So we're gonna get two new Hardware reveals this E3.
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Kotaku: Sony is working on a PS4.5; briefing devs on plans for a more powerful PS4
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So we're gonna get two new Hardware reveals this E3.
Unpopular opinion here, but I welcome this with open arms.
Fuck stupidly long console cycles. Maintain backwards compatibility and do a yearly refresh. That's the future. If you don't want to opt in, you will do just fine with your 3-4 year old console, just like you will do just fine with a galaxy s3. Don't hold others back.
DeepEnigma
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cpp_is_king
Member
Man I find it strange that I find myself hyped to hell and back over this, and everyone is saying no no. Why would anyone want to wait another 7 years for a hardware upgrade? Faster CPU, better graphics, bigger hard drive, all while being forwards and backwards compatible? WTF is not to like? Sounds freakin amazing.
Daffy Duck
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If this is true Sony will show Kim what a broken internet really looks like.
flaxknuckles
Member
Damn I almost bought a PS4 today cus my friends were trying to force me to play The Division with them. Now I have an excuse to not do it, thanks Sony!
The Last One
Member
I seens so. Nintendo will have more problems than we thought.
Emperor Bohe
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Sony pls, I just bought my PS4 last month
SmiteOfHand
Member
The reactions remind me a whole lot of when Microsoft was doing things like adding a hard drive and online services to a console. There was a shit load of 'the sky is falling' and not only did it turn out fine, were good moves for consoles to go in, so I'll wait to see what the actual plans are for this sort of thing.
Scoops has done it again.
I'm trying to think of the last huge scoop he got and my mind is totally blank. Help me remember it, it's driving me mad. I'm being genuine, this is not sarcasm.
Sniffynose
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And here I thought you were my friend =(
Hitokiri03
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I should have upgraded my PC instead of buying a PS4 :/
Microsoft dropping DRM on the Xbone
The Lone Courier
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Who is zoetus and why is everyone flipping over his post?
Edit: Never mind.
Edit: Never mind.
Hawk269
Member
Imagine this thing gets released and they patch "The Division" to have better shadows and 60fps locked? That alone would get me to buy it.
Infernostew
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If this happens then I'm going PC only.
LostDonkey
Member
Not everyone has unlimited money. Phones have essentially payment plans and pads aren't upgraded as much.
I for one could happily keep up with the Jones but much of the market can't. It's why the console market is still big. Not everyone want the complexity of the PC model or the cost of the base hardware.
But it's not gonna have all those things you mentioned.
Hatty
Member
Was it the Infinity ward stuff?
Either way I trust Scoops Klepek
Edit: the XBox 180 stuff too
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
I doubt if any of the consoles will launch this year, let alone all of them.
That's it, thanks man.
I honestly don't care about this so long as the games that are being released for the console in the future still technically have to work on the older-gen PS4.
Or, if the situation does arise where we start to see titles that will only work on the 'new' PS4, I hope it's closer to the end of the PS4 lifespan. Granted, I'm biased because I only recently became a PS4 owner, but I certainly am not happy to see this course of events develop.
If the mild-mannered perspective is the the prevailing one, though, where this is merely for those who must have the absolute top-of-the-line image quality, but devs are otherwise still required to make sure that games will run on the original PS4, I could honestly care less.
Or, if the situation does arise where we start to see titles that will only work on the 'new' PS4, I hope it's closer to the end of the PS4 lifespan. Granted, I'm biased because I only recently became a PS4 owner, but I certainly am not happy to see this course of events develop.
If the mild-mannered perspective is the the prevailing one, though, where this is merely for those who must have the absolute top-of-the-line image quality, but devs are otherwise still required to make sure that games will run on the original PS4, I could honestly care less.
It might be true if that one guy who posted is telling the truth.
hemo memo
Gold Member
But games take stupidly long time to make.
VincentMatts
Member
lol hilarious
The last generation was entirely too long. Another one like that and ill probably quit gaming altogether.
The last generation was entirely too long. Another one like that and ill probably quit gaming altogether.
Sheriff_Battlesnake
Banned
If I can upgrade my console then I am fine with this.
Infinity Ward drama at Activision and the XBox One-Eighty DRM story
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
I have to laugh at the "Im going PC only posts"
like you dont really need to think about upgrading GPU around every 4 years to keep up with current releases there...
like you dont really need to think about upgrading GPU around every 4 years to keep up with current releases there...
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
the last big scoop was when this SJW got pushed out of giant bomb!!!!!!!
probably the xbox DRM stuff?
Because they are going to feel peer pressured into upgrading when they really do not have to until they are ready. It is not going to affect me one bit and I will enjoy my PS4 all the same. Just as I will my Xbox One. By the time I am ready to upgrade, new systems will be waiting and I'll rinse and repeat until I am ready again.
Punkster_NY
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Yes, Sony, yes! They need to stay compeditive they can't allow MS to get the upper hand here... as long as you can still play current gen games on the new hardware people won't rage that badly.
Honestly the more I think about it the more I'm on board with it.
I certainly wouldn't be okay with annual hardware upgrades (seriously who would?) but what if these upgrades came at a triennial basis? (once every three years).
It would be no different to buying the next iphone iteration or GPU upgrade for your PC, which certainly doesn't seem that bad.
I certainly wouldn't be okay with annual hardware upgrades (seriously who would?) but what if these upgrades came at a triennial basis? (once every three years).
It would be no different to buying the next iphone iteration or GPU upgrade for your PC, which certainly doesn't seem that bad.
A lot of folks don't want to deal with complexity. Like needing to think about what the min reqs are and if my spec's are up to snuff (CPU/GPU naming conventions definitely dont' help).
So if you introduce PC like complexity on the console it breaks one of the core reasons the console market exists and is big.
Possibly three.