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What should it be called?

PS4.1 10 20.83%
 
PS4+ 15 31.25%
 
PS4ever 14 29.17%
 
Other 8 16.67%
 
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eFKac said:
JoeTheBro said:
eFKac said:


ahh so it's simply the secondary ARM chip, the title had me suspicious, but it's no discovery since it was announced and of course the Gb instead of GB which I never pay attention to.

Yeah so I have no idea what Joe is talking about, at best the PS4.0 in the "full game mode" has an additional power of 256MB of DDR3 RAM and a small, most probably low clocked ARM chip. Where is the gain in that? Or what I am missing?

It's not that the secondary chip is used for the game, but that the chip is used for absolutely everything but the game. Basically 100% of the CPU, GPU, and RAM are given for the game to use.


Ok I get it now. What are the current figures...? 5.5GB + 1GB flexible for games, rumoured 1 Jaguar core reserved for OS, no info about GPU power reserved for anything but games. (correct me everywhere I'm wrong) and they would have to fill that all in the secondary chip for the PS4.0 to be fully forward compatible 1:1 in games with the PS4.1?

 

They'd cram as much as they could in the secondary area, but mostly the features would just be disabled. Right now you can be surfing the web, have music going, have netflix paused, and be in the middle of a game. When PS4.0 plays 4.1 games it loses the ability to multitask and all other non essential features. It would basically be a core gamer's dream with games getting 100% of the system power (minus the secondary chip area). Since casuals and many others enjoy the non gaming features, the PS4.1 is avaliable which has a beefed up secondary chip allowing all of those non gaming features to run there.



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Little point. Little point at all.



http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=49440
Looks like someone stealing my crearivity again



theprof00 said:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=49440
Looks like someone stealing my crearivity again


Hahaha my prediction is much more about how they'll do it, not necessarily that it happens.

 

Also you were kinda right. The PS3 super slim has better load times ;)



maybe as long as it doesn't force an upgrade to play any games. That would be a low blow for who bought a ps4.



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This will never happen. It's all well and good rationalising that the PS4.1 would have BC, but the PS4 wouldn't be 'forward' compatible.



 

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JoeTheBro said:
kirby007 said:
gergroy said:
This doesnt sound like something likely to happen.

It's possible, but i doubt its worth the hassle.


Why not? People who like watching netflix and going online while playing games will be forced to upgrade every few years. It's a money machine!


No I think what they might do is just release a version that is at most 50% stronger, and then not change anything.  So think of it this way:

-KZSF and other soft 60 FPS games run 60 FPS 100% of the time on PS4.1

-PS4.1 games are designed to run at 60 FPS 100% of the time, but then end up running 30-40 FPS on PS4. 

That would be easy to do...



well console upgrades are inevitable following the footsteps of the 360 and the ps3. Were the new modles were quicker one way or another. Personally I couldn't bare to play online with a fat 360 again after I got a slim, it was leaps and bounds faster on wifi even compared to a fat 360 using ethernet.

But the upgrades weren't really anything extra, it was always just a better design and performance. SO we will see when the 1st line of upgraded consoles come out. I really do think they will add more than just faster performance this time around but they will have to limit them selves as not to "kick the previous console buyers in the balls".

Basically nothing were a name like .1 is warranted. more like ps4 slim or fat for kicks because it's already pretty sleek. 



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If this can be done with a Firmware Update, then it might be possible. It isn't something that can bring profit though. A FU costs nothing to the gamer, unlike a brand new machine, with relatively similar specs.



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JoeTheBro said:
eFKac said:
JoeTheBro said:
eFKac said:


ahh so it's simply the secondary ARM chip, the title had me suspicious, but it's no discovery since it was announced and of course the Gb instead of GB which I never pay attention to.

Yeah so I have no idea what Joe is talking about, at best the PS4.0 in the "full game mode" has an additional power of 256MB of DDR3 RAM and a small, most probably low clocked ARM chip. Where is the gain in that? Or what I am missing?

It's not that the secondary chip is used for the game, but that the chip is used for absolutely everything but the game. Basically 100% of the CPU, GPU, and RAM are given for the game to use.


Ok I get it now. What are the current figures...? 5.5GB + 1GB flexible for games, rumoured 1 Jaguar core reserved for OS, no info about GPU power reserved for anything but games. (correct me everywhere I'm wrong) and they would have to fill that all in the secondary chip for the PS4.0 to be fully forward compatible 1:1 in games with the PS4.1?

 

They'd cram as much as they could in the secondary area, but mostly the features would just be disabled. Right now you can be surfing the web, have music going, have netflix paused, and be in the middle of a game. When PS4.0 plays 4.1 games it loses the ability to multitask and all other non essential features. It would basically be a core gamer's dream with games getting 100% of the system power (minus the secondary chip area). Since casuals and many others enjoy the non gaming features, the PS4.1 is avaliable which has a beefed up secondary chip allowing all of those non gaming features to run there.

Ohh ok now I at last totally get the idea. I would be even all for it. I just don't know if it would be worth it for Sony to consider it. How much difference would you expect? (and please don't show me the GoW video, it's nice but diminishing returns need to be considered in)



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