This simply is not true. The increased development costs and "lack of focus" or "lack of effort" due to having to make games in two PS4 versions are totally insignificant.

Where did you get the idea that online play in particular would require any special consideration just because there were two PS4s?

Already the extra resources needed to port between Xbox and PS4 in this gen are very minor, they are that small (<5% of dev costs). Because the two machines are quite similar. And obviously a PS4 and PS4K would be extremely similar. The extra effort needed to make two PS4 versions wouldn't be even 1%.

How do you know this? Seriously. Where are you getting this '<5% of dev costs'? What knowledge or experience are you drawing from when you say this extra work would only add another "1%" of dev costs?

Oh sorry, now you got me. A wii port (that is cheaper on wiiu) and like 5 old snes games, not a single new game for the system but hey, now the regular 3ds is completely obsolete, what a dicks! Now I have to resign myself to play the other 99.99% of the games while I keep complaining about the 0.01% of old games that I cant play. 

Meanwhile there is a bunch of people that have been complaining about N3DS not having exclusives. Confusing times to be a gamer.

I have this thing in the rear where I pull things from when I want to win arguments on forums.

You're acting as if I don't make console video games for a living. I know exactly how it works. I have personally done the work myself. For example I worked on porting a PS3 game to the PSVita, and much of the work was about optimizing the game to run on much less capable hardware, and reducing the complexity of practically everything, from AI to audio to 3D models to animation to make the game run.

I totally get the process. PC games are made differently. Their engines are different, games are optimized differently. It's like oranges and grapefruits. They look pretty similar on the outside, but once you get inside you're looking at a familiar but also very different experience.

I'm confused on if this is what you do for a living why you would make the comparison from porting a game PS3 to PSVita with what would happen here.. Because its NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL..   First of all.. the commonly used "Game Engines" are NOT different.. lol.  Unity, Cry Engine, Frostbite, Source and Unreal ALL SUPPORT PC, PS4 and X1..  Second.. AS I SAID..   The PS4.5 versions would simply download or contain on the disc the assests for the new resolution and be better optimized for the FPS.  This is NOT porting.. Both are running the SAME EXACT OS..     Most of the games are "throttled" down or downgraded graphic wise after intially developing them on DEV KITS..  on the PS4.5 they would optimize it to run on the newer hardware, no different then they will with the old.  Again. its NOT porting when working on the same exact OS.. Its just optimizing for the specific hardware.. JUST LIKE IT IS ON PC. 

You do realize that that this new model could only be released in the hollyday season 2017 at the earlierst. This would make it 4 years which is actually a normal console circle, almost

You do realize that that this new model could only be released in the hollyday season 2017 at the earlierst. This would make it 4 years which is actually a normal console circle, almost.