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thismeintiel on 08 April 2017
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Pemalite said:
thismeintiel said:

The Pro isn't rushed, at all. Not like it's facing massive HW failures. As for power, they purposely designed it to just double up on the GPU to save on costs, while still being decently powerful.  It is just a mid-gen refresh, after all, not a new gen of HW. Doubt you'll be saying they could have just waited about the Scorpio if we start hearing about a much more powerful PS5 sometime next year.

The Playstation 4 Pro could have been executed a little better though. Having different performance "modes" isn't the most ideal approach.

thismeintiel said:

I think Sony will use HBM2, which AMD uses in their higher end GPUs.


HBM2 should be replaced by then.

The PC space moves fast. You can't expect today's technology to be the standard in 3 years time.

Modes are probably the most simplistic way of having various graphic sliders.  And that's what consoles are really for, gaming at some of its most simplistic.  I wouldn't doubt it if MS follows suit with the Scorpio.

And PC space being the key words there.  Consoles are usually a couple years behind in terms of what is considered higher end.  Of course, that's the trade off for having a decently specced $399 box.  There's still a chance that the PS4 will use HBM3.  However, if costs are too high (though, I've read HBM3 is supposed to be cheaper to make) or it's not ready in time, they may go with HBM2.  Not the newest tech, but sufficient.  I guess there's also a chance they go with GDDR6, if it also launches in time for significant cost reductions by the time the PS5 launches.