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Stux
Nov 17, 2006

oohhboy posted:

LOL if anybody still thinks P4K does 4K. New King of the hill, the Nvidia 1080 still isn't good enough for 4K. It rips poo poo up at 1080 and 1440 though quite nicely.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review

its 4k because it can output 4k, while the og ps4 and xboneen are unable to. its not expected to run games at 4k and a t no point has this been claimed

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Stux
Nov 17, 2006

Instant Sunrise posted:

Also now there's a disc format with movies in 4K and because the physical specs for the discs are different, you need a whole new player to watch 4K Blu-Rays. So the PS4K is pretty likely to include a UHD Blu-Ray drive to accommodate that as well.

And if you're the kind of person who's jumping onto 4K at this early point, you're probably going to give a poo poo about things like streaming bitrates vs disc bitrates and all that.

sony likes to use their console hardware to push new media formats and this is just a continuation of that

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

abagofcheetos posted:

I read an interesting theory/rumor that sort of makes this whole thing make sense: Basically, Sony went to AMD and wanted to do their usual slim down the processor to make it cooler/cheaper so they could come out with the PS4 Slim. AMD gave them a really crazy high price, much higher than the process has cost in the past. Sony then said, "so how much for switching to a newer, slightly more powerful chipset?" and AMD said basically the same price, maybe a little higher. So Sony figured what the hell may as well do an upgrade, and here we are.

this makes no sense

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

TheScott2K posted:

Looking forward to Sony doing literally everything wrong now that they're dominating since console platform owners are all incapable of building on success.

the ps2

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

TheScott2K posted:

followed by the 599 US Dollars PS3, which spent most of the last generation as its Xbox One

you said all platform owners are "incapable" of building on success. the ps2 was built on the success of the ps1. your statement was objectively incorrect. do not reply as there is no response other than acknowledgment of your error.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

univbee posted:

You might be able to argue the Wii as a failure if you look at the bigger picture, as that console did not sell media at all, especially with how easy piracy eventually became on the console. It was probably still very profitable for Nintendo, at least.

also in that its success was unexpected and nintendo were absolutely unable to leverage it and didnt understand why it sold so well in the first place

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

TheScott2K posted:

Ok congratulations you're right, one time 16 years ago Sony built on their swirltexture box being handed the generation by the idiots at Nintendo and Sega with the PS2. The PS2 is also basically modern gaming's Year Zero but whatever, I'm replying to Stux so obviously I'm the idiot here.

Thank you. Please carry on.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

Quest For Glory II posted:

The 3DS isn't selling on par with the DS or even the GBA thanks to mobile phones but it's still got the largest install base of any platform this generation.

the 3ds is a last gen system

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Stux
Nov 17, 2006

MUSCULAR BEAVER posted:

You'll still get neo games with some lovely 60 FOV and no slider

no one cares

Patter Song posted:

PS4 is 1.5x XB1 (1.28tflops vs 1.84 tflops).

900p displays 1.44 million pixels. 1080p displays 2.07 million pixels, or...about 50% more.

These numbers match almost exactly.

theres more at play than just tflops though

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