Sony may be working on a 'PlayStation 4.5' for VR and 4K games

[Capitan Harlock]

The main problem are the devs that didn't use at all the 8 cores or they don't know how to make use of it, japanese devs in the first place.

They don't have the ability to make games for something like a pc when they do porting capped at 30fps with the physics and fps licked togheter.

Only because their first market in Japan is console gaming and not pc.

Now make ad upgrade for the gpu for support the vr gaming mmmmm seems too late to think about than.

They manage to downgrade the console gaming with the decision to cap the games at 30 from ps3 and after so idiotic.

Only because a console is made for gaming was a pc in the first place but nope they had to segment the market and do this shit.

Is the same with microsoft and theyr proprietary development of dx games and other stuff when the games where going on x86 hardware make it incompatible with pc hardware.

The price too of the ps4 vr does not mean is value would be really 400$ .


Lets see how it goes .

 

[medi01]

I'm actually hyped for "wearable tv".
I doubt I'd enjoy HAVING to rotate my head just to look around in games, but wearable TV at 399$ (and Sony promised it will have that mode) sounds interesting (with VR as a bonus).

Sony's TMZ's cost about 1000$.

The main problem are the devs that didn't use at all the 8 cores or they don't know how to make use of it, japanese devs in the first place.

Sorry for nitpicking but 8 were never available to devs.
In the beginning it was 6 cores (2 reserved by the system), then, if I remember correctly, Microsoft increased that to 7 cores and so did Sony.

Only because their first market in Japan is console gaming and not pc.

Console market is pretty dead-ish in Japan this time. (mostly portables) That's why Vita TV was released for them.

the same consoles that struggle with 1080p are suppose to do 4k and VR with a few upgrades? I have more faith in my gaming rig

Xbone does, PS4 does not struggle at 1080p.

AMD find a use for Fiji chips with an APU?

Why buy Nano at 500$ where there is slower 980 for that price, right? Makes sense, what a useless chip...

 

[redundantslurs]

Since the Xbox 1 got another $50 price cut, would this mean the old PS4 stock goes on "SALE" or am I just wishfully thinking. Wouldn't mind getting one on the cheap for my sons birthday.

 

[Capitan Harlock]

Sorry for nitpicking but 8 were never available to devs.
In the beginning it was 6 cores (2 reserved by the system), then, if I remember correctly, Microsoft increased that to 7 cores and so did Sony.

But the devs don't use it at all , look at the last biggest release in the last years 30cap and this is use of 7 cores?

This is don't know how to work with pc hardware at all and optimization.

Because we have to remember that the cpu+gpu was madeup for them by amd so is a x86 processor .

 

[medi01]

Semi legit leak (OP being insider confirmed by admins) from ng.
Faster CPU (possibly), at least twice faster (and "smaller") GPU.
Q1 2017 most likely release date.

Max price 499$ (will depend on CPU upgrade).
Some devs already have dev kit... ^^

Most of the games will NOT run faster on the bumped version.

Related info from a meeting we had yesterday was waiting for it to be approved before posting.

Price is currently $399.99 they were discussing a better CPU which would raise the price to $499.99 we were guaranteed the price will be no higher than $499.99 (He mentioned the CPU upgrade quite a bit almost as if they haven't really decided on a final spec could be a pricing issue.) also there is currently no plan for any type of trade in program for current PS4 users but that could change.

They stated that the GPU is twice as powerful as standard PS4 and much faster. They did not say exactly how fast but that is was running at a higher clock speed while being much smaller than the original.

It will have a 4k blu ray player and will upscale games that are not natively 4k.

Also there was talk of some sort of VR lounge for the media player app which is supposed to be getting a substantial upgrade.

It was stated plainly and with no room for interpretation that there are developers that already have development kits for the PS4K and that they are making games that will directly target and take advantage of the higher specs of the PS4K. It was also stated that these games will in fact work for the PS4 but with considerable sacrifices made to performance.

It was also made very clear that current games would not be getting any type of performance upgrades by being played on the system and any benefits to older games would come via patch per game and per developer. When asked if this was going to happen the response was "Its a possibility but doubtful with the exception of a handful of games."
We were also given a list of games that will be available at launch that will directly take advantage of the PS4K where the differences are and I will quote him "Significant."

For the PSVR

Eve Valkyrie
Robinson
GT Sport

For the PS4K

Deep Down (Thought this was dead)
GOW4 (This was the exact abbreviation on the sheet I can only assume its god of war 4)

There were more games on the list but these are the ones that stood out to me.

Source (NG)

 

[Mussels]

So realistically, its just a new console with 100% backward compatibility.

Might as well call it the PS5