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globalisateur on 30 March 2018
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KBG29 said:
zorg1000 said:

What exactly would this PS4 Premium be?

PS4 Premium would be the last revision of the PS4. It would use the same 7nm Jaguar tech as the PS4 Super Slim and PS4 Pro Slim, but be clocked around 3.0GHz. It would then double the GPU of the Pro and bump the clock up to 1.1GHz allowing them to reach 10TFLOPs. It would have 16GB GDDR, and a UHD Blu-ray drive. It would take the $399.99 slot in the PlayStation lineup and be for those that want a native 4k system in the two or three year leading up to PS5.

Intrinsic said:

You wan't strange things. What sense does it make making a PS4 premium? Make something that will sell even less than the PS4pro, which in of itself is only managing around 20% of total PS4 sales? Why would they do that?

This is the time of the gen when maximizing sales potential should be about slashing prices. Getting the base PS4 under $199 and the PS4pro to $299. There is no reason to make a "premium " console to release in 2019 when MS would just release the XB2 in 2020 with hardware tha will run circles around the premium PS4 and with hardware that even if sony released a PS5 a year or two from their console it would be using similar parts.

Makes no sense.

PS4 Premium would only be aimed at 4K consumers and the core PlayStation community. It would bridge the gap between 2019 - 2021 or 2022 when PS5 arrives.

Microsoft could put out a Ryzen based console in 2020 on 7nm, but I don't think it will be enough to blow people away.

Waiting until late 2021 or 2022 when 7nm+/Next Gen GPU, 64GB RAM, and NVMe become a possibility at $500 will deliver a huge leap over a 7nm, 24GB, and HDD based system. I think both Sony and Microsoft know that they can't build next gen consoles without M.2 NVMe drives, or they will get obliterated by other tech within 18 - 24 months of launch. I also believe AMD's Next Gen GPU will be built to handle Real Time Ray Tracing, which is what next gen should be focused on from the graphical side of things. 

From my point of view PS5 in 2019 or 2020 makes no sense, but having no native 4K option between now and a 2021 or 2022 PS5 is bad buisness. But, like I said, Sony has many options. 

People don't care if one console has more native 4K games than the others. Most games on XBX use a dynamic resolution anyways. Sony is not threatened by XBX. On average on Amazon Pro is selling better (amazon is reliable for comparing Sony and Ms).

Microsoft is currently giving a free game (up to $60 price) for every XBX sold on Gamestop (so that makes the XBX at $440) and they again reduced the price of xb1 bundles at $249. Doesn't sound too good for them, and that's in US.