Until I know full official details it is hard for me to have formed an opinion on it.

Actually I cannot see developers spending more time optimizing for the 4K whoose install base probably will never get close to the original PS4.  Developers need to make sure the device with the most buyers work the best before giving time to a new system.  If anything, it will be people who purchase the new 4K that will be the ones getting limited support for at least 2 years and thus many only see marginal improvements in games.

Did you buy your PS4 expecting to be able to play the latest console games until 2019-2020, if not later?
Probably.

Did you buy your PS4 expecting to never have to worry about how well a new game will run on your PS4? That you would never have to worry whether your version of the PS4 got a "lazy port"?
Probably.

My point being, your expectations of what the console will provide for you over the next few years now unexpectedly will no longer meet reality. Base PS4 owners will have legitimate concerns how well games will run on their PS4 and how long their console will be supported from the point the Neo is released onwards. In fact they might have decided to buy a PS4 over a PC to specifically avoid those concerns, and that is frustrating.

It's a bit of a bait and switch.

I'm 50-50 on thinking there will be a NEO2 before Sony scraps the PS4 completely.

Yeah I highly doubt I'd be on board with that.

1. You'll be able to play all of the latest console games. Since all games have to work with both versions of the PS4. The report makes that pretty clear.

2. They won't be ports at all. They'll be different configurations of the same code. Plus, the normal PS4 will have a much larger userbase and the better optimized the normal version is, the better it will run on the Neo.

If you own a PS4 and don't care about the upgrades the Neo offers. Literally nothing about your PS4 experience changes. You're making assumptions that go against the information we currently have.

After all the buzzing and rumoring i'm still as indifferent as before.

For now. Who knows how long this will hold up. When I bought my PS4 at launch I expected to be playing the latest and greatest games at a reasonable, playable level from the developers I love until at least 2019-2020. As of now I can no longer be confident in that expectation.

I'm a console video game developer. I've made PS4 games. I have used the PS4's development tools. Please tell why you think it will work this way when I have actually developed multi-platform PS4 and Xbox One games and likely have a far better idea of how this will actually work in practice. I assure you that there will be more work doing what most people call "porting" than simply changing the settings of the compiler and calling it a day. Modifications will have to be made to ensure both games run optimally on both versions of the console. Both versions will have to be tested equally and seperately, effectively doubling QA work. It's not a matter of just changing some configurations - if it was porting games from one platform to any other platform with similar specs would be a joke. I do not care how it works on PC, console video game development is fundamentally different, and it isn't changing overnight just because Sony introduced a higher spec console.

What do you mean nothing changes about my PS4 experiences? You're making assumptions that my experience will remain the same! I guarantee you the PS4 Neo will do one of two things: a) increase the cost of making PS4 games (not happening) or b) force developers to do the extra work in their existing budget, which means the PS4 build of the game as a whole suffers. This is extra work for developers and someone or something has to pay for that work. If developers can't charge customers, and make more money off of it, then the game will suffer.

It will launch along with psvr. It is the reason for ps4k's existence, after all./

PS4

PS4K

PS4K2

PSNow in 2021 replacing PS4 as the defacto Playstation platform forever. Also playable on NX and Windows through a Netflix-like app as long as you own a DS4.