LudicrousSpeed said:
Kerotan said:
Spoiler alert :
If they genuinely wanted AAA native 4k they've have released an $800 console. whoever takes pr as Gospel?
And I find it ironic you calling my post dramatic after reading that reply.
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Nothing ironic about it. When I start twisting your words to reach dramatic conclusions, come talk to me :)
ahahaha @ a live presentation being PR. Stahp, you're better than this.
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What's there to laugh about? They literally discussed checkerboard 4k in that presentation. Native 4k was clearly not Sony's aim.
Even without the presentation, it should be fairly obvious that was the case. I imagine Sony are aware the standard PS4 and Pro can be quite linearly compared, and i imagine they're also aware that a 133% (the GPU jump) is smaller a small amount than 300% (the resolution jump from 1080p to 2160p). The Pro's exact specs leaked several months before launch, and probably weren't finalized until a few months before that. I think we can reasonably assume Sony would have noticed this error in their math somewhere along the line :p Even if you're right and it was rushed, a console will usually still take months to get to market (this is highlighted by us having final specs months before release). You can argue that they might have wanted native 4k at the very start, it's certainly possible, but they'll have known very early on that wasn't going to happen.
Maybe if the Pro was $500 things might have been different; a native 4k on stuff currently 1080p on the X1 would probably have been possible. I'd have personally preferred that approach, but Sony will have decided on $400 very early on (given it dictates the entire process). It won't have taken them long to know the limits of that budget.