It is not allowed, and will never be allowed, to make a game that works on Pro but not on the launch PS4.
Golem.de: When will the first game, which runs on the PS4 Pro - but no longer on a PlayStation 4?
Shawn Layden: That will never happen!
Which would have been a subset question.Well they don't ask when the first game that runs on the Pro and the PS5 - but no longer on a PS4 - will release...
Which would have been a subset question.
For example: they don't ask when the first game that runs on the Pro and contains ponies - but no longer on a PS4 - will release...
The lack of ponies in the original question doesn't open any more possibilities.
A game that runs on PS5 and PS4Pro but not on PS4 is a game that runs on PS4Pro but not PS4, violating Layden's assertion that would never happen.I really just think the question was about Sony allowing the release of Pro-exclusive games, to which Sony was always very clear that PS4 games would always work on all PS4 consoles.
That's the rigid approach to the matter.A game that runs on PS5 and PS4Pro but not on PS4 is a game that runs on PS4Pro but not PS4, violating Layden's assertion that would never happen.
Maybe not, but does it matter?Could a triple layer BR be used in a way that the PS4/Pro could read two layers, and the PS5 reads the third and fourth?
"It will never happen!" doesn't sound like a flexible position on the subject.That's the rigid approach to the matter.
It may or may not be Sony's.
That would make them liars. The language is unambiguous here. You can't add a caveat after-the-fact. That's like a politician promising, "We won't raise income tax," and then raising income tax and fuel duties and then saying, "We didn't raise income tax; we raised income tax and fuel duties."That's the rigid approach to the matter.
It may or may not be Sony's.
Like that time when Microsoft said Kinect was here to stay? And the XBone would require always-on Internet and retail games couldn't be re-sold/borrowed?That would make them liars. The language is unambiguous here.