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God Of War 4 And Deep Down On PS4K, Price Could Go Up To $500

God Of War 4 And Deep Down On PS4K, Price Could Go Up To $500

One of the hottest rumors on the internet (as far as gaming is concerned), the Playstation 4.5 or the PS4K, has more details coming out. This one comes from a meeting said to have happened between developers and Sony, and appeared on NeoGAF threads. The exact quotes are given below, though no official confirmation or denial has been issued by Sony yet.

“Price is currently $399.99 they were discussing a better CPU which would raise the price to $499.99 we were guaranteed the price will be no higher than $499.99 (He mentioned the CPU upgrade quite a bit almost as if they haven’t really decided on a final spec could be a pricing issue.) also there is currently no plan for any type of trade in program for current PS4 users but that could change.

They stated that the GPU is twice as powerful as standard PS4 and much faster. They did not say exactly how fast but that is was running at a higher clock speed while being much smaller than the original.

It will have a 4k blu ray player and will upscale games that are not natively 4k.

Also there was talk of some sort of VR lounge for the media player app which is supposed to be getting a substantial upgrade.

It was stated plainly and with no room for interpretation that there are developers that already have development kits for the PS4K and that they are making games that will directly target and take advantage of the higher specs of the PS4K. It was also stated that these games will in fact work for the PS4 but with considerable sacrifices made to performance.

It was also made very clear that current games would not be getting any type of performance upgrades by being played on the system and any benefits to older games would come via patch per game and per developer. When asked if this was going to happen the response was “Its a possibility but doubtful with the exception of a handful of games.”
We were also given a list of games that will be available at launch that will directly take advantage of the PS4K where the differences are and I will quote him “Significant.”

For the PSVR:

Eve Valkyrie
Robinson
GT Sport

For the PS4K:

Deep Down (Thought this was dead)
GOW4 (This was the exact abbreviation on the sheet I can only assume its god of war 4)

There were more games on the list but these are the ones that stood out to me.

That’s all I can remember off the top of my head I’ll see if I can get any more information.

Edited to add:

I got a bit more information today but I am trying to find out who all knows about it before posting.

Also the word “Sacrifices” is being blown out of proportion. There are sacrifices made when making a console version of a game as compared to a PC game or when making an XB1 game as compared to a PS4 game. Don’t expect PS4 games to all of a sudden become shit just expect them to run better on PS4K. I would expect a game that is really pushing the graphics envelope to run at 1080p 60fps on PS4K while the same game might run at 900p 60/30fps on PS4. Just the way I took it.”

While the PSVR games are no surprise, any news about God Of War 4 and Deep Down are something to be very excited for. However, if Sony does plan to bring significantly more powerful processing capabilities to the PS4K, there is no way that the developers will use it only to improve framerates. It is sure to bring about a decline in PS4 games within 2 years. And that too when the good games have just started rolling in to the ‘next-gen’ platforms.

Source: NeoGAF

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