Was CPU power really the bottleneck? :/ The big issue with much of the PS3/360 isn't the power. It's mediocre art & art direction. Games are NOT going to ALL start looking better than Uncharted 3 or Gears of War just because of Additional Power. More GPU power won't fix bad anatomy, or shoddy spec maps.
I don't understand why people expect Consoles to be powerful. They never were powerful, PS2 was powerful, but only because PC's where a 'nerd' thing for many, unlike now, where a simple google search will tell you how to make one from an obsidian ingot, running on the enterprise. If you don't want your games to look crap,…
six times more powerful than xbox 360? Big freaking deal. :( http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/super-powerful-xbox-720-chip-enters-production-1057384 and WIIU goes AMD as well http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/14/wii-u-graphics-chip-outed-as-last-gen-radeon-which-is-still-pre/
As JacqueChoi pointed out, it's more an issue of art quality and direction than mere power at your disposal. But eld is also right, certain games like BF3 just don't work on consoles from a technical standpoint. The new GPU I would guess is roughly the same as a GTX560 is today. That's enough power to create really…
Kind of funny to hear that the specs of the new consoles are dissapointing. There always usually hyped to hell. "The emotion chip", or "these SPU's will give us 21.8 jigawatts of power". I think there sales will be dissapointing whatever the specs though. They'll be released in a massive economic downturn.
Have you ever owned a console before? Never has there ever been a console that rivaled the home PC in terms of GFX and CPU power. Six times more power would put it easily on part with today's PC GPU's, which lets me honest, do more than enough. Will that run Crysis 12 in 9yrs? No. But bear in mind, those consoles came out…
http://www.techpowerup.com/161172/AMD-Designing-Next-Gen-Playstation-s-GPU.html to soon! to soon! to commit to hardware? I actually hope that graphics commitment is stalled long enough for Maxwell levels of power. ( shadows, bones, muscle systems, micro-polygon tessellation etc... ) But since that has been puhed from 2013…
6 times more powerful than the 360 is a HUGE leap - not sure what the hate is for? Look at the content the hardware can already run - Gears of War3, Battlefield 3, Rage and many others. As a dev I'm more concerned about the CPU and memory of the system rather than the GPU performance. There needs to be a far better CPU…
The average computer when the ps2 was released was already quite a few times more powerful than it, so it's pretty much the same. Games look just fine even if the hardware is a bit behind the times, it's all about the artwork artists can produce. He has a good point though, if we're talking technical progress in games the…