| Kyuu said: If The Callisto Protocol wasn't launched on Xbox One, and Hogwarts Legacy and Jedi Survivor weren't ported to last gen consoles (and Switch in Hogwart's case lol), some mofos would have argued 24/7 about how "impossible" they were on PS4 and wanked the mighty SteamDeck to the heavens. |
Realistically any game could be ported to PS4 if it was commercially viable even if that version of the game was seriously cutback in game features and graphic fidelity. The thing is nowadays it isn't commercially viable as its an old format and people that pay big money for games have better hardware now. Shoehorning a ambitious game into the PS4 takes time and money and that investment wouldn't be merited. Yes PS4 has limited CPU resources but the Nintendo Switch has limited graphic, CPU and memory resources and it still got games converted that were very ambitious for the format. The Steamdeck will never get such optimisations as its an open format and there are 1000s of different PC configurations. Yes the userbase will gradually work out what is the best software configuration for a certain game on steam deck but that is nowhere near the same optimisation of PS4 or Nintendo Switch. However the Steam deck has access to both PC and emulated games so has access to 100s of thousands of titles it can play including Nintendo Switch titles at full speed. The Switch 2 isn't that powerful but use of DLSS means they can upscale from a very low resolution like 360p to 1080p with great results and this massively reduces the burden on GPU, CPU and memory so it can head on compete with much more powerful formats that render at a much higher resolution. I don't think anyone would be happy with PS4 games that rendered at 360p because it can't upscale like Switch 2. If the PS4 had DLSS like Switch 2 we would no doubt had loads of 4K games that looked amazing for the console but it doesn't have that technology. The Switch 2 and original Switch both seem to be rendering at 360p as their lowest portable resolution but of course Switch 2 magically transforms that resolution to 1080p.
