| superchunk said: Fact is, when a PS5 is announced, it will be a skinned PS4 with more power and an OS upgrade. |
The PS4 Pro is fundamentally a PS4 because it still uses the Jaguar CPU, the same amount of GDDR5, and what not. Because the architectures between the standard and Pro are extremely similar, it is easy for developers to scale their games.
Saying that the PS5 will be a skinned PS4 is absolutely nearsighted because by the time Sony announces the PS5, AMD will have newer CPU and GPU architectures in the pipeline and I'm sure Sony will want to use the newer ones. For instance, the CPU the PS5 will use may not just have higher clock speeds, but also more threads per core. Sony can also either increase the amount of RAM or use a different type of RAM such as HBM2 or GDDR5X, or perhaps even both. When you add all the differences together, you will end up with a significantly different hardware configuration from the PS4 or Pro.
