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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."
Only at 30FPS and it only have HDMI 1.4a.
The new one will have HDMI 2.0.
And also presumerably HDCP 2.2.
At least, _I_ assume it does. Would be weird not to include HDCP 2.2.
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The PS4 is 4K ready...for videos (note the last edit date on article). The 4.5 is supposed to enable the support for games as well. I have to wonder though; did it really require new hardware, or could Sony have unlocked the 4K Gaming capability through a firmware patch? Knowing Sony's track record, I seriously think they're going with the hardware fix only because it will drive more sales of the unit...where a simple OTA update probably would have sufficed. This question probably won't be answered without seeing the proposed hardware differences.
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.
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.
Either your graphics card is 5 years old, or you over-payed massively.
A GeForce GTX 980 TI can play Grand Theft Auto V at 4k at about 30 fps at 4k with all the detail turned up.
Even at medium detail, it struggles to hold an average of 60 fps with many dips down to ~40 fps.
And yes, that is a current $600+ video card.
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.
My old PC had a "Turbo" button, doesn't the PS4 have something similar?