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Since the leak of the PlayStation Neo specs, we've been asking ourselves: just what does this mean for the games? Sony's handbook for developers mandates that all PS4 games developed from October 2016 onwards must have Neo support taking advantage of the improved hardware, potentially with improved frame-rates or even higher resolutions and extra effects. What's especially exciting about this, is that your existing PS4 library can benefit too. While all existing games will run as standard on the new hardware, it's understood developers have the option to update their existing titles with a 'forwards compatibility' patch, allowing older games to utilise the much more powerful new hardware. This could take any number of forms: perhaps running at closer to PC's top visual settings, or simply tightening up lacklustre performance.
So with that in mind, we thought we'd rank our top 10 PS4 games that we think stand to benefit most from Neo enhancements. Of course, there's a certain degree of wish-fulfilment going on here, but what we have tried to do is approach each title based on what the revised PlayStation hardware could actually deliver. Below, you'll find the complete hardware spec. You'll note that an already GPU-heavy design is skewed even more towards performance graphics, but throughout this list it's worth considering the boost to its CPU is relatively modest.
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