Except that MS and Sony will skimp on something stupid like RAM and cause the games to not look like that and run at 60fps at the same time. God I hope I'm wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
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Except that MS and Sony will skimp on something stupid like RAM and cause the games to not look like that and run at 60fps at the same time. God I hope I'm wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
The next gen of consoles will have weaker gpus than whats available now and whats available now couldn't run that at 60fps. I mean get consoles for exclusives and shit, but skimping on RAM won't be the problem this coming gen, GPUs weaker than current 6 series cards will be what holds them back.
What Sony and MS do from now on should be zero concern to you from now on, the gap is just going to get bigger and if you want that demo you're only going to find it on PC for the next ten years.
Intellectually, I know that's true, but I don't want to ever find myself in the situation where I have to choose between supporting Windows 8+ and being stuck with half assed console versions of games. Maybe Apple will figure out that games matter between now and when Windows 7 is sunset.
If Prometheus is to be believed we'll be using Windows 7 for another 70 years.
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I figure just use 7 until 9 comes out, skip 8 like most people skipped ME and Vista.
:lol: That's awesome.
Epic wouldn't be out there pushing this shit if they thought future consoles couldn't run it. That's where the customers are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
And since they know the specs of the consoles, they obviously know it can be done.
It doesn't matter. They're going to get in the ballpark to where the difference will look slight to the average user. Yes, things like RAM and storage will become a bottleneck at some point, and this will affect things like the size of worlds and the ability to stream large areas in and out of memory and such. But strictly in terms of rendering fidelity, we're reaching the end of where upgrades feel like they're worth $400.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
On a related note, Square has put out a "next gen" demo of what their stuff will look like on new consoles.
Is it indistinguishable from cgi? No. But would I pay an extra $400 if it were? Not a chance.
We're in a thread about graphics, and people don't know how to use the youtubehd tags.
They pumped their last engine before the 360 and PS3 came out and nothing shown in their video is possible on those systems at 60fps, 1080p with AA on. Don't even pretend it is. Game will look like that video but either lower native res or lower FPS, but it will not be exactly like that. The power just won't be there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
I call bullshit on the Sqaure one also. The next consoles are using GPUs that have already been designed and are weaker than what I have in my computer and my computer sure as shit can't run that FF thing in real time. Unless the next gen of consoles are like two thousand dollars, I just don't see that video possibly being a reality.
PCs have overhead that consoles don't. You can't run a game like Gears of War 3 on a PC with a ATI X1600 and 512 megs of RAM.