It has already started. (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 14:35 (3262 days ago) @ dogcow

They already do that. They did it with the XBox 360 when they upgraded all of the hardware from the base model. They made it sleeker and added wifi.

Which is fine in my book, I'm concerned about the PS4k having better graphics and splitting the market that way. AFAIK the 360 kept the same performance, just updated hardware.

There's a difference between "being capable of" and doing 4k graphics. If they can focus that increase in power towards processing and improved performance, It would mitigate any split in playerbase. I feel like devs would focus on stuff like draw distance, loading times, graphical settings, and such. Games like War Thunder, Warframe, and Planetside 2 (IIRC) already allow a wealth of graphical/performance options. PS4K would allow people to activate ALL the things. We don't need 4k anything.