I personally believe the term next-gen should just be used on any tech that is better than the current generation of consoles, so current pc games can have next gen features, and the PS4 is next gen.
you mean the next gen stuff that's the 360/PS3 or the next gen stuff that's next gen to the current next gen, like the PS4, or the next gen that is truly the next gen of all the next gen stuff that's been next gen before?
No, right now would be current-gen. Seriously lads we're 8 months away from having PS4's and nextbox's under our tellys. Next-gen is those consoles; not the ones we have now. No need to confuse the issue. :thumbup:
That reminds me of a meme! But yes next gen ps4 coming 4 years or so next gen :) Farfarer, i agree. Non-graphical improvements are probably what's needed more. Things like behavioral simulation that makes the world believable rather than the picture.
Well, going via a naive approach using VRAM alone: PS3 = 256Mb PS4 = 8Gb, shared. Let's give this a 3:1 GPU-CPU split, so 6Gb. 6144Mb/256Mb = 24x bigger. Bearing in mind that each double in texture size quadruples the memory overhead, that leaves you with an average of two doubles of texture size, leaving 1/3 of the…
"next-gen" has become synonymous with PS3/360, that term needs to be retired atp (fans seem to have started calling it "Gen 7" lately, with PS4/XBox720 being "Gen 8" / "upcoming gen" / "new gen"). Anyhow, the big one I think we're going to finally see is self collision. Up until now it wasn't feasible due to the low poly…