On September 7 the world finally got to see the PlayStation 4 Neo, now called the PlayStation 4 Pro, and the PlayStation 4 Slim, the worst kept secret by any company in recent memory. Along with the reveals came pricing and release date. Aside from that, not a whole lot happened. The conference itself was a snooze-fest. It was set up for informative purposes rather than entertainment but man, was it dry. I don’t know if it was the speakers or the information, but it was overall lackluster. If you haven’t seen it; just read the cliff notes of it. The only thing Sony was really trying to sell everyone on is how much prettier the games are going to look on the PS4 Pro. With double the power the games should look better
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Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.
Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.
Yeah, let's all advocate for smaller gaps between series' releases, then we'll probably get headlines about how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven. Let them cook.
Bethesda [or Microsoft] would have to reallocate internal and external studios towards fallout and elder scrolls titles. Bethesda has the issue of developing 2 big IPs that are large RPGs on rotation. If you want more Fallout and Elder Scrolls, development will have to be outsourced.
Probably. It certainly will get criticized for upscaling some things and its price and lack of exclusives. But at the end of the day it will still be a good system to get just as the Pro is.
for graphics they should support 3 simple modes -
4k native
1440p
1080p
FPS limit should be separate, to be used with these combinations. nothing complex.
@ darthv72
I believe the company addressed that they won't be doing any 4k up-scaling. any outputting in 4k will be native. so it's either 1080p native or 4k native when switching between the two.
If people are expecting every Scorpio title to be 4k native they will be dissapointed. If Ps4 pro have a title running at say 1440p/60fps (i imagine BF1 will be in that ballpark), then Scorpio would need twice the power to get it running in 4k. That would mean the Scorpio would need to have 8,4 Tflops of power, now we know the Scorpio will have 6 Tflops. Therefore it doesnt have what it takes to run it in 4k.
It will probably be more like the correlations between ps4 and XOne, but this time the Scorpio will have the Upper hand.
I think MS need to balance there PR attacks against Sony. If they go out to hard and attack Sony for not giving true 4k it will bite them. Because they will have Some 4k games, but a Long way from all games. However they still need to discourage people from buying Ps4 pro and await the Scorpio.
I think their biggest problem will be that for a console deemed as "beastly" it wont show anything significantly better than PS4 Pro.