shit talk going on about how developers would not take advantage of the extra power of Neo and games would go the way of New3DS. Some guy was claiming the development costs for Neo-mode would be in the millions, tens of millions and this shit went on and on.

In the end Sony did exactly what they needed to and what was common sense right from the start, Pro-mode is much less work than a standard port between platforms.

This is just to allow the game to output at 4K using the checkerboard pattern, and leaving the rest of the game un-modified. This has absolutely nothing to do with actually optimizing the game to take full advantage of the additional hardware. That will take significantly more time, and you'll probably see very few third party developers put in the time and the effort to maximize the potential of the extra power. You're right, pro mode is much less work than a standard port between platforms, but a standard port between platforms can easily take years of man hours and does cost millions of dollars.

It absolutely isn't ridiculous for someone to claim properly supporting Neo-mode could cost some developers millions.

We are not talking about games built from the ground up for Pro or deep optimizations but just general Pro support. People were saying hardly any games would take advantage of the new hardware saying it would be too expensive. What you are saying is a completely different thing. Of course developers can choose to go all-in and for some bigger titles the Pro features could cost in the millions.