What if the 9th gen launched with Standard and Premium hardware!

[potato_hamster]

DonFerrari said:

potato_hamster said:
Yeah, great idea. Look at allllllll those third party devs going balls to the wall fully optimizing for the PS4 Pro and Xbox One! .... right guys?

What? Most third party do the bare minimum because supporting these .5 consoles don't actually lead to higher sales?! I'm shocked.

Mid gen updates are bad, and suggesting them at the launch of a generation is even worse. It's hard enough to optimize for a new console, adding multiple specs to support is just going to lead to launch window games being even more poorly optimized than normal.

Still they can launch on hundreds of PC specs.

At the cost of optimization. Just look at the quality of gaming experiences we're getting out hardware roughly equivalent to mid-range PCs from 2012 or so. Do you think a game like Horizon is going to run smoothly on a 5 year old mid-range PC? I highly doubt it.

Edit: The PS4's graphics processing is roughly equivalent to a Radeon HD 7850. That doesn't meet the minimum specs of games like the Witcher 3, for example, and that game came out 2.5 years ago. Imagine if the PS5 had a hard time running the latest games just 3-4 years after release.

Last edited by potato_hamster - on 22 November 2017