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Next-Gen Consoles "Quantum Leap Forward"?

From what I can tell, none of them will be as fast as the PC hardware we already have. So much for consoles pushing gaming forward.
 
I don't know. When you think of all the money spent in optimizing games for consoles and consoles in general. I am truly amazed at how 360 games look on this old crappy ATI card. I really don't understand how like Crysis or Battlefied 3 or whatever looks like it does on a video card that basically costs $25 now. That's why I think if they just throw money at it, they could be right. I'm not as much of a skeptic...on this particular issue anyway..
 
Quantum Leap is used correctly. I don't know why it means this, when you would think literally a very tiny quantum makes a small leap, but the dictionary says:

an abrupt change, sudden increase, or dramatic advance

Examples of QUANTUM LEAP

Prices have taken a quantum leap upward.
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MetalMat said:
The PS3 was supposedly a huge leap in technology with the cell processor.
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It was. The USAF was using them as mainframes at one point. The GPU was what bottlenecked it, and a lack of RAM.

As for them being a hardware quantum leap, I can't see it. People don't care as much about graphics as they used to. Maybe Scott Bakula will personally come to your house to play Madden with you...
 
marmasatt said:
I don't know. When you think of all the money spent in optimizing games for consoles and consoles in general. I am truly amazed at how 360 games look on this old crappy ATI card. I really don't understand how like Crysis or Battlefied 3 or whatever looks like it does on a video card that basically costs $25 now. That's why I think if they just throw money at it, they could be right. I'm not as much of a skeptic...on this particular issue anyway..
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Extremely low resolution helps a lot as most games are not even 720p but the ability to optimize for the consoles is what truly helps.
 
mmntech said:
It was. The USAF was using them as mainframes at one point. The GPU was what bottlenecked it, and a lack of RAM.
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No, just no. It could run linux, and was relatively cheap (sold at a loss), so many were clustered together. Not because they were spectacular, but because they were cheap (basically, as an experiment, they build a cluster that was heavily subsidized by sony because the hardware was sold at a loss at the time). It was never anything special.

Also, mainframe doesn't mean what you think it does.
 
Ferzerp said:
No, just no. It could run linux, and was relatively cheap (sold at a loss), so many were clustered together. Not because they were spectacular, but because they were cheap (basically, as an experiment, they build a cluster that was heavily subsidized by sony because the hardware was sold at a loss at the time). It was never anything special.

Also, mainframe doesn't mean what you think it does.
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Nerd alert. D:

You are aware of the PowerXCell, which is used in servers and supercomputers. They have 8 SPEs instead of 6. So to claim the Cell isn't powerful is false. It was at the time, and still is.
 
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Craig234 said:
Quantum Leap is used correctly. I don't know why it means this, when you would think literally a very tiny quantum makes a small leap, but the dictionary says:
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I think it has something to do with the vast possibilities unlocked with quantum mechanics
 
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