@SoNin360 said:
I don't keep up with things that well all the time, but I'm pretty sure 8K is a ways away. 4K is becoming more mainstream but it's still pretty expensive to take full advantage of. I'd be happy if the next playstation can manage to run even some games well enough in 4K to make buying a 4K TV a worthy investment in a couple of years.
I want the same thing you do. I don't even have a 4K TV myself yet so if PS5 is going to be some mastodon that will attempt to do 8K, true or in PS4 Pro-like fashion, just to impress the competition, at a price tag of about $1,000.00, then it won't be worth getting for the 5 exclusives that aren't on Steam.
@speedytimsi said:
I really wish nobody would do 8K. Just get to 60fps
80% of the population in the US doesn't even have 4K yet.
How about both? Apparently 4K is being adopted at a faster rate than 1080 though.
@Diddies: You know nothing about hardware then if this is what you are saying. it isn't just about the price of the components, it is that they do not exist at this time to do that and won't exist for quite some time for consumers. 8K gaming is out of question for quite some time. It will not be on PS5...not questions about it.
I do not pretend to be an expert in hardware. However, there are 3 options that I see:
1. PS5 (4K) with PS4 Pro BC, PS5 Pro, PS6
2. PS5 and PS5 Pro combination called PS5 pretending to do 4K-8K with enhanced upscaling for BC PS4 games, PS6
3. PS5
I can see #1 happening if PS5 is released between now and spring 2020. Option #2 anytime past that timeframe, and option #3 beyond 5 years maybe. Contradictory to your assumptions, I would like to see #1 happen like the majority of others, with 0 interest in the mid-step later. I'm not wealthy and don't need bleeding edge technology. Why the spring 2020 deadline? Because I can already imagine Playstation CEO announcing excitedly while the Tokyo Olympics are streaming at 8K in the summer of 2020: "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm very proud and blessed indeed to introduce to you Playstation 5, the 4K console capable of 60fps, available Christmas 2021!" and giving a demo of this beast on a Sony 8K TV standing next to him. The excitement, the applause, the yeeehaws, hugs and kisses... And the Microsoft team standing there in the corner with their heads hung low, kicking the X1X (which was capable of exactly the same thing 3 years prior) under the table. Yes, yes, you're right, that's the most likely scenario, no doubt about it! I see the light now! Forget 8K. Sony will undoubtedly look to satisfying the needs of the 1080 consumers first and foremost when PS5 releases in a year or two.
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