So you don’t want them to make a Pro console because FOMO?
The base PS4 still worked great even well into the PS5 generation with games like Ragnarok. Neither the PS4 Pro or PS5 made that a poor experience. Devs don’t even want to leave base PS4 players behind almost 3 years into this gen, base PS5 owners will be fine and remain the vast majority of users. If you don’t want to upgrade, just don’t.
And it’s not like you have to buy new/additional hardware to play some games like in the past as all games would support the PS5. Unlike the Genesis which had Sega CD and 32X. GameBoy had GameBoy Color only games. N64 had expansion pak required games. DS had the DSiWare and 3DS had New 3DS only/enhanced games. The 360 started to require the HDD late in life for some games.
I just think that developers are allocating resources to have features for these pro consoles. I’d prefer if they just optimized the experience for everyone.
But you’re right about one thing, I’ve kept playing on the base ps4 until the end of the generation and I’ve been able to enjoy a lot of games.
If devs can manage to get games to run well on the billion combinations of PC parts, I think they can mange 2 console SKUs. Especially if they are already using dynamic resolution/VRR, they can just let either run higher on the Pro and boom you’ve got a Pro version. If anything the PS4 Pro was the afterthought for devs, as many would just bump it to 1440p and call it a day.
Only if the Pro model became a dominant model would base owners maybe need to worry, but with 40m+ units sold and still maybe a year until the Pro model that’s just not going to happen.
So you don’t want them to make a Pro console because FOMO?
The base PS4 still worked great even well into the PS5 generation with games like Ragnarok. Neither the PS4 Pro or PS5 made that a poor experience. Devs don’t even want to leave base PS4 players behind almost 3 years into this gen, base PS5 owners will be fine and remain the vast majority of users. If you don’t want to upgrade, just don’t.
And it’s not like you have to buy new/additional hardware to play some games like in the past as all games would support the PS5. Unlike the Genesis which had Sega CD and 32X. GameBoy had GameBoy Color only games. N64 had expansion pak required games. DS had the DSiWare and 3DS had New 3DS only/enhanced games. The 360 started to require the HDD late in life for some games.
I just think that developers are allocating resources to have features for these pro consoles. I’d prefer if they just optimized the experience for everyone.
But you’re right about one thing, I’ve kept playing on the base ps4 until the end of the generation and I’ve been able to enjoy a lot of games.
If devs can manage to get games to run well on the billion combinations of PC parts, I think they can mange 2 console SKUs. Especially if they are already using dynamic resolution/VRR, they can just let either run higher on the Pro and boom you’ve got a Pro version. If anything the PS4 Pro was the afterthought for devs, as many would just bump it to 1440p and call it a day.
Only if the Pro model became a dominant model would base owners maybe need to worry, but with 40m+ units sold and still maybe a year until the Pro model that’s just not going to happen.