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poklane on 19 March 2016



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Keybladewielder on 19 March 2016
AEGRO said:

Why would you be pissed by a rumor?

Ok you're right I jumped the gun, I should have put an "if true" before my statement



Protendo on 19 March 2016
SvennoJ said:
walsufnir said:

 

I wonder how they want to achieve that. Perhaps with a standard upscaler. No way it will render existing games in 4k natively.

That's 1000% more likely.
A slim version with HDMI 2.0 port and upscaler to output all content in 4K. Just like the 360 upscaled everything to 1080p last gen. These 4K upscalers have been in blu-ray players for a couple years now, easy to add. Someone simply misunderstood what they were overhearing. Rendering console games in 4K is a long way off.

Our TV's have upscaling. What benefit would this have? Don't all 4K TV's upscale? 

Then again new HDMI, and Blu-Ray 4K in the slim model would be enough for me.



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Areaz32 on 19 March 2016

Nobody wants to admit it but Kotaku and everybody at Gawker are desperate for attention.



thismeintiel on 19 March 2016
SvennoJ said:
walsufnir said:

 

I wonder how they want to achieve that. Perhaps with a standard upscaler. No way it will render existing games in 4k natively.

That's 1000% more likely.
A slim version with HDMI 2.0 port and upscaler to output all content in 4K. Just like the 360 upscaled everything to 1080p last gen. These 4K upscalers have been in blu-ray players for a couple years now, easy to add. Someone simply misunderstood what they were overhearing. Rendering console games in 4K is a long way off.

I'm hoping that that's all this is, if it isn't actually PS5 they are talking about.  If it's just an improved model, Slim or not, that would be just like the PS2+.  It just added support for a few video formats, as well as upgraded the DVD player to a progressive scan one.



 

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Swordmasterman on 19 March 2016
thismeintiel said:
SvennoJ said:

That's 1000% more likely.
A slim version with HDMI 2.0 port and upscaler to output all content in 4K. Just like the 360 upscaled everything to 1080p last gen. These 4K upscalers have been in blu-ray players for a couple years now, easy to add. Someone simply misunderstood what they were overhearing. Rendering console games in 4K is a long way off.

I'm hoping that that's all this is, if it isn't actually PS5 they are talking about.  If it's just an improved model, Slim or not, that would be just like the PS2+.  It just added support for a few video formats, as well as upgraded the DVD player to a progressive scan one.

The  Last Brazilian version of PS2, have Netflix, but this is not the same thing, because only Launched nearly with PS4'S Launch.



Ramadear on 19 March 2016

It wouldn't be a bad thing. What would happen is games would be more like pc games. For example Rise of Tomb Raider would run at 1080p/30fps on the ps4 but the same game would run at 1080p/60fps on the ps4.5. In other words a games quality would depend upon the hardware you are using. But nothing is stopping ps4 owners from enjoying that same game. PS4.5 just get boosted graphics and performance.

Its quite possible that they will do this. It kind of makes sense.



SvennoJ on 19 March 2016
Protendo said:
SvennoJ said:

That's 1000% more likely.
A slim version with HDMI 2.0 port and upscaler to output all content in 4K. Just like the 360 upscaled everything to 1080p last gen. These 4K upscalers have been in blu-ray players for a couple years now, easy to add. Someone simply misunderstood what they were overhearing. Rendering console games in 4K is a long way off.

Our TV's have upscaling. What benefit would this have? Don't all 4K TV's upscale? 

Then again new HDMI, and Blu-Ray 4K in the slim model would be enough for me.

A minor benefit is to avoid switching resolutions which causes new handshakes with tv and amplifier. It adds a few seconds on ps3, black screen, flash, new resolution. Depending on where the scaler sits in the chain it could improve visuals a bit and render the UI in 4K. That's less likely to happen though, but you never know. They've reserved a lot of memory for the OS which could be used to display the UI in 4k, and maybe a 4K web browser.



TH-Work on 19 March 2016

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potato_hamster on 20 March 2016
Ramadear said:
It wouldn't be a bad thing. What would happen is games would be more like pc games. For example Rise of Tomb Raider would run at 1080p/30fps on the ps4 but the same game would run at 1080p/60fps on the ps4.5. In other words a games quality would depend upon the hardware you are using. But nothing is stopping ps4 owners from enjoying that same game. PS4.5 just get boosted graphics and performance.

Its quite possible that they will do this. It kind of makes sense.

Many, many people have explained that it would not work like this unless developered put substantial amounts of work reprogramming their engines and games to allow them to do so. This time, money and effort would be for a 0% gain in sales.

It is the same reason that only one game on the New 3DS actually takes advantage of the New 3DS's hardware properly. That game is also developed and published by Nintendo themselves, and is not backwards compatible with older 3DSs. Even though the new 3DS has improved hardware specifications, other non-optimized games do not run at higher frame rates, or have better graphical fidelity. That's because developers would have to program their games to accomodate for these extra hardware specifications and it is not worth the effort.

So please, go ahead and explain why developers would treat the PS4.5 differently than the new 3DS.