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Only 50,000 Copies Exist Of This Fancy PS4 Pro

Only 50,000 Copies Exist Of This Fancy PS4 Pro

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Over the weekend, Sony pulled the surprise introduction of a new PS4 Pro model — and then took it back just as quickly. Its guts are the same as any other PS4 Pro model, but it’s what it wears on the outside that counts. If any of you remember the 90s (you BETTER remember the 90s), one hot trend of the age was see-through electronics. Video game consoles and handhelds were sometimes housed in clear plastic castings so you could peer inside to see the chips and wires. This practice fell out of fashion, and is only rarely seen today. Nintendo was a large purveyor of the see-through gimmick during their N64 years…the closest thing they sell in this modern age is the Switch Pro Controller, which is sort of half-translucent. Sony never bought into the fad, though plenty of third-party Memory Cards for the Playstation did. It took twenty years and four iterations, but we finally have a see-through Playstation…the downside is most of us will never see one

Destiny 2 Will See 4K Improvements In December

Destiny 2 Will See 4K Improvements In December

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December 5 will see Destiny 2 get a significant update that will bring a number of enhancements to players on both the Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro. With the release of the more powerful consoles, developers and publishers have been rushing to bring out patches that upscale the games to support 4K resolutions. Bungie is the latest studio to do that with their sci-fi shooter, releasing the update alongside the Curse of Osiris DLC. According to the Weekly Update on the developer’s site, both versions of the game will receive support for high dynamic range, which has previously only been available for high-end PCs. The Xbox One X version of the game will get full 4K resolution support while the PlayStation 4 Pro edition of the title will get “adaptive 4K” resolution.

Some Games Run Better On Standard Console Rather Than PS4 Pro

Some Games Run Better On Standard Console Rather Than PS4 Pro

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According to a number of reports from various outlets online, certain titles are running worse on the PlayStation 4 Pro compared to the standard PlayStation 4 console. Most notably, Watch Dogs 2 has been singled out for underperforming on the hardware in comparison to what players would have expected. While the game does maintain a 30 frames per second cap for the vast majority of gameplay and output a resolution of 1800p. Unfortunately, although this is significantly improved to the standard edition of the game, some performance issues do arise, including screen tearing and a drop in framerate. The entire idea behind the PlayStation 4 Pro, and its upcoming Microsoft made counterpart the Xbox One Scorpio, is that it is a beefed up version of the original console that is able to max out the performance of games and other software so that they run better than originally planned. The issue is likely just an issue of optimization, with developers likely to push out patches over the coming weeks to

Microsoft Doesn’t Think PS4 Pro Can Run 4K

Microsoft Doesn’t Think PS4 Pro Can Run 4K

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There’s a mini console war about to erupt in the upcoming months, as both Microsoft and Sony will release machines that are meant to run 4K on their games. However, Microsoft’s Albert Penello in an interview with Eurogamer claims that the PS4 Pro won’t be able to do what he knows the Scorpio can do. Run 4K natively first out. “I think there are a lot of caveats they’re giving customers right now around 4K. They’re talking about checkerboard rendering and up-scaling and things like that. There are just a lot of asterisks in their marketing around 4K, which is interesting because when we thought about what spec we wanted for Scorpio, we were very clear we wanted developers to take their Xbox One engines and render them in native, true 4K. “That was why we picked the number, that’s why we have the memory bandwidth we have, that’s why we have the teraflops we have, because it’s what we heard from game developers was required to achieve native 4K.”