PS4K - Revealed Alongside PS4 Slim as PS4 Pro - General DiscussionPS4

[CodeRedR51]

Well PS4 Pro sounds better than PS4 Forever....

 

[Robin]

The Pro wording is even in a rounded rectangle just like Apple does sometimes

 

[GTFan24]

PS4 Pro does NOT require a 4K TV. Thank god

 

[Samus]

So much for only appealing to those with 4K TVs. Clearly they're trying to market it to the 1080p market as well.

Also, this is a VERY techy presentation. No idea what half of stuff he's saying means.

 

[PzR Slim]

So does this mean higher resolution for 4K TV's owners but more shiny stuff for HD tv owners?

 

[Samus]

Hasn't Activision man just revealed the Pro will be out by the time COD is out?

 

[Robin]

So much for only appealing to those with 4K TVs. Clearly they're trying to market it to the 1080p market as well.

There are so many non HDR 1080p TV's out there they wouldn't shoot themselves in the foot like that. Even the PS4 supported SD resolution so it will be a while before we see 4K only consoles.

 

[PzR Slim]

Hasn't Activision man just revealed the Pro will be out by the time COD is out?

My thoughts exactly.

 

[GTFan24]

Poor guy had to use a microphone cause his mic wouldn't work

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Hasn't Activision man just revealed the Pro will be out by the time COD is out?

There was a hint earlier that it'd be out before the holidays. When discussing the system's specs, House said something along the lines of "power we wouldn't have imagined for a console in 2016".

 

[Samus]

There are so many non HDR 1080p TV's out there they wouldn't shoot themselves in the foot like that. Even the PS4 supported SD resolution so it will be a while before we see 4K only consoles.

I know it was always likely to actually support 1080p displays, I was referring to those earlier in this thread who thought it'd primarily be marketed only to those with 4K sets, like this

But people who already have one don't need to. I have a 1080p TV, most games reach that, so someone like me has absolutely no need to buy a neo. I think this seems to have really gotten under people's skins but actually it's just a non issue really. Ok so some games might have slightly more stable frame rates, great. The main benefit will be 4K, they haven't spoken much about it because it is a given, the name says it all. Sony have said in the document leaks that games must target at least 1080p and that the frame rates must be the same, or better on the neo. Given most people can't distinguish above a certain fps anyway it's a non issue.

4K is the way forward and this is just sony giving 4K TV owners a reason to own one.

Clearly they're trying to give 1080p set owners a reason to buy it.

 

[Jawehawk]

HDR will be supported on the regular PS4, making the PS4 Pro (god that name is dumb) completely superfluous. That's nice.

 

[Samus]

lol. It's just a double decker. No reaction.

4K HDR Video / 4k Blu-Ray
Upscale games to 4K, super basic ones will run native.
Many games will be able to run 1080p and native 120fps for VR.
Called Playstation 4 Ultra
November 2016 release
$399

Nailed it. Ish.

Notable lack of first party titles in there, I wonder if a certain one got cut recently...

 

[CodeRedR51]

I can live with that price. Expected it to be more.

 

[PzR Slim]

It looks like a black club sandwich.

 

[FT-1]

Visually, it will look like two PS4 Slims stacked on top of each other

Called it!

Man, £349 is really good value for money!

 

[Samus]

Do Sony actually hire hardware designers on their Playstation brand?

 

[Tired Tyres]

£349. Not bad.

 

[Jawehawk]

Apart from twice the graphical power of course.

It looks like a black club sandwich.

Which would be impressive except we've reached a point where every noticeable increase in graphical fidelity requires an increasingly significant increase in GPU power. Games already look brilliant, and HDR is the only feature that can seriously up it further. Unless you have a massive flat screen TV or a projector, and you actually sit reasonably close to it, the added resolution means nothing.

 

[Techy]

So it's still possible to backward-play PS4 titles on the PS4 Pro? Then take advantage of the additional graphical power of the Pro and upscale resolution or raise framerates?

 

[Nico_Ble99]

After watching all of it, here's my opinion. The graphics/performance are improved nontheless, but am I going to buy it? Hell no. The jump in graphics/performance isn't that massive to convince me to buy one, if you know what I mean. And it looks... well it looks kinda weird.

 

[Robin]

I can live with that price. Expected it to be more.

It doesn't seem like a ridiculously large evolutionary jump so the price is reasonable. I suspect Project Scorpio will be a much larger jump with a higher price.

Quite funny that it's got an extra slice of bread on the end Does look slightly better than the Slim and the stand looks quite cool but it would have been nice if it had a bolder design.

 

[Samus]

On the whole I don't think they sold it particularly well. A few brief clips of games with nothing much happening.

HDR is their main focus but that is not in the mainstream yet, most people aren't going to know what that is.

 

[Robin]

Was he in a rush to be somewhere? ... boy did they blitz through it! Here are the consoles, here are the prices... BYE!

The definitely played the whole thing down, really went out of their way to not alienate or rather upset the existing PS4 owners.

 

[PzR Slim]

Which would be impressive except we've reached a point where every noticeable increase in graphical fidelity requires an increasingly significant increase in GPU power. Games already look brilliant, and HDR is the only feature that can seriously up it further. Unless you have a massive flat screen TV or a projector, and you actually sit reasonably close to it, the added resolution means nothing.

Premier league football on my 4K tv looks appreciable better when I view the UHD feed compared to the HD feed.

 

[sems4arsenal]

My predictions

2017 release
Few games will be 4K (native or not)
Will show something from ND,GG,R* and EA.
399$
will be called PS4 X
Same design language as PS4
Will come in white day one
VR games will run at 90> FPS rather than 60>

well have right .

NO idea why this console exists? seeing this conference didn't answer that question.

 

[Techy]

I've noticed that the Rockstar rumors weren't confirmed this time around. Would have been the perfect spot to throw in an RDR remaster announcement, actually.

 

[Samus]

It was interesting (or rather not) that when they talked about all the extra power of the new console they focused only on graphical improvements, they didn't talk about any better features, better physics calculations, better deformation of buildings or anything like that.

 

[PzR Slim]

Interesting that GT Sport did not feature at all.

 

[Yellowbeard]

Bah, why hasn't Amazon updated for my pre-order on the pro yet ?