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Your opinion on "PS4K"?

It doesnt exist, only fake rumours. 54 21.09%
 
Regular PS4 with 4K Blu-ray player 119 46.48%
 
PS4 with double the power 49 19.14%
 
PS4 with games in 4K and 60fps 12 4.69%
 
Godstation 22 8.59%
 
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Landale_Star on 31 March 2016

I think I believe it.

Sony hinted at it around October last year, Shuhei Yoshida mentioned the possibility of a 4K PS4 in the future, while talking about various PS4 related topics such as PSN name changes and clarifying that PS4 won't be backwards compatible with PS3 games. Of course this wasn't announced as something they were working on but he did seem quite open to the idea and stated it would be easy to do with their x86 architecture.

He may even have talked about it before then and although I don't know how they'll manage to sell two near identical systems, I realize that it could put them on par with whatever the NX is going to be and bridge the gap slightly between PS VR and PC VR. I wouldn't be surprised if this was considered as a possibility much earlier in the development of the PS4 and I would guess Microsoft had considered a similar strategy.

It has slightly put me off buying a PS4 for now though, I was planning to get one within the next few months but I might hold off a little longer now.



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sergiodaly on 31 March 2016

It will be at best a PS4 with 4k bluray and 4k output with a upscaler inside. All this nonsense about more cpu and gpu is all rumors to boost clicks and possibly a move to introduce confusion in consumers minds. I think it will just be a redesign (slim) with just 4k output (hdmi chip update) for psvue, netflix, and other stream services and the games are going to stay at 1080p output.

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hershel_layton on 31 March 2016
Tmfwang said:

On all the articles about rumours about PS4K, there are people ranting and hating on Sony, "for abandoning the early PS4 adopters". Sony have never even once (as far as I know) commented about the supposedly PS4K, for all we know, it could not even exist, and then there is people already (allegedly) selling their current PS4s. 

In my opinion, the PS4K, if it even exists, is just a regular PS4 equiped with a 4K Blu-ray player, so that a PS4(K) is the cheapest alternative when getting a 4K blu-ray player, just as PS3 was in the early years with the original blu-ray.

Regular PS4 will be lowered to 299. PS4K will be 399, and have a special deal where it comes with (insert popular movie in 4k) for 319



 

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konnichiwa on 31 March 2016

Isn't the 4K tv adoption rate still low though? They are not aiming much higher than 30% in the states by 2019 and 25% in Europe... Probably means that at the end of this year around or less than 10% of the people in the states/Eu will have a 4K tv feels still fairly small.






Turkish on 31 March 2016
DM235 said:
Turkish said:

Yes it will. No point in introducing a new PS4 if it doesn't play UHD blurays. Sony need a 4K bluray player on the market and the new PS4 is the perfect opportunity to do it. This the reason Sony still hasnt announced a 4k bluray player yet and they say it wont arrive until 2017 http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-4k-blu-ray-player-might-not-arrive-until-2017/

PS4K is apparently launching in Q1 2017.

I understand why you would think that, but to include a 4K Bluray player, Sony would have to raise the price to $599, or keep it at $399 but lose lots of money on each sale.  I think they learned their lesson from the PS3 and they won't do that.  They also don't have a competing format (HD-DVD) to go against, so I think there is less incentive to go all out like this.  If you look back at the beginning of this generation, Microsoft tried the media center angle, and that did no go well for them.

If you give gamers the choice of a $299 slim PS4, or a $399 or $499 PS4 with 4K Bluray, I think most would chose the cheaper model.

No they don't, you don't know how much it costs for Sony to put the 4k bluray player in a ps4, a year from now.

And exactly, the rumors say Sony will keep selling the old ps4, so I expect a $299 slim ps4 for the gamers, and $399-499 ps4k for the enthusiast.



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konnichiwa on 31 March 2016

Well at the moment you can find 4K blu ray players for 150 no? So the cost shouldn't be that crazy.






danielrdp on 31 March 2016
konnichiwa said:
Well at the moment you can find 4K blu ray players for 150 no? So the cost shouldn't be that crazy.

I suppose there must be a difference in price between Blu-ray Players upscalling 4K and ultra HD Blu-ray players with native 4K.  But I don't know anything about Blu-ray players.  



OdinHades on 31 March 2016

Too much smoke for there not to be fire. It's most likely true. I still don't know what to think of it, but I will wait with my judgment until full details are known.



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Ultrashroomz on 31 March 2016

I just realized, tomoroow is April 1st...

hmm...



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Panicradio on 31 March 2016

So, let's get this straight.

Despite a 40 million hardware base of the PS4 Sony is investing money in development and marketing to release PS4K with much more powerful CPU and GPU to run 4k games and VR, to have previous PS4 games being able to be patched up to 4k or better performance, to have two different types of hardware setups sharing the market and to guarantee that all first generation PS4 owners won't suffer from any disadvantages due to differences in hardware power when developers are able to do games on the new hardware?

That's a very stupid plan. But probably a true one. I actually trust Sony to do such a wacky thing out of the blue. Especially considering PS4's hardware for future VR games. But, man, if they fail to forget about those 40 million "early" adopters ... we have the next big f*** up in videogame history.