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Sony's More Powerful PS4 To Be Announced Before PlayStation VR Launch (polygon.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report on Polygon about Sony's alleged PlayStation 4K, which Kotaku reported about earlier: Sony's more powerful version of the PlayStation 4 -- also known as the "PlayStation 4.5" and "PlayStation 4K" -- is expected to be announced prior to the launch of PlayStation VR this October, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal (paywall link). The upgraded PS4 will reportedly be able to play 4K resolution content, according to the report, and deliver "a richer gaming environment, including a high-end virtual-reality experience."
At least now we're admitting to duplicate postings up front now. An improvement... /s
What's worse... this isn't even an announcement. It's speculation about an announcement.
Correction to article: "a richer gaming environment, including a high-end price."
the first PS4 wasn't 4K ready? I thought that was one of the things it was big hyped for?
Is that you never have to worry about upgrading them and you know that everyone has exactly the same version of the hardware.
You also know that every game will always work on your console.
Creating a more powerful inter-rim console just seems wasteful. Developers will have to aim for one of them and that's going to be the original model.
Only a company as stupid as Nintendo would be foolish enough to release a hardware revision midway through a console's lifespan that upgrades core specifications, causing fragmentation amongst its userbase. Sony would never do that with PlayStation.
My $600 graphics card can barely handle 4K. And they're going to do it in a $400 console. Sure.
Does anyone really believe this will be anything but a glorified 1080p upscaler?
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Sure you might be able to use PS VR with the current gen PS4 but I would put money on them pushing this hard for a decent experience. In the mean time I'm going to Japan to open a pitchforks and torches vending business. I have a feeling it's going to be very profitable very soon.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
If they don't offer a trade-up, many current PS4 owners are going to be angry. People expect their console to be good for a whole console generation, not half of one.
Sony have really lost their way.
Cos one page per second will be the new cinematic experience at 4k...
It's cool as long as they have a trade in program for existing PS4 owners.
I finally caved and bought a PS4 in January.
By that I mean that the GPU will be able to create a 4k framebuffer and render at 4k if it likes, and the outputs will be filly 4k capable.
However you are correct that it'll be seriously lacking in power. so as a practical matter, 99%+ of games will be rendered at a lower resolution and then upscaled. This is actually already the case to some extent. Many games cannot run at 1080 and hit their framerate target on the hardware today, so they are rendered at a lower resolution internally. For example Battlefield 4 has a 60 fps target since it is a shooter. To hit that it renders at 1600x900 on the PS4, and 1280x720 on the XBone. Watch Dogs is even more intense and so renders at those same resolutions, but only has a 30fps target.
So in some cases developers may elect to use more simple geometry/textures and thus will be able to make the new unit render at 4k natively, but most likely they'll elect not to. The trend seems to be to prefer higher detail games and sacrifice resolution and/or fps as necessary to hit that.
Hopefully the 4k playstation will be able to output in 1440p instead. My TV does 4k at 30Hz or 1440p at 72Hz (HDMI 1.4), and my graphics card (yes reasonably priced) can more or less drive those 2 options just fine. Guess which option I prefer to play games with.
These "rumor based" articles are stupid. The media outlets should know better, especially given Sony's history with PSfoo hardware.
More likely this "4K" PS4 will be like the later model PS2's that could do progressive scan (early models couldn't), or the later model PS3's that can bitstream a couple more high quality surround audio formats., with ZERO changes to the gaming capabilities.
So I'm figuring what we'll see is a PS4 Slim that supports 4K blu-rays and nothing more.
Great, but will it ever come with anything that will ever use the Eye? I feel like that thing should be a class-action lawsuit, almost (yes, I was one of the original purchasers who bought a bundle that came with an Eye)
PS VR that they are releasing soon will benefit from 90+ FPS (it can go as far as 120Hz, Oculus only does 90)
4.5 games will run on older PS4, but with lower FPS.
All in all, it's about VR.
The interesting part is, exactly HOW they are boosting current PS4 hardware, is it still 28nm process, or is AMD far enough with 14/16nm. AMD recently demonstrated Polaris based low range (960 levels) GPU with very impressive perf/ration (at least two times better than 960).
but name fail to perform compared to my current pc?
Thank you Sony! I really hope they put out ad's making fun of the Xbox One and how it cant do full 1080p let alone 4K.
Microsoft loves sitting in their asses and doing as little as possible on the Xbox line, I really hope sony forces them to start making better hardware and faster releases of updates with more power.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
All of this speculation stems from one article on Kotaku where they said they talked to someone with insider knowledge. Releasing a half step console right now would not make any sense for many reasons. I say that this is an April fools thing and even if its true it wouldnt be a new generation. At most it might come with a smaller node APU to save power, and be slim with maybe a 4k blu ray player for those that dont want a playstation for AND a 4k blu ray player