You can basically just flip a switch to change the resolution a game renders at, it doesn't take much at all. As long as the GUI is designed in such a way that it's not absolutely horrific at a lower/higher resolution. Like how Emulators on PC can play n64/ps1 games at 1080p, they didn't have to go through every game making changes in the emulation, they just tell it what resolution to render at and bam, it's done.

But yeah Neo releasing a year early, less powerful but also much cheaper too would definitely put it in a strong position, but again I'm very doubtful it will come this year.

Ahhh I see. Hmmm would there be a big difference beween native 4k and upscaled 4k? In terms of visuals?

Seriously though, if the cloud had the potiential to push the X1 from 8x X360's to 32x X360s that would be 4x the 1.3teraflops of power inside it bringing it up to 5.2teraflops for the base X1 model, but what became of the power raining from above? Absolutely nothing.

Drivatars was a thing I guess, not sure was there really 3.9 teraflops of power behind the car AI... I'd wager there wasn't.

But yeah, showing this sort of show to Japan with the launch of the X1 there, like... did they not realize exactly which nation they were hoping to fool? Japan had learned about buzzwords with consoles back in the days of BLAST PROCESSING, I guess the megadrive promised HD graphics too though... well... High definition, with no numbers involved to suggest what was low definition.

I guess Sega set the precedent for being able to write any old shite on your console :D

If Sony want to release the Neo this year I don't think it will be enough time to raise the specs to match Scorpio. If they did it might mean a Neo delay past the Christmas season which would affect their 20M forecast in the fiscal year.

Mmmm depends on how good the upscaler is and what native resolution it is upscaling from, native 4k will always look better of course but decently upscaled the difference wouldn't be massive. Rendering the game at 1440p then upscaling it to 4k will look a little better then Rendering at 1080p and upscaling to 4k also but would require more power.

You'll be able to notice the difference if you have a very large tv, like you need a very large TV to really get an advanatage from the jump between 1080p and 4k anyway. Anything less than 55 inch and you probably might as well get a 1080p TV unless you're sitting relatively close.

Thats what i am wondering too. My guess is that there shold be a tangible difference. We can see a differemce between native 1080p and 900p upscaled to  1080p. And the difference between 900p and 1080p is just around a 50% bump in pixels. The difference between 1080p and 4k is around a 4 times bump in pixel count. 

But sony probably has test units testing just this, do they feel that with whatever upscaling tech they are using it will be a enough to make it just as good or passable? Cause unless they see no value in putting native 4k level hardware into a box then i see no reason why they will be set on doing what they are seemingly doimg now. 

Hopefully someone with more tech knowledge can shed some light on this. 

Gamescom is the biggest gaming show. They'd probably pick that. But reveal is the wrong word. Announcement is better. It's not like it's a new console.

Collecting a few key data about a player in a racing game (best + average times per lap/race in a car of a special class, more aggressive or cautious driving style...) in a profile that an AI can mimic and transfering that small profile to other players doesn't take much processing power. Did people really believe that?

I think the hope when they unveiled it was that it would give a sort of nostalgia feeling for the original Forza on the Xbox 1... the original... Xbox... (I hate that name) but yeah, the AI you could Sub in to drive for you in that game was called a Drivatar too... but the whole thing just went over like a lead balloon with the crowd.

How could you ever hope to convince a Dev to create a game using that sort of system too? like... you can either program AI to be as good as it can be (and if it fails in some awful way you can always update that AI and patch the game from XBlive later) or you can use cloud power to stream the AI directly into your characters in game, using cloud servers, bandwidth and requiring the console be always connnected to the net to use it... I mean it's just an impossible sell to both customer and developer, but I guess this was all at a time when the X1 would have been always online regardless.

I thought we might see both Neo and PS4 Slim at E3  but it makes a lot more sense at Gamescom.