TheMightyEthan

It was always scheduled for after Infinity War Part 2, which as I understand it marks the end of phase 3.

Hopefully it's a release date.

You could just not watch them? That's the first one I've seen.

Tearaway Unfolded is still fairly recent, I was specifically thinking of older/launch games that haven't been free yet. Re: incentives, apparently beginning with games released in October developers are required to make Neo and Base versions of their games (which are on the same disc and just launch the appropriate code depending on which console you put it in), and the Neo version must have a native resolution of 1080p or higher, and must have a frame rate equal to or higher than the base version. It's a condition of developing for PS4 at all, which seems like a pretty strong incentive to me considering how many millions of base PS4's are out there that developers are going to want to get at. Granted, that could result in lots of devs just bumping the Neo version up to 1080p and calling it done, and lots of games already meet that target at least some of the time. Any games with dynamic resolution scaling could just turn that off to lock it at 1080p and from my understanding that would satisfy the requirements.

I thought it was only available through the Windows store.

I can think of a few Sony 1st-party PS4 games that inexplicably haven't been on plus yet. Killzone and Knack are the first two that spring to mind.

Yeah, but par for the course.

Yeah, I sincerely doubt the manufacturers are going to offer any special deals to recent buyers, but it wouldn't surprise me to see places like GameStop offering special trade-in deals.

Unknown at this point, this is just based on technical info going out to developers, no marketing info.

Cap's not angry, he's just disappointed.

They're not the norm now, but they do happen, and I'm worried they'll become more common than they already are.

That's true, I hadn't thought about the dev units not needing one. It's not like they could use the newer discs for games since the games have to be backcompat with the old PS4 anyway, which couldn't read them. With the performance what I really mean is there are some games that have released with what I would consider unacceptable levels of performance already (like Assassin's Creed Unity), but obviously those got past Sony, and I'm just worried those will become the norm on the old version rather than the exception.

That said, while ultimately I'm disappointed about the announcement (disappointed that it's really a hardware upgrade and not just a slim), if it has a 4k bluray player then I'll probably get one and sell my old PS4. Though the weird thing is that Eurogamer says from the specs they've seen it doesn't appear to have a 4k bluray player.

According to the article Sony is forbidding developers from having exclusive PS4k games, and they're also not allowed to even have any exclusive gameplay features or DLC or anything, the only thing they're allowed to change from one to the other is graphical fidelity/framerate. That would also explain why the GPU got so much larger a boost than the CPU or RAM. The thing I'm worried about is devs already seem like they can't be bothered to properly optimize their games on console, and it seems likely that's only going to get worse once the newer version comes out.

Specs on the PS4k released. Basically it's a slight upgrade to CPU (30%) and RAM bandwidth (24%) and a massive upgrade to GPU (130%). Also it's codenamed "Neo".

That's one good thing about this kind of quasi-mmo structure, even if the unfortunate implications were unintended they can completely turn it on its head in a later update and then go "yeah, we planned that all along" when it blows everyone's mind.

Yes, God forbid anyone should acknowledge issues in media.

I'm just gonna leave this here...

This news took it from my #1 most anticipated game of the year to "well I'd better wait for reviews". Super disappointing. Though from what Eurogamer said it sounds like the Dying Light system, where you get XP for just about everything and each level unlocks a skill point.

Dean said he had problems with the ds4 but his 360 controller worked fine.

I just want confirmation of a release date for P5.

Video from Eurogamer about the combat: FUCKIN HYPED!

Yeah, I don't really care either. As long as they can handwaive it as "this is an innate ability that humans just have to unlock" then it's no harder to swallow than mutants and Inhumans and stuff, so I'm good with it.

They're definitely trying to go with the "it's not actually magic, just inconceivably advanced science" angle with Asgard. That doesn't work quite as well if the magic is derived from eastern mysticism.