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Ariakon on 21 May 2017
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LudicrousSpeed said:
twintail said:

This quote claims Sony says. Yet the authors same article has zero proof Sony said anything. In fact, they have a ND programmar quote, who the author claims was speaking for Sony. But again, nothing in the article backs up this claim. In fact, there is zero understanding as to what the programmer was even talking about. 

Later tweets from the same programmar actually seem to suggest that he was talking about UC4, which makes sense: original PS4 UC4 MP is 60 fps, so there obviously are no gains on the PS4Pro version.

Both DigitalFoundry and the official Sony guide to PS4 pro both claim that frame rates can be increased. 

https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2016/09/08/ps4-pro-the-ultimate-faq/ - 'render higher'

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-how-playstation-4k-neo-and-the-original-ps4-will-co-exist - 'meet or exceed'

There is no backtracking. Devs and publishers are choosing what to do themselves.

Here is another source for you: https://www.videogamer.com/news/multiplayer-games-will-not-run-at-a-faster-frame-rate-on-ps4- all the evidence I need to support my post. Not to mention I also have reality, which to date we have not seen a single game target a higher frame rate option for MP. Again, if I'm wrong, just name the game. If this is as obvious as you make it seem to be then you should easily be able to whip out a list of games that prove me wrong, or concrete info Sony put out that actually says developers can give us higher frame rate settings in MP.

You seem hung up on the idea that I am saying this is a Sony policy. If it makes you feel better, I could just as easily say the Pro is not powerful enough to give us higher frame rate options instead of pointing to Sony's parity policy that numerous websites confirm exist and I've only ever seen one person say it doesn't :)

They're not huge multiplayer games, but both Dark Souls 3 and Steep run at much higher framerates than their original ps4 versions, both of which target 30fps. Granted, Steep is all about co-op, so it's not a competitive game, but Dark Souls 3 definitely has PvP. Going through the list of pro supported games, there are very few big multiplayer titles that don't target 60 fps, basically all the Ubisoft games, For Honor, Ghost Recon, and the Division, and yeah, I don't think the cpu is a big enough bump to get 60 fps in those titles, especially Ghost Recon, which drops frames quite a bit on the original ps4 version. You may be right, and the pollcy may be in place, but it may not. There are so few games that would actually put it into practice that it's difficult to tell.