PSK4 Reality or rumor?

Last week’s news, in the absence of news of greater interest, focused on Sony’s supposed development of PS4K or PS4.5, but… is Sony really working on PS4k?

There are several elements that make us think that such a development is really taking place, but there is also news against it, so we will list them and give our final conclusion:

In favor

• Several media outlets have already echoed the news, the latest being the prestigious Wall Street Journal
• Sony has set games at 1080 and 60FPS for PSVR, as we told you in everything you need to know about PSVR, so with the current power, and added the technical complexity that PSVR games entail, it seems that PS4 will go at least fair…
• PS4 only supports, due to the aforementioned point, a single PSVR. What happens then with the rest of the players.
• Traditionally, at a certain stage of console maturity, SLIM versions of it are released. This time it could be accompanied by this improvement in power.
• PSK4 would give way to the cross-selling of SONY 4K televisions.

Against

• PSVR is expensive enough to require the consumer to spend extra on a new console.
• The price of PS4k with current technology would not be exactly cheap.
• The new generation consoles begin to be developed with the current console still in force.
• PSVR is an “accessory”, and as such, it can be used on different devices, including a new PS5.

Opinion

If Sony has managed something well in its life, it is marketing. He demonstrated it with PS2, PS3 and even PS4, where, with a console that lacks power compared to the PC, and with a fairly weak catalogue, he has managed to place millions of machines on the market. They are aware that releasing a PS4 update right now with extra power that would make the current PS4 obsolete would be shooting themselves in the foot.

For this reason, we believe that Sony is developing a more powerful machine than PS4, which will be able to move 4K graphics without problems, with total fluidity, but to do so it needs its technology to end up having a democratized price, that is, to be able to create a machine powerful enough to move those 4k but at an affordable price for users.

In my humble opinion, it will also be a revolution, in which the machine will no longer be the most important thingThey will sell it to you as a supplement to be able to play, if you don’t have a powerful PC, for example, really focusing on developing and evolving virtual reality, which unlike 3D, seems to have a more than promising future.

And you? what do you think?