Playstation 4.5 Feedback, Speculation, Thoughts.

[Morzy]

Its... really not that big a deal. It is an upgrade, but its not a complete console gen leap upgrade. Besides that, this isn't the first time Sony has done this. They have always upgraded all their platforms over time.

Maybe not to you, but this is a slap in the face to those that just bought the PS4 and a future headache for game developers thta now have to make two versions for the same game just because Sony wanted to make a unnecessary(subjective) upgrade. And no, they haven't upgraded consoles in this way. Sure the PS1/PS2/PS3 upgrades might have ran smoother, didn't overheat as much or were physically slightly different, but there wasn't a literal hardware change like this.

As for FF14, again, the difference between vanilla PS4 and Neo won't be that noticeable compared to how the game runs on PS3 vs PS4.

Whether FFXIV changed is strictly up to Sony, as current PS4 games are optional to patch for Neo.