PS4 is still HDD platform and Genshin is an open world so it has to work around speed limits of HDD. Almost all mobile now have internal storage that works like SSD.
I don't buy it. The game isn't particularly demanding in terms of data streaming. It doesn't have some big textures or anything. if spiderman exists on a PS4 there is no limitation for Genshin Imact mobile looking like this
It's Monstad - area from 2020I don't buy it. The game isn't particularly demanding in terms of data streaming. It doesn't have some big textures or anything. if spiderman exists on a PS4 there is no limitation for Genshin Imact mobile looking like this
It seems to me more a case of deprecating install base on old gen not being worth it more than anything else.
Texture quality is not just GPU side of graphics but referring to exactly what you mentioned, data streaming requirements. Mobile version can have very low settings which has very low requirements hence why I'm not buying the idea that it is streaming related especially as you can install the game on a HDD on a PC with higher settings than mobile. There is no SSD requirement on PC.
And there is no Sony to enforce minimum quality/performance metric on PC
I think only Series consoles.
But the game doesn't run like shit on a HDD. You have the massive loading time at the beginning like you always did on PS4/PC with HDD but beyond that it runs fine. They dont ask for an SSD even in their recommended specs let alone their min spec:
It never released on xbox one.
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Kinda doubt it, because Sony said on their yearly report that as of April 2024, there's still 49 million PS4 active users, and I don't think those 49 million users instantly gone in just 1 year, nor having very sharp decline like more than 50% users gone.
www.gamespot.com
I agree that seems like the more reasonable thing but they stated both hardware performance and application size: "due to limitations related to hardware performance and platform application size."Kinda doubt it, because Sony said on their yearly report that as of April 2024, there's still 49 million PS4 active users, and I don't think those 49 million users instantly gone in just 1 year, nor having very sharp decline like more than 50% users gone.
Over 4 Years Later, PS5 Has More Monthly Users Than PS4
More people are playing on PS5 when compared to PS4.
I think the problem is the game's size and also the update size, where Genshin's file size on the PS4 is more than 120 gigs, and the last several patches the patch size is over 70 gigs, which is absolutely insane for a game that drops regular patches every 6 weeks.
If I had to guess, Sony might have increased the cost for listing/pushing patches on PS4 to push publishers into going current-gen only.
Current mobile SoCs even in cheaper phones are more capable than chromebook CPU from 2013.
Current new mobile SoCs are but not compared to the old phones you can still download and play this on (they recommend android 7 or 8 so pretty old phone support). If they plan to stop supporting older phones then that is big news.
They've constantly upping the min reqs for both PC and mobile, and minimum specced mobile SoCs are outclassing PS4 for 3-4 years now (especially considering that they are using lower fidelity packages).
They don't use assets of mobile quality on PS4, and you don't want to use them too, believe me. They are using PC assets on PS4 and they are different beast.
I think that is playing a part aswell, but they won't come out and say that.
People just don't understand how hardware-heavy new areas are. Sumeru was struggling bad on PS4. As does Fontaine. Natlan is unbearable at times, so my sister just dropped her PS4 version and now playing on her new iPad Air.
Mobile use another client with different models and rendering targets. And from that standpoint yes, some mobile chips are even RT-capable. But then again, PS4 hardware platrform is old enough to marry in some traditional countries, so it's a suprise for nobody. It was actually a mircale that PS4 client was up for 5 years into this generation.
Vastly. The Switch 2 has a rather mid CPU for its GPU class and still destroys the jaguar cores left and right.
PS4 CPU architecture was based on a supposed-mobile architecture (Jaguar).
