Sony's mysterious PS4 Neo has been officially revealed as the PS4 Pro, and will be releasing this year on November 10, 2016. The console will cost $399USD/£349GBP, and will support 4K gaming and videos. Playstation VR will get a huge visual boost on the Pro, as well as older games getting "forward support" to allow them to be played in 4K resolution.

You can see the entire conference, and GBAtemp's roundup of the event here.

 

[Abcdfv]

Consoles can't even do 1080p60 and suddenly can do 4K? Yeah Nah.

 

[Deleted User]

Ok now it's your turn nintendo . Show us what the nintendo nx really is.

 

[Luckkill4u]

I've also heard Sony gamers have got their eyes fps-limited to 30 fps

The eye can see well beyond that but your mind can't perceive at that pace without training. For example professional martial artists or jet fighter plane pilots tend to see at higher frames. I'm sure an experienced gamer can easily tell the difference from 30 to 60 frames per second.

I personally believe that a constant fps is more important. Without any stuttering or frame dips. Do you really need those extra 30 frames in that second? Most games, probably not but some competitive titles you might to get you an extra edge on the game.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S7

 

[Deleted User]

I have actually been considering a PS4 for a considerable amount of time now...
But like I was with the Xbox One, I will probably just hold tight until the price decreases to at least under £250 or a similar reasonable price. ~$399 is just a tad expensive at the minute for me, especially when I have made a few other console purchases recently...

Although it looks to be a nice upgrade to its predecessor! I think this will deliver its better/additional features rather well.

And the "4K gaming" peaked my interest quite a lot as well...

 

[nero99]

Forward compatibility? What about backward compatibility? No thanks. I rather save the money for the nx.

their solution for that is PS Now.

 

[Hanafuda]

What a brick. gonna need to remove stuff of my drawer to make room for that. I'm getting it, been saving up for most of Summer to buy that, among other things.

Sounds like you should wait for PS4 Pro Slim.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Meh. As long as I can trade in my old PS4 and knock off a few hundred I'll get one, just because

 

[RaMon90]

Wait, did i read correctly...4k gaming??? Really? Anyone confirm?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Wait, did i read correctly...4k gaming??? Really? Anyone confirm?

What, you mean besides the whole official Sony conference? Yeah, it'll be "4K gaming". Whether it's actually good 4K gaming is yet to be determined.

 

[raulpica]

Wait, did i read correctly...4k gaming??? Really? Anyone confirm?

It seems like it's just some form of upscaling. Eurogamer confirmed that the GPU used by the PS4 Pro can do 1440p at max.

So yeah, I suppose they're using the same marketing guy that marketed No Man's Sky for them when saying that the PS4 Pro is 4K.

 

[duffmmann]

Ok now it's your turn nintendo . Show us what the nintendo nx really is.

Let's be honest, we'll be lucky if the NX is even on par with the original PS4. Having the highest end specs has never been of concern to Nintendo.

 

[KingVamp]

^ Don't think they have to worry about the PS4 Pro, anyway.


PS4P

Anyway. Understand that Slim and Pro is different, but when they announce it like this, it confuses it in my head.

 

[Deleted member 370671]

It seems like it's just some form of upscaling. Eurogamer confirmed that the GPU used by the PS4 Pro can do 1440p at max.

So yeah, I suppose they're using the same marketing guy that marketed No Man's Sky for them when saying that the PS4 Pro is 4K.

Do you have the source for this? That sounds interesting.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Now we just need a new racing game to go with it to impress people. There aren't many racing games, WHENS RIDGE RACER or GRAND TURISMO. OUT RUN HD COLLETION, D-A-Y-T-O-N-A. I dunno why but racing games show off visuals well. (IGNORING ALL DRIVE CLUB COMMENTS)

 

[retrofan_k]

Own a Xbone and PS4 already so, a 1080 GTX TI will do instead for my PC when they get released. This is not worth the upgrade for 4k and I couldn't care less about VR

 

[RaMon90]

It seems like it's just some form of upscaling. Eurogamer confirmed that the GPU used by the PS4 Pro can do 1440p at max.

So yeah, I suppose they're using the same marketing guy that marketed No Man's Sky for them when saying that the PS4 Pro is 4K.

I would be happy with 1080p full hd ultra settings 60 fps.

 

[Deleted-355425]

all that for $399? PC master race can blow sony

 

[Kioku]

This is the greatest console ever forged by man, bow before it you dogs!

This isn't the GameCube?

I also hope that people realize that 4k gaming on any $400 machine will have some drawbacks. Zzzzz

 

[duffmmann]

The eye can see well beyond that but your mind can't perceive at that pace without training. For example professional martial artists or jet fighter plane pilots tend to see at higher frames. I'm sure an experienced gamer can easily tell the difference from 30 to 60 frames per second.

I personally believe that a constant fps is more important. Without any stuttering or frame dips. Do you really need those extra 30 frames in that second? Most games, probably not but some competitive titles you might to get you an extra edge on the game.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S7

This is how I explain it: while real life isn't made up of frames, our eyes and mind are constantly taking in and digesting everything we see around us. Any given moment can be broken down into infinite smaller moments. This is true of any unit of time, no matter how small. However, for our brain to take in and digest every infinite "frame" of reality would be both impossible and a waste of mental resources. So as such what we see and understand gets filtered down to a steady flow that seems seamless. This means we all have a limit to the amount of FPS we can actually see and truly appreciate. Fairly certain this is a bit higher than 60 FPS for most people, but there does definitely come a point where adding more FPS is going to make little to no difference to the average person who hasn't trained to comprehend more like a martial artist in your example.

 

[Blaze163]

Doesn't bother me. My TV can only just manage 1080p, it's in no danger of doing 4K resolution any time soon. And I can't afford either the console or a new TV to make the new shiny graphics mean anything.

Also, can we stop arguing about the pissing framerate already? It's so annoying how everyone judges games on whether or not they can hold up 60fps instead of how fun they are. You all act like anything below 60fps is like Atari 2600 stop-motion style blocky crap when the simple fact is that unless the dip is pretty severe, you wouldn't have noticed if your tracker app didn't tell you you momentarily dropped down to 59fps and therefore the game is garbage. How about you switch that shit off and just play the bloody games? It's gotten old.