Neither reacted to each other, they were both reacting to 4K TV's becoming popular in the middle of a console cycle.
Sony went for clever upscaling, Microsoft went for more brute force, but both are simply addressing the same problem, that 1080p/720p games look ugly on 4K TV's.
This is also no indiction that we will necessarily see mid-cycle refreshes again in the future, this is all just about the awkward timing of 4K TV's becoming popular during this specific console cycle. It's really that simple.
The PS4 Pro came out last November and you still can't buy a 1X so it's obvious who started development first.
The PS4 Pro came out last November and you still can't buy a 1X so it's obvious who started development first.
Missing the UHD drive is kinda half baked, especially if its in the One S for a cheaper SKUs. It seemed to me like a rush job to cash in but I wasn't sure of that till I saw the X1. However, Grand Tourismo Sport looks great in 4k so that's all that matters.
Sony blinked first obviously because the Pro released 1 year earlier with less power. Sony would've been better off not doing the mid-gen upgrade and releasing PS5 in 2018 to crush Xbox One X.
The PS4 Pro came out last November and you still can't buy a 1X so it's obvious who started development first.
Just because a product is earlier than another, it doesn't mean one started development first.The PS4 Pro came out last November and you still can't buy a 1X so it's obvious who started development first.
Sony blinked first obviously because the Pro released 1 year earlier with less power. Sony would've been better off not doing the mid-gen upgrade and releasing PS5 in 2018 to crush Xbox One X.
What? All indications are that they started at roughly the same time... but MS' engineering goals were much more ambitious so it naturally took longer.
In fact, iirc xb1s and Scorpio development began side by side.
I love my Pro but I do wish Sony had waited another year to release it and iron out some of the kinks/make it more powerful.
Nope.
Other than your made up story everyone kows the real timeline.
MS shit their pants so hard that they announced a console was going to come out a year later, at the same time.
Some of the dumbest shit I've ever seen lol.
1080p games arent ugly on 4k, its a perfect 4:1 upscale so they actually look quite sharp.
And actually, when we were all on 720p sets, they werent even true 720p, they were something like 1366x768, so we werent even getting 720p...we had a small upscale, softening the image....so in comparison to that 1080p on a 4k set is fine.
Honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not lolMS shit their pants so hard that they announced a console was going to come out a year later, at the same time.
It's pretty funny how people are using the release dates of both consoles to start which started first when yet both consoles are a response to the complaints we saw years ago of the 360/PS3 gen being too long.