{"id":103869,"date":"2016-09-09T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T08:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103869"},"modified":"2016-09-09T10:19:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T08:19:33","slug":"will-ps4-pro-gamers-have-an-advantage-in-multiplayer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/103869-will-ps4-pro-gamers-have-an-advantage-in-multiplayer-games","title":{"rendered":"Will PS4 Pro gamers have an advantage in multiplayer games?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest selling point of the PS4 Pro is its backwards compatibility with all other PS4 games and hardware.<\/p>\n<p>This means you can continue to play games with your friends even if they choose not to upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>But won&#8217;t playing at greater resolutions and\/or greater framerates give you a competitive edge over those playing on normal PS4 consoles?<\/p>\n<p>This issue was addressed in a Tweet by Videogamer&#8217;s David Scammell, which stated that Multiplayer games will run at the same framerate across PS4 Pro and standard PS4.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Multiplayer games will run at the same framerate across PS4 Pro and standard PS4. Sony does not want to give advantage to Pro users.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Scammell (@VG_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VG_Dave\/status\/773620695532273665\">September 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is interesting for two reasons, Firstly, it means that Sony had the foresight to recognise this as a problem and have\u00a0likely have put quite a lot of thought into other cross-platform issues.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly it means that if you are primarily purchasing a PS4 Pro to play multiplayer games at higher framerates, the console suddenly became a whole lot less enticing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Here\u2019s what games look like on the PlayStation 4 Pro\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/103795-heres-what-games-look-like-on-the-playstation-4-pro.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Here\u2019s what games look like on the PlayStation 4 Pro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The most awkward moments in PlayStation history\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/103449-the-most-awkward-moments-in-playstation-history.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The most awkward moments in PlayStation history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Crazy Afrihost Free-Time ADSL special launched\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/103791-crazy-afrihost-free-time-adsl-special-launched.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Crazy Afrihost Free-Time ADSL special launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying a PlayStation Pro for multiplayer games? This is what you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":103871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[31,2202,261,21839],"class_list":["post-103869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-fps","tag-multiplayer","tag-playstation-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103875,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103869\/revisions\/103875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}