SolidusDave
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What are the chances of the whole thing being canned with a large enough negative response? At what stage are they? Can't have gone full production if they are just sending out dev kits? How big does the backlash need to be to provoke an preemptive 180 like with XB1?
- early adapters and recent buyers: Basic mode will most likely result in games running less well on the old PS4 if the game is just downscaled from Neo mode. This might not happen as often while there are only a couple of million PS4Ks and the other platforms apart from PC staying the same. However, it could severely limit PSVR games that might be targeted to run in Neo while Basic is just barely non-puke-inducing (this is because PSVR is its own platform or at least features games exclusively targeted at high spec PCs).
Either way, supporting two modes increases the chances of games not running rock-solid which is already now a problem day1.
- developers: being forced to support both Basic and Neo mode for each upcoming game will create more work and testing. They also can't go full out on the new hardware because this isn't a new gen. Sony-exclusive devs could push Neo mode more, but it still has to run on PS4 and the spec increase is not that drastic anyway.
- According to Microsoft they do not plan on releasing a XB1.5. If that's the case then Sony's hand is not forced, they already are the most powerful console on the market while selling the most as well. No one cares about the NX third-party wise and it's tech won't be far and beyond than even the current PS4 either. TBF, MS do their Windows10 thing which kinda means many first-party-releases can also run on a "XB1.5" (i.e. a higher spec Windows PC).
I don't think Sony is trying to be evil or anything, from their point of view they want to offer an option to run games at a higher fidelity (and maybe to make PSVR actually viable), but this introduces too much uncertainty for seemingly very little reward that mostly targets people who have not bought a PS4 yet. Not even graphics enthusiasts should be thrilled about this as it's not a new gen, there won't be a big jump and you can still make the games look better on current PCs.
Not to mention that this is still several quarters off so current PS4 sales will tank while more and more people get to know about the PS4K. I'm sure Sony isn't happy about that either.
Maybe in the future we are all used to having some 2 year upgrade console system and upcoming games always support the newest and the previous systems, but I still feel shorter gen cycles + cross-gen ports + full BC (all easy if they stick now to PC hardware as they will) is the better way to achieve similar things but more.
It just feels like only Sony is pushing this for no good reason even though no one asked for it.
- early adapters and recent buyers: Basic mode will most likely result in games running less well on the old PS4 if the game is just downscaled from Neo mode. This might not happen as often while there are only a couple of million PS4Ks and the other platforms apart from PC staying the same. However, it could severely limit PSVR games that might be targeted to run in Neo while Basic is just barely non-puke-inducing (this is because PSVR is its own platform or at least features games exclusively targeted at high spec PCs).
Either way, supporting two modes increases the chances of games not running rock-solid which is already now a problem day1.
- developers: being forced to support both Basic and Neo mode for each upcoming game will create more work and testing. They also can't go full out on the new hardware because this isn't a new gen. Sony-exclusive devs could push Neo mode more, but it still has to run on PS4 and the spec increase is not that drastic anyway.
- According to Microsoft they do not plan on releasing a XB1.5. If that's the case then Sony's hand is not forced, they already are the most powerful console on the market while selling the most as well. No one cares about the NX third-party wise and it's tech won't be far and beyond than even the current PS4 either. TBF, MS do their Windows10 thing which kinda means many first-party-releases can also run on a "XB1.5" (i.e. a higher spec Windows PC).
I don't think Sony is trying to be evil or anything, from their point of view they want to offer an option to run games at a higher fidelity (and maybe to make PSVR actually viable), but this introduces too much uncertainty for seemingly very little reward that mostly targets people who have not bought a PS4 yet. Not even graphics enthusiasts should be thrilled about this as it's not a new gen, there won't be a big jump and you can still make the games look better on current PCs.
Not to mention that this is still several quarters off so current PS4 sales will tank while more and more people get to know about the PS4K. I'm sure Sony isn't happy about that either.
Maybe in the future we are all used to having some 2 year upgrade console system and upcoming games always support the newest and the previous systems, but I still feel shorter gen cycles + cross-gen ports + full BC (all easy if they stick now to PC hardware as they will) is the better way to achieve similar things but more.
It just feels like only Sony is pushing this for no good reason even though no one asked for it.
