My ps4 died and so I upgraded to ps4 emulator.
Or mod your PS4 and play lots of free games.
Perhaps it’s good guy Sony trying to pull players in the right direction with their gaming hardware,
Funny.
or maybe it’s a method designed to coax players away from a withdrawing platform that they’ve started sunsetting.
‘The PS5 sales have not met our expectations.’
But yeah, one can feel the limitations of the PS4. Whoever wants to buy a PS5 will have bought one by now, more so considering it’s really not an affordable buy in any way. At this time, it might be the fomo addiction which would push someone into buying a new console that pretty much tethers you to its subscription models.
Breaking news: Company wants consumers to buy new product. Details at 11.
They should be offering an upgrade deal, especially as everyone’s raised prices on consoles lately.
I always wanted a PS4. Never got one. I think the PS3 is better than the Xbox One. Yes, I’m aware the PS3 was the rival of the Xbox 360, and the PS4 was the rival of the Xbox One. I said what I said. I had the PS1, PS2, and PS3, and the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The Series X is a fine machine, but it’s what the Xbox One should have been. I felt that both XB1 and PS4 were nerfed by a bottleneck in the drive, but the PS4 made it easier to swap out for a SATA SSD, mitigating that factor — or so I’m told. The Xbox One had a rough start (requiring the Kinect sensor most people didn’t want) and it didn’t get much better. Still, it was not a bad game system, it just needed an SSD, a problem the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S directly addressed.
Actually swapping out the HDD for an SSD on the PS4 will do next to nothing performance wise, because in Sony’s “infinite wisdom”, the drive is connected using an internal SATA to USB 2 adapter. The only benefit you’ll get is instant seek times, but not better data transfer speeds.
Huh. Damn, I always heard you could connect an SSD to improve performance. Maybe good thing I never tried it? I mean I never had one.
Yeah, it cropped up after people managed to install Linux distros on the hardware, but essentially there’s not much reason to so so if you plan on playing games and software that were designed for the base OS (Orbus) unless for noise or seek time latency (super niche).
Honestly unless the PS4 is in a “pirate everything and throw it under the TV as an entertainment center” situation, you have much better options for budget gaming.
To a USB adapter? How in the world did that ever happen?
You’d have to ask Sony’s engineering team. Perhaps it had something to do with power delivery, even though that makes very little sense.
Do you have a source for that? The only info I can find is an article here https://pcper.com/2017/05/ps4-pro-ssd-upgrade-does-sata-iii-make-a-difference/ which says that the original PS4 uses SATA II and the PS4 Pro uses SATA IIi.
I had a period of unemployment last year during which I had to sell my PS5 to pay my power bill. I’m working again, but it’ll be years before I can afford another video game console. I hope my launch-era PS4 keeps hanging in there, I’m worried for its hard drive.
Hard drive in PS4 is user-replaceable so at least there’s that. Putting even the cheapest SATA SSD decreases load times considerably too which should help in stretching its lifespan a bit.
I don’t think it’s especially egregious for a company to advertise it’s new hardware on it’s platform. I do think that the form of system messages is unfortunate though.
But that sort of level headed thinking doesn’t get them clicks.
I have played both and it doesn’t feel like much of an upgrade. Especially, for the price. Hard pass until it’s severely discounted.
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Why not filter them out? Doesn’t Lemmy have this functionality? I filter out „could” and „might”.
