What do people think of this upgraded version of the PS4 that will most likely come out in October-December of this year.
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It will have the same CPU but will be overclocked. The GPU will be improved (GPU AMD GCN, 18 CUs at 800 MHz VERSUS Improved AMD GCN, 36 CUs at 911 MHz). Same amount of RAM but faster and higher allotment of the RAM available for game use.
Developers will be forced to make a base model version that will work on the old PS4 and higher end experience of any games that come out in October or later.
Personally I think this is a bad move by Playstation because it really screws over the people that supported the console for the past 2.5 years. Imagine if you just bought a PS4 and know you hear your console you just spent $350 US for will be the inferior PS4 model. No one was asking for a better PS4 2.5 years after it was released.
Basically you're forced to buy a new console if you want the best experience the game can offer. Good luck selling your old PS4 for any decent value, the market will be flooded with them. They should have waited 2-3 years and came out with a much more powerful Playstation 5.
If Microsoft plays this correctly they would announce a fully backward compatible Xbox Two to come out next year with much better specifications than the new PS4.5. If you are a current PS4 owner with $400 US available to spend, would you buy on a bit better PS4 in order to get some better frame rates or would you buy a Xbox Two where you could play a bunch of Xbox of exclusives you may have missed. I would buy the Xbox Two.