For me, and listening to the Kinda Funny Games stream on twitch, I can't help but agree with the simple fact that:
Console iterations like this, aren't making gaming better.
Sure for some, this will offer now even better graphics than consoles had before, for the few people that have 4K screens/monitors, but it even sounded like in actual game performance, it is a backwards step.
I'm pretty sure the PS4 Pro even said they had a 1TB HDD, so it's "for the pro/hardcore gamers", but will have slow loading times.
Presumably, even slower now when the resolution is larger.
It reportedly doesn't have a 4K UHD Blu-Ray (which I don't mind)
And although I don't know much about it, I'm sure that this is negatively going to effect performance on online games.
We just keep getting games at higher resolutions, higher fps, but there are things that are repeatedly not getting addressed: Bang for buck, replayability, good writing, but more importantly, just simple performance.
Instead of making a 4K console for the "pros", why don't they make a faster console. Just look at pro CS players who play on low graphics and 4:3 stretched resolution.
You can't even play 10 games of fifa without like 50% being laggy (regardless of your net speed), and load times are still ridiculous on certain games, even with SSDs.
I guess that's just what PC is for, but it's a shame as even there, you are still reliant on the subjectivity of PCs. Even if you have a fast PC in online games, you're often just left waiting for the slower to load on your team, and let down by players who simply cannot run the game and their performance suffering as a result.
I know they can't exactly revolutionise SSD's, or bring in crossfire memory or something like that, but personal opinion, i'd just rather have a PCIE SSD being focused on over 4K first.
It's like giving someone a really great camera and no idea how to use it. Instead, give us a cheaper camera and increase the quality of photos by skill (and in this case performance), before giving us the industry leading one.