This name doesn't bother me nearly as much as the Wii U. I always hated that name and I think it hurt overall sales of the console by having a name so similar to the name of the console before it. Conversely, the labeling of the New 3DS has never bothered me.
I see why they've gone with it. Wii was meant to be i and i as two people standing together, as well as the obvious homonym to We. The idea was probably that it works well as We, or just U - i.e. more games are about the single player experience as Nintendo were looking to win back some midcore gamers after the perceived casualness of the original Wii, which earlier ports for the system like Human Revolution. Splinter Cell:Blacklist and Arkham City testify to.
But yeah, to wrench back on topic and dial down my Nintendo fanboyish tendencies, PS4 Pro is a crap name. Now we have PSP, PS Plus and PS4P, it's about as dumb as Microsoft choosing the name Xbox One (technically the Xbox Three, after the Three Sixty which was Xbox Two), so we used to call the original Xbox the Xbox 1 and now we can't and reading old forum threads before Xbox One came out can be confusing.
If you have a Wii U in the 1st place you are even below Amateur. The Wii U pro controllers even things out to Amateur level.
Speaking of fanboy things to say... I love it when it's stuff like this. I've played my Wii U more in the two months I've had it than the PS4 in the 18 months I've had that. I care about good games that are fun regardless of platform, and have been sorely disappointed with most of the indie and triple A titles the PS4 has available. I won't renew my PS Plus membership when it expires in January I think, got barely anything out of it.
For the record, I'd consider the Wii U Pro a better controller than my old Xbox 360 ones, the DS3/DS4 but (personal preference) not the GameCube or Xbox Elite controllers.
I'm a bit underwhelmed by this. After the leaked Scorpio specs, I was hoping Sony would boost the specs of the Pro to stay competitive when Microsoft releases the Scorpio in a year. As it stands, the PS4 Pro is going to look dated already in less than a year.
Haha it looks dated now and it's not even been released.
If we're gonna be constantly updating hardware let's all just go PC Master Race... ;-)
They've said they wanted their ecosystems to be a "service," which I can only take to mean new hardware every few years and games that scale across. But that kinda voids the point of a console, y'know? You start getting into Sega territory with screwing over your customers.
I think Micro$oft and $ony are already there, to be honest. I still see Nintendo as focusing more on the experience, game quality and value for money than either of those two, who really have just found more and more efficient ways to monetise their efforts, with Sony sacking off the Vita because they saw the PS4 as a better revenue generator and piled all their weight onto that instead.
I hate companies using horrible empty managementspeak phrases like "Our ecosystem is a tailored service" as well. It's just games, the device to play them on and some online services to tie everything together, let's stop making out like it's some high concept
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-we-built-a-pc-with-playstation-neo-gpu-tech
So yeah, 4K is impossible (except for PSN games, I'm sure PacMan UltraHD will manage 4K) and this is just marketing bullcrap.
Really sad that Sony can get away with misleading customers like that - someone should slap them with another Class Action. It seems they haven't learned anything from the Other OS fiasco.
Sadly enough that's not possible either - the Eurogamer article clearly explains that for Ultra settings the CPU is holding it back and 1080@60fps won't be possible.
Really? Well then I now have zero interest in this. Literally just a conduit for PSVR and fake 4K then. What a crock.
You can see the entire conference, and GBAtemp's roundup of the event here.
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