Now that, predictably, my relatively new PS4 Pro has blossomed into the hair-dryer of noise that so many of its ilk grow into, I feel like I'm faced with a dilemma.
Barring some unseen game that I haven't heard of there are three options I currently have when it comes to playing these games:
1) Play them on my PS4 Pro at launch but have to deal with the likely-insane levels of noise
2) Play them on my PS4 Slim at launch and have a tolerable noise-level but potentially-quite-bad graphics and framerate
3) Wait until the PS5 comes out and have the best of both worlds
I have a choice because when I upgraded to the Pro last year I kept my Slim just in case the Pro started turning into a jet engine again, and when it came time to sell it in my eyes the pandemic started and put a stop to those plans. Overall I'm very divided on what I'm going to choose. The PS4 Pro is such a shoddily-designed machine that I can just tell that one or both of those games is going to make it scream, and for what those games are I simply won't be able to put up with that. However after having a 4K TV for some time now the notion of playing some of the PS4's best-looking games at 1080p-or-worse, with potentially choppy framerates as well, is a bad one. Similarly they're both games that I'm anticipating so the idea of waiting until the end of the year to play them is kind of daunting.
Now I realise that most people will only have two of those options, so I'm basing this thread on that. Most people have only a Pro or a Slim/Base, and as such they have to choose whether to play these games at launch or wait until the PS5 launches and play them on there.
The question then is what choice are you going to make and why? Do you feel that you'd be able to wait to get a potentially much-better experience (in terms of graphics and/or fan noise) on Sony's next-gen platform? Or do you feel like you'd be better off playing them at launch on the console you already own?
Barring some unseen game that I haven't heard of there are three options I currently have when it comes to playing these games:
1) Play them on my PS4 Pro at launch but have to deal with the likely-insane levels of noise
2) Play them on my PS4 Slim at launch and have a tolerable noise-level but potentially-quite-bad graphics and framerate
3) Wait until the PS5 comes out and have the best of both worlds
I have a choice because when I upgraded to the Pro last year I kept my Slim just in case the Pro started turning into a jet engine again, and when it came time to sell it in my eyes the pandemic started and put a stop to those plans. Overall I'm very divided on what I'm going to choose. The PS4 Pro is such a shoddily-designed machine that I can just tell that one or both of those games is going to make it scream, and for what those games are I simply won't be able to put up with that. However after having a 4K TV for some time now the notion of playing some of the PS4's best-looking games at 1080p-or-worse, with potentially choppy framerates as well, is a bad one. Similarly they're both games that I'm anticipating so the idea of waiting until the end of the year to play them is kind of daunting.
Now I realise that most people will only have two of those options, so I'm basing this thread on that. Most people have only a Pro or a Slim/Base, and as such they have to choose whether to play these games at launch or wait until the PS5 launches and play them on there.
The question then is what choice are you going to make and why? Do you feel that you'd be able to wait to get a potentially much-better experience (in terms of graphics and/or fan noise) on Sony's next-gen platform? Or do you feel like you'd be better off playing them at launch on the console you already own?
